The other advantage is the speed at which you can charge a capacitor compared to a battery. I have a consumer cordless screwdriver with a capacitor in place of a battery. It runs for a decent time and runs down, like most such devices. Unlike a battery, it recharges to full in 90 seconds, not hours.

That's what I did with my MID tablet. I wanted a clock that could display NTP-synchronized time. I had an old MID lying around doing nothing. Rooted it. Added NTP software to run over the wifi. Setup the desktop with a big clock app and a smaller 3-day weather app. Stuck velcro to the back and hung it on my cube wall at work, just over my monitors. Just leave it plugged in all the time, as my MID also has under-1hr battery life. Works great.

Tell that to the (206), (360) and (971) area code spammers that have been hitting my cell multiple times per week.

If you'll pardon the plug: Call Control by EveryCall.us has been an excellent caller-id-blocker for my Android phone. It handles wildcard blocks, so those jerks don't get through anymore regardless of which number they've picked each time.

Your case is different from the robocall problem. The problem is not with automatic systems that targeting individual customers with customized messages. The problem is scams and businesses that call anyone and everyone with the same message. So, all robocalls are bad. Appointment reminders are not robocalls.

Don't forget the mystery math that lets them charge that percentage against your payment, not your principal.

$100 principal loan at 29.97% of the principal owes the obvious amount of $129.97 in payment.
$100 principal loan at 29.97% of the payment costs the more common amount of $142.80 in payment, an effective (and legal) 42.8% interest rate.

I have two tablets, and both are android. Is that one vote or two?

Elsevier's standing relies on providing top quality, peer-reviewed journals. They cannot keep that up if the peers will not review for them. It is the cornerstone of their business model.

How exactly does proving that standing around a bunch of X-ray equipment causes radiation exposure hurt those whose policies put those people there in the first place? No karma. Not hardly. OSHA should have been all over this from day one, to protect these employees.

I am a little disturbed they want to (appear to) do their own testing in this manner. I seriously doubt we'll see honest results out of the TSA management. Once again, OSHA needs to run this. Self-reporting will only toe the party line, that the machines are perfectly safe.

This is not entirely true. My university-branded google apps account and my personal-domain-branded google apps accounts exist in addition to my free gmail accounts. They have a model for selling co-branded versions of the apps for a premium price. Admittedly this is not the lion share of their profits.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002VPE1WK/ - AmazonBasics Backpack for SLR camera is my standard airplane travel bag. Holds my D90 with two or three spare lenses, gps, backup usb harddrive, and a 10inch netbook with power cables. Still has room for travel docs and a snack.

Ditto. I bought a network media appliance that does NetFlix and plays off my NAS, with outputs for RCA-jack TVs. It happened to be a bluray player, but it has never been given a bluray disk.

There is no such thing as an unlimited bandwidth router. Thus, at some level there is always a finite amount of bandwidth. What was "practically unlimited" 5 years ago is woefully limited as the media streaming gets more and more pervasive. Regardless of the true motives of AT&T the premise is still quite sound and relevant.

Perhaps if it worked with your new FinePix REAL 3D W1 Digital Camera it would be useful for sorting those photos. On the other hand, the FinePix is doing something with interlacing left and right eye views so I suspect it's using some sort of lenticular screen rather than the cross-polarized stereo that Acer is touting.

In the states, BA (Bank of America) is pretty much "bugger all" as well.