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With the 35% option you will receive 35% of list price, even when Amazon price match, unless that price match is to $0.00. With the 70% royalty option you receive 70% of the sale price, rather than list price, when the book is sold to customers in their 70% regions. Otherwise you get 35% of sale price for those books.

Whether or not the book is available elsewhere, and whether or not that price is higher or lower than at Amazon, does not factor into your royalty rate. The only impact it would have is if they price match another retailer, which could lower your sale price to ensure that Amazon's price is not being undercut by a competitor.

This is all explained (to some degree of clarity) on their Sales & Royalties FAQ page: https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A30F3VI2TH1FR8

As another commenter posted, that's an Ask Amazon question - I suggest hitting up the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) Forums; we've had some good responses there

Was that an excerpt from SEAL Team Six: The Novel (#1 in ongoing hit series)?

Verse 18: "For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law..."

The role of the mosaic law in the new testament is something that a lot of people find difficult to grasp at first, but you might find it helpful to read the book of Romans - particularly chapters 1-8. There are numerous passages in the gospels that appear to be contradictory when taken out of context, but Romans shows how they piece together. Also, read "The Normal Christian Life" by Watchman Nee.

I am currently reading Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Sagan does an incredible job at promoting skepticism, fighting ignorance and all while being extremely respectful of religion. While I love Sagan, I just can't stand Dawkins.

They got 'em.

http://www.amazon.com/ZOMM-Wireless-Bluetooth-Speakerphone-Personal/dp/B003N3J6F6

Why the hell Google can't spring for a lousy 50 dollar gadget to protect a multi-millon dollar prototype phone is completely beyond me.

Currently Amazon sells import CD's of music from Europe where copyright of recorded material expires after 50 years, in the US it is after 70 years. So Amazon is selling sets of great music (including recordings of Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, Johny Cash, Zoot Simms John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, etc) from the 50's made legally in Europe as public domain, but under copyright in the US. If this studend is found guilty, it would seem Amazon must be also. Check out this set of 8 Ellington albums for $15 http://www.amazon.com/8-Classic-Albums-Duke-Ellington/dp/B006UFCFBQ made in Europe, available for purchase in the US.

I didn't see anyone mention in-wall USB ports. I have torn apart most of the ones on the market to check out the insides, and I will say that the Leviton is the best built and best amperage.

Here is a link to what I'm talking about on Amazon, but I found it 6 dollars cheaper at home depot when I purchased mine.
http://www.amazon.com/Leviton-T5630-W-125-Volt-Tamper-Resistant-Receptacle/dp/B008O11IEY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351449624&sr=8-1&keywords=leviton+usb

Also I don't really care about all the Ethernet ports everyone talks about, I'm fine with wireless. Personally I would rather have a really great wireless network with segregated guest access. I have found the best home wifi is the Ubiquiti unifi line: http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-UniFi-Enterprise-System/dp/B004XXMUCQ/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351449761&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=ubiquiti+unifo

My home is 4400 sq foot, with 2200 on the first floor and 2200 in a basement, and one of these puppies gets me a solid connection anywhere in the house, and I have another one in my back shop that covers the gazebo and back yard.

If you don't have one think about getting a gazebo with a nice firepit in the center, and ceiling fan over it. I know this doesn't sound "geeky", but I spend a TON of time with my laptop outside on it. My geek freinds and I have had enough with cave dwelling, we are all about a nice cool breeze, a bucket of beer, and laptops plugged in to sockets conveniently placed on every 4x4 at the corners :).

I didn't see anyone mention in-wall USB ports. I have torn apart most of the ones on the market to check out the insides, and I will say that the Leviton is the best built and best amperage.

Here is a link to what I'm talking about on Amazon, but I found it 6 dollars cheaper at home depot when I purchased mine.
http://www.amazon.com/Leviton-T5630-W-125-Volt-Tamper-Resistant-Receptacle/dp/B008O11IEY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351449624&sr=8-1&keywords=leviton+usb

Also I don't really care about all the Ethernet ports everyone talks about, I'm fine with wireless. Personally I would rather have a really great wireless network with segregated guest access. I have found the best home wifi is the Ubiquiti unifi line: http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-UniFi-Enterprise-System/dp/B004XXMUCQ/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351449761&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=ubiquiti+unifo

My home is 4400 sq foot, with 2200 on the first floor and 2200 in a basement, and one of these puppies gets me a solid connection anywhere in the house, and I have another one in my back shop that covers the gazebo and back yard.

