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I disagree with the "you get what you pay for" mentality. See Linux/Android or, on the other side, the infamous $7250 Pear Anjou audio cables. Plus the selection books go through, now, is meant to determine what sells, not what's good. And look at what such selection has given us:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AGlenn+Beck&keywords=Glenn+Beck&ie=UTF8&qid=1305950033&sr=8-2-ent&field-contributor_id=B001IQUMVM

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=fart&x=0&y=0

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AL.+Ron+Hubbard&keywords=L.+Ron+Hubbard&ie=UTF8&qid=1305950113&sr=8-2-ent&field-contributor_id=B000AP9H6S

My point being it wouldn't get any worse.

I disagree with the "you get what you pay for" mentality. See Linux/Android or, on the other side, the infamous $7250 Pear Anjou audio cables. Plus the selection books go through, now, is meant to determine what sells, not what's good. And look at what such selection has given us:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AGlenn+Beck&keywords=Glenn+Beck&ie=UTF8&qid=1305950033&sr=8-2-ent&field-contributor_id=B001IQUMVM

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=fart&x=0&y=0

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AL.+Ron+Hubbard&keywords=L.+Ron+Hubbard&ie=UTF8&qid=1305950113&sr=8-2-ent&field-contributor_id=B000AP9H6S

My point being it wouldn't get any worse.

I disagree with the "you get what you pay for" mentality. See Linux/Android or, on the other side, the infamous $7250 Pear Anjou audio cables. Plus the selection books go through, now, is meant to determine what sells, not what's good. And look at what such selection has given us:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AGlenn+Beck&keywords=Glenn+Beck&ie=UTF8&qid=1305950033&sr=8-2-ent&field-contributor_id=B001IQUMVM

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=fart&x=0&y=0

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AL.+Ron+Hubbard&keywords=L.+Ron+Hubbard&ie=UTF8&qid=1305950113&sr=8-2-ent&field-contributor_id=B000AP9H6S

My point being it wouldn't get any worse.

Yes I made the same mistake with Snow Crash. Read it years after it came out and it just didn't age well at all. If you want to read a good book that focus's on language having power read Spellwright http://www.amazon.com/Spellwright-Blake-Charlton/dp/0765317273

Say $120 per calculator, plus $20 per year for service / replacements. Multiply by number of students at the high school.

$10, if you're willing to provide calculators with plenty of functionality but without advanced programming capability.

http://www.amazon.com/FX-300MS-Scientific-Calculator-10-Digit-LCD/dp/B004HX80J4

Calculators like this do everything that is needed for any reasonable exam. The only things it lacks are things that you don't want to provide to students taking a test in the first place.

At least we can count on both the Republicans and Democrats to stop their partisan bickering for a moment, and reach across the isle in solidarity to screw the American public over.

Because nothing tells the American public that they've been "screwed" like:

Not having hundreds of passenger jets shot out of the sky by surface to air missiles
Oddly enough, this is also covered under a new law passed after 9/11 - shall we start the bitching about that too? Oooh, those Feds! Oooh... %()*#)($% Bush!!

(Reuters) - A California man who was the first person indicted under a law passed after the September 11, 2001 attacks that bans importing missiles able to shoot down airplanes, was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison.

Not having Talib Islam blow up a federal court with a one ton tuck bomb
Not having Farooque Ahmed bomb the subway
Not having Ferid "Yousef” Imam set off his Improvised Explosive Device
Disrupting Nadeem Akhtar's plan to illegally export nuclear processing equipment to..... Pakistan.
Interrupting the violent Jihad plots of “JihadJane" and company..... very interesting.
Preventing Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari from using a large Improvised Explosive Device
Jailing Zachary Adam Chesser for threats against South Park and attempting to support al Shabaab
Convicting Russell Defreitas and coconspirator Abdul Kadir for a plot to blow up JFK Airport

Hmmmm... only back to mid Feb 2011....and this probably isn't everything..... lets skip back to November 2010.

Not getting blown up at a Christmas tree lighting by Mohamed Osman Mohamud

Imagine how "cheated" the American public feels without all those explosions going off?

