@Mr.Affrox: I would imagine the parts take a lot of wear. Quartz on the other hand is used in electronic watches (and other things that need a timer, like RC radios of my youth where you could swap the crystal to change the frequency used).

VOTE: Astrid

@Spindlefox: Should be alright, I find it a little slow on my hero unfortunately. ADW was even worse though. I'd stick to the Sense launcher, as you don't lose the nice HTC widgets.. Still, it's nice to try something different :-)

Hmm, so how is this superior to microwave energy transfer? Cheaper perhaps...?

@Spindlefox: No need, go to Settings > Applications > Manage applications (wait for a long time) and find the current launcher in the list. Then under "Launch by default" press "Clear defaults". This is at least valid for android 2.1 and 1.5

@chefgon: Well, I've never held one, if you say it's alright to use then I'll certainly accept that. From a specs standpoint it seems very slow. Do they still do the screen inversion thing for every page update or is that only the grayscale as well?

hmm, from e-inks website, this is still a little off-putting:

About nuking disks, I recently read a very interesting paper on recovering data from harddrives and the "need" to overwrite files with multiple patterned and random passes.. This turned out in their tests to be largely unnecessary, and that a single overwrite pass would reduce the chance of recovering any significant…

Nano light might be that LED coating that makes them brighter.

I do the shopping list thing with the Notes app on my hero in checkbox mode (add a # before each line)

@dragon:ONE: That's neat, I remember way back when these dual-sim battery packs alternated for each time you powered up the phone.

@MasAer: They say taupe is very soothing.

@Kaelri: The same thing struck me yesterday, great minds think alike and what not ;-)

@Taheca: The E2C's are three parts, one is the tube-like thing you attach the foam to, and the speaker lies flat on the covered end of it, with a little ridge around the outer rim where it mates to the other two parts.. I used my trusty leatherman knife to part the sides, trying not to cut the little pins (took a bit…

@noamjamski: Hear hear! (ehe) Shure has had some rather nasty problems with cable wear though, not sure if they've fixed it by now...

@Ismail Samee: Not quite, if the shutter speed is fast enough, the second curtain will have started to close before the first curtain has finished opening, creating a small window moving across the frame in a terribly short time.

@jeffeb3: apropos(1), provided you've makewhatis(8)'d (this usually is done for you). If these are not available, some systems implement man -k

What? nobody linked this one?-)

I'm continually stunned by the creativity of you people, this is amazing stuff guys.

@medopal: It might not help all that much, as I recall from when I tested rendering some stuff on a friend's Origin, the bundled mental ray only supports four cpus, which was a bit of a drag on a 20-30 cpu machine. Perhaps if you use maya's renderer, but who wants to do that?-)