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  1. Re:Not Proof New Cells Are Overpriced on Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage · · Score: 1

    If you can build it, you can fix it.

  2. Re:The solar cells _were_ mass produced. on Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you've got the time and the know how, why not do it? This could be done in a few weekends at most.

  3. Re:Dutch Man Buys Rejects Saves Money? on Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage · · Score: 1

    So we should just throw these fairly good panels away? This guy is putting those factory cast offs to good use. He should be praised!

  4. Re:Are these _new_ panels? on Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who said they weren't brand new? It looks like factory rejects to me.

  5. Listen to Scotty on ISS Computer Failure · · Score: 1

    Engineers are working on the theory (among others) that the failure may have been triggered by new solar panels installed earlier in Atlantis's mission.
    You'd better listen to Scotty when he says, "I canna give her any more power cap'n."

  6. Re:2 girls for every boy on Boys with Longer Ring Fingers are Better at Math · · Score: 2, Funny
  7. Re:Spinning Weights on NASA Probe Validates Einstein Within 1% · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gyroscopes resist changes in angular momentum, not linear momentum. So it only has increased rotational intertia. If you were measuring the box's mass by trying to spin it rather than push it, then yes, it would appear more massive. But if you just pushed it in a straight line, then it would behave the same as if your gyroscopes were still.

    On your second question, electrons and subatomic particles don't really spin, they have orbitals. Electron orbitals are the probability distribution of an electron in a atom or molecule. Take a look: http://www.orbitals.com/orb/ So it's not really like a gyroscope. But that is an interesting question, i.e. Do electron orbits effect the angular momentum of atoms? How would you measure that experimentally? Does Newtonian Physics operate on that level?

  8. Miscanthus on Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We should stop using corn to make biofuel and instead use Miscanthus.

    Miscanthus is a genus of about 15 species of perennial grasses. Miscanthus giganteus has been trialed as a biofuel in Europe since the early 1980s. It can grow to heights of more than 3.5m in one growth season. Its dry weight annual yield can reach 25t/ha (10t/acre). The rapid growth, low mineral content and high biomass yield of Miscanthus make it a favorite choice as a biofuel. After harvest, it can be burned to produce heat and power turbines. The resulting CO2 emissions are equal to the amount of CO2 that the plant used up from the atmosphere during its growing phase, and thus the process is greenhouse gas-neutral.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscanthus_giganteus
    Educate yourself http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570288889 128950913

  9. Re:They'll just fire you on Demystifying Salary Information · · Score: 1

    To make it worse, the HR people saying this have no idea about anything technical, they don't understand anything that we do so


    Instead of bitching, why not offer to sit on interview panels? That would be taking initiative and you could weed out people that don't have the skills (or even just rub you the wrong way). Instead of overstretching yourself to compensate for the dumb new hire, let them fail and make them look bad. HR is grateful that I sit on interview panels and I appreciate that they understand the level of knowledge required to analyze the technical merits of a candidate. And I get to pick who I work with!
  10. pupils on Interview With "Switcher Girl" Ellen Feiss · · Score: 1

    boy those pupils look big in the pic from bed and breakfast. did they do that on purpose? she can never live it down!

  11. naked guy on Memories of a Media Card · · Score: 1

    For an embedded project I bought a bunch of memory cards off ebay. It appeared they had been erased but I was curious what I would find. I found the excellent software photorec, and found various pictures. On one card I found someone's vacation photos, including one of him naked. No naked pictures of his wife, however.

  12. Re:Obvious first steps..? on Google CEO — Take Your Data and Run · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Instead of emailed documents for Google Docs, enable WebDAV. Apple's dot mac service does this. Apple calls it iDisk. Microsoft calls it web folders.

  13. Re:Stable version even w/o WinFS ? on WinFS' Demise Not a Bang Or a Whimper · · Score: 2, Funny

    At some point, the combinatorily explosion even might give the code sentinence...

    Well, Windows certainly has a mind of it's own at times, especially when infected with malware! Not quite sentient though... heh

  14. Re:Interesting tech on Bloodless Surgery · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are scalpels with friken lasers attached to their heads. Or hot scalpels, cauterizing as they cut.

  15. Re:Less challenges on the moon? on US Plans Lunar Motel · · Score: 1

    On Mars there is weather and dust storms. This wears down sharp dust, so that problem would not be found on Mars. But yeah, it would get everywhere!

  16. Re:What are we supposed to use? on Card Processing Software May Store CC Info · · Score: 1

    That's what makes it more fun! BSE will drive the price lower. On a BSE-related news announcement you wait for the price to drop, then you buy Buy BUY! Eventually the price will creep back up. Then you walk to your favorite store, be it GAP, Starfucks, whatever. Drop that honkin slab of meat on their counter and barter away. :)

  17. Re:iTunes Trojan Horse on iTunes Use Surges Past QuickTime, RealPlayer · · Score: 1

    iTunes on Windows installs two services, called ipodservice.exe and iTunesHelper.exe. On a slow machine or a machine with hardware problems these could definitly cause it to be a slow booter.

  18. Re:Quick Fix, Instant-Oatmeal One-Hour photo answe on 'No Quick Fix' From Nuclear Power · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about opressive acts of Mother Nature? :D

  19. Re:the theory on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    They should come up with a way for doctors to perscribe placebos but the patient not really know it. Kind of too bad when the pharmacy is separate from the doctor's office. It didn't use to be that way.

  20. Re:Uphill Battle on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 1

    Ah but with a company offering a service, they often talk about how many nines they can offer. Five nines is a common target. Here, let me help.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=99.999

  21. Re:my advice on Dealing with Corporate FUD About Linux? · · Score: 1

    Well M$ would be the most likely, because they have the most revenue, cash on hand, and an entrenched monopoly. But how long that will actually last, I have no clue.

  22. Re:Uphill Battle on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 1

    It's called uptime dumbass. 100% uptime is up all of the time. 99.997% is just a little less than that. uptime is the unit.

  23. Re:IPv6 Design Mistakes on IPv6 Readiness Report · · Score: 1

    Apparently this problem has been solved (already thought about?). IPv4 address space is a part of IPv6. 2002::/16

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4#Routing_Between_ 6to4_and_Native_IPv6

    Really, to get some of the good features of IPv6 you have to move ahead.

  24. HP on Fibre Channel Storage? · · Score: 1

    take a look at what HP/Compaq has to offer. We have a few arrays from them, both SATA and SCSI. Not all Fiber channel though.

  25. Re:* is the killer linux app on Interview with Mark Spencer of Asterisk · · Score: 1

    you mean emergency and resulting power outage (much more devastating).