Not as far as you may think. A couple months ago Gizmodo posted a story about animal (mouse) testing starting on electrodes that can be grown into a living brain to provide full connectivity between the brain and external computing devices like the neural net from Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels.

That’s actually not that bad. High-end laptops can be more expensive than that.

Hmm...there was a guy I was at college with back in 2004 who described a VR setup quite similar to this while we were just talking about various ‘future technology’. I wonder if he works at IBM now?

They might be trying to avoid saying the kids name on a video that’s being posted on YouTube. I’ve seen multiple YouTubers that have ‘public’ nicknames for their children so they don’t end up putting their kids’ personal info out there. I’m guessing that ‘baby’ is still too young to have a public nickname picked out.

The Galaxy Nexus still had one year less support than either the N5 or N4.

At 31 I’m just a bit too young to really know this song. It’s in my head as one of the tracks that was in that 3 AM 80's music mix infomercial (my dad often left the tv on when he went to sleep). It always reminds me of the middle of the night and sleepiness because of that.

I’m with you there. Our system, as broken as it is, still requires at least two working political parties to function properly. If the Republican party collapses without another party to replace it before 2018 I foresee an interesting 2018 mid-term election that may even end up with a few Libertarians (the largest…

There are more people running for president right now than Trump and Clinton. You do know that right?

As he said in the video, while he’s been avoiding covering Trump at all, he almost had to cover Trump last night due to how high he’s polling. If he wins a majority of the states in tomorrow’s “Super Tuesday” primary elections, he’s quite likely to end up as the Republican candidate in the general election. That would…

Most people who dislike Trump don’t tend to hang out with people who like him (and vice-versa) so, people who like him only tend to hear from others who do and people who hate him also only hear more of the same.

I know you don’t anymore but, to anyone else who works as a delivery driver, if your employer doesn’t pay for your gas, you may want to check with an accountant and see if you can deduct your mileage as an expense on your taxes. If you drive for work, your mileage should be a deductible expense.

I generally pay using a card over the phone (or on the Internet) and include the tip there rather than having to come up with cash.

Since you’ve seen the animé, it probably won’t suprise you that most of the endings simply involve not undoing the various changes that were created by sending text messages back in time. Those endings generally hang on a single choice split so, as long as you save before making them, you can go back after seeing it…

It’s possible to play Steins;Gate without missing any endings and without backtracking too far from break points after seeing the earlier endings. Unfortunately, I can’t say more without risking spoiling too much.

I wonder if that was actually paid product placement (they did a mini-series with the S;G characters for IBM last year so it’s not beyond belief) or if it was just a creative decision.

They tested the water at the exit point of the treatment facility. It actually is clean there. The lead leached in from the pipes because Flint River water is more corrosive (but not illegally so) than pre-treated water from Detroit. So everyone in the city gets lead-filled water but, the water being tested out of the…

It wouldn’t even save that much since the switch to the Flint River was only going to be for about 27 months. There’s a pipeline being built from Lake Huron to this area right now and most of the communities in the area are switching to it this summer.

Getting that thing you’re fixated on, whether it’s a car or a house or a laptop or whatever it might be, will bring you a burst of joy, but that burst is fleeting.

The problem isn’t the account itself, it’s the fact that, after years of teaching less computer literate friends and family members to only use Windows Update to update their computers and to ignore other programs telling you that Windows is out of date (I still know people who fall for that type of malware), I then…

Yeah, on Windows 8 you can get the 8.1 ‘security update’ and be supported until 2023 but, you won’t get any more updates until you install the 8.1 update.