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This reminds me of the worst interface design I've seen in a long time. This Holmes heater: http://www.amazon.com/Holmes-H...

Brilliant idea. One single button. You have to push it repeatedly to go through every temperature setting with low fan, then press it repeatedly to go through all the temperatures again in high fan speed. Absolutely the stupidest design I've ever seen. I would like to see them design a computer keyboard. Those brilliant minds would give us a keyboard with one button you press repeatedly a hundred times to enter a single character.

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Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.

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From https://aws.amazon.com/de/lumb... :

Q. Is Lumberyard “open source”?

No. We make the source code available to enable you to fully customize your game, but your rights are limited by the Lumberyard Service Terms. For example, you may not publicly release the Lumberyard engine source code, or use it to release your own game engine.

Limberyard is gratis, and free as in beer, but it isn't free as in freedom.

but this doesn't provide protection for a phone or tablet that requires the original power supply (can't be charged from a notebook USB port)

That sucks, because my suggestion was going to be to get something like this Kensington charger. I have one with the standard North American plugs, it works with 100-240VACm, 50-60Hz.

I have a strict rule ... down own anything which can't charge from stock USB. I find between my Kensington and a couple of 6600MAh USB power bricks, I can pretty much keep everything charged.

Things which require their own chargers just create more hassles in terms of what chargers you need to bring ... whereas bringing 5-6 USB cables of several different sizes and one or two good chargers is pretty damned easy.

Just say no to devices with proprietary chargers, because you can eliminate a lot of stuff with a decent USB charger which already handles the different voltages -- they're easy enough to find these days, relatively inexpensive, and help you cover a lot of cases much more conveniently.

Things are a whole lot easier when you just have some generic cables and a multi-port charger.

Poweradd Pilot Pro 32000mAh External Battery Pack

Much safer than relying on a non-grid electrical supply.

The automobile was more convenient than owning a horse. MP3 is more convenient than dealing with CDs. Try actually using cryptocurrency and it rapidly becomes apparent that it's far simpler just to whip out your credit/debit card, or good old cash. If you're buying something online, PayPal's more or less got your back if the seller screws you over. Ordered an iPhone and received this instead? File a claim.

The only reason anyone bothers with Bitcoin is because they believe a bigger fool will buy the Bitcoins off of them at a later date, or because they're buying things (contraband merchandise) that they don't want legitimate payment processors knowing about. Most legitimate businesses that accept Bitcoin simply use a payment processor that immediately exchanges the Bitcoins for cash, and generally you're the one eating the transaction fees on both ends (unless you get lucky and Bitcoin fluctuates up in the time since you exchanged cash for your Bitcoins).

If you really want to live in the brave new world of electronic payments, get a phone with NFC and try using that for awhile. You'll quickly discover it's still more convenient to use a form of payment that's accepted everywhere (cash, credit/debit), rather than remembering which merchants have functional NFC equipment and fumbling with your phone.

Just looking over Benson Leung's reviews list, some of these items are transparently fishy. For instance, this Benson review has nearly 50% "unhelpful", while the product page is fully of sketchy positive reviews. It's a USB cable, who takes photos and writes essays about them? Tried it in FakeSpot, and it figures the product has "68% low quality reviews".

Fake positive reviews and "unhelpful" spamming on negative reviews. Does Amazon have any mechanism to deal with this type of gaming?

Just looking over Benson Leung's reviews list, some of these items are transparently fishy. For instance, this Benson review has nearly 50% "unhelpful", while the product page is fully of sketchy positive reviews. It's a USB cable, who takes photos and writes essays about them? Tried it in FakeSpot, and it figures the product has "68% low quality reviews".

Fake positive reviews and "unhelpful" spamming on negative reviews. Does Amazon have any mechanism to deal with this type of gaming?

Just looking over Benson Leung's reviews list, some of these items are transparently fishy. For instance, this Benson review currently has nearly 50% "unhelpful", while the product page is fully of sketchy positive reviews. It's a USB cable, who takes photos and writes essays about them (people with multimeters and cable testers aside)? Tried it in FakeSpot, and it figures the product has "68% low quality reviews".

Fake positive reviews and "unhelpful" spamming on negative reviews. Does Amazon have any mechanism to deal with this type of gaming?

Just looking over Benson Leung's reviews list, some of these items are transparently fishy. For instance, this Benson review currently has nearly 50% "unhelpful", while the product page is fully of sketchy positive reviews. It's a USB cable, who takes photos and writes essays about them (people with multimeters and cable testers aside)? Tried it in FakeSpot, and it figures the product has "68% low quality reviews".

