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Why not a windmill? Probably less expensive and viable for longer than solar cells.

Have you used it yet? It's really not bloated. The hardware requirements are pretty much identical to Vista except they farm more work to the GPU. I hate to sound like an apologist for a new Microsoft OS here but there's nothing about Windows 8 to get deeply worked up about. Honest.

I was seven or eight years old the last time I did anything for Halloween. I stopped going when my brother got too old for it. A couple weeks ago, I had a short conversation with one of my friend Brittany's co-workers (while I was waiting for my friend to put her civilian clothes back on) that...

Somehow I doubt that will stop them from making more OSes or maps.

It doesn't matter. I know it and she knows it. I hate calendars.

When I get Steam gift codes, usually from a video card purchase, I go on the web and give them to somebody, actually. I want to give my stripper friend a copy of Swords and Sworcery. She doesn't have a credit card she can associate with her itunes account so the ipad I gave her is basically...

It is possible to buy Android apps from the web, even from iOS. It is NOT possible to buy an iOS app except from with iOS or within itunes. I want to gift an app and Apple completely does not support that. The only thing I can do is buy an itunes gift card, apparently.

TAL in particular has taught me that sometimes, even if I'm not terribly interested in a subject, the producers offer enough of a hook that I usually can't stop listening once I start. The Moth, Radiolab and the Third Coast Audio Festival are all very good examples of the sort of long-format...

I've been looking for more stuff to put on my phone since I finished listening to This American Life in sequential order. Not every TED talk is available in audio-only. I could probably strip the audio from Youtube copies but I don't know if I'm that motivated. I have been enjoying Marc Maron's...

I'm probably better off talking to a traditional distributor. I may even be ordering enough to make talking directly to Silverstone worthwhile.

Amazon was perfectly happy to sell me 80 180GB Intel 330 SSDs and 86 DH61BE motherboards, but Silverstone ML03Bs? Screw you. Limit 1. Guess I'll have to go see if I can work something out with Ingram or something.

That's a bit of a sore subject 'round these parts.

I don't know that Intel is more reliable. Intel DOES have really fast RMA turnaround. For someone like Lunar the fact is that a drive failure would just be a reason to go buy another drive anyway so it probably doesn't matter as much for him.

I have a friend in Brooklyn (south and closer to the Atlantic) who tells me she doesn't have power but somehow she's keeping her smartphone charged because we kept up an email conversation all day.

Disney Corp acquires Lucasfilm. Mickey Mouse now owns Kermit the Frog, Spider-Man and Darth Vader.

There's no way to do complete backups without rooting to access app protected storage. Hopefully that will change as the OS matures and we have a real backup semaphore of some kind. I suspect it just isn't a priority yet.

The whole area is like this, really. I suspect a campus town or some kind of gentrifying urban area would be more appropriate, but Northwest Indiana is doing the opposite of gentrifying.

Commonwealth Edison's main data center was (is?) located about 100 feet below ground. The aboveground portion was basically a house-size concrete structure surrounded by cornfield and containing several elevators. Other places I've been have more or less just been warehouse-looking buildings...

I can see that for trading and reporting firms, but d'ya think that HuffPo gets a competitive sideboob-posting advantage for being there? ;) Chicago has a giant datacenter operation in the Merchandise Mart (basically the middle of downtown), and that's a little easier to justify since Chicago...

1024x600 was standard on 7" tablets until maybe a few months ago; I suspect the Fire HD is a bit of a game changer among tier-1 devices. You DO want to pay the extra $15 to ditch Amazon's stupid extra ads, though. As far as Samsung devices go, new ones are released irregularly, but Samsung...

My job is awesome and I know full well that I'm never going to get anything like it if I leave. If I had a concrete reason to leave it, I might do so, but I'm too risk averse to consider leaving for the possibility that someplace else might suck less and/or have better social options.

The storm knocked Buzzfeed, HuffPo and Gawker Media sites offline. Apparently they all use a data center that's located in midtown Manhattan. That kind of blows my mind, because midtown Manhattan seems to me like it would be a horrible place to put a data center.

I'd say that your choice come down to the 1st generation Fire (cheap), the Nexus 7, the Galaxy Tab 2 7" and the Kindle Fire HD. The classic Fire is cheap and has a great screen but has Amazon's sucky interface and lack of Play Store support. The Nexus has good hardware and software as Google...

