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My local libraries all have tons of outdated (5- to 15-year-old) books on a variety of computer subjects. You just might get lucky and find the one you need at yours.

Or, check Amazon. Lots of people list lots of useless old books for basically nothing plus shipping. First hit for "palm os programming" is this meaty tome, from 2002, for 30 cents plus $3.99 shipping. Bang, zoom, $4.29 later, you're set. Palm OS Programming for Dummies, 22 cents plus $3.99. Whatever version you need is out there somewhere.

And they usually come with interactive CD-ROMs. Interactive, my friend. Check the descriptions on Amazon and make sure they're included.

Are you serious? The books aren't going to have the tools he needs to develop apps. No header files, no libraries, etc. The CD/DVD ROMS will also not have those items in all probablility as they were licensed through HP. Me thinks the OP just needs to pitch that device. His intentions are in the right place, but his choice of platform to try to resurrect is untenable.

My local libraries all have tons of outdated (5- to 15-year-old) books on a variety of computer subjects. You just might get lucky and find the one you need at yours.

Or, check Amazon. Lots of people list lots of useless old books for basically nothing plus shipping. First hit for "palm os programming" is this meaty tome, from 2002, for 30 cents plus $3.99 shipping. Bang, zoom, $4.29 later, you're set. Palm OS Programming for Dummies, 22 cents plus $3.99. Whatever version you need is out there somewhere.

And they usually come with interactive CD-ROMs. Interactive, my friend. Check the descriptions on Amazon and make sure they're included.

Are you serious? The books aren't going to have the tools he needs to develop apps. No header files, no libraries, etc. The CD/DVD ROMS will also not have those items in all probablility as they were licensed through HP. Me thinks the OP just needs to pitch that device. His intentions are in the right place, but his choice of platform to try to resurrect is untenable.

My local libraries all have tons of outdated (5- to 15-year-old) books on a variety of computer subjects. You just might get lucky and find the one you need at yours.

Or, check Amazon. Lots of people list lots of useless old books for basically nothing plus shipping. First hit for "palm os programming" is this meaty tome, from 2002, for 30 cents plus $3.99 shipping. Bang, zoom, $4.29 later, you're set. Palm OS Programming for Dummies, 22 cents plus $3.99. Whatever version you need is out there somewhere.

And they usually come with interactive CD-ROMs. Interactive, my friend. Check the descriptions on Amazon and make sure they're included.

My local libraries all have tons of outdated (5- to 15-year-old) books on a variety of computer subjects. You just might get lucky and find the one you need at yours.

Or, check Amazon. Lots of people list lots of useless old books for basically nothing plus shipping. First hit for "palm os programming" is this meaty tome, from 2002, for 30 cents plus $3.99 shipping. Bang, zoom, $4.29 later, you're set. Palm OS Programming for Dummies, 22 cents plus $3.99. Whatever version you need is out there somewhere.

And they usually come with interactive CD-ROMs. Interactive, my friend. Check the descriptions on Amazon and make sure they're included.

Okay, here is my question of the day. What the FUDGE are you doing in the woods where you want a Cell phone on all the time? Smart phone at that (feature phones can last days on a smallish battery)? Additionally, you should likely be carrying a battery backup that actually holds a big charge (10,000 MA min), the unit you have won't run my Andoid phone for more than 5 hours. While the battery backup I carry will run it for 40 hours of normal use. Hell, my spare batteries (size matters) are more 600MA bigger and a lot smaller in size. Here is the key to the failure ...

Freeloader’s solar panels can charge its internal battery in as little as 8 hours

Takes longer to charge than it lasts under normal conditions of my phone. Weighs more than several spare 2100MA batteries for my phone. More expensive than same several batteries or a nice big external battery pack. You might want something like this instead.

Anyways, here is my points, in a nutshell

1) Camping; Defeated the purpose of "gettting away from it all"
2) Hunting: Scaring game away every time you get a txt/call (Vibrate makes noise). Silent mode works, but unless you're checking every three minutes. See also #1
3) Logging; You're busy working, get a feature phone* (not smart one) and be done.
4) Out in the middle of nowhere; No cell signal or 2g at best. Feature Phone* is better choice.

