Mine did this after it was in storage- what happens is that when the battery completely discharges the mobo has trouble reading the battery state, and refuses to charge it anymore. Unplug the battery, plug in the wall adapter, boot the netbook, and after your os loads and you get a 'running on AC power' indicator, plug in the battery. It might not display that it's charging, but just let it do its thing for a while and see what happens. Worked for me, anyway.

Well, I have had multiple DVD burner drives fail, along with every single type of peripheral. Oddly enough, I've never had a core system component die. Maybe that's because I typically upgrade all at once and donate the old system to a family member/friend.

Considering that I worked in a factory where we processed BGAs (which is probably what this is fixing) we didn't really have any sort of special ventilation or whatnot. The only real safety precautions were keeping lead dust (non RoHS products) contained. Using your oven once should not be a problem, although I would wash the cookie sheet carefully before making any food on it.

That six year backlog doesn't seem to apply if you have enough money to grease the proper hands so that your patent magically seems to get processed faster.

So quick, does anybody know the secret recipe to having an autistic kid? Cause I could use a few extra bucks courtesy of the american taxpayer right about now.

But hey, have you seen those motherfucking MAGNET BRACELETS they sell at the mall/flea markets? They're supposed to cure anything. So therefore, if I have magnets flowing through my blood, the effects should be even stronger!

Sign me up!

I don't know if I'd even say a "lot" of mileage. Oftentimes, the break-in period for the engine is the same as the break in period for the clutch/transmission. After that, you're just introducing extraneous strain on the transmission by subjecting it to the large amounts of torque that can be transferred by the clutch. Floating the gears introduces less strain, and in the long run is less likely to cause damage to the vehicle. I've known drivers who float the gears and others who use the clutch on every single shift; the drivers who floated the gears tended to go longer between major transmission/clutch repairs.

Speaking as a current smoker, I would like to call BS on

. 95% of the time, when I light a smoke in the car I don't even look at it, my hand's are just used to positioning themselves where they are needed. The other 5% of the time, I'm smoking 100's, which are longer than what I'm used to. Additionally, unless I'm driving a vehicle which is different from the one I usually drive, I'm similarly accustomed to ashing either out the window or in the ashtray without looking. It's not a distraction, unless you're an idiot and drop the damn thing in your lap; in which case you swerve uncontrollably trying to put it out. However, this has never happened to me, nor has it happened when I have been a passenger in a car. This leads me to think that it is somewhat rare.

If you do end up watching them on YouTube, then the advertisers will still have succeeded. They care less about where there ads are viewed, just the number of eyeballs viewing them. The reason they focus on the Superbowl is that it's a media extravaganza, and the ads are a big deal, simply because they're in the superbowl. So, a superbowl ad will more likely have more views on YouTube than just some random ad from TV.

Oh that?

That's just the good old All-American tradition of coming up with euphemisms for everything. What we now know as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was once known as shell shock. Being a fatass is now obesity. Old people are senior citizens. Now lab-rats are called 'animal models'. It's a vicious cycle designed to protect middle-class Americans from anything they might think is even remotely scary.

If you're going to be a grammar Nazi, at least try to be an effective one. 'Queue' means line up, cue means "An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something". Therefore, cue is the proper term here, he just misspelled it. You, on the other hand, managed to make yourself look like a jackass. Way to go man, way to go...