If you don't have one think about getting a gazebo with a nice firepit in the center, and ceiling fan over it. I know this doesn't sound "geeky", but I spend a TON of time with my laptop outside on it. My geek freinds and I have had enough with cave dwelling, we are all about a nice cool breeze, a bucket of beer, and laptops plugged in to sockets conveniently placed on every 4x4 at the corners :).

The Hopi indians had an enhanced lexicon for the reliability of information, particularly when speaking about water. 1st hand, 2nd hand, 3rd hand information, how old it was and how reliable the source was judged to be all could be described using specific words.

The origin of information reported is part of the morphology in Hopi, not the lexicon. It is reported by specific morphemes, not specific words. Any language can report such things with specific words, e.g. English "Mary is pregnant, I saw it myself" versus "Mary is pregnant, that's what John said."

Furthermore, morphological encoding is hardly unique to the Hopi, as this typology is found in languages all over the world (including a number of European languages). See Aikhenvald's Evidentiality (Oxford University Press, 2005) for a survey. No need to patronizingly romanticize Native Americans.

Make the first episode of BSG Season 1 required viewing for "intro to computers" class.

This is a mouse, this is a keyboard, this is why you don't jack your global defense grid into a wifi hotspot.

...Plus, I would have to buy an additional controller for $50. So, console game = $59 + $50. PC game = $29.

You only purchase an additional controller once, so including it in the cost of the console version while not including it in the cost of the PC version is nonsense. Also, Lego Pirates is $20 on all 3 consoles and $30 on the PC http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Pirates-Caribbean-Pc/dp/B002I0JJMK.

PC games get updates and bugs get fixed. My daughter and I recently played Lego Pirates of the Caribbean on Wii and it was practically unsolvable with 2 player co-op. It kept locking up with no way to update it or fix it. I wish I had bought the PC version.

The Xbox and PS often get bugfixes as well. For most multiplayer PC games, if you want to play with your daughter, you'll need to buy a second PC (and 2 copies of each game as well). Kinda makes that $59 you spent on a second controller look like chicken scratch...

Most people needing hearing-aids don't have parents from which to freeload, and even assuming the teen pays the bill them self, using your plan the senior would pay $80 a month for 2 years, a sum of almost $2000!

Hearing aids span a wide spectrum of quality and many decent ones aren't actually that expensive. Take the
$329.98 MDHearingAid Acoustitone PRO Hearing Aid for example. You even get a 45 day allegedly risk free trial.

Or go ultra cheap with the $8.99 SSI Mini Hearing Enhancement System (Batteries Included)

You probably won't get "$8,000 hearing aid" performance out of them, but when you lose them at the park you won't be near suicidal over it.

Most people needing hearing-aids don't have parents from which to freeload, and even assuming the teen pays the bill them self, using your plan the senior would pay $80 a month for 2 years, a sum of almost $2000!

Hearing aids span a wide spectrum of quality and many decent ones aren't actually that expensive. Take the
$329.98 MDHearingAid Acoustitone PRO Hearing Aid for example. You even get a 45 day allegedly risk free trial.

Or go ultra cheap with the $8.99 SSI Mini Hearing Enhancement System (Batteries Included)

You probably won't get "$8,000 hearing aid" performance out of them, but when you lose them at the park you won't be near suicidal over it.

My father now has a generator wired into the house, and set up so they can run the furnace, and a couple of outlets (run the fridge for a while to keep it cold), with enough gas to run it for most of a week. They already have a bunch of oil-lamps, and make sure to keep them fueled. They keep several gallons of water in the bathroom to flush with (they're on a well, no electricity means no water to flush the toilets, which is pretty nasty).

Since they have a hardwired generator, why not put the well pump on the generator? My parents have a 5KVA generator that has enough power to run the well pump as long as no other big loads are powered on (the startup current on the well pump is apparently too much current draw when combined with other loads). Once the well pump fills the pressure tank, he can turn it off and has 15 - 20 gallons of usable water before the pressure drops too low.