*Feature phones work better in areas of sketchy cell service. Their battery life is very long. The battery requires less power.

Have not managed to find a keyboard case for a single phone that I would actually consider buying. iPhone? nope. Samsung Galaxy III? Nuh uh. There exists not a single keyboard case for the Nexus 4/5. If someone makes one, I will buy it in a heartbeat.

WHAT!??!!
I haven't found a keyboard case for the Samsung Galaxy S4 that I would use (though I really want a keyboard), but keyboard cases exist for the first two you mentioned (haven't looked for the nexus). Or am I misreading your post... are you saying you would NOT buy an iPhone nor Galaxy SIII?

Ex: iPhone (I really like this case): http://istoreworld.com/us/typo...

Here's a sliding one for the iPhone: http://www.amazon.com/Bluetoot...

Looks like it is already there. http://www.amazon.com/Bluetoot... http://www.amazon.com/Luminous...

Looks like it is already there. http://www.amazon.com/Bluetoot... http://www.amazon.com/Luminous...

The thing now is to have the keyboard as a separate accessory that connects via Bluetooth. For iPhone, for example: Link to such a case at Amazon.

There. FTFY.

When I see the kind of shit my colleagues from Sunnyvale, who are on 80+ hours/week schedules, tend to release, I'm not surprised one bit. Of course I'm a lazy European socialist who only work 40-50 hours a week so what do I know.

"we Americans are becoming an ever-more-exhausted and accident-prone society due to sleep debt"
http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Th...

and this from a blog by Chuck Divine, "Some people argue that humans have not evolved to do intellectual work for more than a portion of a week that might be as low as 40 hours. Yes, you can go over that limit, but other things will suffer if you do."

They are strapping a cheap part that breaks easy on an expensive phone. They keyboard breaks and they have to replace the whole thing. What you want is a case that has a bluetooth keyboard slider. Like the following. http://www.amazon.com/Naztech-...

A true agile process has an incremental delivery schedule. Rather than building the full deliverable and delivering, it identifies milestones as deliverable product. For example: a waterfall process for building a car would intake requirements and output a car; an agile process would produce the platform for inspection by the customer, followed by the suspension system, the engine, the drive train, interior, and so on, in some useful order.

For a software product, this involves delivering partial functionality to the customer, who then examines it or even integrates it with his workflow. If there are issues, the functionality can be cheaply reworked; building on top of broken functionality could incur major rework when an issue is encountered, so this process actually reduces work.

Agile is not Rapid Application Development. RAD has consistently been shown to be a large joke. Agile software project management accomplishes what RAD could not.

You assume that meetings are the only way to convey requirements instead of working closely with the subject matter experts in a more collaborative manner.

If you can handle two afternoons' worth of reading, I will direct you here (technical) and here (soft skills). These cover stakeholder management, which is "working with people". Part of that is working with SMEs.

If you want to argue from an actual competent stance, you'll need to bother reading the (horrifically dry) PMBOK, fifth edition, particularly chapters 5 (scope management) and 10 (communications management). I found chapter 9 (human resource management) fascinating as well; chapter 11 (risk management) is a favorite of mine. Much of the content may sound like gibberish out of full context; reading the book from start to finish is like that, too, because they forward-reference things in the beginning (integration management immediately starts talking about the requirements traceability matrix, IIRC, which is 4 chapters later).

The short of it is: there are many ways to get information out of people. Meetings are a good method, and arranging good meetings is a skill. Meetings have three isolate purposes: to share information, to develop alternatives, and to make decisions. Never perform more than one in the same meeting; you will make horrific decisions.

To put this into perspective: We've worked closely with SMEs here, and done things wrong. Sometimes, meetings occur without the SMEs, and decisions are made contrary to what the SME recommended; others, the tech workers (network engineers, programmers, etc.) were consulted separately, and then excluded from decisionary meetings. The result is often people making decision and dropping impossible, poorly defined, or useless shit on you. Then you implement it, and they tell you it's wrong.

