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It needs to be extended to the abuse of apostrophe's.

Both the G.Skill and the Samsung drives are waaay more than the price of the Crucial drive. It's an apples to oranges comparison anyway, because the G.Skill drive is a PCIe form factor and the Samsung drives are M.2 PCIe. The 950 pro maxes out at a quarter of the MX300's capacity. Sure, if...

I'd almost welcome this at my humble abode. With Cable One 1Tb/s service, we have a 500GB/month cap. If you go over for any three months out of six, instead of charging you for an extra bucket of bandwidth, they just automatically move you up to the next tier of service. Since 1Tb/s and 500 GB...

What about the used textbook racket? That's where the money is for the college bookstore. Buy 'em back at 25% of cover price, sell 'em for 15% off retail.

Dude got burned out by work and did a little too much extrapolating.

This sounds like a loser of a case for a couple of reasons. First, there's no promise of priority access. Second, there's no "premium" being paid - the cost of the phone and AppleCare is the same regardless of whether you purchase outright or do the upgrade thing. And third, the contract says...

While in the US Navy, I lived in Navy housing, shopped at a Navy grocery store and a Navy department store and rode a Navy bus to my Navy job. For vacation, I flew standby on a Navy jet to a Navy resort in Hawaii. I wore Navy clothes. Navy.

Bah, it's nothing but mirrors!

That seems in line with what I made as an intern between my junior and senior year, in 2001. I earned 75% of the entry level pay for an electrical engineer in southwest Idaho, which was about $50,000 a year.

As an engineer, I'm pretty doggone concerned about making money. On the other hand, that's not really what the article was about.

The last sentence of the story made me wonder what's in the water in Chicago.

We have no idea what the cost difference is between a 1366 panel and 1080p one, but when you're making thousands of PCs, even a $10 difference in the BOM (Bill of Materials) cost adds up. You think a $10 difference in the BOM adds up? Move that decimal point a couple of places. At the "value"...

My wife is the curator of a museum. Archival storage of digital material is a real concern of hers for several reasons. The first is, obviously, the physical longevity of the medium. The museum buys archival CD-Rs that are supposed to last a hundred years. The second, though, is more...

Only if you won. And could collect.

It's still got 28 cents to go until it hits zero...

The tax stamp is the least of your expenses.

And send somebody out to set up the multimedia system. Seriously, the folks that get these screeners for review are barely competent enough to use a DVD player.

25 years ago when we had to destroy 5.25" full height 32MB SCSI drives (ha, ha, ha!), we'd zero them several times, then open 'em up and run the platters through Captain Crunch, the industrial shredder/grinder. A pile of chips, each about the size of a grain of rice, came out the other end...

Lately, it seems that the theater I go to has been cranking up the volume to combat talkers. It's not quite loud enough to combat screaming children and it can't dim a cell phone screen. On the negative side, no movie is worth tinnitus.

It was a good movie. Not as good as 4 and 5, but better than the rest. It felt like a mashup of 4 and 5 with a little 2 and 3 thrown in - almost like somebody gave JJ Abrams a checklist of high points to hit. Episodes 4 and 5 weren't extraordinary moves because they were great cinema. They...

The Ewoks and Jar-Jar Binks felt, to me, like some old guy figuring that he knew just what young kids would like to see, without actually know what young kids would like to see.

Oh dear, Internet lawyerin' strikes again.

Is that a patent application or a press release?

Fab capacity, maybe. I don't think that Sandisk's IP is compatible with the direction that Micron is going, but if Micron can get their hands on Sandisk's fabs on the cheap, the way that they did with Elpida, that might be a reason. I think that Western Digital would be a better overall fit...

In other news, get off my lawn! My wife is 41 and I'm pretty sure that she'd have some kind of horrible withdrawals if she didn't have constant access to text messaging. I curse the day that unlimited text messaging got cheap.

Lexar?

Because I'm old, Sean Connery is my favorite Bond. I'd go for Idris Elba as a new take on him.

Dell is going to pay dearly for that ~$50 billion of debt. With their current bond rating, I wouldn't be surprised if they end up with 6.5%-7% interest payments on the financing. That's going to eat up a good $3 million of their cash flow every year. EMC's cash flow has been on the order of...

Back in the late '80s and early '90s, I saw ships full of goats and sheep in the Persian Gulf. The things looked like cruise ships - they were freakin' huge! And it seemed like the entire gulf was littered with dead sheep and/or goats. The restaurants in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi prepared some...

At my job (which is not in the entertainment industry), we're not supposed to have any kind of portable media, anything that can take a picture and we're not supposed to have food at our desks. We're subject to search upon entry or exit from the buildings. All Internet activity is logged. FTP...

I'm not as amazed by what they find as by what they don't find.

I know at least two women who gave up World of Warcraft because of the incessant harassment. I gave it up because it was a never ending time sink, but I did get kind of tired of the jackholes there.

Hahaha, my nudely bits would cause sales of eye bleach to skyrocket!

I guess that if you get to use your own definition for malware, the potential candidates can be as many or few as you'd like.

On my ship, the equipment to move ammo cartridges was the Mk1, Mod0 human.

The survey seems reasonable to me. I click on stories that are substantially different than my point of view on social, fiscal and political subjects. I have friends on Facebook and in real life whose views and ideologies are quite a bit different than my own. It's OK - they're friends, which...

Veering back on topic, the amount of space they're talking about is roughly a square mile. In the source article, there is some confusion (at least to me) about whether that is enclose space or the land space that the facility is sited on. Also, what's overlooked in The Verge's breathless...

Sacrificial anode?

Why this instead of a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian?

To be fair, members of Congress don't know much about most of the legislation that is proposed. It's not a new thing.