By the way.... I'll let you in on a little secret... OK, two secrets.

First, for those that crave them, terrorist attacks are kind of like potato chips.... it seldom stops with just one.

Second, NSA cares if somebody in the US is in direct communication with members of terrorist organizations. That's terrorist organizations that are trying to kill people, not illegal mp3 downloaders, Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich voters, members of the people's pop tart party, or gold fish fetishists.

As to civil liberties, the fact that these were published tells me we are probably in pretty good shape overall.

Amazon says hello.

Classic gaming, at least from a hardware perspective, is a pretty big business. If you can't find an adapter for your controller, you can almost always find somebody who built one in an afternoon from ten dollars worth of parts.

As far as special keys on emulated systems, it's very rare that they aren't provided for. This specifically talks about the Commodore 64 emulators available and how they provide for special Commodore keys.

The lesson here? For every one of us that has two pieces of old hardware sitting in a crate in the corner, there's some crazy guy still writing software for it, another crazy guy building hardware for it, and a third writing an emulator or driver for a modern system/OS.

That's what this this and this and maybe this is for.

That's what this this and this and maybe this is for.

you can buy a non ATT micoSIM for a j/b 4 or ipad
http://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-stick-together-Micro-SIM-pre-paid/dp/B003PQHMEI

yeah! it along with the later one by Brodie always comes to mind when i'm writing embedded applications (in either of the disparate senses of "embedded". should be a clear way to specify them .. machine-embedded or Gui-bedded ?) http://www.amazon.com/Threaded-Interpretive-Languages-Design-Implementation/dp/007038360X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305766293&sr=8-1/

A game would have to be DSi only in order for that to happen and afaik there is no such game

System Flaw

as it would be silly to lock out the vast majority of the DS market

No sillier than it would have been to lock out the vast majority of the GBA market when the DS came out.

Read "The demon in the freezer" - written with input from Ken Alibek - former Soviet bio-weapons honcho. Scary, non-fiction stuff - from TEN years ago. Just think what they have accomplished since. This is the reason for keeping it around. It's the new MAD....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon_in_the_Freezer

http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Freezer-True-Story/dp/0375508562

Got it in the bargain bin one day, about 6 or 7 years ago...

I have a Compact Cherry Mechanical Switch Mac Keyboard (SMK-88). It has buckling springs with the same "sound and feel" as the old IBM keyboards (which were indeed my favorite for a long time). The narrow layout (without numeric keypad) allows you to put your mousepad or pen tablet more directly in front of you, reducing RSI. It's also good for fitting all the input devices into a narrow kneewell below and old-fashioned desk.

I was pretty happy with the Cherry keyboard for a year or two, but the loud clicks did put me on edge a bit during long typing sessions. When Apple came out with their narrow bluetooth keyboard, I switched to that and haven't looked back.

Bezos is, shockingly enough, just protective of his ~5% advantage over the B&Ms...

Although that ~5% may be an advantage, it pales compared to the price differences. For example, a 6' HDMI cable:

$2.99 with $5.14 shipping or free shipping on order totals of $25 or more

vs.

$12.99 plus $5.99 shipping regardless of order total

So, that's at least a 60% discount over the B&M's Internet site if you want the item shipped to your home, so the ~5-10% sales tax break is nice, but not really needed to crush the B&M.

If we're actually having a conversation, give this a read: http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Beneficiaries-Plunder-Racial-Welfare/dp/0805079262 You might not agree with the author's premise or conclusions, but his raw data is eye opening.

Here are some changes the Nazis brought to Germany (and often to Europe for the first time):
Progressive income tax
Child benefits
Pension increases
Doubled the number of holidays for workers (one of Hitler's first laws was to make May Day a holiday)
Rent control
Farm subsidies
Health care subsidy

Government contributions to Social Security went up massively between 1938 and 1943 (with the exception of 1942 when Jews were kicked out of the program). They really were the National Socialist party, that wasn't just a joke or something.

Look at this one Inside as Amazon says: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561632317/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=yaoicont-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=1561632317 10 page preview... Oral Sex right there!