A clump of cells isn't a person. If you want to argue about where to draw that line, be my guest, but the fact is that this is something that's happening in a person's body that will impact the rest of her life, whether or not the pregnancy is terminated. Neither one of us should be the person...

Because the market for 1TB drives in a 2.5" form factor is vanishingly small.

I don't see Verizon or Sprint changing their radio technology just because Google doesn't like it, either.

To be honest, I like the GUI of the Linux boot environment better than the stupid GUI they moved to in Windows. Dealing with the boot environment is mostly just a matter of being familiar with it, but it hasn't changed much in the last three years. In any case, it's also reasonable to expect...

I should be ordering 60 Intel 330s by the end of the week. So that's good.

All the apps you've installed are listed on play.google.com under My Android Apps. If you have multiple registered devices, they will each be listed, effectively offering a set of apps for each tab. You can push apps out to your devices from the web interface; you don't even have to do it from...

I don't have anyone to take because I live in a shitty place that entirely devoid of appropriate social outlets. Were I 15 years older or had I interest in sports and beer rather than arts, I might be better off but neither of those thing are true.

Pop over to their dating advice section. That board has a long ass list of what's appropriate to post. Some thing should go in /relationships rather than /dating. Some things should go in *_advice. Some things should go in /sex or /loneliness or /okcupid or /depression or whatever. Many of those...

Internet people I know in Baltimore, D.C. and Brooklyn all say it's not anything that exciting.

Are you seriously suggesting that the option should be taken off the table just because you and Todd Aiken and Richard Mourdock are OK with the idea?

In my experience that usually means there's a hardware issue with one of the drives participating in the operation.

Economics, as a science, frequently models human behavior using the supposition that consumers/markets are rational and proceeds from that point. Which, of course, they aren't.

Did it auto-select the correct drive? Because it should if there's only one possibility.

I heard it before. There isn't much to say about it, except perhaps that I think there might be better frameworks for understanding our electoral system than economic and financial ones. Also that we really do have an obligation to vote if we've already made the investment to become informed...

If the drive is completely empty, you need to go through Tools and tell Acronis to set up the New Drive so that it's initialized enough for TrueImage to interact with it.

I made the mistake of letting the thing come on by itself and then morbid curiosity took over. I broke out of the install, loaded the thing up in Safe Mode and looked: There's only one configured application starting up, basically rather than having a system image that includes all the HP tools...

Absolute first impression: HP's software loadout megasucks. What the hell is it doing that it needed a half-hour of automatic software installation on first boot? The display is nice but not as bright as I might've hoped for.

I don't get Reddit as a community. There are eleventy million sub-communities that seem to tend toward massive overspecialization or else they are so completely general that they'll immediately be lost among thousands of posts.

Breadcrumbs are the little clicky bits in the Windows 7 Address bar that let you quickly navigate to other folders on the same level in the directory structure as whichever one you clicked on. If you click on the one next to Computer, you see all your drive letters. If you click the one next to...

Yes. The person for whom I purchased my second ticket has since decided that she is rather more interested in other people.

I'd like to take someone who legitimately likes the idea of going.

I think we all just need to accept that when a new version of Windows comes along, they're going to change some stuff. The Metro lack-of-start menu is kind of a big deal, but having breadcrumbs and a Back button instead of an Up button really isn't.

At the end of the day, we're not going to do anything about it, because the problem is so large and requires us to work outside political boundaries and plan for the long term. It's not going to happen, and humanity is going to suffer for it.

I've known I need to find someone to take to the opera for about 10 weeks. Can't find anyone to take. A ticket to Lyric costs about half what my monthly rent does and now I don't even want to go.

I strongly suspect it's being overplayed in the way that all weather that impacts New York City is overplayed. I realize it doesn't take all that much to do damage in so densely populated an area, but New Yorkers are whiny little bitches about weather and I've known people who have slept through...

Why would anyone choose to get any amount of news from Fox?

To be clear, there ARE improvements. It boots and resumes much faster and I like the way it handles things like image previews. Metro is lame, but I never look at it or think about it, so it doesn't matter. It might be more useful in a while, after there's been more of a transition to Metro...