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Many "recreational" athletes push themselves harder than olympic competitors. Their bottleneck is talent and they attempt to overcome this with drive and determination often agains…

This hits home several ways. My wife runs an environmental company specializing in water concerns in Atlanta. "In Atlanta, which spends more on water than any other state, there wa…

Moonlight can do it. YMMV http://moonlight-stream.com/

The Shield Android TV has just had a price reduction to 179. After trying Chromeboxes, Chromecasts, and vanilla PC's, it's the closest to streaming nirvana - when it works. The Shi…

Interesting discussion here: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/is_it_illegal_to_do...

This is similar to what I have found in poker. The tougher the game, the more steps that the opponents take. What cards do I have (1S), what does my opponent have (2S), what does m…

Ubiquity's EdgeMax is a reliable, stable, and inexpensive router that I have started to roll out all customers. EdgeOS is a fork and port of Vyatta 6.3 (think Junos) and is under c…

Do you have data to support this claim? It would certainly depend on location, but BLS average salary data seems to point otherwise: Plumbers $49K: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/construct…

My family with two teenagers has recently discovered that board games (specifically Dominion) are the most effective and enjoyable means of communication. We have spent over $250 o…

A new category of laws needs to be enumerated: "Laws that only apply to Congress". This is the reverse of the "Laws that do not apply to Congress" [0] [0] Whistleblower Protections…

What happens when a nation's revolutionary document becomes counterrevolutionary? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by…

The implication (point?) of the research is that older companies (regardless of size) create fewer jobs relative to younger companies. I would disagree with the statement that redu…

Do you have any evidence to support this? The data that I can find point to a more subtle conclusion that does not fit this oft-repeated statement (myth?). "We find that the relati…

Perhaps we should scrap it all and go back (forward?) to coax. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/whats-the-matter-with...

Agreed that it's a positive that existing cables can be used, but a dongle could always be included and thereby have the best of both. Besides, many people already use port savers …

This is a really nice feature for whole-house setups. Different feeds can have slightly different syncs. This is especially true with a matrix operation that uses multiple screens …

The failure to redesign the connection form factor is a major disappointment. Racking or repositioning a snug receiver with multiple HDMI inputs and outputs will almost guarantee t…

A frustration that I don't hear mention too often is the mess that is MS software licensing. From my perspective, there is often confusion over what is covered and what it will cos…

Another nice feature would be virtual "dual monitors" since the presentation would be in a Chrome window and notes or a calculator could be on the desktop. Perhaps two Chrome insta…

Presentation casting is also a potential game changer for Chromecast. I work in an academic environment and we are forever struggling with accommodating presentation interfaces - H…

The biggest upgrade for me is "[that] battery life offers 9 hours of HD playbook and 10 hours of web browsing." I can only manage about 4 hours for my 2012 N7 and it's my biggest c…

Imagine if this were a Russian or Chinese story of this magnitude - isn't this how its press would report the story? Wouldn't we be surprised if the press did not focus on the circ…

Forgot tag. I agree that this double speak from US cloud tech companies and the government is putting US cloud vendors into peril. But seriously, the US cloud might be like the dol…

Hold on, they never give direct access to the passwords.

Did Spitzer or Petraeus have conversations with foreign participants?