Oh good grief. Chevrolet and then Mr Vengeance designed this car, and the film makers basically lifted it straight. They are making a ton of money on both the film and the toys they sell, and that's the very-only-est reason for the existence of the film and the toys, money. My kid has a bumble bee and Hasbro is…

I like how this post is about concentrating on a limited number of things, titles itself that it is about two things . . . and then goes on to make four main points. :)

MakeMKV and Handbrake work in synergy very well. My routine is to use MakeMKV on discs to get a 1:1 copy onto my hdd. This is so much better than just playing the disc, especially to not have to sit through the idiotic menus, preview, molasses slow loading, awful unresponsive playback software and all the other…

This is kind of info-taining in a MacGyver fantasy world kind of way. But as to it actually ever really being something that would help you . . . you need two batteries, some welding rod, jumper cables, shade 10 or darker goggles . . . I mean, the odds of you actually being in that situation and having that particular…

It seems like a lot more work to split the wood up into little pellets.

My new Sony Duo 11 has a function that prevents the battery from discharging past 20% charge level. (You only get to use the first 80% so you lose that run time.) There's nothing I can see about not letting it get fully charged. Really draining lithium batteries to near zero is bad. But I generally leave all my…

I have been through this many times and used to do it this way. I just don't have the patience anymore to hammer out all the ringshank nails. Also, most pallets are pretty beat up and the wood is not much good, I just want the firewood. So now I pretty much just use a battery powered circular saw to cut them up into…

It's irrelevant what the password is, how hard it is, or anything. There are ways hackers have of getting into the company's records and simply uncovering the account names and pw's. There are way hackers get the company to reset the pw and send the new pw to the hacker. Key loggers that simply record what is typed…

Absolutely. There is no other machine in this price range that has a true Wacom stylus with pressure sensitivity and can run full x86 art/photo/graphics programs. And these programs with that stylus make any similar programs on iOS or Android look, literally, like finger painting.

You can slap a pancake on and have something that fits in your coat pocket. Then you can slap an e mount prime or zoom on and have something half the size and weight of a DSLR. Then you can slap an old prime like my Nikkor 24 f/2 and have fun with it without too much crop factor . . .

Even a Microsoft enthusiast (with a brain) would have to cast a jaundiced eye at the RT version. Losing x86 apps and gaining what? I though battery life was the whole point of ARM - but this only gets 7.5 hrs on the tablet? Screw that. Different, okay, but generally there might be some advantage to being different.…

No kidding. I looked a couple of times on Youtube for a good intro to the Win 8 start screen and only found a lot of cruft. Surely MS would simply produce a 2-3 minute video showing someone with a touch screen picking up W8 and navigating around, just the basics, here's how the live tile work, here is the Charms bar…

Now imagine this machine with a touchscreen and a Wacom stylus that converts into a tablet. That's pretty much what we're looking at with some of the new Win 8 convertibles. And it cures the touchpad blues and a couple of your other gripes

Agreed about the APS-C. A full-frame sensor size no longer has much if any advantage. Back in the old days, film had grain and noise, and bigger film was better. These days, when you can get a 24mp APS-C sensor with incredible high ISO - not a problem. The only real advantage today to a larger sensor is a bit more…

It never would have happened with a print book. Maybe a typo here or there. You would never ever see anything on this level in print.

I hear you, but it's actually kind of funny. What's your cell phone bill? It's got to be bare minimum $40 or more likely like $60-70 a month. I probably spend less than $5 a month average on Google Play store stuff. Lots of times zero. Honestly? It kind of sucks to see so much money going to the freaking wireless…

No bugs of any kind, all year round? Now that would be nice. Here in LA area, much of the year we would not need screens. Except for summer. It's not bad, but at various times, mosquitoes, flies, bees, wasps, june bugs.

Has anyone mentioned this? Fans. We haven't had too many mosquitoes this summer, but the flies have been bad. Except when it's breezy . . . Flies and mosquitoes are deterred by air that's moving fast enough. And that's the theory behind those air blasters over the doorways of shops and restaurants. A couple ceiling…

We have a whole house fan, and ceiling fans. And a couple of portable fans. And we survive Pasadena CA summers pretty well. It's really only 90 plus for maybe 6 weeks here. A whole house fan is good but needs help. We generally need fans in at least two windows or doors blowing cool air in at night.

Plastic? I would think that the inner container would be more reliably water proof and just as effective if it were a plastic or metal box. Also being thin walled there would be a bit more room for food. Also a box shape rather than a bowl would be more convenient.