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Well I took it back in the early '70's. You can read about my experience on my one-and-only blog article: www.rocomai.com. The short version is: I went from about 100 words per minute to over 8000 words er minute with no loss in comprehension in 8 weeks.

You can achieve the same results for your self by conscientiously following the instructions in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Breakthr...

Good luck and happy reading!

Sorry, but that is not true: The research from independent sources and reported by Britannica and the Evelyn Wood Learning Reading Dynamics group tend to support the notion that reading fast actually INCREASES your comprehension. I've took the Evelyn Wood program back in 1972, and I completely endorse it.

You could learn these skills on your own. The best book on the EW system (IMO) is : http://www.amazon.com/Breakthr... Another good book is: http://www.amazon.com/Evelyn-S...

I knew Stanley Frank back in 1978 and had a very early copy of his course. Peter's book has more exercises and progresses in shorter steps, but they are both good. If you are contientious you will learn to zoom in about * weeks. There was a Chemistry Professor I met in Chicago in 1978 who could only read prose at about 1200 words per minute, but read technical material at 10,000 to 12,000 words per minute with 90% recall.

Sorry, but that is not true: The research from independent sources and reported by Britannica and the Evelyn Wood Learning Reading Dynamics group tend to support the notion that reading fast actually INCREASES your comprehension. I've took the Evelyn Wood program back in 1972, and I completely endorse it.

You could learn these skills on your own. The best book on the EW system (IMO) is : http://www.amazon.com/Breakthr... Another good book is: http://www.amazon.com/Evelyn-S...

I knew Stanley Frank back in 1978 and had a very early copy of his course. Peter's book has more exercises and progresses in shorter steps, but they are both good. If you are contientious you will learn to zoom in about * weeks. There was a Chemistry Professor I met in Chicago in 1978 who could only read prose at about 1200 words per minute, but read technical material at 10,000 to 12,000 words per minute with 90% recall.

Welcome to 1984. If you don't understand that you have been receiving Disinformation your whole life then you are still in The Matrix.
Please read "Disinformation" - by Lt Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa
http://www.amazon.com/Disinfor...

The greatest source of disinformation comes from those who believe the Collective should have supremacy over the Individual - for your own good, of course. These believe that you are not competent to run your own life and make your own decisions - hence they are progressively regulating more and more of your life. In the EU they even regulate the amount of power you can have in your toaster and in your lawn mower (of course, their Agenda 21 is to move you to "sustainable" housing where you have no lawn, and further down the track, no private property - only that which the Collective gives you, which the Collective can also take away).

Most folks think that the Free World won the "Cold War". They never think about where the Collectivists went. The reality is they went nowhere and have been promoted in their careers and bureaucracies. And now we are seeing the "Fabian" style gradual increase in control through regulation. The python is squeezing if you are paying attention. When was the last time you heard citizens say "It's a Free Country" and people accept and act on that premise. No, the citizens are cowed into begging Government for scraps and for permission to do things. They are not Free because their minds are enslaved that they are subjugated to the Collective will (which actually means, the 'elites' who rule the transnational-bodies that determine the will of the global Collective).

It is amazing how angry people get when they hear the truth. They would rather cling to the lie that the prevailing disinformation has fed them. Look at all the riots of people who want to deny the Free Speech rights of others, and who think that "free stuff" (actually, resources the Collective extorts using State force from the innovative and industrious) is a sustainable economic model - or somehow a route to a better life for everyone. Madness! Not only Zuckerberg and his minions are subject to this delusion, but even some otherwise-intelligent Slashdotters are captured by it too.

Live Free or Die !

Clearly the editor or the submitter was was talking about some old management book that apparently prophesied Apple eventually deprecating its awful video plugin for Windows.

Wait, this gopro is not the gopro they are talking about right?

