My kindle lasts for weeks, or the equivalent for 2000+ pages in a normal book. Are you keeping the wireless off? And turn it off when not using it, don't leave the screensaver on. For inexplicable reasons, that thing drains the battery.

I wonder whether it's truly random, or if a witty comment can win the day.

Maybe my odds are better now that it's 3 AM Eastern. Arg.

This is all about the process. They can take a 4 core chip with a broken core and still sell it.

And we've all heard about the trouble AMD has had clocking their newest chips above 2.0 Ghz. If they can disable the 'slowest' core and clock the other 3 at 2.5 Ghz, that's a good tradeoff. It will buy them some time until they can improve their fab process.

Speaker FTW. Currently wondering whether spending 30 seconds of time on this thing is worth it, given the odds.

I hope enabling TivoToGo enables playing content in the other direction as well. One of the things I use my Tivo Series 2 for the most is to stream DivX files from my PC to the television using TivoDotNet or another software. Easy to setup and it can handle handle fileformat or codec I've tried.

Why is the drive so expensive? I just got a 500 gig external for 125!

>>other notable patterns showed that failure rates are indeed definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age

Okay, someone tip us off. Who knows where Google is spending the most money (brands or models)?

The basic gist of this Dwave thing:

1) If this experiment had been done at a University and they had published how exactly everything worked, it would indeed have been a pretty big leap in quantum computing. But right now, their computer is a black box. Nobody outside the company can say for sure that this their system really works the way they say it does, or if it is really a quantum computer at all.

2) It's a private company so they probably won't want to publish their secrets for awhile. That means the only way to really verify this thing is if they manage to scale up their system to handle bigger problems. At some point they would be able to prove it's a quantum computer just by solving certain problems faster than any conventional computer around could.

3) From a theoretical standpoint, they've taken an unconventional approach to quantum computing. It might just work, but nobody is sure right now. Once again, it's hard to say given that so little is known about the actual details of their setup.

I'm sick of phones that don't let users install their own software. I would love a real smartphone.