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  1. Solar on your roof? on Solar Cell Achieves 40% Efficiency · · Score: 1

    i live in the part of the midwest that just suffered a 6 day power outage due to ice and snow. this after a 6 day outage in july due to high winds. i was talking to my 11 year old child about the fact that if we had solar on our roof, we'd have heat and light, instead of living in a relative's basement until the juice comes back on. i thought the practical window for that was 7 to 12 years down the road. yet here you are doing it in california. info? links? source of cheap / efficient cells?

  2. Re:The Rules on An Affordable Pro-Quality Sound Card? · · Score: 1

    and what do you use to digitize vinyl? any recommendations?

  3. Re:Question. on Astronomers Make Important Dark Matter Discovery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "And this is different from believing in God... how, exactly?" no one has mentioned Godel's Incompleteness Theorem yet... which taken to a logical conclusion would say that humans can't know about God. Apparently they're too stupid. Science starts from a position of ignorance. Religion starts from Omniscience. Or hubris

  4. autocad, linux and ms on Munich Struggling with Linux Transition? · · Score: 1

    i'd like to see your plan for mixing autocad and linux. i'll be working in a municipal environment where autocad is 75% of the workload. said municipal department is having a tremendous virus problem, as well as money shortages. have you had any success with autocad / vmware / wine? post a link?

  5. Re:The goods on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1
    from Joe Conason's column in Salon.com - http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/11/04/pr ivacy/
    The Pentagon couldn't have revealed Tripp's arrest record to Mayer for a very simple reason: Nobody there knew about it. What the Pentagon officials told Mayer was that they had no record of Tripp's arrest. This was the "invasion of privacy" underlying her subsequent lawsuit and the barrage of right-wing propaganda that pilloried Mayer and the Pentagon. So Tripp is being paid almost $600,000 because Pentagon spokesmen told the New Yorker that the Defense Department knew of no arrests in her background....
    Funny how Newsmax overlooked this. Notice also that Newsmax characterizes Amb. Joseph Wilson aas 'an avowed opponenet of the Bush Administration.' I seem to recall that Wilson contributed to Bush's 2000 campaign.