Fake positive reviews and "unhelpful" spamming on negative reviews. Does Amazon have any mechanism to deal with this type of gaming?

Come... "lab equipment" here is a dongle and a chromebook, not a $10k setup...

You could probably use 3 of these network tester, a few network cables, and a pair of these to cobble together a good preliminary usb-C tester. (I have no idea if saikosystems is a valid place to buy something.)

If I was going to seriously test usb-c cables, I might make something like that. It doesn't tell you anything about how reliable a connection is, or frequency response, or not much anyway, but it should at least let you know if it is safe to plug in. Then again, if that passes, and you are careful to match up twisted pairs with twisted pairs, you might be able to use a network sweep tester on it to some extent. I've no idea how meaningful the results would be though. Might be interesting though, particularly if you saw radically different results between brands..

If you like to do it yourself: http://www.amazon.com/Fun-Phon...

I just finished Idea Factory which spends quite a bit of time on Claude Shannon, a really remarkable guy. Great book, lots of interesting Bell history. My only complaint is that Unix is only mentioned twice in the entire book and the second time it's referred to as a programming language. I was really hoping for more Unix history, but it tends to focus on earlier Bell and the transistor, satellite, the anti-trust suit, etc.

In "other people's money", John Kay makes an interesting argument that most (short-term) trading indeed does little more than create liquidity, but liquidity in that sense is almost only interesting for short-term traders. In most "real" stocks there has always been sufficient liquidity for normal trading, and when a crisis hits and you really need that liquidity it evaporates anyway.

http://www.amazon.com/Other-Pe...

any in flight service folks pop quiz how many salt shakers are normally stored in the galley??)

Probably none - why would there be? Salt and pepper packets, sure, but shakers? How 'bout pepper grinders?

[Back when meals were still being served in steerage class, I used to travel with a mini pepper grinder and a sample size of hot sauce. Always improved matters.]

Nobody knows if gravity will actually be a significant problem for Mars or even the moon. We know it's an issue for micro-gravity (though we've got people living in it over a year anyway), we don't know about 1/3 or 1/6 gravity.

Well, even 1/6th should have the cardiovascular system working much more normally with fluids flowing in the right direction and things hanging like they normally do. And since you got gravity you could add weight vests/bracelets/anklets to add another 80 + 2x20 (wrist and ankles) lbs = 55 kg, if you're normally say 85 kg you're now effectively (85+55)/3 = 47 kg on Mars and you still got 140 kg of momentum to counteract. Maybe more if NASA designs a special suit for you. When we know the enormous differences between couch potatoes and athletes here at home, a good training regiment should keep the body in pretty okay shape unless some of your internal organs take long term damage from sleeping at 1/3rd gravity.

Nobody knows if gravity will actually be a significant problem for Mars or even the moon. We know it's an issue for micro-gravity (though we've got people living in it over a year anyway), we don't know about 1/3 or 1/6 gravity.

Well, even 1/6th should have the cardiovascular system working much more normally with fluids flowing in the right direction and things hanging like they normally do. And since you got gravity you could add weight vests/bracelets/anklets to add another 80 + 2x20 (wrist and ankles) lbs = 55 kg, if you're normally say 85 kg you're now effectively (85+55)/3 = 47 kg on Mars and you still got 140 kg of momentum to counteract. Maybe more if NASA designs a special suit for you. When we know the enormous differences between couch potatoes and athletes here at home, a good training regiment should keep the body in pretty okay shape unless some of your internal organs take long term damage from sleeping at 1/3rd gravity.

I could not read TFA since it was in Japanese. From Amazon.com's pages:

About Prime Photos: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

In addition to the unlimited photo storage, you will also receive 5 GB of free storage space that can be used to store videos and files we canâ(TM)t recognize as photos.
Certain photo formats are excluded. For more information, go to Cloud Drive Photos & Videos File Requirements.

So apparently they decide what is a photo. Myself I'd not trust a third party to not degrade the quality; I'd opt for encrypted container with photos INSIDE it. The same page also restricts this to "personal use":

Prime Photos is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use it in connection with a professional photography business or other commercial service.

Personally I think that sucks. By comparision, my VPS provider gives me a very cheap VPS which I can use for whatever purpose I want as long as I do not break any laws or disrupt other users. They price based on performance and bandwidth; not arbitrarily created market segmentations.