If I had a generator, I'd never use oil lamps - rechargable batteries and LED flashlights are much safer, you can get a fast charger to recharge AA's in 30 minutes or so, which is less time than you'll need to run the fridge. Or get a D cell LED lantern - it'll run for 48 hours or so on a set of non-rechargable alkalines. Or use your rechargable AA's in a D-cell adapter and you can still get a few hours of lifetime from it before you need to recharge.

I saw someone knock over an oil lamp once in a garage - the wick holder came off and oil seeped out onto the plywood it fell onto, it created a sizeable fire before someone brought in a fire extinguisher to douse it. Not something I'd want to have happen in the living room during a hurricane disaster.

Because it's as easy as having the right cable

Now you have a full-sized USB port. :-p

> Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tutorial

Which is *precisely* why it is total crap. It has the potential to be SO MUCH MORE then just a encyclopedia. Instead they piss away their opportunity to be great.

Every article should be broken down into at *least* 4 sections:

* Layman introduction (either 8th grade, or 12th grade)
* Theory - Professional Description - notation, terminology, etc.
* Implementation & Examples
* Tutorial
* Reference
* Related Info - such as Trivia
* Optional: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Frequently asked Questions & Answers

One man's junk is another man's treasure. SOME people LOVE trivia. Others hate it. The solution is to be appeal to BOTH people. For the people that hate trivia they never have to view it.

Also, when you stupid crap like this Artist who has 9 CD's actively being sold on Amazon yet STILL is refused to be listed on Wikipedia you know the admins are fucking clueless.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Mehdi
i.e.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi

Does it REALLY take up THAT much disk space and network storage to be COMPLETE ??

Because the system doesn't come with a progressive dumbell set to help lift that controller.

Something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Bowflex-SelectTech-Adjustable-Dumbbells-Pair/dp/B001ARYU58

It's like no one reporting on this has any knowledge of how radiation decays.

It's going to take a while (decades at minimum) to clean this mess up.

Yes, they archive on tape.

I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon does it too:

http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

thoroughly study the USAF Flight Test Engineering Manual

I would guess it wouldn't be too much different then one of these

http://www.amazon.com/Telikin-Elite-Touchscreen-Computer-Processor/dp/B005T3XEHE

Met an old person who had one. It would drive me crazy if I had to use it, but it did everything they needed. Pictures, documents, internet surfing all worked and they didn't have to worry about Windows viruses.

One key is remembering that you can learn something from anyone you meet. I particularly learned this in working with developmentally-disabled people and in retail before I got into IT. And, while it's taken the better part of 50 years, I've learned that it's best for me to just shut up and listen to what other people are saying. I've learned that plenty of people are smarter than I've given them credit for, and I've learned all kinds of interesting things that would have otherwise eluded me.

It may also be worth spending a little bit of time with a counselor to learn some interpersonal skills. S/he can likely recommend some books on the subject. I especially liked Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand. It's more about male/female conversational styles, but it's a good introduction to the out-of-band messaging that occurs in conversation.

The fact that you're aware you have personality traits that you find obnoxious in others is a good thing and will help you become a very likeable person -- which you probably are already.

http://www.amazon.com/Firefly-kids-phone-card-charger/dp/B0040T9E68

http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/fireflymobile/firefly.html

ATT/Cingular has had one since 2005.

Simberg is best known for a fabricated "Reuters" article allegedly from 1945 [educate-yourself.org] which, unbelievably, was taken seriously and cited by both Condoleeza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld. Basically, it was a lame satire about the Iraqi resistance which (falsely) claimed that similar things had happened in Germany after WWII.

The article you point to contains bogus information. The author didn't do his homework.

The Last Nazis: SS Werewolf Guerrilla Resistance in Europe 1944-1947

Minutemen of the Third Reich ("Werewolf" guerilla movement - postwar sabotage & terror not new)

Probably the most sensational action taken by Werewolf personnel:

Franz Oppenhoff (August 18, 1902 - March 25, 1945) was a German lawyer who was appointed Mayor of the city of Aachen by Allied forces and subsequently murdered on the order of Heinrich Himmler. . .

