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Wndr 3800 (not 3700) if you're buying online. There are some versions of 3700 you don't want, and it's almost impossible to know what version you're buying online. The 3800 currently only has one version, which is supported in the current trunk of OpenWRT.

I ordered from Amazon both new for the office and refurbished for home, and I got 3700v2 for both.

I think it's a matter of who has old inventory vs. high turn-over (though I guess refurbished could be a crapshoot). But the refurb 3700 is half the price of a 3800.

Wndr 3800 (not 3700) if you're buying online. There are some versions of 3700 you don't want, and it's almost impossible to know what version you're buying online. The 3800 currently only has one version, which is supported in the current trunk of OpenWRT.

I ordered from Amazon both new for the office and refurbished for home, and I got 3700v2 for both.

I think it's a matter of who has old inventory vs. high turn-over (though I guess refurbished could be a crapshoot). But the refurb 3700 is half the price of a 3800.

If they are not replacing the screen, just the board, then I think they are wasting their time. Based on how awkward the FreeRunner is with regards to the shape and size of the screen (480x640), they will never be able to compete with any recent Android or iPhone model.

Since they stated it will be using the same case, they are really limiting how much they can do for the FreeRunner.

Sounds like Crimson Orgy - a novel about a low-budget movie with all kinds of similar events.

If you want to see this legendary awful film, you can already buy the Mystery Science Theatre 3000's DVD set which contains the film alone on one disc, and MST3K's great comedic treatment on another.

No doubt some will wish to treat Manos on its own, in its uncommented bad-cinema purity, but I imagine a lot people would find the MST3K a better way to approach the film.

A lot of tools have diamond blades.

Huh? +4 informative? I've been absent from /. for a good 5 years, but in my day that comment would have looked like

A lot of tools have diamond blades.

Looking at the FAQ for authors publishing books on Amazon, it looks like it is the Author's choice to use DRM or not.

The publisher chooses whether to use DRM when uploading the book. Unfortunately there's no guaranteed way to tell that a book doesn't have DRM before buying it.

Amazon retains control over how their ebooks are used/consumed,

Looking at the FAQ for authors publishing books on Amazon, it looks like it is the Author's choice to use DRM or not.

Amazon's ebooks only work on amazon hardware.

I think you mean that Amazon's ebooks only work on Amazon *software*. You can get a Kindle reader for most any major platform.

http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Network-How-Own-Box/dp/1931836876/
Chapter 4 ... from 2003!
Come on guys...

Umm... I tried to do a comparison of manufacturer rated battery life, but no Apple product ranks in the top twenty phones currently available. Fourteen of the twenty are android phones. The iPhones range from 5-8 hours of talk time, which is pretty mediocre. (I'm assuming you're contrasting Android phones and the iPhone, but RIM's and Nokia's smartphones aren't in that list either.)

Of course, "shitty battery life" aside, no smartphone can bear active use all day (or for the entirety of a long flight). For example, the last 30 hour (on-site) call I did I simply charged my extra battery and swapped once, whereas my fellow sufferers with iPhones had to leave them plugged into USB ports over half the night. One minute of downtime for a reboot is better than several hours of the phone being left unattended, IMHO. Plus, at $5 each with free shipping from the phone manufacturer, why wouldn't you want a spare or two?

What's the point of a built-in keyboard on a phone with bluetooth anyway? More moving parts, impossible to touch type on, always bulky even when you won't be typing, etc, etc. Get a bluetooth keyboard and be done with it. If you don't care about touch-typing there are bluetooth keyboards about the same size as most phones. eg the Rii mini. If you do, a folding keyboard may be better, such as the Verbatim 97537 or any of the numerous others.

What's the point of a built-in keyboard on a phone with bluetooth anyway? More moving parts, impossible to touch type on, always bulky even when you won't be typing, etc, etc. Get a bluetooth keyboard and be done with it. If you don't care about touch-typing there are bluetooth keyboards about the same size as most phones. eg the Rii mini. If you do, a folding keyboard may be better, such as the Verbatim 97537 or any of the numerous others.

This book supports many of you observations: Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency , and many others. Every engineer working in the environment described above should invest on themselves and buy this book. It will open their eyes!

May i introduce you to the concept of sewage sludge?

