Wouldn't the Bluetooth topology limit the number of switches you could have? If you had eight to fourteen switches, you'd need two additional Bluetooth units to bridge between the IOS device as the master and the switches as slaves, with the switches split up into two piconets. And the iOS app would have to support…

The problem with that is that it's a one-shot event — they power up their computer, it plays the sound that shuts off the extension cord... and then they can't play the sound to turn it back on again, so their computer stays off. At which point any even marginally rational person would start by checking their power…

That one still ties up one of the two sockets for the USB connectors. From this article at Gizmag, Newer Technology's 'Power2U' is a wallplate that has both regular sockets and a pair of fully-powered USB sockets — fully UL-listed, and available here for $28 ($23 with an instant rebate when buying two or more).

Most people don't understand that, while a big, powerful 4x4 will give you additional traction and control in bad conditions, that additional traction and control is masking how close you are to putting yourself in a situation your driving skills aren't adequate to handle.

Beer was healthy... in comparison to the water; 'small beer', with a very low alcohol content, was widely drunk instead of water — not only was the alcohol toxic to most water-born pathogens, but the brewing process involved boiling the water, which also killed bacteria. Laborers might consume ten pints of small beer…

It used to be fairly common, when a carrier made a long-term rebasing deployment and was carrying dependents as well as its crew, for the crew to get one or two junker cars and make a big production for the dependents out of launching them over the bow with the forward catapults.

A friend of mine told me a story from when he was a kid about going up into the mountains east of San Diego after his father had been transferred there from Pennsylvania. They get up into the mountains, and hit a CHP checkpoint, where the officer tells my friend's father "I'm sorry, sir, but you're going to have to…

why does it need to close? whats wrong with suspending it and letting the OS close it if it needs to be?

It's a retro story — they should embrace that retro feel.

That's for the 1080p resolution, in order to put the viewer far enough from the screen so that the pixels are perceptually small enough to merge. With the resolution doubled, the viewing distance should be about 1/sqrt(2) times that, or 7 feet.

You mean 'slideshow viewing in 4k' unless you shell out an equally-large amount of money for a PC with the CPU and graphics rendering power to be able to render and display a 4k image at an acceptable frame rate.

It seems to me that what it does is extend tablets down into the console-gaming market, not up into the PC-gaming market. And I would imagine that a device that had the two controller handles, but which had an adjustable frame to enclose various sizes of tablet, and a mini-USB connector to plug into the tablet, would…

Is this woman afraid of using articles??

Well, of course it shoots twice; he reloaded. If you pay attention, when you're looking past his shoulder after he fires (about 3:55), you can see him sticking another RPG round onto the launcher for another shot, which proves to be a wise move on his part.

From my copy of Dunninger's Encyclopedia of Magic describing how to create a 'candle' that could be lit and was completely edible, a slivered almond could be stuck into the center stem piece and lit; that will produce enough heat to dry out the stem to take over as a wick once the almond burns down. (if you're…

Checking with my roommate, that was J. Kriss White in costume as Bleys. The group pored over the Amber books to make sure that they had the appropriate personal colors and to establish any identifying costume style for each character where possible, including drawing Trumps for each character; Roger Zelazny was…

No, if my recollection holds, that's one of a group from San Diego who did the family of the House of Amber from Roger Zelazny's 'Chronicles of Amber' series, taking the personal colors and aspects of the characters from the stories to create an appropriate costume. I don't remember the name of the person in the…

At most masquerades at SF and fantasy conventions, 'recreation' costumes are judged separately from 'original' costumes, although they're all presented in one pass, rather than separately.

Also have it delete any email that does not explicitly have your email address in the "To:" header line, as well as any message to "undisclosed-recipients" (although that filter should go after filters that move email from mailing lists you want to get mail from into their own folders.

There are a number of different failures that could have caused that, but the video doesn't start early enough to give us an idea which one happened. The nose gear door could have frozen or otherwise failed to open. The nose gear could have frozen in the 'up' position (if the plane just lost hydraulics, the gear can…