Why are you so sure that it's the American Corporate ruling class that's making money off the wars? Halliburton et al. have made a mint, unquestionably, but foreign firms (some of which are Iraqi/Afghani, some of which are not) have been getting tons of money as well, not to mention the money that has just "disappeared". Allison Stanger's new book does a good job talking about the contractor culture we have now. The wars would have cost a ton even if the US military had been doing it themselves, but instead they've contracted out massive amounts of work to avoid having to start a draft. But the bottom line is that even if some people are profiting, the country is taking a massive loss.

You would want something like this: USB External Monitor

Make sure to check the reviews to make sure it works with your setup.

The advantage of this is that you can take it wherever you want. Since most Laptops / Desktops these days support dual monitors out of the box, this is a easy way to add a 3rd :)

The cost of buying a second monitor for one developer is immaterial. The cost of buying second monitors for every developer isn't.

Really?
Lets put things into perspective here. $200 for a decent 2nd monitor (we're not talking IPS Cinema displays here) compared to:

• 1% bonus (avg 80k salary = $800)
• Any decent proprietary software license 1 seat (avg. $300)
• 5 hours of productivity (at 80k salary = $200)
• ...etc.

The dual-monitor solution of days yore has been solved with stuff like DisplayLink or Thunderbolt (or by good gfx cards if your desktops are beefy enough).

I even have a 3-monitor solution for my home setup - A macbook pro, with 1 displayport 32" HTDV + 2 extra monitors running on the 2 separate USB2 channels (one is on a hub). Combine this with a mounting solution like this and you've can easily get 2 browsers and dozens of terminal windows all open simultaneously. You could easily setup a dual-display rig for $300 in addition to an existing monitor.

I'm reading Newton and the Counterfeiter at the moment and people seem as confused about this as they were about paper money when it was introduced in England in the 1690s because the idea of paper having value instead of precious metals like gold and silver just seemed absurd. But virtual money, like paper, is built on trust (I'll write you 100 lines of code if you give me 100 virtual coins as long as I trust there's someone else out there that will redeem those coins).

We already use use a system like this. My wages go into my bank account electronically and I use my debit card at the grocery store. I never actually see paper or coins for those transactions. I know most banks are government insured but people still had faith in banks even when they weren't (pre FDIC days in the US).

OMG, read Amazon too!

First off, I bought one of these for my $200 19" Visio. It displays 720P, but NOT ANY MORE!!!

When I got this cable, it came wrapped in bacon, which I thought was pretty weird, but shrugged it off, slid off my recliner into my Rascal, scooted from the living room to the kitchenette, and started cooking my bacon-wrapping.

As the smell of delicious pork back filled my double-wide, I turned around to look again at the box the cable came in. ...

Amazon's content requirements are very clear. Even if the material is not pornographic, it can still offend-- and Amazon is not obligated to explain why it has chosen to take offense.

I'm horribly offended by the bible. Just saying.

IANAN but I believe this baby should perk him back up.

You're trying too hard. Here, Lolita for the Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/Lolita-ebook/dp/B003WUYRB8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1305443098&sr=1-1

You mean this 12 inch veined double dong dildo" in beige?! ( http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=thenewmat-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=B002K4LHPG )

Amazon's content requirements are very clear. Even if the material is not pornographic, it can still offend-- and Amazon is not obligated to explain why it has chosen to take offense.

http://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Version-High-Speed-Cable/dp/B00461CVKQ/ref=sr_1_9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1305415363&sr=1-9

$6 for a 12 foot cable, the same brand 50 foot is $30. There are even cheaper ones that work just fine, but i wanted the sleeve-ing.

I bought 3 of the above cables. $18 total and with a few other things I wanted no shipping. Great cables, a bit stiff, but still $40 for an HDMI cable?

How can you even refer to that cable without the Amazon page?? ;)

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM

If you haven't read the user comments, you need to...

Optical HDMI is available via media converters.

http://www.amazon.com/Gefen-HD-1000-Optical-HDMI-Extension/dp/B0013LVJZA

Compression, yes. DTS-MA and mpeg-4 are indeed compressed formats.

