are no longer... always... at Fry's. Guaranteed.

I wonder if this problem is related to the shipping container shortages. Also, I fear raising the corp tax rate from 21% back to 35% will further discourage new domestic capital investments (when compared to Taiwan's 20% rate)

You raise a good point. Perhaps these are visitors from an alternate universe rather than time travelers. Presumably the location of our earth would be in the general vicinity of alternate earths and would therefore negate the necessity of traveling the distance covered by the galaxy over time.

I find it interesting that people immediately jump to Aliens as the identity of these sightings. While still unlikely to me, I personally think it would be more believable that these are time travelers from earth's distant future. These might not even be evolved humans, if the human race goes extinct at some point and they evolved from some other species that survived an extinction even millions of years from now. Before you flame me about time travel, explain how exceeding light speed is any more far fetched. Don't get me wrong I don't believe in either Aliens visiting earth or time travel - just commenting on why only one of these explanations is ever proposed.

My 2014 Ford Edge has MS Sync and it is horrible. It can't do simple things like interface with Siri on my iPhone. The voice recognition is abysmal. Sometimes I actually have to turn my car off/on to get it to start working (yes, I actually have to reboot my car). If this is the best MS can do, I don't high hopes for loading office on it! The fact that they would suggest this confirms that MS has no clue about anything anymore.

I have this model MBP, and yes, it failed exactly as described. I think the problem is made worse when paired with the thunderbolt screen, which forces the dedicated GPU to be used instead of the Intel GPU. It runs super HOT all the time, even when simply web browsing. Many have found a utility called smcFanControl to force the fan to run at full speed at all times in an attempt to compensate for a bad design. There are numerous YouTube video's of how to "cook" the logic board in an oven for 3 min @ 375 deg to reflow the solder and I found this does fix it temporarily, so its definitely a solder ball issue. Ultimately, I found a repair service on e-bay that for $150, replaces the solder balls on the BGA with lead balls (supposedly) and this is a more permanent fix. According to him (and he seems legit) the lead-free BGA balls suck, and over time fail with extended heat / use. I hope there is a class action on this one, because I paid almost $3k for this laptop and it only lasted 2 years!

After your nonsensical comment, that's not a bad idea.

Until Marc Andreessen and Netscape, the internet was limited to geek protocols like ftp, telnet, email and maybe usenet. Private industry had a big part in making the internet accessible to the average joe, which is why it was so successful. Not to mention the advances in search from the likes of Yahoo and Google.

Actually there are PLC's that have built in web-servers these days so you don't have to rely on a windows machine for visualizations anymore either. While the development is done in Windows (although it can run on WINE), the PLC is an embedded ARM device running Linux. Here is a video video showing how to program one if your interested.

Yes, I agree! I need a blackberry only to connect to the enterprise server for work email, if there was an iphone app that ran a blackberry VM, perhaps I could finally abandon my BB. If anyone has ever tried to browse the web on a BB bold, you can feel my pain. iOS is superior in every way to BB OS.

I really like OpenOffice's ability to export in PDF without having to purchase Adobe Acrobat. This is a killer feature IMHO.

They do make medical tubing connections with RFID. This allows the equipment to verify a proper connection before delivering anything through it. Also allows traceability of old connections, logging connect/disconnect, etc. http://www.pddnet.com/editorial-jim-brown-colder-products-trouble_free-fluid-connectors-for-medical-devices-052410/ This is mostly a cost issue, as old hardware needs to be replaced / retrofitted.

And in other news.. Owners of AMD based computers noticed the latest update to Mcafee reduced the performance of their machines by 300%.