By the by, one of the most important features of a good meeting is it's short.

A true agile process has an incremental delivery schedule. Rather than building the full deliverable and delivering, it identifies milestones as deliverable product. For example: a waterfall process for building a car would intake requirements and output a car; an agile process would produce the platform for inspection by the customer, followed by the suspension system, the engine, the drive train, interior, and so on, in some useful order.

For a software product, this involves delivering partial functionality to the customer, who then examines it or even integrates it with his workflow. If there are issues, the functionality can be cheaply reworked; building on top of broken functionality could incur major rework when an issue is encountered, so this process actually reduces work.

Agile is not Rapid Application Development. RAD has consistently been shown to be a large joke. Agile software project management accomplishes what RAD could not.

You assume that meetings are the only way to convey requirements instead of working closely with the subject matter experts in a more collaborative manner.

If you can handle two afternoons' worth of reading, I will direct you here (technical) and here (soft skills). These cover stakeholder management, which is "working with people". Part of that is working with SMEs.

If you want to argue from an actual competent stance, you'll need to bother reading the (horrifically dry) PMBOK, fifth edition, particularly chapters 5 (scope management) and 10 (communications management). I found chapter 9 (human resource management) fascinating as well; chapter 11 (risk management) is a favorite of mine. Much of the content may sound like gibberish out of full context; reading the book from start to finish is like that, too, because they forward-reference things in the beginning (integration management immediately starts talking about the requirements traceability matrix, IIRC, which is 4 chapters later).

The short of it is: there are many ways to get information out of people. Meetings are a good method, and arranging good meetings is a skill. Meetings have three isolate purposes: to share information, to develop alternatives, and to make decisions. Never perform more than one in the same meeting; you will make horrific decisions.

To put this into perspective: We've worked closely with SMEs here, and done things wrong. Sometimes, meetings occur without the SMEs, and decisions are made contrary to what the SME recommended; others, the tech workers (network engineers, programmers, etc.) were consulted separately, and then excluded from decisionary meetings. The result is often people making decision and dropping impossible, poorly defined, or useless shit on you. Then you implement it, and they tell you it's wrong.

By the by, one of the most important features of a good meeting is it's short.

part of my nostalgia for coding on the C64 is how you felt you could know everything about the box. There was a book, Mapping the C64 and C64C. that told you about every single address on the computer. You felt you could get everything done with some pokes and peeks, or some machine language. (LDA anyone?).

Now, you can do more, but you don't feel you can push to the envelope of the hardware. How many classes does java add every release cycle? How often does CPAN turn over?

I think im not the only one with that nostalgia.. there's an offer on that book for >700 dollars. I lost mine over the course of several moves during College days.

The base price for an off-the-shelf 2000 Watt Complete Grid-Tied DIY AC Solar Kit is $4600.

The kit includes eight 8 x 8 x 5 inch Enphase inverters weighing 6 lbs each. Retailing for about $150 each. All offers for Enphase M215 Micro-Inverter

You should really read "1919 Versailles: The End of the War to End All Wars". It's an incredibly well researched history of what went on at the end of WWI. One of the key takeaways is that that Wilson wanted to avoid being punitive with Germany. He very much wanted to create a situation that would be the opposite of the conditions that lead to WWII. However, he was outmaneuvered and somewhat incompetent. The real villains were Clemenceau and Lloyd George.

http://www.amazon.com/1919-Ver...

His biography First Man is a great read. Armstrong seemed like a classic "Right Stuff" guy; I'm sure the book paints him in a positive light but after reading it I couldn't think of anyone else I would want to be the first person to set foot on the moon in the name of humanity.

I think a better tribute from NASA would be to get us back to the moon. Maybe they could name the first permanent settlement there after him?

> Case in point: where did Steve Jobs buy his yatch?

Probably at Amazon.com which features lots of yatches.

You can get B-yatches at Amazon? I better scoot on over there.

> Case in point: where did Steve Jobs buy his yatch?