We might be creating the modern plague of our age - all under the greenwash guise of "recycling".

Here is a great introductory video.

Lax oversight is also a great way to attack US.

Know where your food comes from - as a farm geek to you computer geeks - know the difference between organic and certified organic.

Want to know more? Read this.

I come to Slashdot for shill reviews for Packt Publishing and their books on 3 year old versions of Drupal. Slashdot I am disappoint.

Would a 1 1/2 year old book by RuPaul make you feel better?

I present to you 'organic' salt.. Good for seasoning french fires, and making chemists' heads explode.

Here is the solution I found:

http://www.amazon.com/Targus-CityGear-Capacity-TDP019US-Contrasting/dp/B000I40S0A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322432383&sr=8-1

A few of those hold all my CDs, DVDs and BRs.

In particular, hard-core religious people seem to have none whatsoever.

Try walking into a Christian bookstore and asking for their humour section (often there isn't one, or it's pretty sparse, or it's in the children's section). If there isn't one, you can make remarks like "What? Christians have no sense of humour?".

FWIW, I'm a Christian, and I was actually looking for this book: http://www.amazon.com/Fearfully-Wonderfully-Weird-Screwball-Wittenburg/dp/0310287316

Seriously though, it may be because those "hard core" ultrareligious sorts live in fear (which IMO is suboptimal). It's not funny if you feel unsafe.

Safe and secure. That's why good guy friends can slap each other on the back, throw insults and do all sorts of other stuff - they know they are safe, genuinely no harm is ever intended. And that's why children are laughing if daddy throws them up in the air, and of course catches them. That's often the difference between a funny prank and a malicious act. If the victim feels safe and is safe, it's funny. If it's not, it's not funny.

maniacal giggling whilst ripping your still-living victims organs out can be considered humorous.

They say beauty is only skin deep, but I love you from the bottom of your heart. Hey be thankful I didn't I "love" you from the heart of your bottom... What's the matter, cat got your tongue? Ooops, looks like she did.

Bwahahaha.

oh by the way: pc version is already available. http://www.amazon.com/Rocksmith-Pc/dp/B004S5TDUQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1322323015&sr=1-1

I have a Nikon S3000, and for a point and shoot, I absolutely adore it. Many cameras are moving towards touchscreens, which drive meup the goddamn wall, but the S3000 still has decent hardware while giving me buttons that click. And for a cheap camera, it is pretty damn versatile.

Get a Canon Powershot SX150. It's about $200 if not less online.

They are selling for $149 today on Amazon.

Nonsense. All significant accidents have happened in old (in some cases, 3 "generations" old) technology plants, and sometimes human error was a major component.

When it comes to failures in complex, potentially deadly systems like nuclear plants, "human error" isn't ever a factor. If the system relies on a human to act a certain way without a failsafe then it is just bad design, pure and simple. This book explains it well.

This book is made for geek travellers just like you. You don't have to buy the book, just look up the United States section in the Table of Contents.
The Geek Atlas

If you do decide to buy the book, it gives you some history about each destination.

Near Arco, Idaho, is the site of Experimental Breeder Reactor 1.

"At 1:50 pm on December 20, 1951 it became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced sufficient electricity to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs."

It's decommissioned now, but the building and much of the original equipment is still there, along with good museum exhibits.

You haven't said what route you're taking across the States, but Arco is along the "Oregon Trail" as documented in the guidebook "Road Trip USA" (which I thoroughly recommend, having driven four of its cross-country routes)

You should check out Gravitation by Misner Thorne and Wheeler for a nice example of what you're talking about. Unfortunately, gravitation is still really hard even with that approach, and only a tiny minority of people get beyond the first 300 pages.

Or Jim Clark's Netscape Time, now likely out of print (but available used).

Clark knew all about Microsoft and actually made some good moves early on to try to shake the Empire. After resigning as chairman of Silicon Graphics, he dabbled in interactive TV which turned into an unintentional head fake (Bill Gates started a division at Microsoft to compete with him) before teaming up with Andreesen. Then, they waited until Windows 95 shipped before they unveiled Navigator 2.0, unquestionably the greatest software release of the '90s. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough.