Text channel for close captioning? Maybe net, but what about CEC? Ethernet? etc.

Error-checking/correction: probably not practical given the data rates.

And you didn't mention things like being able to sync multiple data streams like voice and video and needing only one link.

So there are digital advantages

I too rarely used finger, largely because it didn't take very long for sysadmins (or BOFHs) to disable the capability on their servers, so it was a waste of time.

But I always have to resist the urge to chuckle when some youngster mentions playing around with Xmodem or kermit as evidence that they were there at the cutting edge "back in the day". My first experience with computers was being thrown in at the deep end on a 1970s Burroughs B3700 system similar to this except that the master console was a teletype machine, and our machine room looked a lot grungier than the ad shows.

Back in those days, hacking directly on binaries was common, macroassemblers were for wimps, and all data communications were carried out on mag tapes carried via sneakernet, which was usually faster than our suitcase-sized 300-baud modem.

We just make it up as we go (that, and a list of cognitive biases, or how (from) "our minds operate mostly on guesses...")

There are plenty of picture heavy physics books for lay people
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=3283

Jerry Pournelle, generally well known rocket scientist, technologist and big name writer was science adviser to Congressman G. Jerry writes about getting a call from somebody "calling from congress." Turned out to be Newt, having read A Step Further Out, personally calling to recruit. That led to a long term staff gig and ears to whisper in. I don't tend to agree with Newt's latest directions, but I'm willing to listen to anyone willing to to give Jerry Pournelle a microphone and input into space and science policy.

http://www.amazon.com/review/RJKX0KUG5773Z

Clark describes a pattern of destructive dishonesty that permeated the Clinton Administration. Clark could never count on candor from Shelton (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs), Secretary of Defense Cohen, or President Clinton. Contrast that with the fact that we have every reason to believe President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretaries Powell, and Rumsfeld. This administration will prove far more reliable and far more honorable.

Newt, as always, smart at narratives but really stupid at drawing a logical conclusion.

I was hoping these would be hilarious reviews of the Newt "I had a hard on for America so I fooled around" Gingrich's books. I'd love to see Amazon tags on his stuff like there is on Jonah Goldberg's execrable Liberal Fascism. Some of my favorites are "doughy pantload", "books written while high on cheeto dust", and "cheeto-erotic asphyxiation".

Not that he's written any book reviews that I'm aware of, but I'm sure a lot of the books on this list that he didn't write are on his shelves: Ron Paul on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A27WFYW9ZJ5DN1

For some reason the Washington Post did not include it.

http://www.allyngibson.net/?p=2169

http://www.amazon.com/1945-Newt-Gingrich/dp/0671877399

http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=74249

It would be nice to read the sequels, Newtster.

Most sites that accept user content make them the property of the site (Slashdot being a notable exception).

Not quite. Most sites that accept user content do so under terms that grant the site an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable and sublicensable right to reuse the material. A classic example of this is Amazon's Conditions of Use, which state in part:

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Amazon a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.

You retain the copyright, and may make additional grants to other parties, but you cannot revoke the grant you made to the initial site.

I believe major publishers have pricing agreements, fixing a minimum price for their books.

This is why some major titles are more expensive as an ebook than in paper format despite paper being obviously more expensive. I found this with a couple of minutes searching Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Wears-Prada-ebook/dp/B000FBFNBK/

$10.19 in paperback, $11.99 if you want the Kindle edition.

With publishers removing any opportunity to discount, it becomes nearly impossible to compete - especially if you have to give 30% of any sale to your competitor.

You'll be wanting this book then: How to be a fairy princess

And while you wait for your delicious diabetes-in-a-box to arrive in the mail, you can watch the 1970s ad.

Wrong. Amazon launched a cloud-based music locker. Google is launching a cloud-based music catalog that will not have a per-use fee, precisely what got mp3.com destroyed. Credit goes to Google.

