Soccer was also called soccer in Britain before it was called football. Now they get upset North Americans use the wrong word.

The poster you are commenting on is talking about house wiring. Europeans will have only 1/4 the voltage drop for the same load (as a percent off nominal voltage). This means voltage drop is negligible in an European house. A 2000W load using the smallest wire size allowed (#14 AWG) can go over 45m with less than 3% voltage drop at 240V, but can only go 11m and might trip a 20A breaker if wired with 120V.

It is so much nicer to read off e-ink screens than tablets, especially when outside. The battery life also makes e-readers great for traveling as they get much better battery life. When I see people reading on a electronic device in public it is almost always an e-reader over a tablet. Sales might be down but there is no reason for most e-reader owners to buy new devices as a new e-reader isn't noticeably better than one bought 4 years ago. A 4 year old tablet is much worse than a 2013 Nexus 7.

Mike Duffy (The Senator with the $90K expenses) is still a senator. He resigned from the conservative caucus, so now he is independent but he still has his job.

The Samsung Chromebook has been the #1 selling laptop on amazon.com every time I have checked this year. The two models of Surface Pro are currently ranked #213 and and #1,197.

What makes the orthotic example crazy is the normal $500 or whatever price for orthotics includes (at least where I live) 2-3 doctor visits as well to prescribe and measure, fit, and make any adjustments. For someone who needs prescription orthotics they can't just print out a template and get something that fits properly, although once they get the orthotics it might help make duplicate pairs. The person buying these orthotics also is buying them as they are covered by their medical plan so the cost to the user is almost nothing.

The test with the biggest difference was memory usage, with Firefox using half the memory of Chrome. This matches comparisons I have done. If you ever have to use an older computer with 2GB of RAM Chrome is pretty much unusable while Firefox works fine. I have an SSD so I turned off virtual memory. With 8GB of RAM I would have to close Chrome if I want to play a game but have no problems with Firefox.

They might be in the US but in 2013Q1 Android was on 56% of global tablet sales

Yeah this is good news. I had to disable google talk invitation notifications on my phone as I was getting spam notifications daily.

I guess they could give you more warning but that behavior is exactly what I would expect sync to do. I don't see any fault with Google.

I buy all my games during Steam's seasonal sales. I bought the first 3 Assassin's creed games at Christmas for $5 each plus $2.50 for all the DLC for the 3rd one. That is probably cheaper than buying used.

Chrome uses a massive amount of RAM. About 3x more than Firefox. It is good if you have a lot of RAM but can even run poorly on 8 GB systems, such as if you have virtual memory disabled because of a SSD. I switched back to Firefox because of this.

The original version worked by accessing the gmail user interface using the libgmail library. This library was abandoned as it broke every time google changed its website. It looks like the IMAP fork of the gmailfs still works (http://sr71.net/projects/gmailfs/). With google drive and many other online storage options it seems like it is a waste of time.

The Canadian professional engineering bodies accept degrees from very few other countries but seem to have no problem accepting Iranian engineers. It might depend on the school but I have Iranian coworkers who didn't have to do any additional classes or testing to accept their degrees when registering.

I have had the same experience. They might have some new options that are different but they still have classic Thinkpads. I bought a W520 about 15 months ago and still love it. It is totally solid. 4 slots for RAM (4x8GB possible). mSATA slot so I can use a solid state drive and keep the 2.5" hard drive. Actually high resolution 1920x1080 or 1600x900. The video cards are Nvidia Quadro 3d workstation video cards but still way more powerful than the average laptop video cards and powerful enough to play most games on high settings.