The thing that defines a calculator useful, imho, is that you don't really need to care about its battery life and it starts up fast.

If you want something with a color touch screen, can't you just install a calculator app on your phone? What's the difference? Why do you need a specialized device for that?

Yes, indeed, $99 is sub-$100...

Statistically, the expected value of sub-$100 is $50 though!

You know, many games work surprisingly well in Wine. Really really well! No rebooting for me in most cases :)

Take the turkey.
Pour a bit of the vodka on it.
Drink a bit of the remaining vodka.
Prepare to put the turkey in the oven.
Pour some more vodka on it.
Sip some more of the remaininng vodka.
Put the burkey in the oben.
Taek anohter brink of the vokda.
Tuern om the onev at 200 degrees.
Whihle waithtng for durkey the to beacome reday, fiinsh the rest of the btotle.
Remuove teh rurheyk orfm eht oaven.
Clal am aumbuleance to treat yoru bruns.

I really hope this isn't going to be like the faster-than-lightspeed-discovery that was an intrument error!

So feel free to double check the instruments!

You know, for this calibre of laser, it cannot be an ordinary shark...

In basketball, usually more points get made than goals get made in football so shouldn't the tweet limit be higher for basketball?

Only one of those is the *last* thing you read...

"Something Online" is the medium.

"Fiction" or "Non-Fiction" is the content.

So how can the options Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Something Online, all be in the same poll? What if I read Fiction online, or read Non-Fiction online?

The "nothing high tech about that" was meant in a good way, referring to the article showing all kinds of what it calls new technologies needed to protect your home.

But interesting point about the earth quakes. That must be the reason why brick is used so much where I live, because there are almost none here (I hope now there won't suddenly appear one though because obviously we're not prepared for that).

Using brick instead of wood may help some. Nothing high tech about that.

Maybe it's because the article title uses the word "Sniffed" rather than, for example, "Detected".

The 3930K seems the one exception, but it's Sandy Bridge, and LGA 2011 chipset is borderline consumer! For Ivy Bridge, the newer architecture, it only goes up to 4 cores. And for the next architecture, Haswell, not even released yet, Wikipedia has the following feature to say: "Mainstream up to quad-core.".

I'm curious why Intel went from 1 core to 4 cores in a short period of time, and then remains stuck at 4 cores for more than half a decade.

Fully agree:

5 years ago, the top of the line Intel consumer desktop CPU's had 4 cores.
today, the top of the line Intel consumer desktop CPU's have 4 cores.

So, get to it please! :)

What's up with that square object they need to put on top of it and move around to see some small personalized part? It doesn't seem practical if you need to place something on top of it just to view something...