The rise of YA books is because its a fertile and profitable market with an active buying population (young adults). If anything its a sign that a thriving new group of readers is drawing in so much talent that the quality of the books is better than adult fare. Good authors are choosing to write YA because that's…

Reynolds' blogged that he ran into delays on Steel Breeze, specifically, he binned the first 100K words and started over from scratch because he didn't like the way it was going. Hopefully this won't push it beyond 2013 but I don't think there is a release date yet.

Drop it into a black hole.

An earth mass black hole would only provide the same gravity if you were an earth radius away from it. Closer in the gravity would increase greatly up until the event horizon.

Stock Android still requires coordination between Google, the device manufacturer and sometimes the carrier. This can cause lag in fixing bugs and enabling features and there is some precedent for the dev community getting there first, the Xoom being the best example. You can also extend the life of a device by…

Yeah, in a city full of gas stations be the one known for jacking up prices to cash in even more on a natural disaster because pumping gas at 100% capacity all day long just isn't profitable enough. Not a chance that being known as a money gouging scumbag would affect business once gas is easily available again since…

I was operating my parents' hifi in the 70s before I could read. Figured I'd let my daughter learn to run my setup (HTPC/Receiver/TV). So convenient on weekends when I want to sleep in and she can load up cartoons. Just have to rely on trust that my shows are off limits and the volume knob does not get turned up.

That's the point. The cost does come from the drives.

Its a two bay solution. The cost comes from using 4TB drives and the Thunderbolt premium. RAID 0/1, which this offers is not that expensive. The 4 bay NAS enclosures offer RAID 5 as well as enough CPU power to run a swiss army knife of network services.

Pick your budget and requirements. Then go to avsforum.com and use that as a resource for picking out equipment. If there is some flaw with a particular brand or model you will find out there. Marantz, Denon and Onkyo are all more or less competitive as far as electroncis go.

Never thought about the multiple alarms before. I got habituated to one alarm, always at the same time, enough so that I would wake up just before the alarm every morning so I could shut it off in order to not have to hear the buzzer. I hated the sound of that thing so much.

I've had a few conversations about the consequences of buying anything on the Xoom with my five year old. There has to be some level of trust developing as they grow up. I've bought her many comics on the comixology app and she knows those are the only ones she can read. Same thing with the kindle app and kids…

Who thought this wouldn't be the iPad 2 shrunk down to 7 inches? Its much more likely for Apple to keep the iPad 2 resolution and make the argument that the smaller screen size is all the improvement that's needed for "retina". Apple doesn't introduce new formats lightly and when it does it in a way that makes scaling…

On the last RC, networking consolidated the Work and Home profiles so the only remaining options were Home and Public. If the limited (Work) profile isn't in the RTM then its one less reason for me to get it.

Most receivers, even the cheap ones, use Audyssey, which is probably more capable than what this system offers. Audyssey has been out for years so for the flagship receiversthere have been several increasingly complex iterations of it offered while the older versions get shifted down to the cheap models.

I haven't really used Cloud Player other than as a way to download mp3's bought from Amazon easily. I like what Amazon is doing here in providing a matching service that one ups both Apple and Google. More platform support, matching and way more tracks than either iTunes of GMusic is hard to pass up.

Well, kids that age are remarkably fast learners. One or two negative experiences and they are guaranteed to pick up the basics of gun safety.

I've always used a second fine filter on a regular french press, mainly to be able to get a finer grind since I don't mind the sediment.

French press grind is usually supposed to be coarse as well, which may result in less caffeine extraction. I just use a second fine filter with my press and grind more finely.

There was an article yesterday on how straight white men were the easy difficulty setting on life, crossposted to Kotaku and Jezebel... Maybe someone at gawker wanted a commenter war.