Next up, confiscation of all grade schooler's index-thumb finger guns smuggled on campus.

We all learned about error propagation in physics 101, funny how all of these "climate scientists" rarely include them in any of their findings.
Data without uncertainty is just propaganda.

Or we could just build more power plants to keep up with the population.

A reduction of lawyers in the workforce would probably be the best thing to happen in years! Now if only there was some software which could replace a hack NYT economist.

Except that its is libs like Obama who are ignorant. For example, when did Future President Elect Palin state that the earth is 6K years old ? And how come Palin knows that unbounded government spending and taxation kills the free market, a lesson which Obama stubbornly rejects ? Or how about the man made, CO2 induced global warming science hoax (what about CO2 levels and average global temps more than 600K years ago ? Oops CO2 has been as high as 4000 ppm with global temps at typical ice age levels). Score Palin 1, Obama 0

Ditto for death panels (Grandma is better off taking a pain pill).

And here is yet one more thing Palin knows that Obama doesn't, It's the economy stupid ! That is why the dems were routed in 2010 and she will win in 2012 (this is also why Obama won in 08 ). The vast majority of Americans who legally vote in this country are royally pissed at Obama for wasting our time on Health Care Reform instead of working on the Economy, which what the whole reason he was elected in the first place. And by pulling the economy-HCR bait and switch, he has lost the independents who put him there in the previous cycle.

Most Americans now know all of the lib's trick plays. Calling any conservative "stupid" (Goldwater, Reagan, Bush, Palin) works as well as the wildcat offense, everyone gets the gimmick now and ignores it.

Lastly, most of what you think illustrates Palin's lack of intelligence are merely faux-pas which get played over and over and over by the leftist media. Don't believe me ? Okay, did you know Obama said there were 57 states ?

Or how about Obama's vast vocabulary, including words like "epancipation"?

And we can't forget his mastery of medicine !

Everyone is blaming the WikiLeaks guy, PFC Manning, etc. But its is the job of the State Department to make sure it's cables are secret. Yeah, I know she is not the actual computer nerd responsible for State's IT department, however she, and she alone is ultimately responsible for this mess. You see, the government knew PFC Manning had the State Department's cables months before this mess blew up from his pending court martial (http://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Charge-Sheet-redacted-Manning.pdf) .

AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS DONE NOTHING TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION !

Hillary ... buh-bye !!!

There is TONS of prior art on this. Every single OS does some variant of this, after all that is the job of an OS in the first place. I can't understand how this got past the examiners !

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> That's because the slashdot summary and the article are sensationalized. They aren't patenting "shutting down."
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Um ... yes they are ! Why do I say this you ask ? Well let's examine patent #7,788,474:

• It's title is "Operating system shut down"
• The first sentence in the patent's abstract states: "A user interface and scheme is provided for facilitating shutting down an operating system."

What the hell else should I think they are trying to patent ?

Typical ... read the article a bit and you will see it only works in drier climates where evaporative cooling systems work.

But in areas where you need Air Conditioning (i.e. cooling + humidity reduction) in a humid climate it is useless (i.e. Gulf Coast, deep south, Florida). And this area is where the bulk of energy use is used for (indoor) climate control.

So why don't researchers work on a solution for the 80% that could use it instead of the 20% where it doesn't matter ?

Maybe we need to move their labs out of AZ, CO, and CA down to TX and FL and only allow them to use their own inventions to cool the lab.

'Nuff said

The current windows OS stack with NT lineage can run on any processor as long as it supports Little Endian. Many processors including ARM can run in either big or little endian mode, so NT can be ported to it.