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Tax dollars? Where in the world is the article that shows tax dollars going to fund any of this project? If anything fast tracking the tunnel would save tax dollars by circumventing the bureaucracy.

Nintendo platforms exist for one reason and one reason only. To provide a platform for Nintendo IPs: Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pikmin, etc.. The Switch is having a successful launch because their best IP was actually available at launch. I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing much third party support...

Reading the article it sounds like he probably suffered from impostor syndrome or something similar. The tech startup culture is full of people who believe in order to be taken seriously you have to devote your entire life to tech and as a consequence not only exaggerate their own...

I just switched to a mechanical keyboard and I have to say there is no way I'll go back. I don't think I can necessarily claim better accuracy or typing speed, but it just feels better. The best way to describe it is when I go into the office and type on the keyboards there or use a laptop all...

It's been made pretty clear that Zelda keeps pretty busy while Link is off doing Link things. I think a Legend of Zelda game that allows you to play both story lines would actually be pretty damn cool, beyond that, I don't see any reason why Link's gender should even be under discussion. Want to...

I've been running a DS411 for a few years now, just started taking full advantage of the 4 bays over the past year after I setup a Plex server. The thing is rock solid. Besides having to go in and update to new firmware versions the thing requires basically no attention. It just runs. Upgrading...

MATLAB! My first language too. Also, I'm not a huge fan of Java, but that language isn't all that bad. There are far worse things in the world, ahem, PHP. Anyhow, I think kids should get some sort of basic education in computing in general. Teaching them how to code is probably overkill...

There are lots of successful, highly compensated people who are treated well but still move on from their jobs for a variety of reasons. They're the type of people not content rest on their laurels and want to keep the world moving forward. The most successful people don't cash in on one great...

This. One of my websites get's 40% of its traffic from IE. Since it isn't a techy or artsy website, I'd say it is probably a relatively accurate reflection of the populace, even if it's a pretty low traffic site.

Prototypes are easy to make. Building a finished, reproducible, easy to use product that can be sold at a profit is hard. Anybody who thinks otherwise either has never built something desirable or is full of shit. I can prototype a website in a few days, I can put out a minimum viable product in...

Passwords simply need to change. Eight random characters does not a good password make. However four random works makes an excellent password. The other end of the equation is that service owners need to secure user information better. Unencrypted data that has been stole is unacceptable.

At this point Nintendo is nothing more than a niche player. There are exactly three reasons to buy Nintendo: Mario, Zelda and Metroid. This also happens to be the reason the WiiU flopped, those games still aren't available.

I'll see your CA or NY and raise you an IL. Our taxes aren't quite as high but the state taxes literally anything that moves (figuratively and literally).

So the excessive amount of reading I did as a child actually made me dumber because I didn't hear it. Officer Barbrady! I call shenanigans. The people I know with the best vocabulary are the ones who did or do the most reading. In the end how big a child's vocabulary becomes is a result of...

Their lack of a large phone is likely at least part of the reason their stock is slipping - as I suspect it has a measurable impact on sales and market share. What I don't understand is they had a ton of success introducing multiple form factors for the iPod - why would they not take the same...

I used Ubuntu for several months a couple years ago. I liked it a lot back then but couldn't get over the effort it took to get games to run in wine. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. I was looking to do some web development on Linux - downloaded and installed Ubuntu 12.10. I was horrified...

This is an order of magnitude easier and cheaper than having a return trip. It means you don't have to worry about how to take off from Mars only how to land. You can either decrease, by well more than half, the amount of fuel you need or increase the amount of supplies and structures you take...

And in 1989 1 MB of Ram was ~$1000. Context is everything. Electronic component prices have seen not only price decrease but price decreases in real dollars - not many business segments can say that. Sure that is part competition, but a lot of that is simply technology. Even with a monopoly...

Say what you will about the situation but Nvidia's financials and balance sheet are in a much, much better position than AMD's. Nvidia can afford to be choosy while AMD is not in that same situation. A small profit is not necessarily a good thing - remember our friend opportunity cost - those...

