Recent content by teh_chem

I'm not grasping the situation; do you want to generate a WiFi hotspot in your room, and be able to access it from outside your room?

If reasonably priced, and not gimped content, I'd consider it. CONSIDER it...

Is it just me, or do the bezels on the larger iphones look huge in comparison to other large phones already out now?

Despite the apple paradigm and hate, Apple has a real knack for taking useful features on that are already present in a lot of other phones, perhaps not widely known or even utilized, wrapping it in iOS, and making the user experience such that those various gain vocal popularity. That being...

Nope, no client specific bandwidth limiting. The router is compatible with ddwrt firmware (installed fine on mine), but i don't recall if ddwrt has that either (would think it did, but can't confirm).

I think that a lot of people who say they use FB to 'keep in touch' with old high school friends, or old acquaintances, really mean, "it's a nice, passive way for me to see what they post." Because let's face it, you more than likely aren't having meaningful interactions with most folks you're...

I can't count how many times I went somewhere and wished I had an even heavier ice chest to lug around.

Well, one thing is for certain, I do not like the work culture in the US. Not that I want to live anywhere else, I just really hate the work culture.

I picked up the SP3 i5 on pre-order, and bought one of the well-reviewed USB 3.0 'docking stations' (really, should be called a port replicator). The annoying thing with all of these video-over-usb solutions is that it takes, sometimes, a significant amount of CPU to compress/decompress the...

The specs don't matter. It's a relatively expensive, niche-oriented device on a single carrier. How well could you honestly expect it to do? Honestly, if Amazon expected people to flock to this device, they really didn't do their market research.

This is a good idea, tin-foil-hat-wearers can suck it. Read the description of the bill. The killswitch is a authorized user, user-end feature that only the authorized user can decide to use, or otherwise opt-out of. This isn't some government conspiracy to control your device or shut it...

Thanks for writing all of this--I found it very interesting and a good explanation. One thing I'm still unclear of, perhaps you mentioned it and I missed it, is that some of the recent negotiation rumors are that Amazon has been asking for a take of 50% of purchase price books if Hachette is...

I might agree with you until it's considered that the Smartcar--neither luxurious nor performance--also tops out at $20k before taxes, fees, etc. The market segment is broken (in the US anyway). Everywhere else, you pay less for less car. I'm just saying that it's discouraging to get people...

The one thing that gets to me about the small Fiats, Smartcars, etc., is the relatively phenomenal amount of money for such a small amount of car. And $15k for a USED one! And base $19.5 for a new one! That's as much as I paid for my boring Camry new. Don't get me wrong--I'm not trying to...

I just noticed--I don't see the first tile highlighted (also mail in my case), but if I'm in tiles just after logging in to my computer, if I hit enter, it opens mail. So the tile is selected. Just not showing as selected/highlighted under 'normal' circumstances, perhaps? If I'm in tiles, and...