I'd never heard of the "same day groceries" for Prime members mentioned in the summary, so did some checking. No idea where that comes from, it certainly isn't available to me as a prime member. Maybe only in select markets?
The best they do is "next day" delivery on a few items.
For the things I normally buy, they only offer 2-day delivery at about twice what my local grocery store charges. So groceries from Amazon aren't a realistic option for me. Not sure what other Prime customers experience is.

False. Dvorak is no more efficient than QWERTY, this is a myth that has long been debunked: http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/

One thing that has changed is that as a culture we've conditioned students not to fight back against bullies. We coddle our children, we give out participation awards and we raise them not to fight back. Yet the bullying continues unabated. Kids try to get by but the current coddling / caring culture leaves them without the tools they need to survive harsh reality, and so some percentage of them, feeling like they are out of options, resort to extreme measures.

Of course, that saying is almost exclusively used sarcastically and intended as an insult, which makes it even harder to determine if there is racist intent. It is almost never used as an actual compliment.

Actually, she *is* innocent, until proven guilty in a court of law. If the FBI says there is not enough evidence to bring a case before a court of law, then she is innocent, as she has not been proven guilty in a court of law.

At least among the people I know, GMOs aren't bad because of the gene manipulation itself. Instead, they are considered bad because that manipulation results in significantly higher concentrations of pesticides being used on GMO crops (as the crops are now "roundup ready" or whatever). It is these higher concentrations of pesticides that are considered dangerous, not the genetic manipulation.

Information Technology covers an incredibly wide range of careers, only a small portion of which are system/network administration related. Yes, in some organizations, the "cloud" may reduce the need for traditional SAs, but it is simply the latest in a long-term trend of reduction in force for that sector.

Automation has already decimated the SA workforce. Long gone are the days when companies needed armies of SAs to maintain datacenters of servers. The datacenters are still there, but are being maintained by much smaller teams of SAs using automation rather than manpower. Many large corporations who haven't (and won't) embrace the cloud, have already gotten rid of their SA staff, relying instead on vendors like HP to provide both hardware and SA level support as a bundled package. There are still SAs, of course, but they increasingly work for one of the main vendors, rather than being distributed throughout many corporations.

Everquest ... Predates WoW, still is going strong, and frankly, was the basis of WoW and every other MMO to follow.

I've got Solar City...

You do not pay to install anything.

You do not pay to keep them clear of branches.

You *do* buy electricity from the solar cells, but at a much *lower* rate than municipal power. You do buy the rest of your power from your normal provider at the normal price.

Yes, 100% of the tax credits and rebates go to Solar City.

In other words, you pay nothing and get cheaper electricity. All you have to do is let them put solar cells on your roof, which they then maintain. It's a pretty nice win-win situation as far as I am concerned. I have a much lower electric bill, and I know that I'm helping the environment, and I had no out-of-pocket expense at all.

Unless you are in New Jersey or New York, where nearly every blue-collar job is unionized.

I'm guessing you don't have kids of an age to be doing school concerts, plays and so forth...

The iPhone is complete crap for trying to record that sort of thing. Ok, sure, those recordings are going to suck anyway due to the acoustics of the room and crappy mic setups at the school, but at least with my camcorder I can setup a tripod, leverage decent zoom functionality and have a steady shot that I can easily pan and zoom as needed to film my kids 30 - 45 min performance. I've tried using the iPhone 5 and it lacks in decent zoom ability, storage and *stability*.

I'll keep my camcorder for as long as I have kids in school, thank you very much :)

I run 5 Pi B's as XBMC media head-ends, playing video off of a Linux based NAS, and it works quite well with all content, including 3D. The only time I had any problems with stuttering or playback was when I had a few drives in my NAS going bad. Once I replaced those drives, the problems went away.

My only complaint now has to do with fast-forward and rewind, however, I suspect much of that has to do with the fact that most of my content is still rar'ed and thus XBMC is having to decompress on the fly, which works fine for normal playback, but apparently XBMC gets a bit confused if trying to seek through the file.

Your usage of the past tense implies that you think either of these two things are over...

The schools here in Connecticut offer a variety of summer programs teaching tech subjects leveraging Scratch, Raspberry Pi's and Mindstorms. I haven't seen them as part of the normal curriculum yet, but I expect it soon.

Absolutely, and if I could order a package from my local provider that provided me with only the channels available OTA in my market I would. Oh, and they have to provide it without charging me a rental fee on a set-top box to decode the signal as well.

Since no cable providers are willing to provide such a service, I guess I'm SOL :(