Are you confusing Amazon's MP3 purchasing service with their Cloud-based MP3 Storage service? It is easy to confuse the two, especially since if you purchase a MP3 with Amazon they will automatically place it in their free Cloud-based MP3 storage. Amazon's cloud based storage does not have a per-use fee. They do have a limit to the amount of free storage you have, which if you want to go above, you must pay them for. Otherwise, you can enjoy free streaming of MP3s you upload to their service. If I'm missing a difference between what Google just launched and Amazon's service, I'm interested to hear it.

Spend a little more and get this. Note the higher review scores. It seemed totally superfluous to me until I had one, but I've found it's surprisingly convenient to drop my cell phone in its charger when I get home and have handsets all over the house, each of which has much better speaker quality than my cell.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00138AJPO

Comes with two phones.

What is the story to which you're alluding to? The only science-fiction work I know of where the people of a generational starship forget the mission and start infighting is Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun . What other books have such a plot?

The review was probably written and edited by the morons at Packt, therefore most useful information is overlooked.

Nope, seems to be Johnny Gee who was asked to review it by Packt. Not a bad thing, I've been asked to review things for Slashdot and have, at times, refused because the book was garbage. Right now I'm fiddling with an Arduino and a couple XBee Pros in order to review a book for O'Reilly. It's a good book but the Arduino is proving to be too fun to fiddle with so I'm having a hard time getting around to the review.

I am a little confused as to why Johnny gave the book 8/10 here on Slashdot but 5/5 stars on Amazon with a similar worded review. Does he add a Slashdot bias to his scores here?

I myself take a lot of heat when I review a book that has content which is already available online and I would have to question what this book offers in addition to Wiki information and the nicely formatted guides and manuals. I also downloaded the code examples from Packt and found a couple spreadsheets and a very sparse tomcat file tree. Wish the reviewer would have commented on this stuff.

Creationists rarely make the distinction, and constantly conflate the two, so why not?

And as far as verifiable, and falsifiable, yes, it's true there is little that is verifiable at this time (the Miller-Urey experiment has most certainly been verified, I can promise, and I did mention it) for abiogenesis, but there are definitely a number of competing hypotheses that are most certainly falsifiable, and there are scientists putting in the necessary work to do just that. The Wikipedia article talks about a number of them, and this episode of Through the Wormhole gives a nice overview of current research.

And honestly, even if there was nothing verifiable or falsifiable at this time, that wouldn't bother me. There are a lot of things about this universe that we don't know, and don't even have any science to describe yet, and that doesn't bother me (except to the extent that I want to find out what is actually happening.) However, just because I don't know doesn't mean that I'm willing to just make stuff up to fill in the gaps.

    I invite you to research this yourself, rather than taking my word on it, nor the word of anyone else. Don't as your local religious leader, your friends, family, or kid brother who knows how to use Google better than you.

    Go to various book stores. Purchase copies of different bibles. That's not different bibles with different covers. Unless you don't have access to multiple book stores, or your local book stores are amazingly homogenized. If you live in such a place, try Amazon. That link is directly to Amazon's Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Bibles > "bible" . There are 23,953 results. I am aware that many of these will be repeated and from various publishers. Pick out a dozen or so different bibles. Compare them line by line.

    It's ok, I'll wait while you finish. ... ...

    Ok, now that you've done that, you do see that there are significant differences in just your random sampling of a few bibles.

The Isaiah scroll from Qumran was over 95% word-for-word identical to our modern texts (the earliest dating from 980AD), with the remaining 5% obvious typos or slips of the pen.

    So, 95% correct in a version written about 980 years after the events cited. Well, that's not totally accurate either. It's back to say 6,000 years ago (if we believe some of the modern claims). I barely trust that someone can accurately write an account of something that happened a year ago, much less accurately notate something that happened approximately 40 generations earlier (assuming 25 years per generation).

    And beyond that, if the bible is suppose to be the written work as passed down from God, then why have significant portions been left out of any modern version that you can get your hands on. You can try to go visit the Vatican archives, but unless you have an amazing knowledge of ancient languages, and you have some amazing pull (like blackmail material on the pope himself), you won't see them all.