Probably at Amazon.com which features lots of yatches.

I am surprised that more people are not better at Math, since language is almost entirely Math. Think of the words we use that denote math terms: Quantity (more, less, many, one, few, all, none, etc.), space (large, small, besides, etc.), relationships (on, in, with, by, all, included, etc.), ..and the list goes on.

I strongly recommend a book called, "What Linguists Always Wanted to Know About Logic..* (*But were Ashamed to Ask!)" by McCawley.

http://www.amazon.com/Everythi...

Incidentally, this book has one of the BEST descriptions of Lambda Calculus I've seen so far.

I can easily see the disconnect between language and programming; it s pretty much the same as the disconnect between language and good thinking. Language contains many distortions, deletions and generalizations the people who know the language process unconsciously (sometime to their detriment) to complete their understanding of the communication. Computers cannot, at this time, do a good job of imputing the missing components to fully complete the instruction.

Good programmers are simply better at complete and precise thinking.

But scientific books of the 1970s have informed us that lunar caves actually contain bodies of 50,000-year-old human astronauts. I'm looking forward to that!

This is straight out of Charles Stross' scifi novel Accelerando!

Tipsters are warning of an impending readjustment in the overinflated reputations market... His reputation is up two percent for no obvious reason today, he notices: Odd, that. When he pokes at it he discovers that everybody's reputation - everybody, that is, who has a publicly traded reputation - is up a bit. It's as if the distributed Internet reputation servers are feeling bullish about integrity. Maybe there's a global honesty bubble forming.

Glad to here about your success story! If you want to take your success to the next level, you may find this of interest:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/shop/...
http://www.amazon.com/The-End-...
"This New York Times best seller offers a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse diabetesâ"without drugs. Diabetes does not have to shorten your life span or result in high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney failure, blindness or other life-threatening ailments. In fact, most type 2 diabetics can get off medication and become 100 percent healthy in just a few simple steps. This book offers no compromises, it is the most aggressive and effective approach to reverse obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart disease; which typically accompany type 2 diabetes. The information about Type 1 diabetes is simply life saving. It is a must read for every diabetic, as well as any nutritionally-aware person wanting to understand the failure of conventional medical care for diabetic treatments and the "no-brainer" of using nutritional excellence, not drugs."

And see:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/disea...

The grand parent poster said quadrupling *vegetables* (many of which are leafy greens like Kale) not "complex carbs"... And there are much healthier things to eat than cancer-implicated processed lunchmeat if you want to eat meat...

Also, exercise does not help much with weight loss because it stimulates the appetite, even though exercise in general is good for health...

Also, for yet another different perspective (on how the recommendations decades ago to avoid fat on the theory it made people fat have instead led to an epidemic of obesity and heart disease by leading people to eat too much sugar):
http://healthimpactnews.com/20...

Good luck staying with what is working for you and maybe even going further which might then free up energy for your titanic plans! :-)

Any available in Germany. The point is this: after all these years I spent in a communist country I start having doubts if reports about one side of a conflict are so uniform while facts are so limited an confusing. Credibility of a source is lower when it constantly use derogatory terms to one side. That was a sign of bad propaganda in a communist country I once lived in. Bottom line is: one can do your PR better without calling people names. there is also this little suspicion that not only Russian 50c brigade is at work here. I do not trust Russians but I have very little illusions about the other sides of the conflict: Ukrainian state is just a cradle of corruption that people on the ground try to remove once in a while only to be served another portion of the same. US reaction to this all, at least that what we can see in media, fits into `these are our basterds so we have to careful not to support them too much and keep their incompetence and corruption in check` scenario. I watch this all with interest especially ever since I read this. This is actually the reason I think U-R conflict belongs very much so to /. how media are used to pump us with pseudoinformation. Watching from aside Russia seems to be losing PR contest.

Try reading Zinn's A People's History of the United States. It will disillusion you of the comic book U.S. History taught in U.S. school where the founding fathers are all saints and geniuses.

