I'm pretty sure that's a + sign, as in a positive charge, and not a big, ominous X...

The tablet stand really reminds me of a wood laptop stand I crafted for myself back when I had a convertible tablet.

What are you talking about? The V-22's wing doesn't tilt at all in relation to the fuselage. Only the engine/rotor assemblies at the tips of the wing rotate. Other than that, there's an extreme "flaps down" position, but that's it. The only time the wing moves is during Blade Fold Wing Stow.

If you want to be extra-technical, the preferred term is "tandem rotor," indicating not only that there are multiple rotors, but they aligned longitudinally on the aircraft,

Your refusal is what's crazy; the point is legitimate. And even if people didn't have a reason to be frustrated with search, specifically, there's still plenty of reason to be frustrated with the rest of the Start Screen, even with all the backtracking Microsoft has done. Personally, I couldn't stand to use Windows 8…

It most definitely is relevant if we're discussing why people had such a violently negative reaction to Windows 8's Start Screen from the moment of its introduction.

Your point was that the Start Screen was easier to search. My point was that this statement is objectively wrong; so wrong, in fact, that Microsoft had…

Except that, at least in the initial Windows 8 release, this wasn't quite the case. In Windows 7, if you were in the Start Menu and started typing, it would show you results for programs, but also Control Panel items, folders, and files. In Windows 8...they were separate. So you'd end up clicking/tapping around to…

Seems pretty obvious that it's meant to be kilometers per hour, but I don't believe I've ever seen it written "kmph" before...it alsways either been "km/h" or "kph" or something similar.

Another dead giveaway, using the image in the article as an example, is unprofessional behavior. Even if a company like FedEx were to address you simply as "customer," you can bet they'd never, ever include three exclamation points following it.

And if you ever run across a legitimate business that does format emails…

Funny that this article is posted today. Just earlier, on my drive home from work, there were two multi-car accidents that had things horrifically backed up, and I pretty quickly decided to just go ahead, put my car in park, and shut off the engine. It was a bit warm out, but it seemed the most efficient thing to do.

I remember when I was younger, going to the Boeing company picnic and seeing one of these on display. I don't have any idea of its technical merits, but even as a kid I recall thinking it was one goofy-looking plane.

Seriously, how is this even a problem? I've had glasses for the last ~25 years of my life, and every one of them (save for a specialty pair of prescription safety glasses) have had hinges that have a bit of a springy snap to them, so that nothing ever goes flopping and flailing about.

Peter Cullen? Not bad, but not my first choice. It might be a bit cliché, but I'd go with Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones first.

Though I wasn't present for this, I've worked in that lab (go FML!), and I can assure you that this was shot by an intern, and primarily would have been done mainly for fun.

Dr. Mehta actually has a big interest in sports, and they have run tests on various items, including gigantic scaled-up models of golf balls.

They…

YYYY-MM-DD is also nice for naming files/folders when you want to be able to easily put them in order by date (since you can't always rely on date created/modified).

Outside of that, though, I'm more partial to the 03-JUN-2014 format for dates, as it removes any ambiguity (especially when using them anywhere you might…

The question might be a joke, but the serious answer is that this forms an electromagnetic field, which isn't the same as saying it's a giant magnet itself. It's a coil of wire, and even in the worst case, unrealistic scenario, you could always just turn off the power, at which point it just becomes another big hunk…

I'm just amused by how the spinning rotors so perfectly match the framerate of the video in spots, making them appear to just wiggle about in place, rather than spinning furiously.

I had a Nomad MuVo, and I still have my Zen Touch around here somewhere. But that got supplanted by the second generation iPod Nano. Even if that had lower audio quality, it was hard to find anything more portable-friendly, but still feature-filled and easy to use. ("Feature-filled" as in having a color, backlit…

The claims about reconstructing audio reminds me a lot of Creative Labs' claims about X-Fi back in the day (which did have a perceptible difference, but whether or not it did what they claim is another matter).

I suppose it would depend on how many blades you intended to make, but it'd have to number far into the thousands, most likely. Where I work, we have some large tooling that's 30 years old and has been used to make over 10,000 parts (that's more impressive than it sounds; we're not talking your typical…