Don’t forget that many genes used in GMO are crossing the flora-fauna barrier for product bulking results. Do you really want BSE (Mad Cow Disease) because a cow gene was used to make your bread higher-protein without glutin? GMO has NOT been tested long enough to be such a ‘trusted household idea’. You need 2-3…

If my Beefsteak Tomato cross-polinates with my Better Boy Tomato, that’s a natural hybrid. At no time did one of my pigs have a go at it with one of my tomatoes, and thus create a genetic potential for gastroentestinal cancer in 5-10 years because I ate the resulting offspring. This is GMO, and what pro-GMO never…

Two words - Ubuntu and LibreOffice. That’s how you ‘master’ Microsoft’s Office. Having been sick of their ‘virtual monopoly’ on overpriced software for decades, saying ‘I proudly bailed out’ of their products as a result of Windows 10 is an understatement. My last server gets a Linux re-do this weekend, as I finally…

So, I have to install a 3rd party program to stop Microsoft from taking the Win7 I own, from me; and forcing Win10 (which I would merely be a user), on me, only for Microsoft to work around this program in a week or so? The answer to Microsoft is Linux. Sadly, I now see them putting bash-shell into Win10, which makes…

It’s one thing to tell the blatant-truth to the DMV or Bank while you’re standing in their office, but when it comes to ‘online quackery’ (aka social websites), the wisest thing to do is to simply ‘create’ a pseudonym or nickname and use it, singularly, as your account. Contrary to myth, you are NOT under obligation…

Actually, for 1st-time car buyers, the better-way to look at this is to take the car purchase price (the actual amount down at time of purchase), and consider it separately from annual, or ‘maintenance’ costs. So, if the car cost $30k, but you only put $5k down to buy it, now your notes are $600 monthly, and your…

Just curious, but you do realize that Adobe has ‘Distiller’ that can run on your network as an automatic DOC(X) to PDF virtual-type print queue, right? I mean, for a one-off, just open the document in Word or LibreOffice Writer and export. If you have ‘a bunch of DOCX’s’ to convert, then the resident program Distiller…

I have to somewhat agree. Even though I really like the photo of what commenter ‘MeriCatExiled’ did with his in-wall mounted box (awesome image), I fear that a lot of these concepts are way overblown. With a micro-ATX case, I house 12-Tb of storage. I have one Netgear router and one printer (plus thsuperfluous…

All three are also FREE, versus paying for a font (which is beyond insane, unless you own the font and are wanting a paycheck for your ‘artwork’).

LibreOffice’s ‘Candara’ is a great sans serif font, as well as Carlito and Calibri. All three are better ‘ink savers’ than Arial, and present-better when typing anything with a ‘sans serif’ look, anyhow.

I bought a ChromeBit for my wife for Christmas, and have to say, she absolutely loves it. I compared the specs between the Intel and Google chips, but the perks (100GB online storage, integration flawlessly with Google Drive, and more) were just far better than Intel’s offering for $85. I mean, to touch this on Intel,…

Actually, a lot of others are questioning why we need to do this useless task, when they have installed Chrome inside of Windows, but why install Chrome at all? I mean, go to drive.google.com, then work there. Want the apps? Then download the ‘desktop apps’ and run them. This is not an issue, this is superfluous…

The much larger question has nothing to do with ancestry. The first time I saw Ancestry.com’s TV commercial, I instantly saw it for what it was. They are building a data archive of all people’s DNA, just like they have their word and data histories. The scary part of this whole thing, considering that Ancestry is…

at 17, I left a bad home with $100 and a bag of clothes. 20-years later, I was a Director of Engineering for a large corporation. School loans and long hours, along with terrible diet were common. There’s a LOT you didn’t mention that could have helped that you didn’t mention. Military service? Great way to start out…

Really hard to feel pity here, and paying will most-likely only exacerbate the problem. This comes from years of gamers screaming FTP (free-to-play), and crushing multi-million dollar game platforms for the sake of them playing their A.D.D. style of ‘beat it and move on in 12-hours’ type of play, expecting ‘addicts’…

It’s not the URL bar ‘predictions’ that bother me. It’s when I do a 2:00AM curiosity lookup for ‘bigfoot’ or ‘banana cream pie’, and the next day there seems to be 10-news-headlines showing up on my PROTOPAGE custom webpage that has various news reports on everything from ‘scientists now think bigfoot went extinct’ to…

Actual functioning process of world-class pancake generation:

Lot of misinformation in this article unfortunately. The Smithsonian did admit to exploration in the Grand Canyon in 1908-09, but as ‘Kincaid’ was a pseudonym, they had no record of it. There are no military posts with armed soldiers there, nor are FBI agents assigned to a mystical cave in the middle of nowhere. The…

I’ve been using Netflix since 2001, and remember the ‘only DVD’ days until now with harsh contempt. I remember the ‘we’re stopping DVD’ campaign, that drove many away and the rest of us onto a ‘similar based plan’ that was streaming with promises of ‘full catalog streaming by 2002', which never came (note to Netflix:…

Every time I get to the point I catch myself staring at the Netflix category listings for 45 minutes, and realize I haven’t seen something I want to watch, again, I remind myself how it’s time to drop Netflix for something like B-movie hero, REDBOX, or something else as time-destructive. Cold air and snow have a big…