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  1. Re:Whew! on Google Considers Taking Beta Tag Off Gmail · · Score: 1

    Not until Google can get Gmail and it's other app's to work with my Starband satellite connection. Cannot even log in. Can log in with Wild Blue, Hughes Net and Tachyon but not Starband. As near as we can figure it has something to do with the latency. Even though the other satellite providers also have some latency. We have been ignored by both Googles and Starbands so called tech support. Many many non responses from both companies, both email and phone attempts.

  2. my music on Internet Killed the Satellite Radio Star · · Score: 1

    There are many new radios that now have usb and or card ports built in, let alone inputs for your ipods. With either I can listen to what I want when I want.

  3. Re:The "Paper Mill" part is incidental on Google Buys Finnish Paper Mill · · Score: 2, Funny

    And us yoopers could do just about anyting eh.

  4. Re:The "Paper Mill" part is incidental on Google Buys Finnish Paper Mill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is also a paper mill in Niagara Wi. that is also being closed by Stora Enso that has its own hydro electric dam. Google could do the same thing here. Google could put a small town back to work. And make a profit selling the extra electricity too. Something different, a data center that pays for itself.

  5. Re:Makes you wonder on US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much per KWH does this windmill produced electricity cost, without subsidies? Then compare it to your electric bill.

  6. Re:A real problem? on Difficult Times For SF Magazines · · Score: 1

    As had been said many times before, "writing is easy, the getting it published is the hard part". Or I could be snarky and say, "writing is easy, good writing is hard". But even many good writers have stacks of rejection slips hidden away. Usually from before they finally got published.

  7. Re:Critical on Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? · · Score: 1

    The nuclear plants produce power 24/7. Solar panels produce power when the sun is shining. Any non steady producer of power must include the storage and transfer of power on demand.

  8. Re:Personal anecdote - it works! on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    Almost all building/construction contractor use punch lists. Because they work. A yellow Post-it note taped up so it stays around is used as a check list quite often. We all use check lists, this is just doing it professionally. This will soon be standard, once a lawyer in a malpractice suit asks to see the check list and the hospitals lawyer cannot provide one.

  9. Re:nothing teaches physics... on Gadgets For a Budding Geek? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then get them started in reloading. Lots more science.

  10. Re:do what CIHost does on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 1

    What is needed is, what is the outside air temp.. If it is at or below what you want for your server to run, then all that you need is a big air mover. Grainger or McMaster Carr. have just about any type of air mover that you would need. If you are on the cheap, go to a furnace repair shop and buy a used furnace blower, lots of cfm for a little work. Remember the best way is to have two air movers working at one time, one bowing in and one sucking it out. If you go this way, have the sucking out air mover be a little larger than the the one blowing in. Filter the incoming air.

  11. Re:Great, but on Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right now before being made into gasoline the price of light sweet crude is going for right around $2.14 a gallon. This process cooks almost anything into organic fuel, not just expensive corn. Switch grass, trees, garbage, sewage solids and any number of organic waste products. If this can come out of the pump for equal to or less than the price of gas it is a win/win product.

  12. Re:Ohh yeah, he's qualified... on Super Soaker Inventor Hopes to Double Solar Efficiency · · Score: 1

    If this works, I could see almost every larger producer of waste heat producing electricity. Both to sell and to use. The break even point for alternative electric production is getting ever closer. Somewhat off topic; I think that there will be some waste heat with that plasma arc garbage burner that is being built in southern Florida.

  13. Re:That's right Jack on Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the fluoride!

  14. Re:Lifetime cost on Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Also for peak load there could be a battery bank on standby. How often has your main breaker (as you state 200a) tripped? Unless someone is digging around in the breaker box with a big screwdriver a home will almost never get near 50 amps of draw. A couple of these for places that need 24/7 power, like hospitals, airports, server farms, etc.

  15. Re:I don't think on USAF Launch Supersonic Bomb Firing Technology · · Score: 1

    Last that I read was that the jdam has a range of near 60 miles from it's release point. Remember part of the jdam kit is a set of wings that pop out after dropping. The wings might have to be changed for supersonic travel.

  16. Re:This is very handy on USAF Launch Supersonic Bomb Firing Technology · · Score: 1

    How much has the range of the dropped bombs increased? With this much extra speed and altitude one could drop from a protected airspace and still hit well inside a defended zone.

  17. quibble on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    That should read national parks not state parks. What about travel on federal highways?

  18. Re:The real story on Using Google Earth to See Destruction · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was the coal burned in power plants to power Googles server farms?

  19. Re:I'll let you into a secret about Britain on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    About the M-16. Unless you have a longer barrel, shorter barrel, longer stock, shorter stock, adjustable stock, flash hider, bayonet, suppressor or any other bit or piece attached. Another nice but useless bit of info.

  20. Re:I know you need to be paid for your time, but.. on Plumber, Electrician... Digitician? · · Score: 1

    There is a flat rate book that mechanics use, it wil give you a good est. of what the charge will/should be.

  21. Re:You drink waste water anyway.. on Don't Eat The White Snow Either · · Score: 1

    If you live downstream of a city where they treat and release the sewage? Guess what your drinking. A simple rule of thumb is that human usage for a resort is 100 gallons per person per day.