They were mostly self serving and profiteering. Its fitting Andrew Jackson is on the $20 dollar bill because he was infamous for profiteering off the battles he won, mostly by seizing the lands he took and splitting it up between himself and his friends.

Do you have a Prime account? http://www.amazon.com/gp/featu...

The most annoying part about the Lending Library is that you can only swap out books once per month.

Have you ever tried setting up something on AWS? There are a billion buttons and settings and new, invented words I don’t understand. I have no clue how any of that stuff works.

To be fair, Amazon's documentation is worse than a manpage. Manpages usually start out with an introduction of what the hell the thing you're looking at is supposed to do before listing every possible option and letting you guess how they're supposed to be assembled into a working thing, meanwhile Amazon gives you some pretty drawings that whiz by, and a big menu with one sentence for some of their services (go to their "Compute" submenu and tell me the difference between "Auto Scaling" and "Elastic Load Balancing" why are these listed as two separate services, in what world would you want to spin up new instances automatically with no way to direct traffic to them)? This diagram did more for me than watching their 15 minute "get started" video.

Sounds about right. I played enough tournament games to estimate I was about a 1450 player at my best, and playing Sargon II on the Apple was a pretty evenly matched game. The key to beating early chess games like that, and this is still useful for any small memory chess opponent, is to play something weird. You need to get the computer out of its opening book library as soon as possible, without making an overtly bad move. Moving a pawn a single space forward where most players would taking advantage of being able to move forward two can be enough to break you out of a small book. You could easily tell when Sargon went "off book" because the time it spent thinking about moves went up dramatically, especially on its highest difficulty setting.

I learned some ideas like this from David Levy's excellent 1983 book Computer Gamesmanship. With Sargon, I recall I would do somewhere around 5 moves from the standard opening library before inserting one aimed to go off-book. The first few moves in a chess game tend to be very similar because they work. You don't want to yield control of the middle of the board in favor of breaking out of the book on your first move; that's counterproductive.

You have to live w/in a reasonable distance of an ``Amazon Storage Locker'' and have your account set up so as to allow it to be enabled:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

Can you not use a garden-variety USB audio adapter like any of these dozes of examples?
http://www.amazon.com/s/?keywo...

All of those small family bookstores that Barnes and Noble and Borders put out of business about 15-20 years ago? Guess what, they are back in business. The just sell through Amazon now.

http://www.amazon.com/First-Al...

356 pounds. Free shipping with amazon prime. Shipping is rarely an issue aside for niche stuff, even outside of Amazon. Kids can use prepaid cards. Sure, these may not be convenient enough in certain situations today...but tomorrow it may be another story.

> I'd be plenty happy if I could buy a 24" desktop monitor with 2560×1600 pixels (125 DPI).

Here you go: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005JN9310/

I live in the US and open flame cooking is not allowed where I live, in fact some are trying to say that no cooking is allowed to make me go out and blow all my dough on restaurants, but I use electric cooking.

I use a microwave for potatoes, a hotplate for frying then cooking rice, and for eggs either a microwave to make omelets in like 2.5 minutes babysitting it, or I have a Crofton egg-cooker that cooks slowly while I eat and makes a batch of 7 boiled eggs I keep in the fridge for next time. http://www.amazon.com/Kalorik-... I bought mine for a lot less on sale a few years back. The nice thing is that an alarm goes off when it's done, so you don't have to babysit it like the microwave or hotplate, which, if you go on the internet and leave them running, will fill your place with smoke and set off the smoke alarms. Never ever leave the hotplate, unplug the hotplate when done. The microwave at least has a timer that cuts off even if it turns on by accident, plus it makes a lot of noise and the lights are on, but a hotplate can be very stealthy and sly, so keep it unplugged as soon as you're done.