The book is called @Large.

http://books.simonandschuster.com/At-Large/David-H-Freedman/9780684835587 Cuckoo's Egg might be the classic popular text from that era.

http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/0743411463

Still a pretty decent device considering it's over a year old now.

You don't have to root it per se, but you do want to put on VeganTab or some other ROM (which likely voids the warranty, but the device is cheap for a dual 1Ghz Tegra with a 10" screen... <$250 these days). There's no "jailbreak" step like most other devices. Just put the ROM in the right place and reboot.

The Android market works great now (very improved from the situation before!), so you can load Google Earth and just about anything else without any hassle.

Also have one of these cheap USB keyboard cases for it. Even with that, it still ends up being less bulky yet more fun than my old EeePC 901.

Unfortunately, Android doesn't work great with physical keyboards yet (all kinds of focus issues, and the Ctrl key annoyingly doesn't work in ConnectBot).

This book contains what it says on the tin.

Sure it is a dead OS, but it's got a few years of support (Four solid years if you believe Nokia and Accenture). You can get a brand new unlocked Symbian^3 smartphone for less than $400:
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Touchscreen-Featuring-Navigation-Camera--U-S/dp/B003ZX7RL4/

The N8 has a great camera, better than almost any other smartphone out there, an FM receiver as well as transmitter, USB on the go, and a micro HDMI out port. You can install and run whatever apps you like. you can tether it out of the box as-is via USB or bluetooth. sure some third-party apps want to call home, but the phone warns you when they do, and it's easy to disallow/disable.

you know what's funny about series60? it's had 4 years of life left for the past _10_ years.

Sure it is a dead OS, but it's got a few years of support (Four solid years if you believe Nokia and Accenture). You can get a brand new unlocked Symbian^3 smartphone for less than $400: http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Touchscreen-Featuring-Navigation-Camera--U-S/dp/B003ZX7RL4/ The N8 has a great camera, better than almost any other smartphone out there, an FM receiver as well as transmitter, USB on the go, and a micro HDMI out port. You can install and run whatever apps you like. you can tether it out of the box as-is via USB or bluetooth. sure some third-party apps want to call home, but the phone warns you when they do, and it's easy to disallow/disable.

Kids are swamped with video games so much that ey think all devices are used for games. I have started greatly limiting my son's exposure knowing he gets free reign when going to other kid's houses and while visiting the local YMCA. It has been an obsession with him since he first started watching me play WOW at age four. I shortly thereafter quit WOW cold turkey and have been trying to instill in him that computers are used for more than video games. I have even had him do some programming with BASIC and Game Maker but he is still more interested in playing than building things. I constantly stress the value of creating things to him and I can only hope it is making an impact. He is only eight now, so it is probably some time before he is able to run with these concepts of programming. I'm interested myself in building games (been programming business software for years) as I need a fun creative outlet aside from my current projects. I have introduced a single board computer and various small electronics/soldering kits which have been a hit with the kids. My daughter who is about four and my son's video game addicted/unregulated cousin (age 11) also took to the electronics kits as well. My wife thought it was boring and protested giving the kits as birthday presents, but she was dead wrong (doing a little victory dance). Now we have robot kits on the horizon where I will once again introduce programming in assembler and other languages. You can get electronics kits by a company named Elenco; their products are sold on Amazon and at other retailers. It is hands-on and gets them away from media consumption. http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-AmeriKit-Learn-Solder-Kit/dp/B0009Z3JJA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321919567&sr=8-1

http://www.open-mesh.com/
The single band series is .11G mesh, $60 for a router and another $20 for the outdoor enclosure.
 

Mesh is great in urban environments where property rights restrict you from crossing roads and other people's land.
But mesh really makes very little sense in this environment. Its a fairly obscure technology, and getting it fixed and keeping it running may be problematic when the campsite geek's RV pulls out for the season.

Look, they have power to all of these router anyway. Why not STRING the cable or use WIFI over Powerline to feed the routers?

Putting in ground-burial cat5e is not that hard and poses no risk to the existing utilities. Its about $300 for a thousand foot roll. Two guys and a rented Mini Trencher can probably install all the cable runs in one day.

You don' have to trench it in more than 4 inches deep, and you only need to go that deep to keep people from tripping on it. You can hand trench when you get near your pipes and power runs.

Tablets are nice but not really a viable solution for most people because of the price.

[[citation needed]], i.e. I call shenanigans.

iPad 2 $500

Well, $500 is a lot of money for many people - and that's only for 16 GB or about 20 hours of video (if you have nothing else on it).

refurbished iPad $300

Out of Stock - all three models

Kindle Fire $200

Another way to put it, since you have a bro-crush on your spinning media, a kindle fire = 8 DVDs. so unless you live in a favela, it's hard to justify the claim "not really viable for most people."

I like the Fire, but with 6GB of expandable memory it's limited as a portable tablet for non-connected use, such as the OP's airplane example. With any of the tablets, the media costs are still incurred; so the 8 DVD reference is irrelevant. More to the point - you can no longer just rent a DVD, get one from the library, etc; now you must plan ahead and rip a selected set. In addition, the cost of ripping in time is a barrier to tablet use; and I don't want to repurchase my DVD collection simply to be able to use it on a tablet.

I think the DVD is going away, but right now it is still the most convenient and common way to distribute video to a broad audience. It's often the cheapest as well, especially with the availability of used, rental, and sale priced media. That's why I think the next step is to slim the see of the in computer DVD mechanism before it finally disappears.

/., by it's nature, attracts people with bro-crushes on the latest tech gadgets (I personally really want a new iPad but am waiting for the next-gen) who tend to forget that "newer" doesn't alway's translated to "better enough to replace the existing in the short term." I think DVD's, from a cost and convenience standpoint, are still the most viable option for most people to use when traveling. Anecdotally, I see more people using them sitting up front than I see iPads or other tablets. That will change, but not in the near term, IMHO.

Tablets are nice but not really a viable solution for most people because of the price.

[[citation needed]], i.e. I call shenanigans.

iPad 2 $500

refurbished iPad $300

Kindle Fire $200

Another way to put it, since you have a bro-crush on your spinning media, a kindle fire = 8 DVDs. so unless you live in a favela, it's hard to justify the claim "not really viable for most people."

If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?

DavidTC - nice sig. Along those lines, I thought this was good read: http://www.amazon.com/Unincorporated-Man-Sci-Essential-Books/dp/0765318997

if the human race can not make life great on this planet then living in space where being even more efficient and much more benevolent is required to survive will never succeed.

humans are just inherently too stupid and greedy to survive for generations in some space ship or artificial planetoid type thing considering the track record we've made here on earth.

On the other hand, if being not-stupid and not-greedy actually is necessary for sustainable life, how long do you think it will take for the stupid/greedy people to hit the airlocks?

The stupids should actually self-select for attrition, whereas the greedy will most likely be selected as attrition candidates by others.

References:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
Freehold, by Michael Z Williamson

Beware, shameless plugs ahead (and they're not even my companies):

Williamson's book (along with many others) is available for FREE at the Baen Free Library! This is a publisher who embraces "piracy" as advertisement (the way it should be!).
Enjoy your free SciFi/Fantasy binge. Ya don't even have to tell 'em I sent ya, and I don't think I would get anything if you did.

Also, if you purchase one of their books in hardback, you get a legally copyable CD full of eBooks along with it - check your local library, the CDs inside are excellent.

I recommend Aldiko for eBook reading on Android, and Calibre on Windows/Mac/Linux.
Sorry, I don't use iOS - so I don't know what reader you would need for that.

if the human race can not make life great on this planet then living in space where being even more efficient and much more benevolent is required to survive will never succeed.

humans are just inherently too stupid and greedy to survive for generations in some space ship or artificial planetoid type thing considering the track record we've made here on earth.

On the other hand, if being not-stupid and not-greedy actually is necessary for sustainable life, how long do you think it will take for the stupid/greedy people to hit the airlocks?

The stupids should actually self-select for attrition, whereas the greedy will most likely be selected as attrition candidates by others.

References:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
Freehold, by Michael Z Williamson

Beware, shameless plugs ahead (and they're not even my companies):

Williamson's book (along with many others) is available for FREE at the Baen Free Library! This is a publisher who embraces "piracy" as advertisement (the way it should be!).
Enjoy your free SciFi/Fantasy binge. Ya don't even have to tell 'em I sent ya, and I don't think I would get anything if you did.