Cloud Drive Photos & Videos File Requirements: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

Photos and videos you upload through your web browser on the Cloud Drive website must be 2GB in size or less.
File and folder names must contain less than 255 characters, and cannot include the incompatible characters listed below.

They list common supported formats; this includes RAW. And they do mention encryption:

For photos: JPEG, BMP, PNG and most TIFF files (these files typically have the .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .png or .tiff extensions). In addition, some RAW format photos can also be viewed. For more information, go to About RAW Photo Files.
For videos: MP4, Quicktime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash and OGG.
Note: The unlimited photos storage benefit for Prime members only applies to files recognized as photo files. Photo files that have been encrypted before they're uploaded will count against your storage quota.

About RAW Photo Files: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

Nikon (NEF files) - Nikon D1, Nikon D1X, Nikon D4, Nikon Coolpix A, Nikon E5700, Nikon AW1, Nikon D800, Nikon D50, Nikon D610
Canon (CR2 Files**) - Canon 5D, Canon 1D, Canon 1D MarkIIN, Canon Rebel SL1, Canon 60D, Canon 5D MarkIII, Canon 1D MarkIV
**While Cloud Drive recognizes these files as photos, some of the information associated the file (like the time and date the photo was taken) may not be recognized.
Sony (ARW files) - Sony A7, Sony A7R, Sony A6000, Sony NEX-5T, Sony NEX-3N, Sony NEX-6

I doubt RAW format pictures can be compressed lossily? Does anyone know this for a fact?

I could not read TFA since it was in Japanese. From Amazon.com's pages:

About Prime Photos: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

In addition to the unlimited photo storage, you will also receive 5 GB of free storage space that can be used to store videos and files we canâ(TM)t recognize as photos.
Certain photo formats are excluded. For more information, go to Cloud Drive Photos & Videos File Requirements.

So apparently they decide what is a photo. Myself I'd not trust a third party to not degrade the quality; I'd opt for encrypted container with photos INSIDE it. The same page also restricts this to "personal use":

Prime Photos is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use it in connection with a professional photography business or other commercial service.

Personally I think that sucks. By comparision, my VPS provider gives me a very cheap VPS which I can use for whatever purpose I want as long as I do not break any laws or disrupt other users. They price based on performance and bandwidth; not arbitrarily created market segmentations.

Cloud Drive Photos & Videos File Requirements: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

Photos and videos you upload through your web browser on the Cloud Drive website must be 2GB in size or less.
File and folder names must contain less than 255 characters, and cannot include the incompatible characters listed below.

They list common supported formats; this includes RAW. And they do mention encryption:

For photos: JPEG, BMP, PNG and most TIFF files (these files typically have the .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .png or .tiff extensions). In addition, some RAW format photos can also be viewed. For more information, go to About RAW Photo Files.
For videos: MP4, Quicktime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash and OGG.
Note: The unlimited photos storage benefit for Prime members only applies to files recognized as photo files. Photo files that have been encrypted before they're uploaded will count against your storage quota.

About RAW Photo Files: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

Nikon (NEF files) - Nikon D1, Nikon D1X, Nikon D4, Nikon Coolpix A, Nikon E5700, Nikon AW1, Nikon D800, Nikon D50, Nikon D610
Canon (CR2 Files**) - Canon 5D, Canon 1D, Canon 1D MarkIIN, Canon Rebel SL1, Canon 60D, Canon 5D MarkIII, Canon 1D MarkIV
**While Cloud Drive recognizes these files as photos, some of the information associated the file (like the time and date the photo was taken) may not be recognized.
Sony (ARW files) - Sony A7, Sony A7R, Sony A6000, Sony NEX-5T, Sony NEX-3N, Sony NEX-6

I doubt RAW format pictures can be compressed lossily? Does anyone know this for a fact?

I could not read TFA since it was in Japanese. From Amazon.com's pages:

About Prime Photos: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

In addition to the unlimited photo storage, you will also receive 5 GB of free storage space that can be used to store videos and files we canâ(TM)t recognize as photos.
Certain photo formats are excluded. For more information, go to Cloud Drive Photos & Videos File Requirements.

So apparently they decide what is a photo. Myself I'd not trust a third party to not degrade the quality; I'd opt for encrypted container with photos INSIDE it. The same page also restricts this to "personal use":

Prime Photos is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use it in connection with a professional photography business or other commercial service.

Personally I think that sucks. By comparision, my VPS provider gives me a very cheap VPS which I can use for whatever purpose I want as long as I do not break any laws or disrupt other users. They price based on performance and bandwidth; not arbitrarily created market segmentations.