The good news, if you're a good developer your job will become increasingly more secure. The bad news, if you're a good developer more and more of your time will be spent cleaning up the mistakes of bad programmers. Most of the people I work with have CS degrees, I don't. Most of the people...

Honestly, I get irritated if I have more than 10-15 tabs open at one time, which does occasionally happen while I'm doing web development work or I'm in information consumption mode and I open up several tabs from links for later reference. They generally get closed pretty fast though. To top...

You may as well be allocating/de-allocating your own memory when you're using the JRE. Every application I've used that has been written in Java leaks like a sieve. The worst offender, SQL Developer, being developed by the same horrible company that develops Java these days. Java may have been a...

You have to go back further than 52 weeks to see it at 300. It fell very quickly. That said, its more likely that it feel because the stock was massively overvalued. Even after continuing to grow its revenue this year its P/E ratio is still over 100. The rate hikes were simply the excuse people...

The 'Reply All' button is not the culprit here. The real culprit is pointless email getting passed around the office. Removing the 'Reply All' button will simply shift inefficiencies to somewhere else by removing an effective and efficient method for communicating thoughts and concerns to a...

This will really end up being inconsequential. Apple won't raise their prices. It will just end up eating into the company's margins a little bit. 20% on the $18 part of your product that retails for $600+ with a 50% margin just really doesn't matter...

Nope, it'll look much more like this...

That's the kind of cop out of an argument that leads to the continuation of failed policies and the mis-allocation of tax dollars. 30+ years (spread across 8 administrations and a plethora of congresses) of data without being able to establish even a weak tread, regardless of other factors...

Please, tell us more about how federal education spending make our education system better... http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/09/does-spending-more-on-education-improve-academic-achievement Images from that article...

Hardly a surprise these data centers are going down...I suspect even some of the best prepared companies would have difficulty keeping data centers up in the midst of such a storm. The real question is why don't they have failover locations?

Meh. Pretty much what I would expect. Most large companies (see major game studios) treat their developers like cattle...flip side of that is most developers I've worked with aren't anything special even though most of them think they are. The best companies to work for in general are smaller...

Throw more DOTS!

The PS3 has terrible networking capabilities - wireless or wired. My PS3 is terrible at netflix - even with extreme 50 service. Every other device in my house handles it like a champ, even the Wii. The PS3 always suffers from quality drops and voice lag - issues that both present themselves with...

If EA doesn't want to put their games on sale at a lower price, that's fine, I don't care. But they have to offer something of value for which the consumer is willing to pay a premium. By offering sales Steam simply shows the true market price of the product. If this takes away from EA's sales...

Apple would be out of their minds to manufacture their products in the US. If Apple's costs go up, costs get passed to the consumer, consumer buys fewer products, Apple's revenues go down, Apple lays off a bunch of employees. This is the way the world works. A company's goal is to generate...

I do agree with you on the PAR 30, not sure it is something I'd want to put anywhere I'm going to see... However, I've got a brand new light fixture (5 bulbs) installed in my dining room along with a new dimmer switch, the bulbs dim great (nice and smooth from full brightness too extremely dim).

Feit Electric is the brand I've bought. Can't tell if the 60 watt equivalent is on amazon or not can't remember the lumens... I see mixed reviews on amazon, but I've had really good experience with then so far.

I have led bulbs in my home that cost between 20 and 30 dollars at lowes or menards...abs I think I found them for under 20 at amazon. They put off good quality light, are 60 watt equivalents and are dimmable. Can't remember the brand off the top of my head. Sure, they're expensive for a...

I pony up for Pandora One. I use it all the time and its well worth not having to put up with ads or time limits. Plus the higher bitrate on my PC is nice too. Wish they would push the higher bitrate to other devices too.

I built a HTPC for about $800, I splurged in a lot of areas. As pointed out in an earlier post, you could do it with COTS components for around 500 dollars. Taking advantage of economies of scale, that price could come down or stay the same and take advantage of higher powered components. If...

I will never write a mobile app unless its 1) a spare time project that I want to use for myself 2) app prices go up considerably 3) its a value added app for another application (such as a website or something) it is just not worth my time and effort. The biggest point in that article is...