... The sophistication of the technology illustrates that would-be competitors who want to feature their own digitized libraries won't have a trivial time catching up to Google.

Especially with that shiny new patent.

Of course they are. Of course they are. It's not bad when "we" do it.

It's us sighted people who are expected to bend over the barrel.

I hope he's comfortable with the fact that he just lost the goodwill of a few hundred thousand geeks (who are among the heaviest readers). Good luck with that, champ.

Wanna pump 800W through the air? Pry the door off your microwave.

Long live the mho! Its deprecation was totally unjustified. Its name alone implied what it is (an inverse ohm), its symbol reflected the name, and best of all, NO NAMESPACE COLLISION WITH PECKER TERMINOLOGY.

I found Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits (Gray/Hurst/Lewis/Meyer) to be a good book on deep-down transistor electronics. It is very theoretical, as you are looking for, and will support a strong understanding of analog transistor circuits.

I bought the "developing country" paperback edition for a lot less than $115 or whatever Amazon wants for the hardcover. Not a word is different.

In yet another breathtaking installment of Krang's Happy BS Hour, Frankestein and co. seek to convince a weary world that they will make their lives easier. Except, of course, they have to contend with their greatest and most fiendishly unbeatable arch-enemy, their own track record.

I've now had to delete my Exchange profile in Entourage and rebuild the MS database a dozen times. In the interim, I've "sent" updates to meetings that were never touched, lost meetings I haven't even so much as hovered over since accepted and had enough formatting errors in Word:Mac show up in the MS Word version to literally crash both apps, even after performing "compatibility checks" each time. This rapidly becomes very, very uncool when, say, meeting with a CTO.

As happy as the idea of a cross-platform (especially to iPhone) MS Office install would make me, all I can say is: "Don't you believe it." Whether through spite, confused market strategy or sheer, blinding ignorance, Microsoft has for decades utterly failed to even be compatible with itself. I will believe it when I see it - on someone else's hardware.

Talk is cheap. Ballmer is Krang. Krang smash.

I suppose with the proliferation of regular ol' home workstations, standards have lagged, but if you're gonna geek out and go linux, why would you sacrifice its core virtues?

Using separate volumes is not just the (obvious) question of security, it's one of data integrity and better system performance. IMHO, at the very least, you should isolate /home, /tmp, any archival directories (to the end sectors), of course /swap (don't believe for one second that a swapfile is the same as a separate partition; the filesystem overhead alone nullifies that assumption) and of course, /boot, which should be unmounted and remounted read-only (if at all) once the init process is complete.

Yeah, it doesn't make a meaningful impact if you're just surfing, but... if that's what you're doing, you probably stopped reading this two paragraphs ago.