Well AES is turning out to not be as strong as thought. But something like SERPENT (seems to be the strongest of the AES finalists) or TWOFISH would be better choices. As far as asymmetric key encryption I would probably look into lattice based crypto as RSA is useless with quantum computers

I would guess that the number is likely higher than 0.1% but that would require training and learning about them. I mean how many people here know what S-boxes, P-boxes, MDS Matrix, Pseudo Hadamard transform, Feistel network, substution permutation network are and how to use and design them. I mean it isn't like there aren't resources and books for learning the basics that also cover how to do cryptanalysis using things like linear cryptanalysis, differential cryptanalysis and variants, or even the simple frequency analysis

I would argue that reduction of discretion is precisely what is required, discretion to prosecute in the first place. Any crime which we are not prepared to attempt to detect, investigate, and prosecute vigorously should be no crime at all.

Without discretion, you get things like the Mike's Hard Lemonade case, people being branded as sex offenders just for peeing in the woods, numerous VERY YOUNG children punished for pointing their finger like a gun (or drawing a gun, or writing a story that involves murder, etc., etc.,), and numerous other forms of zero-tolerance bullshit.

I get that discretion is sometimes a band-aide fix for serious problems (such as vague laws and malicious prosecution), but there's no legislator who can write perfect, high-quality laws, even if that skill was valued by voters. The law is not a computer program; we are not gears in the machine.

In addition, it would be wise to consider the failure of centralized control across a number of human endeavors... see Communism and work-to-rule as examples.

You're factually wrong on so many counts that it's not even funny.

A) The cables you're comparing are different lengths. 1m for the "Apple" cable vs. 2m for the Amazon cable. No wonder it's cheaper.

B) That "Apple" cable is being sold by a third-party via Amazon. Apple doesn't sell a single one of their products directly via Amazon. Buyer beware.

C) To compare apples to Apples, an actual 2m Apple cables costs $29 ($19 for 1m), not the $7.50 you suggested it was.

D) If you want to whip out your Apple e-peen to see if it's bigger than mine, I'd wager good money I have you beat. Macs have continuously been my primary computers since the late '80s. A Mac Classic, Performa 400, PowerMac G3 300, Titanium PowerBook DVI, HiRes Aluminum PowerBook, 2008 Mac mini, 2011 Mac mini. My wife uses them, my parents use them, my siblings use them, and my wife's siblings and parents do too. Likewise for phones and tablets: iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPhone 5s, iPad 2, and iPad Air 2. I could list off Time Capsules, Airport base stations, and other accessories too, if you'd like.

I use Apple products on a daily basis and absolutely love them (we're planning to buy an iPhone SE this weekend, in fact, assuming they're in stock), but there's no (sane) way to deny that actual Apple dongles and cables are far more expensive than their generic counterparts. It's no different than the advice we'd give people about BTO RAM upgrades: do it yourself after buying from a third-party.

So, as someone whose love for Apple likely runs far deeper than yours: stop with the lies and misinformation, since it makes us all look like we have no clue what we're talking about.

You're factually wrong on so many counts that it's not even funny.

A) The cables you're comparing are different lengths. 1m for the "Apple" cable vs. 2m for the Amazon cable. No wonder it's cheaper.

B) That "Apple" cable is being sold by a third-party via Amazon. Apple doesn't sell a single one of their products directly via Amazon. Buyer beware.

C) To compare apples to Apples, an actual 2m Apple cables costs $29 ($19 for 1m), not the $7.50 you suggested it was.

D) If you want to whip out your Apple e-peen to see if it's bigger than mine, I'd wager good money I have you beat. Macs have continuously been my primary computers since the late '80s. A Mac Classic, Performa 400, PowerMac G3 300, Titanium PowerBook DVI, HiRes Aluminum PowerBook, 2008 Mac mini, 2011 Mac mini. My wife uses them, my parents use them, my siblings use them, and my wife's siblings and parents do too. Likewise for phones and tablets: iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPhone 5s, iPad 2, and iPad Air 2. I could list off Time Capsules, Airport base stations, and other accessories too, if you'd like.

I use Apple products on a daily basis and absolutely love them (we're planning to buy an iPhone SE this weekend, in fact, assuming they're in stock), but there's no (sane) way to deny that actual Apple dongles and cables are far more expensive than their generic counterparts. It's no different than the advice we'd give people about BTO RAM upgrades: do it yourself after buying from a third-party.

So, as someone whose love for Apple likely runs far deeper than yours: stop with the lies and misinformation, since it makes us all look like we have no clue what we're talking about.

You're factually wrong on so many counts that it's not even funny.

A) The cables you're comparing are different lengths. 1m for the "Apple" cable vs. 2m for the Amazon cable. No wonder it's cheaper.

B) That "Apple" cable is being sold by a third-party via Amazon. Apple doesn't sell a single one of their products directly via Amazon. Buyer beware.

C) To compare apples to Apples, an actual 2m Apple cables costs $29 ($19 for 1m), not the $7.50 you suggested it was.

D) If you want to whip out your Apple e-peen to see if it's bigger than mine, I'd wager good money I have you beat. Macs have continuously been my primary computers since the late '80s. A Mac Classic, Performa 400, PowerMac G3 300, Titanium PowerBook DVI, HiRes Aluminum PowerBook, 2008 Mac mini, 2011 Mac mini. My wife uses them, my parents use them, my siblings use them, and my wife's siblings and parents do too. Likewise for phones and tablets: iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPhone 5s, iPad 2, and iPad Air 2. I could list off Time Capsules, Airport base stations, and other accessories too, if you'd like.

I use Apple products on a daily basis and absolutely love them (we're planning to buy an iPhone SE this weekend, in fact, assuming they're in stock), but there's no (sane) way to deny that actual Apple dongles and cables are far more expensive than their generic counterparts. It's no different than the advice we'd give people about BTO RAM upgrades: do it yourself after buying from a third-party.

So, as someone whose love for Apple likely runs far deeper than yours: stop with the lies and misinformation, since it makes us all look like we have no clue what we're talking about.

It's not e-ink, but thats why I got the nook 9" (for Text Books and game PDFs). Amazon's price is a little steep for the Nook HD+ 16GB (refurbished) , a little more than I paid for the 32GB refurbished 2+ years ago. EBAY has an 8GB Nook, for a semi-reasonable price (as they all have microSD slots).

Significantly more?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb...

Apple cable $7.50
Amazon Basics cable $7.99

I love it how you apple haters make up shit to try and prop up your hate.

Check out Kindle MatchBook. They offer ebooks of some books you've purchased for a discount.

Prior Art

So, functionally speaking, it's basically a cross between these two products with haptic feedback?

http://www.amazon.com/CTX-VK20...
http://www.amazon.com/Optimus-...

Okay, good luck with that.

So, functionally speaking, it's basically a cross between these two products with haptic feedback?

http://www.amazon.com/CTX-VK20...
http://www.amazon.com/Optimus-...

Okay, good luck with that.

That doesn't sound like it could ever be abused...

I'll install it right before I fire myself out a cannon without any safety equipment.

A USB connected cannon?

On the internet, just ask and you shall receive...

Well,to be fair, Solaris is part SysV and part BSD.

And even if BSD isn't "Unix" anymore, it certainly used to be.

My new "gaming" ASUS laptop has a 10 hour battery life, I suppose you could add more, but what is the point?

http://smile.amazon.com/ASUS-Z...

Granted, I don't ever expect to get that kind of battery life out of it when gaming, but I also don't generally expect to game without being plugged in.

I'm definitely getting crankier as I get older but I blame it on the additional war wounds. Pulled the extensor tendon out of my right middle finger this year...trying to liberate the roots of a root-bound new tree. But I digress.

As to Einstein, that is a complicated question.

If Einstein borrowed stuff that others had thought of, but never gave them credit, is that ok with you? For me personally I am not overly bothered by the fact that Einstein wasn't the first to conceive of e=mc^2, but some are.

What I am definitely anti about are bad theories. Which physics today is studded with. Check out Alexander Unzicker's definitive Bankrupting Physics for a very thorough, quite humorous and yet surprisingly polite dressing down of most of the big names behind most of the modern nonsense that passes for physics today. FWIW, Unzicker was/is a huge Einstein fan.

Getting back to bad theories, Einstein's time marked a transition in physics -- from intuition and common sense things like there must be an ether, to the math-dominated and particle-smashing dark ages we have been in for decades. Like Unzicker, I think particle smashing is worse than futile. He ably chronicles why as well, if you would prefer his perspective to my own.

Regarding Einstein, I think he is, at a minimum, overrated. Worse, I think that special relativity is valueless, being limited to a no-gravity/no-acceleration system. You can't have two protons in such a system, for example, as their gravitational interactions would not compute. Does that meet your definition of "anti"?

Then, more tragically and questionably, ten years later Einstein releases general relativity that is built directly on top of special relativity. We don't build wells on top of latrines, except in physics.

Regarding Einstein's highly disappointing later years, it is most interesting to watch him play with words. He came up with countless words for the ether. They all were attempts to describe the same thing but, incredibly, Einstein actually thought that by playing word games, he would be advancing physics.

tldr; ? I prefer to begin with a model that includes/resolves the biggest problems in physics. And then to expand it to explain things other theories don't. Like gravity, and neutrinos. And ultimately, in more than one major area, to be predictive. Oh, BTW, I think my theory is not only a theory of everything but the simplest possible theory of everything.

Summary: I am not so much anti-Einstein -- I actually greatly admire his philosophical side, his humor, his way of living and how he lived his life his way -- as I am pro-my theory. I think my theory makes all others theories look awful.

But heh, it will be a lot easier to down-mod me and shout vicious responses (that get up-modded), as normally happens in the comfy confines of /.

An aside from the article: "Huang showed a demo from Facebook that used deep learning to train a neural network how to recognize a landscape painting. They then used the network to create its own landscape painting."

So long for such jobs... How about deep learning about post-scarcity economics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Also: ""Our strategy is to accelerate deep learning everywhere," Huang said."

How about some deep learning about morality? Imagine training children (or child-like AIs) in skills like weapons use without training them in morality, kindness, cooperation, and so on... How would that end?

See also:
http://www.child-soldiers.org/
"Child Soldiers International is an international human rights research and advocacy organisation. We seek to end the military recruitment and the use in hostilities, in any capacity, of any person under the age of 18 by state armed forces or non-state armed groups. We advocate for the release of unlawfully recruited children, promote their successful reintegration into civilian life, and call for accountability for those who unlawfully recruit or use them."

Maybe AIs should not be asked to replace humans until they have been around for at least eighteen years?
http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.amazon.com/The-Chro...

I don't even know how many syllables are in that word and I'm dead certain my tongue would need a week of physical therapy if I tried to pronounce it.

If you go through this, you'll learn the pronunciation pretty quick.

That all being said, I'm willing to pay for eReader content even with all of the limitations you point out. It's just not available. I've pointed these out elsewhere, but here are two quick examples. You can read them on anything except a Kindle eReader! http://www.amazon.com/Goodnigh... http://www.amazon.com/Popular-...

That all being said, I'm willing to pay for eReader content even with all of the limitations you point out. It's just not available. I've pointed these out elsewhere, but here are two quick examples. You can read them on anything except a Kindle eReader! http://www.amazon.com/Goodnigh... http://www.amazon.com/Popular-...

http://www.amazon.com/Popular-... Click "Available on these devices." No eReaders. It's the case for many magazines. Or this one. http://www.amazon.com/Goodnigh...

http://www.amazon.com/Popular-... Click "Available on these devices." No eReaders. It's the case for many magazines. Or this one. http://www.amazon.com/Goodnigh...

There's no indication that this will be a reintroduction of e-Ink displays to the Kindle line. This will be another Kindle Fire type device - a general use tablet running a crippled version of Android with Amazon's tracking and spying in place of Google's.

I don't know, "8th generation Kindle" seems to indicate the e-ink lineage. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...

A simple micro-controller, a button, and two LEDs would work just as well for just a few bucks.

A die (singular of "dice") would work just as well, and would handle up to 6 checkpoints.

Amazon has them, 100 for $2.79.

I agree. A few shortcomings of the eink kindles are:
* less content than in physical form
* content is often cheaper when you buy the physical book
* not allowed to resell the books you buy (... unless i'm mistaken, but I see no way to do this)
* limited lending support
* DRM, though you should be able to strip this in most cases
* sub-par integration for external content (such as the library systems, gutenberg, etc)
* wish it was easier to take notes on it

That said, you mentioned that you don't expect it to run apps, but it actually does already (albeit a limited library of apps). They're called "active content" in the kindle store: http://www.amazon.com/b?node=2...

It's still my favorite way to read.

*with a tinfoil hat on head* Maybe this was all orchestrated by his campaign.

I've always thought he was working for Hillary anyways...
which means my steelfoil hat is better than your tinfoil hat...
http://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Unpolished-Finish-backing_type-Thickness/dp/B00CNLZJPA

How gracious of Amazon to stop selling something crappy it's been publicly shamed about selling. Now if only they would stop selling all the other counterfeit crap that they knowingly pass on. I went though an endless loop of ordering an OEM battery for my SGS4 and returning because it was counterfeit. Each time I complained to an Amazon rep and they would agree that what they sent me must have somehow been counterfeit. Repeated complaints got broken promises to "investigate". http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-...

http://smile.amazon.com/Anker-...

I don't exactly think that $10 is expensive for a USB-C cable, and in fact, all of these cables that are bad are in that ballpark.

Second Monoprice, but I have never bought something like a USB-C cable from them. (USB-C to C cables peak at 3 A, that is a huge amount of power to put through little cables)

Poke around and you'll notice that there appears to be some minimum price you can sell a cable for on Amazon

This should be safe then

This is an important issue to me because I have devices that need good USB-C cables. If anyone else is in the same boat, here's a direct link to Benson Leung's reviews. Focus in on the 5-star ones and look for the value buys (if the product is still available):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/...

Amazon has gotten better about such things. You no longer have to go through the foreign support people with the forms and scripts. They now have a direct contact for unsafe product issues:

Note: If your post is about a product you think might be unsafe, please report this information to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) or contact Amazon directly at product-safety@amazon.com.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...

I would add UL (underwriters laboratories) and several others. UL moves a bit slow and reactive instead of proactive, but they certainly are zealous about protecting their brand. Products with their mark, that test out unsafe, will be quickly dropped from Amazon and elsewhere.

Unfortunately, this doesn't help with all those 2GB USB flash drives from China, which are labeled and firmware hacked to appear to have 64+ gigabytes of usable space.

"Universal surveillance is a direct, targeted and determined attack on free society. "

They are worried about the globe awakening politically.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

"...does our current group of "leaders" not get?"

They get it, they worry about the globe awakening politically.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Until such time that Amazon explicitly spells out what CPU you are getting in a EC2 instance, it's highway robbery

*ahem* Take your FUD elsewhere. 5 seconds with Google results with: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ins...

M4 instances: Intel Xeon® E5-2676 v3 (Haswell) processors
M3 instances: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge) processors
C4 instances: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell) processors
C3 instances: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge) Processors
R3 instances: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge) Processors
G2 instances: Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge) Processors + 1,536 CUDA cores and 4GB of video memory
I2 instances: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge) Processors
D2 instances: Intel Xeon E5-2676v3 (Haswell) processors

How is that not explicitly spelling out what CPU you are getting in an EC2 instance? The only instance class that they don't explicitly say what you are running on is the absolute cheapest "burstable" T2-class. Every other one is quite explicit.

I like my Yotaphone 2 ... use it anywhere ... no glare problems at all http://www.amazon.com/Smartpho...

Because, if not, get a cheapo phone with a black and white LCD display; I have an old Moto in each car's glovebox, bought for nothing a while ago.
Can't remember the model number...Google is your friend. Does nothing much except call and SMS, but if one of the family has an emergency and a dead battery/smashed phone, (always a danger with today's phones), they can drag the Moto out and get calling. The battery lasts for months when turned off.

***pause while does a quick google***

Damn, the ones I have are like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Motorola...

Except this one is 450 bucks, and I paid about 20 for mine many years ago...
 

Just use Magnavision tinted glasses for computer use:

http://www.amazon.com/Magnivis...

The Dash appears to be a much maligned alarm clock tablet by Sony. I guess this fix addresses some of the issues owners have had and complained about.

I personally find the target audience for this device hard to envision. I guess it's for people that aren't satisfied with a simple alarm clock and either don't want to bring a tablet to bed or don't own one. No thank you.

Finally, a note about editing. If a script can do a better job editing, maybe you shouldn't be an editor. I really don't think this summary was looked at by a person, in which case: Whiplash, please hire developers to make better editing scripts. The summaries should contain information about the device, why we might want to care, and the issue with the device--none of which show up in this summary.

Yes, they monitor lottery results for atypical events. An entertaining description of one such event involving the "Powerball" lottery, which occurred on March 30, 2005 and which was not due to anybody's illegal actions is described in the Prologue to Jennifer 8 Lee's book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. And yeah, her middle name really is "8".

Amazon's "Look Inside This Book" allows viewing of the pages describing this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446580074?ie=UTF8&tag=thefortcookch-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=044658007

I have this for the iPad. It went along with an Atari controller. http://www.amazon.com/Atari-Ar... The games are here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap... It costs $10 to unlock all the games. It is a bit old now, but not as old as Atari :)

> No mods is supposed to means no cheating in online multiplayer against strangers but yet cheaters still abound

FTFY.

Likewise, the console industry and dumb fanbois remains completely clueless about why PC's kick the ass out of consoles for good reasons:

* Mouse+Keyboard is a superior input combo which blows gamepads out of the water for sub-pixel pefect FPS accuracy with multi-level DPI precision such as the classic Logitech G500s weighted 10 button mouse.

* Dedicated keyboard makes web surfing fun and trivial to reply with long detailed info. to people on forums such as /. and Reddit, not to mention GameFaqs instead of typing on some shitty virtual keyboard.

* No bullshit proprietary USB -- standard Joysticks, Gamepads, and Throttles such as the excellent CH Throttle Pro work awesome in Space and Flight sims.

* Allows the user to pick their favorite case such as the excellent Corsair Graphite 780T

* Online Digital Game stores (Steam, Gog, Origin, etc.) with user ratings give gamers a wide access of games -- consoles are so crappy that they can't even run some of the genres such as RTS's!
  * RTS's such as excellent Starcraft 2, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2 & 3
  * RPG's such as the free Path of Exile, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege 1 & 2, Ultima, etc.
  * Space games such as Master of Orion, Freelancer, Elite, Star Citizen

* Tons of innovate indie games played first on PC; most which are exclusive to PCs

* Allows anyone to make games & content; no shenanigans of overpriced dev kits

* Allows gamers to upgrade to a real GPU such as the GTX 980Ti at their convenience instead of throwing the entire box out

* Aren't overpriced like consoles

* Isn't a gimped 5 year old PC

* Allows anyone to run applications such as Photoshop, Krita, Inkscape, etc., Text Editors for real work such as the excellent WebStorm, etc.

* You decide what software to run not some arrogant third party dictating what is "legal"

* TONS of Emulators to play all your old favorite games!

* Superior 4K resolution @ 60 Hz, not 720p and 1080p wannabe resolutions

* True 120+ Hz framerate not some crappy 30 Hz stutterfest.

* TONS of Mods for your favorite games: Skyrim, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead (SourceMod), etc. not to mention photo realistic graphic ENB shaders such as Skyrim ENB that are a slideshow on consoles.

* Systems aren't obsolete with an artificial console upgrade cycle

* Allows water-cooling for super Over-Clocking of CPU and GPU if desired

* Wide range of choice in Operating Systems: Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD based on what your needs are

/Oblg. /r/pcmasterrace

> No mods is supposed to means no cheating in online multiplayer against strangers but yet cheaters still abound

FTFY.

Likewise, the console industry and dumb fanbois remains completely clueless about why PC's kick the ass out of consoles for good reasons:

* Mouse+Keyboard is a superior input combo which blows gamepads out of the water for sub-pixel pefect FPS accuracy with multi-level DPI precision such as the classic Logitech G500s weighted 10 button mouse.

* Dedicated keyboard makes web surfing fun and trivial to reply with long detailed info. to people on forums such as /. and Reddit, not to mention GameFaqs instead of typing on some shitty virtual keyboard.

* No bullshit proprietary USB -- standard Joysticks, Gamepads, and Throttles such as the excellent CH Throttle Pro work awesome in Space and Flight sims.

* Allows the user to pick their favorite case such as the excellent Corsair Graphite 780T

* Online Digital Game stores (Steam, Gog, Origin, etc.) with user ratings give gamers a wide access of games -- consoles are so crappy that they can't even run some of the genres such as RTS's!
  * RTS's such as excellent Starcraft 2, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2 & 3
  * RPG's such as the free Path of Exile, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege 1 & 2, Ultima, etc.
  * Space games such as Master of Orion, Freelancer, Elite, Star Citizen

* Tons of innovate indie games played first on PC; most which are exclusive to PCs

* Allows anyone to make games & content; no shenanigans of overpriced dev kits

* Allows gamers to upgrade to a real GPU such as the GTX 980Ti at their convenience instead of throwing the entire box out

* Aren't overpriced like consoles

* Isn't a gimped 5 year old PC

* Allows anyone to run applications such as Photoshop, Krita, Inkscape, etc., Text Editors for real work such as the excellent WebStorm, etc.

* You decide what software to run not some arrogant third party dictating what is "legal"

* TONS of Emulators to play all your old favorite games!

* Superior 4K resolution @ 60 Hz, not 720p and 1080p wannabe resolutions

* True 120+ Hz framerate not some crappy 30 Hz stutterfest.

* TONS of Mods for your favorite games: Skyrim, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead (SourceMod), etc. not to mention photo realistic graphic ENB shaders such as Skyrim ENB that are a slideshow on consoles.

* Systems aren't obsolete with an artificial console upgrade cycle

* Allows water-cooling for super Over-Clocking of CPU and GPU if desired

* Wide range of choice in Operating Systems: Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD based on what your needs are

/Oblg. /r/pcmasterrace

I actually got 3 Google Cardboards during the Verizon/Star Wars promotion and then a 4th when Google was giving them away for free. (That final deal only lasted a short time as people flooded their servers with requests.) My kids and I love them for watching 3D videos, rollercoaster apps, and just browsing Google Street View (go anywhere in the world and Google will show you a 3D panorama view of that location - it's like taking a mini-vacation minus the long plane ride). With the right 3D app and a good set of bluetooth headphones, it can even get quite immersive. It's definitely not as good as an Occulus Rift or another expensive VR headset, but it's very inexpensive.

Google actually published the specs so you could make one out of about $8 in parts and an old pizza box. Or you could buy a kit for about $10 on Amazon and put it together yourself. I found this one after a little searching. I haven't bought from that seller so I can't personally vouch for them, but the ratings seem decent. And at least you'll be able to show your friends it without uncomfortable "PornHub?!!!" questions.

Steam Hardware & Software Survey: February 2016

Windows 96%

Windows 10 64 Bit 34% Up 1%
Windows 7 64 Bit 34%
Windows 8.1 64 Bit 13%
Window 7 8%
Windows XP 2%

OSX 3%

MacOS 10.11.3 64 bit 1%

Linux 1%

Ubuntu 0.4%
Linux Mint 0.1%

The $490 Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-2980BLK Desktop Console currently ranks #127 in in the catch-all "Desktop Tower" sales category at Amazon.com. A fully pimped-out $6,000 Cybertron Win 10 gamer's PC ranks #37. You'll find the MacMini here and the $99 Win 10 dongle as well.

It is all pretty good evidence that no one knows where the Steam Machine belongs in the marketplace or how to sell it.

I distill my tap water before drinking it, using one of these.

That doesn't solve this problem, of course, but it does give me an extra layer of protection against failings of the water treatment process.

Contrary to strangely-popular belief, distilled water is only barely acidic (thousands of times less acidic than soda pop, slightly less acidic than a banana), and does not leech minerals from your body. It's water. It is perfectly healthy, and it tastes good.

God dammit, not this again. No people, distilled water is not safe to drink. It will try to balance out that PH, it will sap minerals and electrolyres from your water, and it will shorten your lifespan.

Here's a link

And here's another.

Distilled water was a health trend in the 70's, right along with the "don't vaccinate because of autism" trend in the 2000's. It's a clever troll if you want to give someone serious health problems or so, if you really find that funny, but as soon as you crack open a high school chemistry textbook it becomes pretty obvious why it's a bad idea. Did you, sir, ever take Chemistry?