The heat issue isn't about the heat they generate. They draw more power, which means more heat off the power supply.

The heat issue isn't about the heat they generate. They draw more power, which means more heat off the power supply.

You'll laugh, but I'd like to see it something like Farming Simulator. The ability to use big construction equipment to pile all that lovely dirt up into your own ramps and tracks, then drive a dirtbike over it? Itd be like mechanized tonka truck minecraft.

It won't save anyone's life in an emergency. It might improve the overall outcomes for people and the health of the population, but a person who gets creamed by a bus was always going to get medical care. What this will stop is that person being permanently rendered poor by the cost of that care. It will also…

Not an expert myself, but I'd assume at those speeds one direction is as good as another from a flight stability standpoint. The more critical issues are pilot visibility and not hitting the tail rotor on anything/one, both of which favor a "point the nose at the tall parts of the ship" orientation.

Buy a Volt and live in Chicago. Done.

There's conversion loss any time you go from one form of energy to another. Converting from gas chemical energy to motion to electricity to battery chemical energy back to electricity back to motion is a lot of conversions. The losses only make sense if it saves a lot of weight, and therefore the energy the car…

This is rated per unit mass. Diesel is denser, so a gallon or liter of diesel is more massive and contains more energy.

Does it seem to anyone else that Nintendo kind of dropped the ball on this game by not including the fishing rod? Of all the games to not have it, it's the one with the ocean-based setting. I can better understand why they left out underwater swimming, the Zora tunic would totally break Wind Waker's world.

It's similar…

There's a race quest in the game that involves pouring magic water with a short expiration date on a bunch of dying trees on islands all over the map. The bottle of forest water used to have a 20 minute countdown that was hidden from the player, now it has a 30-minute countdown displayed over the item icon. I beat it…

It'll probably have Big Picture Mode's controller-based web browser built in. Considering this thing is supposed to take you out of the keyboard space I can't see them including a text editor, but if it's a linux distro it should have the ability to run one.

Good on Sony for future-proofing. How ancient we talking here? Did it have a CD player or just a tape deck? They could have included the feature to upsell Discman players they knew were coming.

I think Detroit is still the single busiest land border crossing in the world (okay, it's a bridge and a tunnel, but those carry land vehicles.) A lot of goods coming to Canada are made in the US, but even stuff made in China and elsewhere enters Canada from the ports at LA and Tijuana for a host of reasons…

I have a Powermate 400 from Black and Decker, it's a battery in a box that does the job of the jump starter, the tire inflator, and provides a nice heavy-based stable worklight (but I can't recommend it as the only light source for your kit).

The drawbacks: the 12V charging option isn't plug and forget; the automatic,…

I think every normal sedan I've seen calls for not using the little donut spare on a front wheel. The differential as an explanation is as good as any, but I'd also assume it's because of the weight bias to the front and the fact that a steerable axle with two different tires would be a hassle to hold straight at any…

Buy a printer on a famous artist's birthday, burn through the starter cartridge in one go.

Apparently it can use USB-only 2.5 inch external drives if you use a Y-cable that draws power from both USB ports, for some reason Nintendo won't elaborate on. I have never been able to figure out where to get one of those, and the price per gig is lower for the 3.5 inch drives, so I got a 1 TB Seagate that needs a…

Cars are getting really safe. The test works as intended, the government engineers a test that simulates the kind of forces experienced in all but the most extreme road accidents and makes the requirements public, the private companies making the cars spend the money to engineer the cars to withstand the test and end…

Do it. You won't be disappointed.

Now here the value calculation is interesting, because Wii Remotes have a few options available for alternative battery packs. For a while I used a set of Energizer custom battery packs that charged off an induction pad. It worked fine when the remotes were left on the pad, they'd always start a session with full…

If you personally assign value to keeping the contents of alkalines out of the landfill, as I do, it's up to you to put a dollar value on it. That's a variable, not part of the objective calculation being done here. The point here is ultimately you don't have to care to benefit, it makes financial sense. There's a lot…