here to save the world again!

I feel the exact opposite. Snowboards, skateboards, wakeboards = yay... ski's etc. = nay.

How about they just sell them for a reasonable price (ie. not equal to or more than physical books) at which point there would be no need for reselling.

You get used to the noise (it just becomes background white noise) after a while. I've got a 48port gb switch that was annoying for a few days but now I don't even notice it anymore. Of course, if you add a few professional grade servers to that after a while it will become hard to hear yourself think but you can get used to quite a lot.

Also.. maybe not so much re-purposed consumer grade desktop machines but server class machines tend to get louder/quieter depending on load due to the fans accommodating for power usage and heat generation so a lower user server will generate less noise overall than a high use machine.

I bet it also doubles as a nice space heater? ;) One of the things people tend to forget about professional grade servers is that they put out a good amount of heat.

I set up a minecraft server at home about a year ago for myself and my gf's son. The nice thing for me was that I could play in 1 perpetual world from both home and work. I wasn't really interested in hosting a server for the public but it was convenient for my purposes.

Like most non-tech users felt going from Office 2003 -> 2007 -> 2010?

Really? Where? Reference? Honestly, I've never heard that parents kicking deadbeat children out of their homes was a serious source of homelessness.

Challenge Accepted!

Yeah. There's no such thing as chicks for free.

This sounds like an episode of Sliders to me...

It comes with the TI-99/4A and was extremely informative at 9 so should be a breeze at 11.

There will always be faulty cables (I've tossed many a patch cable that could have been fixed with a few minutes and a new rj45 connector) when dealing with digital cabling but you will never be able to convince me that that $80 monster HDMI cable is worth buying over the similar length (or longer) $10 cable from monoprice.com.

There was an article here on the 40 hour week recently. http://www.alternet.org/visions/154518/why_we_have_to_go_back_to_a_40-hour_work_week_to_keep_our_sanity/?page=entire

How about Target Earth that was for the Sega Genesis? I read a review on it in one of those gaming mags in the early 90's that gave it an 'Impossible' rating (the only one I'd ever seen). It took my roommate and I hours just to get through the first level (side scrolling shooter type game).