Cloud Drive Photos & Videos File Requirements: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

Photos and videos you upload through your web browser on the Cloud Drive website must be 2GB in size or less.
File and folder names must contain less than 255 characters, and cannot include the incompatible characters listed below.

They list common supported formats; this includes RAW. And they do mention encryption:

For photos: JPEG, BMP, PNG and most TIFF files (these files typically have the .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .png or .tiff extensions). In addition, some RAW format photos can also be viewed. For more information, go to About RAW Photo Files.
For videos: MP4, Quicktime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash and OGG.
Note: The unlimited photos storage benefit for Prime members only applies to files recognized as photo files. Photo files that have been encrypted before they're uploaded will count against your storage quota.

About RAW Photo Files: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

Nikon (NEF files) - Nikon D1, Nikon D1X, Nikon D4, Nikon Coolpix A, Nikon E5700, Nikon AW1, Nikon D800, Nikon D50, Nikon D610
Canon (CR2 Files**) - Canon 5D, Canon 1D, Canon 1D MarkIIN, Canon Rebel SL1, Canon 60D, Canon 5D MarkIII, Canon 1D MarkIV
**While Cloud Drive recognizes these files as photos, some of the information associated the file (like the time and date the photo was taken) may not be recognized.
Sony (ARW files) - Sony A7, Sony A7R, Sony A6000, Sony NEX-5T, Sony NEX-3N, Sony NEX-6

I doubt RAW format pictures can be compressed lossily? Does anyone know this for a fact?

I've heard that Sawyer Products Premium MAXI-DEET Insect Repellent Spray is an excellent product for protecting yourself from Zika infected mosquitos. You can buy some at Amazon.

If you're in the post-infection yet still sexually active stage, try Durex condoms, the "Best Condoms in the World". Also available from Amazon.

I've heard that Sawyer Products Premium MAXI-DEET Insect Repellent Spray is an excellent product for protecting yourself from Zika infected mosquitos. You can buy some at Amazon.

If you're in the post-infection yet still sexually active stage, try Durex condoms, the "Best Condoms in the World". Also available from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Excelvan...

My assumption is that there is a USB1.1 hub built into the glasses, XP doesn't care, but 7 detects it and prevents features from working. Poor design is likely the issue, not actually Windows.

If you read the full Cloud Drive Terms of Service, you'll find nothing in it that associates the word "unlimited" with "photos".

The Service provides storage, retrieval, management and access features and functionality for your photos, videos, and other files ("Your Files").
-- CloudDrive ToS

Everything they've put in writing makes it clear that you're permitted to use unlimited storage to store whatever files you like, so long as you don't resell access, use it as the backing store for another cloud service, etc. Personal use == A-OK.

In that case, you might want to consider Amazon Webmail, $4/user/month, and gives you 50GB of storage for email.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a...

I am testing it for a @lastname.email domain that I might resell to my extended paternal family.

Do yourself a favor and get one of these and these. Problem solved. In addition to being a wireless travel router with a big ass (10400mAh) battery that you can use to keep your device(s) charged, it's also effectively a NAS device. Load your thumb drive up with media and stream away to your device. I bought this specifically for streaming media to my tablet(s) while on the plane.

Do yourself a favor and get one of these and these. Problem solved. In addition to being a wireless travel router with a big ass (10400mAh) battery that you can use to keep your device(s) charged, it's also effectively a NAS device. Load your thumb drive up with media and stream away to your device. I bought this specifically for streaming media to my tablet(s) while on the plane.

US misspelling at one time. Contemporary spelling of the word preserves the original French. E.g., Chaise lounge

I have a wireless tea kettle that seems pretty efficient. It's also very high power. There is no physical electrical contact anywhere in the system.

tools-to-make-the-tools

humans got to today's level of technology starting with sticks and rocks for tools. The big jump however came with the lathe. Using a lathe, you can either build any tool known to man or the tool used to build any known tool known to man (a wafer processing machine for example). You can even construct a first lathe using nothing more than some hand tools and a drill.

My 14nm Intel NUC has a VGA port on it. The 22nm version of the NUC didnt even have VGA, why would intel add it on their most forward facing machines when the previous 22nm models didnt have it? There must be a market need for it.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HO... (22nm Core i3)

http://nucblog.net/wp-content/... (14nm 'Celeron')

For phone services, I would suggest looking into an OBi100 or similar device. http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-T...

