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The yearly maximum is something like $1500 (and it's not paid up front) so it's not nearly as generous as it looks.

Even byuu doesn't emulate this particular quirk, in general he doesn't seem to be pushing the bounds of accuracy for any system but the SNES.

Amazon operates the delivery center. Most drivers are subcontracted through a couple different messenger companies and use rented Ford Transits, and the randos in their own cars ta…

There are limits to this, as with everything. No one is going to make their emulator 3x slower to properly emulate one glitchy line in Super Mario Bros. that shows up on 1/3 of pow…

Kohl's seems to be doing pretty well with that system. They print a high price on the tags, then discount it by rack, and mail out 30% off coupons with short expiration dates to so…

With TVs and computer parts it becomes impossible to read the reviews because they are merged with every other variation of that product from the same brand, with wildly different …

This works for AMZN as long as customers don't get fed up with the results of this lack of attention to category detail: - reviews for different items aggregated together making th…

The other two can be owned by the Educational Media Foundation, and all the programming can be sent in by satellite now that broadcasters no longer have to have a local presence.

It was the second channel on a multiplex owned by a church, normally it's showing educational programs for kids.

White desktop PC cases seem to be popular again, and with no more 5.25" drive bays you don't have to worry about color matching your optical drive any more. For other devices, ther…

One of the over-the-air TV channels in Los Angeles seems to be run off a YouTube playlist, which I know because it was stuck displaying the video unavailable message for most of la…

20 cents per item just to pick it out of a bin and pack it in a box has to be a significant chunk out of the profit Amazon can make from those smaller low value items that people o…

If you're writing an article, is it really that hard to do a little research? Most of this piece is just "I didn't even bother to look up a teardown photo, but here's how I assume …

The Echo won't play you "Alexa, Buy This Song" [1] but that's probably for the best. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbigjSBk1qY

Reminds me of what happened in the 1980s with Japanese buyouts of American TV manufacturers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c I don't know if history offers any good sol…

Aren't most of those names Homestar Runner characters?

If using composite video and a PAL TV, you can also blend colors by using alternating horizontal stripes because PAL TVs use a delay line to cancel the chroma information with the …

It's only the best quality arcade CRTs that are going to become unavailable. The US still has warehouses full of worthless CRT televisions that are too expensive to recycle because…

They've done at least one revision of most of them, usually with significant cosmetic differences and less features. There was the top loading NES, the SNES Mini, the GameCube was …

In my experience, eBay is usually cheaper than Amazon these days, especially if the buyer doesn't have Prime. Also because many eBay sellers still don't charge sales tax.

The other drawback to emojis was that they used to completely crash Chrome's password manager, but I just checked again and it seems it's been fixed.

Chemical Engineering. It seems that the only growing industry in the Inland Empire right now is warehouses.

There are plenty of people with degrees working in those warehouses because it's the only thing they can get due to their circumstances and it pays a little better than retail. (I …

If you plug in a Wii Classic Controller, you can use the home button on it to get back to the menu without having to get up.

Well I guess I finally know who this was made for: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/31/4380132/acer-aspire-r7-rev...