It wasn't across the board, but at least for me personally, "Inspiron" meant "laptop with the durability of a soap bubble". Maybe they felt they had to rebrand everything else to make it less obvious?

"You have exceeded your quota, here is a text description of a chunk of coal. Now go away, or I shall upload pictures of you as a Studio Ghibli-style action figure to Reddit!"

All puns aside, I have great respect for the research - But isn't anybody talking about the murder at the scene of the investigation?

A certain well-known purveyor of 802.11 gear does the same thing in their release notes. I hate that, too. I have no problem with people trying to improve their vocabulary, but it would be nice if they'd look the words up in the dictionary first!

Abbots are, by definition, male. In contrast, abbesses are, by definition, female.

If you like ESXi Hypervisor, try Proxmox VE, it's got features you only get with the VMware full versions (HA, backup, live migration), what's not to like?

Amazon recommends for age 18 and up, which is probably a bit conservative, but the book summary mentions building on algebra, so unless the 9 year old is profoundly gifted (which is a possibility, of course) I would think the book would be too advanced.

Looking at the sample chapter at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.pdf seems to confirm this.

BTW, I'll add my vote for Scratch. Also, Mindstorms is intended for ages 10+, of course that may be adjusted down with mechanical *and* language giftedness but I find it's more than what my 7yo is comfortable with. There is a simpler LEGO product called WeDo for ages 7-12 (http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/categories/products/elementary/lego-education-wedo), it's for the education market but I've seen it available online. It's also a touch less expensive. Interestingly, there is an option to program it with Scratch (http://info.scratch.mit.edu/WeDo).

I thought I saw something on TV about 10 years ago using zeolites, this PDF mentions it http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/ancillary_loads/pdfs/heat_cooling.pdf

Covers about a square mile per WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118677584137994489.html

They'll die before they finish their first sentence.

Nice try, but if the sensor is bad (shorted?), or if the high bit in the memory cell where ServoPosition is stuck high [and they aren't using ECC) you're still in trouble with your fix.

What you are talking about (a new OS based on BeOS) is Cobalt, which nobody wanted, not even Palm.

BeOS had some nice ideas, but if it was really that great they wouldn't have gone out of business.

Case in point: it was supposed to be so great with video, but personally, on a PIII 750, I found that mplayer on Linux performed a lot better than VideoLAN on BeOS. If the situation was reversed, I would have bought it. Alas.