Their full article can be viewed here. One of the especially cute things I find on the page is that they give an image of a parking lot, a truck, and some grass to the side. The caption invites the viewer to "[n]ote the... absence of long-term environmental impact." Sorry, XTO, but having green grass on the side of your parking lot does not prove a lack of long-term environmental impact. Not to mention the fact that putting in the parking lot has some significant impacts in and of itself...

So he mapped a Leap Motion controller into NX and made it viewable on an Oculus Rift... or more accurately, the code monkeys who work for him did. I remain unimpressed.

I mean, no one complains about schools being funded by the government, although private schools do exist. They invest in the future of the people, why not publicly invest in the future of the world?

I want renewable energy. But I want it to be self supporting.

Why? There really is not much reason to require it to be self-sustaining.

Also known as moved back the date of when we think fertilizers were first used...

Now, if something like this could be used for... real... projects, like Rosetta@Home or other good BOINC projects, they could potentially do some real good.

No, I realized his comment was intended to be sarcastic - I was just reiterating what he said. Ironically, it appears Poe's law does indeed work!

I recall that the global temperature peaked in 1998 and has not broken that record since... recall that the temperature reached in 1998 was lower than that of 1934

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/

I also recall that CO2 levels have reached a new peak

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/global.html#global_growth (see Annual Mean Global Carbon Dioxide Growth Rates) - it's been increasing every year. You seem to have recalled several things incorrectly.

Just one example, federal buildings in DC are heated by one of the dirtiest coal fired power plants in the federation. If they were serious about global warming then I would expect them to do something about this first before telling me what kind of heat I can use in my own home.

Problem is, energy is a private authority. I assume, based on your "2nd ammendment" signature, that you are a conservative. The government doesn't have the ability in modern times (it's more conservative now than when the TVA was around) to regulate energy. Would you rather have them force a company to build a solar/wind/etc farm around DC, or build one themselves? That's a whole different debate.

Yes, I'm sure your blog, being read by someone with an tenuous grasp on English, is a far better source of news than peer-reviewed scientific studies.

It's here, it's here! The year of the Linux Desktop! </sarcasm>

Fifthed. Don't work without some sort of contract or agreement, and especially don't volunteer without doing so. Trust me, ten years from now, you'll still be getting calls to fix their latest website problem. I speak from experience.

I should say, "little adoption from the general public"

Make no mistake, I am a huge fan of Linux. But I have to wonder, after all these years and little adoption, what still drives you in developing the Linux desktop?