I'm a little late to this discussion, but I wanted to correct a whole bunch of bullshit in the above post. The rail is being funded by a state excise tax, and that state excise tax is only on items sold on the island of Oahu.

On the other hand Mac OS is actually Unix, and Mac OS uses launchd for init. Launchd is the inspiration for systemd, and does a lot of the same things.

You can buy an LDK Game or RS-97 handheld for $60+. It's not raspberry pi based but rather MIPS based with Linux on it. It's the successor to the Dingoo A320 which I have. Can play up to PS1 games with some frameskipping.

The idea for systemd comes from Mac OS and their launchd. They have similar functionality and launchd precedes systemd by a few years.

Look up ibeacon. Apple actually made this first.

What kind of fake news are you pushing? Hillary won the popular vote in the Democratic primary.

Are you serious? The laws of thermodynamics apply everywhere. This should be obvious when discussing an article about heating buildings using electricity.

Do you understand the difference between information entropy and thermodynamic entropy? Unless the processor is somehow able to suspend the laws of thermodynamics, the energy is completely converted to heat.

Since you don't have the knowledge to know when you are out of your depth, I will help you along. The article (really more like a brochure) you cited only covers the p side (they call it "positive potential electrical charge") and doesn't cover the n side of the p-n junction.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/insi-nf.html This is a link where NOVA (the science guys) explain how solar cells work. Notice they mention boron and phosphorus. Phosphorus is typically deposited chemically, using CVD (chemical vapor disposition). I am not an expert in the field, but from what I have been told the phosphorus deposition is not clean.

Furthermore, your link doesn't seem to acknowledge that making a reasonably pure silicon wafer for the solar panels requires forming silicon crystals. Cheap methods for doing that involve some nasty processes.

Since the other guy isn't explaining how you are wrong, I will let you know that silicon transistors need both a p-type and n-type to work. The p-type is typically boron, and the n-type can be phosphorous or arsenic. The compound used to deposit the phosphorous (phosphine gas) is toxic. Arsenic is toxic.

It will be possible to enable NPAPI in Chrome for some time yet. The reason for disabling it by default is to push plugin vendors to port to better approaches that don't leave your system security at the mercy of whatever web page you happen to hit.

According to this https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation they plan to completely disable NPAPI by September 2015. Your workaround buys him about 4 months.

Whoops! Accidentally modded you there.

When it comes to laptops though, you're never going to build one yourself. Apple is the only vendor that actually sells "non-sucking" laptops if you will. HP sells nothing but the cheapest trash for laptops, and just about everyone else has gone out of business. It's incredibly painful to see people have to replace their Taiwan-brand laptop every 2 years, or watch people buy Chromebooks and then return them a month later because the build quality is rock-bottom.

You know there are laptop manufacturers besides HP and Acer, right? Asus, Samsung, and Toshiba have traditionally had good reputations for quality.

Personally I think the Moto 360 is the best looking of the current bunch. Definitely better than what I've seen so far from Apple, Samsung, LG, and Sony.

I remember working on a project where network coding was proposed for micro satellite cluster communications. If I remember correctly, network coding requires that all the nodes in the network have complete knowledge of the state of the network at any given transmission window. This requires transmission of the network state which used something like 7% overhead. The routing of a message from one end of the cluster to the other was difficult. I believe it might have been an np-complete problem. Have they solved the routing issues?