Also, if you purchase one of their books in hardback, you get a legally copyable CD full of eBooks along with it - check your local library, the CDs inside are excellent.

I recommend Aldiko for eBook reading on Android, and Calibre on Windows/Mac/Linux.
Sorry, I don't use iOS - so I don't know what reader you would need for that.

Well, he's actually married with an "artist" http://www.amazon.com/Quelquun-ma-dit-Carla-Bruni/dp/B0001AUAU4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1321743227&sr=8-2

You could try this vibrating bracelet that will vibrate on incoming calls. I don't know if does anything for incoming emails, but it might be worth a shot for $30.

Could you imagine the chaos in your head if it were to provide you with all of your brain's knowledge and wisdom on-demand? Do you believe that your psyche would delve into chaos if every little ass-wiping thoughout your life were constantly percolating to the surface of your conscious mind?

Interestingly enough I just read a book dealing with this very premise, except it concerned itself more with sensations than memories. Basically, someone's system of nerves was acutely enhanced, but the brain was quickly overwhelmed by the new information since the nervous system wasn't filtering it for him. The sensations involved in a drop of water on skin led to a headache; multiple drops would lead to a coma. The solution? Implanting extra processors to offload thinking, of course!

I have met the author but it's a self-published affair and he didn't ask me to promote it.

Sure.

http://www.amazon.com/Sonic-Alert-SBT425ss-Vibrating-Telephone/dp/B000EX5HXS

not sure why the analog one came up, but I have one of these units.

There are novels based on Babbage machines being mainstream, and how different the would would have been.

The Difference Engine

For help in this department they could have probably gotten away with products like these. No poop in the streets and not terribly expensive.

We went ahead and purchased a document camera (this model) because it really seems like it'll do the job perfectly.

I'm still investigating computer-based solutions, in the event that they perform better or that the document camera turns out not to provide quite what he needs. A very excellent suggestion, dearest AC :)

What happens is that the top and botom pages and edges get scorched, but the middle part with the print remains largely intact.

Problem solved.

He said he wants something that is easy to implement, and only reason he is going with open source is because then he doesn't have to ask for purchase approval. Which IMO is a really stupid reason and will hurt in the long run - it's insane to take worse software just because you don't want to ask your boss if it's okay to buy this one.

Horse shit. I've seen projects die because they couldn't get software through the approval process. Better to try 10 apps that are free and run in userspace (so no need to get IT involved for an Administrator install) than to wait for management approvals, budget cycles, and IT support, and never get the project done. If I'd done that on the job, I'd have been fired for taking too long to do my work.

I also resent the implication the "free" means "worse."

Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you want good support and easy implementation, you have to look for normal paid-for solutions. Besides, open source is not synonym for free. This is especially true with specialized software or something you want good support for. Open source just means you get the code aswell, so you can implement your own additions (without use of plugins) or change it.

I'm guessing you haven't used R. Not only is there a thorough user manual, but there are books from most major statistical and instructional groups on how to use R, AND the R-help mailing list answers every R question I've ever had about it, AND there are local R user groups where you can get support similar to how LUG's work.

But unless you get an product from a company that is spending money to develop it, you never get good software and good support. No one can make both because everything in this world costs money, and developers have to live too. Open source and free software model works well for the likes of Google and Firefox because the developments get paid by money made with advertising. Statistical analysis software, and other specialized software is a different matter.

Please shut up. If your assumption were true, R would not exist. R exists, so you're just an asshat.

My advice to the original poster: Use R if you have any familiarity with programming. Any higher level math/stat course OR experience with basic programming will let you get started in R. If you've been doing this all in Excel already, you're probably ready to hop into R. If you're still uncomfortable, I'm sure one of the people who value your academic library could help out.

Reading all of these comments on these 00ber-worms really parallels a book called Zero Day that I'm reading. It's fairly entertaining so far, just in case anyone else is interested in a story revolving around Stuxnet/Duqu type stuff. It's probably old news around here, but anyway...

It was released on 2005, and I don't know why it is difficult for you to find it.

http://www.amazon.com/Quake-4-Pc/dp/B0009Q1IE2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321467944&sr=8-1

http://store.steampowered.com/app/2210/