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A lot of appliances don't even come with a cord. You can reuse the cord when replacing an existing appliance.

This won't reduce waste unless chargers are sold separately.

In 2012 I attended an A/B blind test for speaker cables... https://sites.google.com/site/audiosocietyofminnesota/Home/a...

It was interesting that there was a preference for the higher priced cables. It is too bad that I did not save my votes to see if my poorly trained ears matched what the others preferred. It is hard to say if there is justifiable benefit in spending big money for cables but I would say it is worth spending a little bit more than the cost of lamp cord based on this test.

With the digital cables to me it seems like a high data rate, low error rate and decent buffering system is all that is necessary for good sound. Given the data rates required for audio (even SACD is in the low MiB/s range) a cheap USB cable should do the trick.

Very nice set of technical books. I own at least 60% (some are about 20 years old).

My 2014 goal is 10K pages read not including technical or maths. This year I will keep accurate records and keep a burn down chart to make sure I reach my goal. Last year I had quickly fallen behind and keep poor records (a read stack pushed around by a young child.)

They can play the 6th movement from Holst's "The Planets" at their opening ceremony

Uranus, the Magician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets#Structure

Hey drone! Beer me that wine!

Not being an Apple guy this is the first I've heard of SWEET16. Does anyone know how widely this was used?

Its some of what raverbashing has said. We are doing some lower level Windows stuff with it and share code with other groups. We tried VC Express about 5 or more years ago but found that some stuff did not work properly and haven't revisited. Engineering time wins out over $300-$400 cost / dev every 4 or 5 years.

I was an Aztec C user. That was the second compiler I ever purchased (after Abacus C for the C64). Damn... I'm still buying compilers today thanks to Microsoft.

I think that a pension is a promise to the employee that should be held.

I also think it was silly to offer pensions in the first place since it is not possible to predict the future. People working for cities and other organizations offering pensions should be very concerned by recent events.

Is this for real? I wonder if this would work?

Not sure who would want this... the pricing seems high but still cheaper than a real girlfriend from what I remember.

<EVIL> Just think, they could sell drone idle time and other captured video to the NSA and other interested parties to help defray delivery cost.

Can't sell ads... sell surveillance! </EVIL>

I think CAH understands their customer quite well. Others applying this direct approach could be perceived as dicks.

Four kids under 6... I envy you man. My wife and I are working toward that but it will be a few years. Hang in there. You're in my prayers.

Exactly. With small children in the house this is a good thing. I use them in torch style lamps to save energy and not break when tipped over.

With incandescent bulbs I was also concerned with electric shock from broken bulb, cuts and burns... though I wonder if the LED bulb would be a fire hazard if it were to rest on something.

I don't think this is news. Over half the countries listed here are below replacement...

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

(Sorry for the double reply but I just stumbled across this yesterday)

I wonder how countries such as China will adapt to an aging population?

http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/china-p...

It looks like they will be in a difficult position 30-40 years out once the proportion of elderly grows.