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The biggest advantage that comes to my mind for remaining in India, having been a long time US resident, is the possibility that your retirement savings could be stretched into some kind of fortune over there. Of course, if your career path has been largely spent as a contractor, perhaps that...

Former Microsoft bigshot Nathan Myervhold (no I'm not looking up the spelling) did a huge publicity tour for his vanity cookbook project, Modernist Cuisine, last year. If you want a $500 cookbook to tell you how to boil stuff in a bag and then sear it with a blowtorch, it's pretty interesting...

Fuck you right back. And LM and dd and everyone else who support Adobe.

Fixed that for you.

I really don't want to take 40 hours to make a hamburger.

I still buy quite a lot of them. Mostly because there's still a price difference between the USB keyboards and PS/2 versions of the keyboards I like and I'll be damned if I pay an extra $3 just to use a different connector.

I'm almost reasonably certain that I still have some new in box motherboards of that vintage. They're cruddy brands that just happen to have the SiS chipsets my classroom PCs used for years, but if you can't find anything else I'll bet I can come up with something.

I believe that in a very real and quantifiable sense that my life has only gotten worse and worse. I don't expect anything better in the year to come.

Amazon sells Ubiquiti routers, Will. Also, the reality is that yes, you can run an ethernet cable more than 100m and it probably will work. The standard just says it does HAVE to.

That's been my central thesis all along, but of course I'm actually getting paid to mess with this stuff right now. It would be nice to come up with a workable, inexpensive system I could actually recommend.

The insult to injury would be to need two or three appliances to get full functionality. That seems to be the case right now. The devices that can auto-rip mostly suck as players. The devices that stream premium content don't do local data very well. And the devices that do handle local data...

You'd probably be most interested in CyanogenMod then.

Stuff changes. Last I heard, Samsung was backing away from ICS in part due to the fact that it interferes with some Touchwiz (Samsung's custom Android setup) features and partly due to my previously mentioned legal matters.

Because SCSI is a legacy interface. No one makes modern graphics hardware to plug in to EISA slots any more either, and all the systems in the world with a reasonably valid reason to use SCSI were retired two server upgrades ago and replaced with SAS. LM, Android versions are named after...

Ice Cream Sandwich. It's the most current revision of Android and it's basically not available for anything except the Google reference Handset. Samsung has publicly said they have no desire to update their currently shipping products to that revision, which may be because of their legal...

It strikes me that media player appliances are just like mobile phones and home routers: They all suck. It's just a matter of which compromises to make to get some level of functionality. I ran across a discussion of the NBox player today. There are several different revisions of them at price...

The lens isn't really the problem. The pinprick-size CMOS sensor is.

Moving to ICS won't fix anything. Just like installing a new version of Windows, you're basically going to get a new set of features that are predicated on the fact that systems running ICS will be on current hardware. The end result would be much like installing Windows 7 on a computer made in...

I doubt that they're safer at all. The book I use to teach CompTIA Security+ even hand-waves the possibility of network level security for printers. Security is discussed, but generally in the context of document retention and disposal. There's actually a sentence to the effect that there aren't...

The Kindle Fire is disgustingly well integrated into Amazon's services. Unfortunately, that's to the detriment of integration with anything Google has to offer.

I read Starship Troopers as a sort of logical outgrowth of objectivist philosophy. Perhaps not wanking on the same scale as Ayn Rand, but it's as much a soapbox as it is pulp-ish science fiction.

I don't know how anyone could seriously consider going back to local-only printers, especially given the level of utility available in commercial document center-type copiers.

There are plenty of mainstream applications for peer to peer data traffic. Skype is a P2P protocol, and World of Warcraft notably uses Bittorrent to handle updates.

ARM CPUs have made tremendous leaps in the last year, actually. We've gone from 1 or 1.2GHz single core CPUs to 2.5GHz dual and quad core processors in the space of perhaps 18 months. It's debatable that we actually need that kind of horsepower right now, but given the way that mobile platforms...

My set of BSG, including all the extras, webisodes and a pirated set of Caprica in HD since no one seems interested in releasing a proper set on Bluray, clocks in at a svelte 330GB. I also have a copy of the season 4 soundtrack signed by the composer and a print of the "Last Supper" image with...