Operation Carnival

Oppenhoff was considered a traitor and a collaborationist by the Nazi regime, and his assassination, codenamed Unternehmen Karneval ("Operation Carnival"), was ordered by Heinrich Himmler, planned by SS Obergruppenführer Hans-Adolf Prützmann, and carried out by an assassination unit composed of four SS men and two members of the Hitler Youth.[3]

The unit was commanded by SS Untersturmführer Herbert Wenzel, who was a training officer at Prützmann's Werwolf training facility at Hülchrath Castle; Wenzel arranged the necessary equipment and decided on methods. Unterscharführer (Junior Squad Leader) Josef Leitgeb, also a training officer at Hülchrath, was second-in-command. Ilse Hirsch, a Hauptgruppenführerin (Sergeant) in the BDM (League of German Girls) was supposed to provide supplies but turned out to play an important part in the operation. Wenzel also picked a Werwolf trainee from Hülchrath to accompany them, 16-year old Erich Morgenschweiss.[4] Two former members of the Border Patrol completed the team, to act as guides in the area around Aachen.[3]

The unit parachuted from a captured B-17 bomber into a Belgian forest on March 20, 1945. They killed a Belgian border guard at the frontier, then moved on to set up camp near the target. Hirsch became separated from the rest and made her own way to Aachen, where she contacted a friend in the BDM and discovered Oppenhoff's whereabouts.

The rest of the unit arrived in Aachen on March 25. Wenzel, Leitgeb and one other confronted Oppenhoff on his own doorstep after he had been fetched from a party at his neighbours' house. They pretended to be German pilots who were looking for the German lines. Oppenhoff tried to persuade them to surrender. Wenzel hesitated, and Leitgeib shouted "Heil Hitler" and shot Oppenhoff in the head. Just before a US patrol arrived to check the telephone line which Wenzel had previously cut, the three assassins scattered.[3]

Surreal Number by Donald Knuth Nearly 30 years ago, John Horton Conway introduced a new way to construct numbers. Donald E. Knuth, in appreciation of this revolutionary system, took a week off from work on The Art of Computer Programming to write an introduction to Conway's method. Never content with the ordinary, Knuth wrote this introduction as a work of fiction--a novelette. If not a steamy romance, the book nonetheless shows how a young couple turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness. The book's primary aim, Knuth explains in a postscript, is not so much to teach Conway's theory as "to teach how one might go about developing such a theory." He continues: "Therefore, as the two characters in this book gradually explore and build up Conway's number system, I have recorded their false starts and frustrations as well as their good ideas. I wanted to give a reasonably faithful portrayal of the important principles, techniques, joys, passions, and philosophy of mathematics, so I wrote the story as I was actually doing the research myself."...It is an astonishing feat of legerdemain. An empty hat rests on a table made of a few axioms of standard set theory.Conway waves two simple rules in the air, then reaches into almost nothing and pulls out an infinitely rich tapestry of numbers that form a real and closed field. Every real number is surrounded by a host of new numbers that lie closer to it than any other "real" value does. from http://www.amazon.com/Surreal-Numbers-Donald-Knuth/dp/0201038129

I enjoyed the Selfish Gene and the Extended Phenotype very much. In following books you've moved to explaining the very basics of the evolutionary theory. Do you plan to ever return to write about more complex aspects of the evolution?

You might enjoy: "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ancestors-Tale-Pilgrimage-Evolution/dp/0618005838

"E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation" by David Bodanis is not fiction, but a ripping good read. Aside from just the formula itself, it goes into the history of each symbol in the famous formula, but the interesting lives of the people who played a part in each symbol. Includes everything from the French Revolution to WWII!

It goes on to show all the cool & terrifying technologies that the formula led us to, and even to the end of our sun, and the death of the universe itself.

Sounds weird to say it but, a fun, fun read!

http://www.amazon.com/mc2-Biography-Worlds-Famous-Equation/dp/0425181642

Some discrete math for you to think about disguised as a story.

Not quite what you're asking for, but there a whole range of comics to help vulgarise maths that are a great read. Look for the work of Ian Stewart. He was quite successful in France with French translations, but I'm not sure whether he galvanised much interest in the English speaking world. His famous series in French goes by the title of "les chroniques de Rose Polymath".
http://www.amazon.com/Ian-Stewart/e/B000APQ9NM/.

On a slightly different note, French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Petit vulgarised a number of physics theories in an entertaining way. And what's more he has now provided free download of the scans of a lot of his comics: http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/JPP/telechargeables/free_downloads.htm#english.
Or read the same in many other languages, take your pick: http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture tells a fictional story about real mathematics and real mathematicians.

Logicomix is an excellent graphic novel about mathematical logic.

