I feel like people are always getting my hopes up by saying "melts great". Daiya is actually pretty reasonable, but it does not melt in any way resembling real cheese.

I have one that I have been using for years with some Eneloops. Works great, and if I need AAs in an emergency, I can just pull them out.

If you need a small (economical) car that will drive ok and carry way more than a small car should, this is the one.

Sudo has lots of great uses. It only temporarily elevates privileges, which is not a bad idea with any number of users. It also allows you root access while leaving root passwordless. This is nice, because you eliminate one very common source of attack. This is a 100% guarantee that no one will brute force your root…

The first time I ordered from Monoprice I needed an HDMI cable and decided that durability would probably be better on one of their more expensive cables (which was still way cheaper than other offerings). The cable I received was insanely thick with a braided nylon casing. It is very hard to bend, but it sure has…

Yep, failed power steering is terrible. You can definitely drive a car that way, but if you are not expecting it to suddenly change, there is a pretty could chance you are not going to fair well.

I just bought an 11" Macbook Air refurb and I could not be happier. The thing is maxed out (i7, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB HDD), seems good as new, and I could not find any other 11" ultrabook coming in at Apple's refurb price for those specs.

Under what law? It would be illegal to rip media and then sell it or even give it away, but the recommended action of ripping it and throwing it in the recycling is legal as far as I know.

Haha, I do that one sometimes too. I think having a broad range of equivalencies to draw on helps to paint a solid picture of what financial numbers really are.

I am very bad at remembering birthdays, but very good at math. Your advice about working hours is probably the best thing: I try to weigh most things based on how many hours they cost, and conversely try to weigh many time costs in how much money I might otherwise make for those hours. After a while, you form a…

Those cars are basically only for giving out tickets and telling people to move along. The NYPD has a wide variety of cars for its wide variety of roles.

The past three years, I have gone Black Friday shopping. I wake up whenever I wake up, take a look at Amazon and Newegg, order anything that looks worth it, and go back to sleep :p

Oddly, the most used appliance in my kitchen is the electric kettle. Tea, coffee (french press or drip), oatmeal, ramen. You can do so much stuff with boiling water! I always thought an electric kettle was silly, but then I received a free used one, and I use it all the time.

There seems to be a problem with the direct link, but if you search for it in the App Store, it is there.

The removal of GameCube bits I understand, but if we believe that link they removed Internet features! That sounds pretty useless... I play a good number of downloaded games on my Wii.

You are absolutely correct. Unless your neighbors are amateur radio operators, however, they are unlikely to figure it out and report you. That is assuming you do not decide to talk through it, I suppose, which would be a good way to get caught...

So... Its a plain wire basket they recommend you sip-tie to a rack? Wald makes some great stuff, but this seems to be the least exciting. I would highly recommend you check out the "kitty litter pannier" if you want to see an awesome way to use a bike rack.

I dunno. Good electric bikes are in the 2-3k range. Assuming quality construction, it might be about right. Also, it uses 2 motors where a bike uses only one (and who knows if they needed to up the battery capacity from the electric bike standards). I would love it is necessary items were always cheap, but a few…

I had to pull one out and think about it. I think I agree with you, which is funny because I barely ever use a lighter. In fact, I only fill my Zippo when I am going on a long camping trip.

To my knowledge, there are only two versions. Windows 8 and Windows 8 Professional. Professional includes file system encryption, Hyper-V (the Windows virtualization product), and some network tools (remote access, etc...) I think there is also Enterprise, but that is not available on store shelves.