... and I just thought it was amusing to print out pages of solid color. There's a white paper there, but the short version is that the author was able to make a network printer copy documents sent to print to a remote server, or to just a compromised printer to scan a LAN, find and break in to...

I bought a 4 cubic foot chest freezer and now I have a strategic reserve of beef.

Mozilla has a lot of projects besides Firefox, and most of them don't have any ability to generate revenue. I use the nightly tester tools to keep my addons in line. There are two addons I use all the time that weren't ever updated for Firefox 2.0, let alone anything newer. I think Mozilla...

And against all odds, it's warming up enough here that I have to do something. Guess I'll go buy a chest freezer.

I have to admit I haven't tried using it outside of a quick classroom demonstration since before Windows XP got its first service pack. The fact remains that it's easier to walk people through downloading and installing Crossloop than to explain that they need to go to whatever thingy they use...

My township banned use of grills in rented properties and I'll be damned if I ruin a restaurant grade ribeye on an electric griddle. I don't know who decided what portion I got. Usually if I go over there to work in person they give me a couple porterhouses and I keep those until I can find a...

I keep my brightness at a modest setting, but I frequently use my phone for inappropriate-for-workplace web browsing, to look at ebooks or product manuals and to read email. My phone lasts all day with my normal level and type of use. BUT if I type out a long email or start playing even a very...

That's not Netflix's fault. That's the movie studios being moronic and it's really a very recent development. These days I'm using my subscription to get Blu-Ray versions of stuff I already have on DVD. I'm probably not a big enough fan of "Ran" that I'd buy it again, but it's nice that my rip...

It's not going to get above 30F outside any time in the next week. It's all in nice insulated boxes out on my balcony and I'm sure it will be fine.

Ha. Even if I did, in the entirety of my experience, any woman that shows me any degree of personal affection is either openly gay or about to come out. Which, due to its implications, is not a line of thought I like to pursue.

It doesn't work. I think I'm going to donate it to a food bank.

The power consumption on whatever form of ARM CPU is in your phone is probably only a ninth of what's in your notebook, too.

One of my customers is a commercial butcher that supplies high grade steakhouses. As a holiday gift, they brought me 60lbs. of USDA Prime-grade beef, including a dry aged standing rib roast that must be a foot long. I don't even have a freaking grill.

I've personally witnessed my ex's girlfriend kill the battery on a fully charged Evo 3D in under two hours, just from non-stop SMSing.

My love keeps me warm. Also: It was around 55 F during the day the whole time I was in central TN last week, since we're comparing temperatures that are in places.

Apparently the current software version of Boxee will be the last one. I'm not sure if the project is open enough for anyone else to pick of the banner, and it's an xbmc derivative anyway, but find that annoying. The Logitech Revue is down to $80 now, so I finally ordered one. I figure it will...

Yes but I don't go places or do things and I like naked ladies quite a bit.

The WiiU looks like it will have a similarly retarded (in the sense that it creates an obstacle, though I suppose the other definition fits as well) level of graphics horsepower, with the big gimmick that it comes with some kind of weak-ass quasi-tablet built in to its controller. On one hand I...

I have several times 500GB, but by "and stuff" I really meant pornography. :D

Kind of. Mine can go about 2 days without charging if I don't mess with it very much. Leaving on all the radios hurts it a lot, but most people know to shut them off. In my observation, the people who have the biggest problems with battery life are people who do the most SMSing, Gaming and...

I settled on sticking an empty 2.5" SATA bay in mine. The door thing just got too aggravating. Looks like they cost about $15 on Ebay if you don't have one already but for that matter, who doesn't want to carry around an extra 500GB of music and stuff?

I don't think I was aware of that. Thanks!

In the last couple weeks, I noticed that Lenovo was discounting SSDs pretty heavily in more expensive Thinkpads. As far as I know, they still use crappy Samsung SSDs that I wouldn't say are worth the purchase price, but at times I saw T and X series models with 128GB drives for basically the...

I really like Amazon's market on my Evo. It seems to have more interesting stuff than the official app store and the free app a day is genuinely appreciated. On my Kindle Fire, I'm aggravated to no end by the poor search function and weirdly limited selection of applications. I rooted and...

That seems surprisingly useful to know, actually.