A Certain Ambiguity uses real mathematics in a fictional quest for absolute truth.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture tells a fictional story about real mathematics and real mathematicians.

Logicomix is an excellent graphic novel about mathematical logic.

A Certain Ambiguity uses real mathematics in a fictional quest for absolute truth.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture tells a fictional story about real mathematics and real mathematicians.

Logicomix is an excellent graphic novel about mathematical logic.

A Certain Ambiguity uses real mathematics in a fictional quest for absolute truth.

I highly recommend both A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin, and Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.

Madman is about Turing and Godel's lives (and the parallels between them) during the time of their most profound work, with a decent discussion of the philosophy and logic behind their discoveries. Dreams is a fun romp through Einstein's imagination as he toys with various theories of time while daydreaming at his job in the patent office.

Both are excellent reads and a great deal of fun.

I highly recommend both A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin, and Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.

Madman is about Turing and Godel's lives (and the parallels between them) during the time of their most profound work, with a decent discussion of the philosophy and logic behind their discoveries. Dreams is a fun romp through Einstein's imagination as he toys with various theories of time while daydreaming at his job in the patent office.

Both are excellent reads and a great deal of fun.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to say *anything* about this story without spoiling it, so I'll just leave it as a bare recommendation.

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved

Simon Singh's book "Fermat's Enigma" on Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
http://www.amazon.com/Fermats-Enigma-Greatest-Mathematical-Problem/dp/0385493622

Morris Kline' s book "Mathematics, the Loss of Certainty" on how the discovery of geometries where perpendicular lines intersect in more than one point (ellipsoidal and hyperbolic) led to the efforts to determine whether Mathematics as we know it is consistent. Leads up to Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem.
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Loss-Certainty-Galaxy-Books/dp/0195030850/

Simon Singh's book "Fermat's Enigma" on Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
http://www.amazon.com/Fermats-Enigma-Greatest-Mathematical-Problem/dp/0385493622

Morris Kline' s book "Mathematics, the Loss of Certainty" on how the discovery of geometries where perpendicular lines intersect in more than one point (ellipsoidal and hyperbolic) led to the efforts to determine whether Mathematics as we know it is consistent. Leads up to Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem.
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Loss-Certainty-Galaxy-Books/dp/0195030850/

Fantasia Mathmatica It was out of print forever but should be on the shelf of everyone who loves math or teaches math.

I just finished reading Ready Player One which I found to be a lot like Gibson and Stephenson, but better. (For example, RPO actually has an ending.)

Regarding Stephenson's inability to write an ending, amen! He's one of my favorite writers, but he can't tie up a book to save his life. Diamond Age was the worst -- great book, but virtually nothing is resolved at the end. I'd never heard of Ready Player One, but it sounds great and I've already got it on order. Thanks!

I know you asked for math-reads, but you also asked for books like Stephenson. I just finished reading Ready Player One which I found to be a lot like Gibson and Stephenson, but better. (For example, RPO actually has an ending.) It has a good cyberpunk feel, and a realistic world. The way he described the dystopian near-future society reminded me of Stephenson's Diamond Age or Snow Crash, or Gibson's Virtual Light trilogy.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Petros-Goldbachs-Conjecture-Mathematical/dp/1582341281

Get a better heat sink.

I use this heatsink (ZALMAN CNPS 8900 Quiet, low profile, $40) with a couple different AMD Phenom II boxes (125W TDP). The CPU runs on average 10-15 degrees cooler (celcius) than with the stock heatsink. It's incredibly quiet at full load and imperceptible otherwise. It's quieter than the heat sink that comes with the Intel i7-3770 (77W TDP).

If I didn't need a low profile heatsink I could have spent half as much and gotten something that would have worked just as well or better.

Ouch, they are stickin it to ya huh? But I don't think you are looking at this the right way friend, see you can just save the instruction booklet and the old HSF and then move the new cooler to whatever unit you get later, as the new coolers will fit pretty much ALL Intel and AMD chips. So you see you can get this now and when you go Trinity or Ivy down the road you can just take that cooler with you, no need to replace it when you replace the chip. I have a customer with one of the Zalman coolers, he's changed chips 3 times, still on the same cooler.