I was trying to boil some city tap water the other day in this 5 gallon pot, to see if it can be made drinkable - btw George Carlin says that he's amused how everywhere he goes, people don't trust their public utility supply water for drinking. It took forever to get it to boil, and I assume it was mostly due thermal conduction resistance and contact between the hotplate and the pot. The hotplate sounds like it keeps self-regulating the temperature, and it cuts off if the heating elements overheat, then turns back on, then cuts off, etc., you can hear it click as it rubs under the pot as it suddenly thermally expands and gets glowing red hot, then it cools back to black, then goes red again. So against this on/off bullshit I was thinking about doctoring a microwave transformer like it shows on this page, http://www.instructables.com/i... and just dipping the about to melt red-hot copper wire directly inside the pot - that should get a lot of heat transfer. The transformer is kind of an impedance-matching device between the 2V / 800A heating section and the 110V / 16A wall socket. 2 volts on a #2 AWG gauge copper wire is kind of safe against electric shocks, just be careful what you touch it against, not to melt it or instantly vaporize it. In fact 0.25 volts and really fat copper or silver bars might be even better. Unfortunately boiling coffee and soup might be difficult with this, as the suspended solid stuff might cake and char onto the heating element if dipped directly into the soup, so you'd need some kind of large fin setup that covers the whole volume of the pot with fins for large surface area direct heat transfer, and an incandescent bulb light dimmer variable resistor on the wall socket side of the transformer to regulate power input slowed down to whatever still works. But for clean water going with 2V and 800 Amps through a #2 gauge of #0 or #00 copper wire coil is probably as fast as you can get that 1800 watts of power into the water at full wattage, instead of cutting on and off. By the way 1800 watts is your maximum allowed energy out of the wall socket, the transformer doesn't magically change that, it only makes the heat transfer more efficient by lowering the voltage to 2 volts or less and direct conduit contact with the water. You can't really stick a 110 V heating element into the water, because the pot will shock you, plus the electricity will bypass the high resistance heating element and go directly through the water, causing a short and blowing your fuse on the whole house or more like throwing your circuit breakers that need to be reset.

Wake me up when it can give me an electric jolt each time I think about sex.

It's far cheaper and easier to simulate that with off the shelf hardware:
http://www.amazon.com/outlets-...

Incidentally, a few weeks ago I placed an order for this Amazon listing for Eleventy-billion tons of snow, deliverable directly to one of our lakes.
There was a 4.49 shipping charge, so I figure I could do my part to help out with that much investment, at least.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IISFL64/ref=pe_385040_30332190_TE_3p_dp_1

Some of the smart watches out there look OK; for instance the Martian Watches Passport SmartWatch looks like a reasonable timepiece, has a reported 1 week battery life, and does some simple Dick Tracy stuff while still managing to be a wristwatch.

If it had a separate power supply or some way to use the last bit of the main supply strictly as a watch with a 6 month reserve for essential functions I'd probably buy that.

But most of them are little phone gadgets for your wrist that will require charging daily, or nearly daily. Useless.

Nothing from Amazon requires 30 minute delivery.

Well, almost.

I think most doctors believe its beneficial but I also think they somehow see acetaminophen opiate formulations as some kind of bulwark against abuse. Either because they believe it is so much more effective paired with acetaminophen and you'll be inclined to take less overall or that people "know" acetaminophen is bad in quantity and it will serve as a deterrent to excessive dosage, especially people with a history of drug abuse.

Also, the DEA watches doctors who prescribe opiates very carefully. If some government goon believes a doctor's handing them out like candy, the doctor's most likely going to be called in for some very uncomfortable questions. See chapter two of Three Felonies a Day for some examples.

The way scripts for opiates are handled is also quite different. My wife's oncologist was able to submit the vast majority of prescriptions to her preferred pharmacy electronically; they would be ready for pick-up a short time after. The one time she was prescribed straight oxycodone (or whatever opiate), it was printed on security paper to thwart attempts at altering or copying. It was signed, and some sort of DEA ID number issued to the doc was printed in the header. I had to deliver the prescription to a pharmacy. Her usual pharmacy didn't have it in stock, so I had to find another that did. Once it was filled, I had to sign for it in a logbook (similar to when you buy products containing pseudoephedrine).

