McDonalds burgers aren't any more everlasting than home-made burgers.

And meanwhile Sony Ericsson officially do bootloader unlocking using a special site, and even have instructions on compiling and installing your own kernel... Really all manufacturers should be doing that.

You only need 300ppi for something you're holding in your hand less than a meter away from your face. When you're sitting in a sofa 3 meters away, the resolution required drops dramatically. Try putting your iPhone down in front of your TV and sitting in the sofa - you can probably not even read the text.

As someone who *doesn't* live in Japan, I don't recognise that Japan markets otaku culture abroad at all. All the travel adverts for Japan I see here show stuff like Kinkaku-ji, Miyajima, Mt Fuji, Sakura, etc. Looking at the JAL website, their upcoming events to see in Japan include "Nijo castle light-up", but I don't…

Yep. I set my birthday to the wrong date just to see how many people fall for it. I'm tempted to write a script that logs in every day and changes my birthday to the day's date, so that it's *always* my birthday...

More ribbons!

Exactly, and harddrives do, which is why I want to see a benchmark showing how slow harddrives are in real use and not just theoretical use.

Yeah, exactly. There's a company that sells a mounting bracket to make a second drive fit in the optical bay ("OptiBay" IIRC)

Only files under 20 MB

I want to see some SSD real-life benchmarks done on a worn-in, fragmented drive. Yeah a harddisk is blazing when it's newly formatted and has a clean OS on it, but after a year, when files are all over the place it's much slower, and this is where the instant seek speeds of SSDs really show their value.

I replaced my laptops harddrive with an SSD about a year and a half ago, and it's currently reporting via SMART that it has 80% left of its erases. That means it'll last about another 6 years, and I'll have replaced it by then anyway. I don't think I ever had a harddisk last 6 years (either reliability-wise [I've had…

I did think, I couldn't parse your sentence into terms I knew so I tried googling permutations ("domestic class", "class narrative") before posting my reply, and they didn't come up with intelligible results, and I still don't understand it. Please enlighten me.

Where would there be no customers? IKEA exists and is successful in 38 countries, I don't think they've missed any major cultures.

The IKEAs I've been to (Sweden, Tokyo, Singapore) have all had the restaurant at the halfway point. They do have customer service though, although usually understaffed.

The what?

Yet, rolling a die with the lives of others is something societies do every single day - funding (or not funding) health care systems, going to war (or not going to war), the list goes on. There's more to consider than only the risks and rights of individuals.

Well written.

Water isn't affected by radiation, so there's no harm to the water outside the barge. The reason the cooling water is radioactive is because it has Iodine and Cesium isotope particles in it from being in contact with the fuel rods. Also, water blocks beta and gamma radiation to a similar degree as lead, so the…

This isn't fuel rods, it's cooling water, at absolute worst it has a half-life of 30 years

You can also see that only one direction of the highway needed to be rebuilt, which would obviously make it faster