And if you need something a little lower cost this unit works pretty well, about 5-7F hotter than the N520 but its also half the price so with your import taxes it might save you a pretty penny. As you see here its also a heatpipe but with the added advantage of this baby will fit ANYTHING, from Socket 754 on the AMD side to LGA 775 on the Intel, so it really doesn't matter what system you get down the road, just keep the adapters and instruction booklet and take the cooler with you.

Personally I prefer the Hyper N520 for both AMD and Intel builds, why? Its quiet, fits into the mATX towers, unlike many of the heatpipe coolers, and with a little arctic silver (although to be fair it comes with coolermaster heat paste in a tube and its only around 5f difference between the two) it keeps even the hexacores nice and cool without being loud.

The problem with those like the ninja, and having a couple of gamer customers that love having me build them crazy gamer rigs I've gotten to play with most of the high scoring coolers, is they are fricking HUGE and will have trouble fitting into anything but the really large gamer cases. Since the vast majority of PCs come with the mATX mini-towers its nice to have a cooler that will do the job without having to toss the case and the N520 fits that description perfectly. In fact with most of my customers (as well as myself) that go for the N520 I don't even bother with an exhaust fan, the N520 will push enough air that frankly it isn't needed. We are talking 85-105F light load on the Hexacores, with 128F seeming to be the highest they'll hit after hours of heavy loads, and you can knock 5-12F for the quads and triples, just depending on the model.

Truly a great little aftermarket cooler at a great price, i highly recommend and like it so much not only is my own Hexacore running it but so is my dad's quad, and my boys quad and hexacore. All of us are quite happy with how low it keeps the temps and how quiet it is, just great.

That is actually quite easy and cheap to fix friend. I would recommend the same thing my family and I use, the Hyper N520 which is small enough to fit in most mATX mini-towers, and paired with a little arctic silver will keep even the hottest chips under control without the whole "jet engine" problem.

My 1035T which is naturally a hotter chip than yours, having 6 cores and Turbocore, idles around 85F-95F, depending on how hot i have it in my apt at the time, and after hours of video transcoding it maxes out around 128F, which is really good for just a $30 cooler and a $5 tube of arctic silver, especially since i removed the exhaust fan as I saw no point with the temps i was getting. I tried using the tube of paste that comes with it on my nephew's quad and it only adds 5f-7F so its up to you if you want to buy the arctic for that little difference, but I figured if i was gonna have the cooler changed out having some arctic around would probably be nice to have and it was on sale.

But once installed frankly you can't hear it unless you just lay your ear next to the case, in fact when i installed the N520 into my youngest boy's 1045t gamer PC he called me back in there before I could pack up my tools saying 'I think the fans are busted!" and I had to pop the side off to show him yes, the fans are working just fine, because it was so quiet he was sure there had to be something stopping the fans from turning. like you he had an AMD stock cooler and that thing was a noisy little beast,that is why I urge folks on my new builds just to spend the extra money and get the N520, the drop in noise and temps is well worth it.

I thought this was Slashdot. This should be the home of people hacking devices and breathing new life into them.

... Sorry, not since 2004 and the release of the ipod mini. Here, we praise the almighty apple, and their policies of less-than-user-repairable designs.

Looks like you need to get a better Rx on your bifocals or perhaps a stronger magnifier (not an affiliate link). Plenty of instructions and parts here and elsewhere for 'less-than-user-repairable' designs. Let me guess, you think you can't change the oil on a modern car, either?

I've delved into a couple of iPods and my brother has repair at least three iPhones. No tougher than replacing bits on a modern laptop, and only slightly more involved than replacing bits in a modern tower PC. Had you mentioned the glued in batteries on the MacBook Air or the pentalobe screws, maybe you would have had a point, but 2004 iPod mini? That's a stretch.

Multi AZ IS "completely geographically separate zones" and yes, you can specifically define which ones.

Amazon is very clear that US East 1a,b,c,d are all the same physical data center. However, West is not. It's in Oregon (as opposed to VA for East)

I've seen no evidence that true Multi AZ instances (as described by Amazon) are down. If you've got some though, I would be interested to see it because I would be pretty concerned.

Availability Zones are not geographically separate - regions are:

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#features

Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same Region. By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location. Regions consist of one or more Availability Zones, are geographically dispersed, and will be in separate geographic areas or countries

Bad luck if you're hosted in the US-East-1 Region, I guess.

Heh, I should really start advertising the LVS clusters I tend to as 'private clouds with better uptime than Amazon'.