@CoHPhasor: Burned CDs, DVDs and BluRays have a very limited shelf life too. You might be able to make them last for 20 years, but that's a big gamble. The most I'd trust them for is 10 years, so to be safe you'd need to reburn them every 5 years or so.

@Mark 2000: Google has been moving away from Flash long before the iPad was announced. They had a working HTML5 YouTube demo in January.

@Markarian: I'm not sure that counterfeiting $1 bills is going to make you a lot of money...

While this sucks, it's really not a "waste" of taxpayer's money in the usual sense.

@minibeardeath: Then can you just pretend that the term "renewable energy" deals with sources that will not become depleted due to human involvement?

@Tsylord: Yeah, mine too. Except I'm not sure how the new attachment is going to look. All I know is that the construction is pretty ugly.

@stokan: I don't own a 360, so someone might correct me, but I'm pretty sure you don't need a TV tuner for that.

@edtv82: On dual 22" monitors.

@infmom: One of my friends has 5 middle names. I don't even know how that fits on her passport.

@tj: I'm kinda wondering if I should have taken theoretical physics (instead of computer engineering, coincidentally).

Is 3m really that much to ask for? For almost all decent speaker setups, you don't sit within 3 metres anyways.

@Graviton1066: Can't you just get the used copies for reading? Even if they're in poor condition, it seems like your main problem is that you don't want to destroy your current copies.

@contrabassist: Search local listings (kijiji, craigslist, pawn shops, whatever) for cheap, used projectors.

@czadd: I've had a Brother HL-2140 (B&W) printer for about 2 years now. I bought it on sale for less than $60 (CAD).

@dethklokso: Blu-Ray 2: Electric Bluegaloo

@themightyspitz: Is it bad that I often read Woot descriptions, despite not living in the US and therefore unable to actually purchase anything?

@donabin: Personally, I like to code it from scratch. It allows for the most flexibility, and you'll always get what you want. It's a huge pain to try and tweak templates until they match what you wanted to begin with. My website is currently very basic, but there's a link on my user page if you want to take a…

@Platypus Man: If you can, swap out the old hard drive (so you don't have to back it up) and pop in a new one to do a clean install of Windows 7.

@Armbie: If it's based on another library, you need to read their license to see if it restricts how you can license yours. If it doesn't, then the license you choose is up to whatever conditions you want to make.

@dragonskin: Computer engineering (at least at my university) seems to be about 50% software, 50% hardware. But the hardware goes right down to the fundamentals of the electrical components. Which sounds like it's more than you want.