I had the same experience when shopping for usb sound cards - the market is flooded with cheap crap! However, I can't say enough good things about this product, the Griffin imic: http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-... I needed a solution for recording stereo line in, and most built-in cards no longer offer stereo line in (tin foil hat time: it's because of the riaa!). The imic is cheap compared to a pro audio interface, but has great features like a hardware switch for the mic pre, great linux/alsa support, it's reliable and easy to use, and sounds fine. I'm not an audiophile, and I'd like to echo many other sentiments on this thread that built-in sound cards usually sound 'good enough', however I use it primarily in the 'semi-pro' scenario of recording dj sets, which are primarily unbalanced stereo, and it performs well. I even use it to record live shows off the mixing board. So if you do a little research, there are still high-quality usb sound cards available.

And a great DAC can be had for less than $30: http://www.amazon.com/D03K-Dig...

I've been using one for a while now, it does exactly what it says on the tin. Noise-free stereo sound for not a lot of money.

A good DAC can be had for $30: http://www.amazon.com/D03K-Dig...

Hooking up one of those using S/PDIF is one of the easiest ways to get good noise-free audio from a PC.

And an external DAC doesn't have to cost more than ~$30: http://www.amazon.com/D03K-Dig...

(No referral link)

A good DAC can be had for less than $30 now: http://www.amazon.com/D03K-Dig...

If your motherboard has an S/PDIF (coax or TOSLINK) output, get one of those and enjoy noise-free sound.

Then perhaps I could just get one of these at the Oculus Thrift Store. Better resolution.

http://www.amazon.com/Holmes-S...

In the US the FBI is recommending that anyone who knows such things as "Encryption" or "VPNs" be turned in to their local police immediately as a terrorist. So, because I am good at my job and understand complex concepts, that means that I am a terrorist? That's funny, it used to be called "American pride".

There's a good chance that actual terrorists will be using some communication method so "low tech" that it would be un-noticed.
Only a terrorist group which is geographically dispersed is going to need "telecommunications" in the first place.
Even then dead drops and codes even broadcasting (e.g. spam) maybe more use to them than any form of cypher.
Maybe there is a super special watch list for anyone who has ever read http://www.amazon.com/Codes-Se...

Have you even _used_ any other languages??

JavaScript is a shitty language. There is even a book about it

JavaScript: The Good Parts
* http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/...

I can get a PC that is more powerful with the same amount of RAM for that price.

it won't have 8GB of GDDR5 RAM will it.

The CPU in the PS4 is the performance equivalent of a low end PC processor, such as a dual core Pentium.

BS. That's 8 1.6 GHz cores in the PS4.

The GPU, being integrated, is also pretty low end.

You're thinking like a Filthy PC Gamer bourgeoisie philistine. Integrated doesn't mean the same thing in console land. The PS4's GPU is is a customized version of AMD's 7870 GPU, with 2 CUs disabled.
That's not a traditional "integrated" GPU like you're implying.
It is most certainly better than the GT640 I've got in this Fedora machine.

Let me find a machine to compare:

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-i36...

Lets see that costs $379, has a dual core CPU, 4GB of RAM and intel HD graphics. Can that thing even run Watch Dogs?
No.

http://www.geforce.com/games-a...

Except for a few people, nobody cares about Mars. Only need to see what the politicos and major decision makers are working on. Also from http://www.projectrho.com/rock...
"The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."

A manned mission to Mars has always been 20 years away and been presented like this for past 50 years (like fusion energy power plants are 10 years away which been presented like this for past 60 years). After a half century, maybe a different approach? Sorry I don't see how Orion or Musk's Dragon can reach Mars (supplies, food, machine shops to repair when things break down, radiation, microgravity, etc.). Then we got advocates always promoting their "One legged stool" http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.c... for the Next Big Initiative.

Of all the stuff I read, Dennis Wingo in his book Moon Rush discusses real driver should be industrial expansion, "Deals of this size are done all the time, and think what having access to and rights over a billion kilos of platinum would do for your corporate portfolio." Wingo also discusses background of major programs Apollo, SEI, Augustine commissions I and II, and why certain decisions were made (and why many times nothing happened after). http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

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I'm not so sure that's such a good example. Books like that exist.