@FearMage: Yes, but then if you don't want seats to recline allt he way, really your beef should be with the airline or the seat-maker. If the seat is specifically designed to recline to a certain point, I (as a paying customer with the same rights as you) will darn-well use all of that travel, because it is my…

Key thing is to get as many quotes from realtors and valuers as possible. Too many people just go with a single realtor, and often their price is wrong.

@ez10: Absolutely. It's not like a laptop is small or forgettable (like a cellphone). If you're stupid enough to leave it in a car or school locker, then you deserve to have it stolen.

@Joe: 100% correct.

@dlinkwit27:

@joe51: Given than pedestrians are not allowed on interstate freeways, this is highly unlikely to kill any.

If you're sad enough to be spending significant amounts of time in your dorm-room, to the extent that its appearance really matters, then you have problems larger that can be solved by the purchase of a lava lamp. Seriously get out there, get wasted, bring someone back there, and nobody will care if the sex is good.

@Mxx: OK, point taken, #1 not a good idea due to data protection by the company. I guess it depends on the company. In academia (where I work), scientific data is all made freely available as part of the job, so the notion that someone can control it is anathema. The data that is floating around most labs on USB…

I'm surprised another couple of options were not mentioned...

@danhughes: Probably depends on your BIOS. Some will let you boot from USB, others absolutely not (laptops usually in the latter category). On some desktops it can often be as simple as going into the BIOS at setup and simply changing the settings to allow boot from USB. Be careful when messing with anything in the…

@muzicman82: Agreed. The new dvr-ms format which Windows Media Center uses in Win7 takes up a LOT of space (and you cannot change the compression/quality like you could in previous versions of WMC). Anything older than a month on our HTPC goes to the backup drive.

Beautifully executed, but feels a bit too industrial IMHO.

Nice, but the video is sped up. There's also a company that makes bags entirely out of zips (here [www.uzipit.co.uk] who might have some issues if he starts selling these for profit.

@RotenApple: Yes but the post only mentions the "soundcheck" feature in iTunes, which is used during importing. If you don't want to re-import, or you have some music that you don't have the original source or never did (ahem!) then you can manually adjust the playback level of each individual track in its…

@SolidSquid: I was referring to this graph, the marginal tax rate (not the average)... [en.wikipedia.org]

@Gardenia: Wikipedia. Average is 52%. Even a modest 50K Euro salary will get you in a 45% tax bracket.

@crazypills77: Yeah. So glad I still have my grandfathered unlimited data plan!

I don't buy it. "Greater productivity" by the Germans is not referenced anywhere in the original Salon article. By the most common measures (e.g. per capita GDP [en.wikipedia.org] the US is way more productive per capita than Germany. Then when you look at productivity per hour worked ([en.wikipedia.org] it is…

Nothing to see here, move on.

As someone who reads a lot of these things, the #1 thing I look for is that someone actually gives enough of a damn to go look at the website and find something interesting about what we do, and how they can fit into it. Any letter that contains a generic "I'm very interested in your work", without going into any…