The nukes had little to do with ending the war. The US had been vaporizing cities for months using 1000 B-29s with conventional incendiary bombs; the nukes just made it far more efficient.

They surrendered because the Soviet Union invaded, ending any chance for a negotiated peace.

Hopefully they'll be offering models with professional graphics chips in the future, such as Quadro

A lot of LED lighting hurts to look at. I think it's because some intense, narrow semiconductor emission lines make it through the phosphors.

I bought several hundred incandescent bulbs for this reason and have a good energy-efficiency program: I turn off the lights when I leave the room.

It's sad most people think LEDs are good enough and research to improve incandescent efficiency seems to have been abandoned.

Every game will have a requirement that some portion of its processing be done on centralized servers, for a monthly fee, without which they won't play.

Sorry, my attention span's just too short for that random link-vomit of a page.

"They "trust me". Dumb f*cks"

That's all you need to know. They might as well have a gigantic sign in the lobby of Facebook headquarters. Facebook is Zuckerberg and he's a sociopath and is incapable of change. Therefore Facebook will never change.

Also, only optics matter at every public company so Facebook's not unique in that regard.

CD-ROM and DVD
ATX chassis
GPIB
I2C and SPI

It goes with out saying, RS-232 and RS-422/285, which will still be in use 100 years from now

Never buy from/through Amazon if it's at all important to you that the item is genuine and/or new and factory sealed. The list includes phones, batteries, chargers, and guitars.

I have a factory sealed Samsung charger that is, in fact, a well-done fake that only delivers 500mA and runs hot. It was purchased as the regular search item for a realistic price.

Only a portion of nerds are interested in IT Operations.

It's a bargain if the safety feature prevented a $30,000 hospital bill.

Let's go back to no crumple zones where you can pound out a front end collision with a hammer and clean out the passengers with a fire hose.

Never rebalance in a taxable account if it means paying capital gains. It's no different than panic selling in a crash, in that you'll lose 23+% of your gains depending on the state.

At most, redirect new money and dividends to asset classes who have fallen behind. They may never catch up, but that's OK.

Who are some of the people screaming the loudest about rebalancing? Investment companies and advisers. They skim off money on every transaction. No profit is made from people who buy and hold.

This was settled a long time ago. Everyone knows it's a Space Station.

I have a new PC image and forgot to log in. Oh well.

Pattern-matching/machine learning algorithms will be used to compare the writing style and vocabulary in the article against the large sample of communications records available in the White House. The author will be found quickly.

This is the Right Way.

Zero-based counting in computers has evolved from a useful efficiency trick during an era of scarce resources into an almost elitist vestigial organ that needs to be chopped off. All it leads to is more intense thought processes and off-by-one bugs.