It's wax because it continues to act like wax, but we are really splitting hairs here. Steel is still metal, even though it's a metal alloy and its defining characteristic is having nonmetallic carbon mixed in. In this case what you get is some longish (20 or so) hydrocarbon chains with some really long (hundreds)…

I'll bet a lot of the dolphin gifts are alive as well. They don't chew.

Electricity is cheaper than jet fuel. This is a money thing. But in a lot of places where this could see use there's a significant share of the grid running on renewables. For flights originating in, say, Iceland, importing jet fuel is pricey, but electricity is cheap and clean thanks to geothermal. Germany is 20%…

That's really the point, isn't it. We buy new consoles to play new games. Xbox 360 isn't just Xbox in HD, it's Xbox in HD with the new Halo on it. Same with Wii U, ultimately it's the place where we're going to get our new Nintendo games, and we've always liked Nintendo games, so we get one.

This is only useful in the application where a user needs to get a link from a web site into a mobile device, and the killer app there was the qr codes in the android market. The cross platform syncing that exists now has basically made that obsolete. There was also an experimental secret gmail login screen that…

You need a laptop with Bluetooth and a phone that supports Bluetooth tethering. Most windows laptops don't come with on board Bluetooth, you'll need a dongle, and at that point you should probably just pack a USB cable. On the phone side, I know devices with stock Android offer all three tether types, but carrier…

I think it was supposed to be a shonen battle series disguised as a harem series to trick the mangaka's editors, or that's the persistent rumor.

All well and good, but it's also intended to disseminate that knowledge to everyone, on the principle that a less ignorant public is good for everybody. It's contrary to that purpose if every time a layperson or student trying to better him/herself looks up an article on a complex subject they run into a wall of…

Isn't the Mosquito a light bomber? Granted some of the examples above are variants, but I suspect that almost every airplane ever used in war did some recon work. I remember hearing about Shorty Longbottom and doing recon flights in a pink Spitfire.

If Aquaman is under the bus, that means the bus has fallen into the sea! Quickly, Aquaman, those special needs children can't swim!

It's not an upcoming issue, it came out two weeks ago. January 2013 cover date comes out in mid-November 2012. Not sure why. Action Comics issue 14, it's available in the Comixology app on Android (that's where I bought it.)

I would think any old base would do, is limestone just the easiest to get? Also, doesn't limestone reacting with acid just put CO2 in the air? Or is that just baking soda?

That's about 50 cents a citizen. But of course income tax isn't flatly distributed, so it's more like a couple cents for us and ten bucks each for some millionaires.

Agree. For a console that's supposed to be the ultimate in user-friendly, having a lot of features that need an online update to work is an oversight. What the Wii did with its firmware updates is pack them in with certain first-party games in addition to them being online, so even people that didn't keep their units…

That's the tradeoff. Lose the only way you have to communicate with the people you know in exchange for temporary shelter? Cell phones are enormously cheap if you get a prepaid dumbphone. Won't pay for much to give it up, and getting off the streets is a lot harder if potential employers can't reach you.

Ongoing problem in language. On phone cameras I tend to think of "front" as the direction I am facing, not the face of the device. But it's also hard to get people to artificially standardize on a different set of words. "Outside" and "inside" are pretty unambiguous. So are "user camera" and "world camera", or…

"Employment" in this context doesn't just mean having a job, it means meeting your needs in exchange for what you do. A man foraging for his food in the jungle doesn't technically have a job, but is "employed" under this definition. If we reach a point where our economy, ecosystem society can offer every person a good…

No, but the displaced workers will need something to do, and if sales remains lucrative the competition for your job will get a lot tighter. If your commissions are based on the price of the software then your income will decline as the competitiveness of the market increases and the prices drop. So yes, you will be…

I'd say it's also a way to keep a lot of the first-gen Wii gamers who were young kids at launch and are now 13-17. Nintendo's trying to cast a broad net. They're not trying to reach back for existing hardcores, they're trying to get their existing fanbase to try deeper experiences, and I think that at least for the…