Same with my wife.

This despite she's been using computers in various jobs since the 80's.

And that is actually the problem. At the time the computer systems changed slowly, if at all (major undertaking changing the system), and they were basically told to do things a certain way or things would break.

So Bozeman to Bakken Oil fields is >400 miles. there and back is >800 miles.
800 miles @ 75MPH is 10h 40min. 800miles @ 85MPH is 9h 24min.

Savings of 1 hour 15 minutes, if you managed to keep average speed close to speed limit, which surprisingly is not horribly hard around that area. I live in South Dakota, and there really is not a problem. Almost no traffic and fairly flat and straight roads.

You have never driven in the US midwest have you... (Or most of the rest of US outside cities).
Distances are ridiculously huge, and roads are usually nice, wide and straight.

It also happens to be Steak and BJ day...
http://www.officialsteakandblo...

Runs fine on my Ubuntu box with latest chrome.

I do design of some telco electronics, and we only use tantalums. After we figured out you have to double the voltage rating, we have not had a single tantalum failure in 6 years. Before then we had a few flashy failures.

Think you're mixing up your percentages. E85 = 85% Ethanol (15% gasoline). There is no such thing as E90. You are probably thinking of 90% Gasoline and 10%Ethanol (also known as E10).

This particular school district has 300 students. So $50.000 divided over 300 students is $167 per student, not exactly pocket change (or if it is, I'd like to be where that is pocket change).

As a H1B, no, you are not eligible for social security.
(Taxation without representation?)

I have a unicomp model M (typing this). It is exactly like a IBM Model M. I believe Unicom bought the molds from IBM once upon a time.

in 0x00000003, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x00000000, 0x80000000, 0x80000001, 0x80000002..... Huh.... the other one makes more sense (3, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2...) as it would be what you got if you decrement a 32bit int: 0x00000003, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x00000000, 0xffffffff, 0xfffffffe, 0xfffffffd

Which is why, when you do use tantalums, you use ones that are specced at twice the voltage you expect over them.

We've used tantalums in some telecom equipment we make, and except for about 5 spectacular failures (explosions, fireballs) on some early prototypes (because of wrong part numbers and such), we've never seen a failure in almost 7 years.

We could not have used electrolytic caps as they would not have survived as long.

BTW: reverse voltage an electrolyte, and witness the explosion (and foul smell) also.... Used to do that to scare people in electronics class.....
Of course, if we redesigned now, I'd probably change out some of the tantalums with ceramic caps.