This is similar hardware to Magicjack, but it works with whatever VoIP provider you choose.

I'm with voip.ms, which is $.01/minute billed in 6-second increments for all calls (in and out). There's an extra $1/month, plus another $1/month for 911 service. If you want caller ID names, it's an extra $.01/call, but only if it's not in the contacts you set up on their web page. There is a fee for porting numbers.

Another option is Google Voice. All calls (US/Canada) are free, but there's no caller ID names, even from your Google Contacts. Also, Google only lets you port mobile numbers, not land-line numbers, but people have managed to do it by first porting their cell phone to a prepaid cell. (I have our outgoing calls set to a Google Voice number, which can be a bit confusing for people.)

When steve jobs was alive, I am *sure* that apple stuff was cheaper. No, it never competed with the low end stuff, and maybe you paid a premium for Apple gear / OSX, fair enough.... BUT, now its just a rip off. http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-... $1,199 for 2.5 ghz, 8gb ram, 750gb HDD.... http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-... $459.99 for Intel Core i5, 8 GB, 1TB HDD Now, I accept the apple premium should be like 50% more..... BUT, we're talking over twice as much for a similar hardware. For info, I just bought an apple from EBAY. I like apple. I just think they're way overpriced today.

No word on where they will source the "Flux Capacitor" from?

$298 on Amazon.

If I want a certain model/version/edition I tend to go with ebay as it's more WYSIWYG than amazon. Amazon has a really high tendency to use stock photos.

Plus some of the listings have been screwed up for years! Check these two out http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ... Buy nickel get brass

http://www.amazon.com/Gardner-... Buy brass get nickel

They have been like that since at least as far back as march 2014!

But the 2 day shipping and no rush credits are still great!

I haven't gotten anything from amazon or ebay that was counterfeit that wasn't advertised as such that I'm aware of anyway. You know good MFI spec lightning type cables go for about $1.60 each Apple still wants $19 for one. Let's see do I want 10 cables that will last about 3 months a piece or do I want to buy one cable that will last about 3 months? Same price, same country of origin and same crap quality.

If I want a certain model/version/edition I tend to go with ebay as it's more WYSIWYG than amazon. Amazon has a really high tendency to use stock photos.

Plus some of the listings have been screwed up for years! Check these two out http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ... Buy nickel get brass

http://www.amazon.com/Gardner-... Buy brass get nickel

They have been like that since at least as far back as march 2014!

But the 2 day shipping and no rush credits are still great!

I haven't gotten anything from amazon or ebay that was counterfeit that wasn't advertised as such that I'm aware of anyway. You know good MFI spec lightning type cables go for about $1.60 each Apple still wants $19 for one. Let's see do I want 10 cables that will last about 3 months a piece or do I want to buy one cable that will last about 3 months? Same price, same country of origin and same crap quality.

In fact, I would argue that consciousness is the only thing that can be experienced objectively, since all other senses and experiences are filtered through consciousness.

Except that our brains process far more information than we are "consciously" aware of. I think if we had to be ever-conscious of everything we sense, we'd go nuts - which may be why "consciousness" developed in the first place, to provide a filter and focus for our decision-making based on sensory input.

The Power of Habit starts out with an interesting anecdote about a patient who was brain-damaged by a viral infection and couldn't remember what he was talking about even a few minutes prior. Yet, when he wandered off, he found his way home. He couldn't tell you how to get to the kitchen, yet when he was hungry, he just got up and went there to get some food. He was given cognitive tests that showed he was forming new memories, but wasn't aware of them.

There is a pile of intriguing evidence that consciousness may not strictly be necessary for a lot of the things we do everyday!

Book: Puzzles for Pleasure
Chapter: "Wire Wizards", page 73

Roadworks found eight wire ends protruding from a pipe in London. In Glasgow they discovered the other ends of the eight wires. Two foremen Smith and Campbell met to discuss how to match up the two sets of ends.

Back in London, Smith took a battery and connected pre-arranged numbers of ends to the positive terminal, the negative terminal, and left at least one wire free.

In Glasgow, Campbell labelled his ends A to H, then with a bulb tested each pair of wires that could be formed from the eight, for a circuit. Knowing the pre-arranged numbers Campbell could identify wires in each group.

The idea now was for Smith to disconnect the barrery, and Campbell to join six of his ends into 3 pairs, then tell Smith which ends he'd joined and which wires were in each group. Smith could then test all pairs of his ends using his battery and bulb, and thereby correctly identify his wire ends.

* https://books.google.com/books...

Agreed, as I posted here ...

- - -

I don't have any recommendations for the 10 year old, but in a few years I'd recommend these around ages ~12-18, give or take a few.

This is a great math/philosophy book disguised as a comic book.
* Logicomix: An epic search for truth

This is a fun computer science, math, philosophy, linguistics book:
* Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (stupid /. can't even display an umlaut o)

As is this one:
* An Adventurer's Guide to Number Theory [amazon.com]

A mostly dry theoretical book but has a few pics here and there. Depending on how serious & inquisitive he is, it may provide enough material to pique his curiosity / interest in Mathematics for ages.
* Where Mathematics Comes From

Hope this gives you some ideas!

--
Addition is a matter of perspective:
1+1=2 (Mathematics)
1+1=1 (Marriage)
1+1+1=1 (Meta-Physics)

Agreed, as I posted here ...

- - -

I don't have any recommendations for the 10 year old, but in a few years I'd recommend these around ages ~12-18, give or take a few.

This is a great math/philosophy book disguised as a comic book.
* Logicomix: An epic search for truth

This is a fun computer science, math, philosophy, linguistics book:
* Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (stupid /. can't even display an umlaut o)

As is this one:
* An Adventurer's Guide to Number Theory [amazon.com]

A mostly dry theoretical book but has a few pics here and there. Depending on how serious & inquisitive he is, it may provide enough material to pique his curiosity / interest in Mathematics for ages.
* Where Mathematics Comes From

Hope this gives you some ideas!

--
Addition is a matter of perspective:
1+1=2 (Mathematics)
1+1=1 (Marriage)
1+1+1=1 (Meta-Physics)

Agreed, as I posted here ...

- - -

I don't have any recommendations for the 10 year old, but in a few years I'd recommend these around ages ~12-18, give or take a few.

This is a great math/philosophy book disguised as a comic book.
* Logicomix: An epic search for truth

This is a fun computer science, math, philosophy, linguistics book:
* Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (stupid /. can't even display an umlaut o)

As is this one:
* An Adventurer's Guide to Number Theory [amazon.com]

A mostly dry theoretical book but has a few pics here and there. Depending on how serious & inquisitive he is, it may provide enough material to pique his curiosity / interest in Mathematics for ages.
* Where Mathematics Comes From

Hope this gives you some ideas!

--
Addition is a matter of perspective:
1+1=2 (Mathematics)
1+1=1 (Marriage)
1+1+1=1 (Meta-Physics)

How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff is an old but classic work that everyone should read. Its lessons about the ways that statistics are misused are as relevant as ever today. I read it in junior high school, but a bright 10-year-old should have no problem grasping it. It has entertaining cartoon-style illustrations, which help.

$50 here: http://www.amazon.com/Davis-Ma...
$17 - Copy of Bowditch (tells you all you need to know to use the sextant)
http://www.amazon.com/American...

$50 here: http://www.amazon.com/Davis-Ma...
$17 - Copy of Bowditch (tells you all you need to know to use the sextant)
http://www.amazon.com/American...

Here's a book, Secret Codes & Number Games (via Amazon).

Maybe it's just me but when I was a young teen I was amazed at fractal exploration software. In those days it took ages to draw, might have been part of the fun, but they were just so cool. I don't have mathematical prowess but I'd think anyone who did would be at the very least intrigued by fractals.

Perhaps some fractal software and a copy of Mandelbrot's Book would be a good gift?

I would recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Soci...

Very interesting insights into ideas about how consciousness interprets the reality around us (and how the mind ties it all together into something meaningful).

Mobile phones operate on licensed bands, where the public is neither allowed to send or receive with the kinds of devices that would allow them to intercept location information.

Bullshit.

I would like to be able to powercycle a USB-powered device in Farawayland, while sitting in my comfy office. By instructing my switch to cycle the PoE power on the relevant port.

A device which accepts regular PoE via an RJ45 in one end, and supplies USB power and RJ45 in the other end would facilitate that.

what you want is a PoE "splitter" - http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-...
it provides a standard barrel for which there are USB adapters - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb...

I would like to be able to powercycle a USB-powered device in Farawayland, while sitting in my comfy office. By instructing my switch to cycle the PoE power on the relevant port.

A device which accepts regular PoE via an RJ45 in one end, and supplies USB power and RJ45 in the other end would facilitate that.

what you want is a PoE "splitter" - http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-...
it provides a standard barrel for which there are USB adapters - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb...