I run two diesel generators, they're backups for when the local utility stuffs up their responsibility and fails to provide power, it's exactly the same reason I'm not going to outsource my server farm to someone else.

I know one of the 3D resin printer companies had some patents that just recently expired, one of the maker type printers was going to use their tech after the patents expired but they kicked off their crowdfunding campaign before that date which apparently constituted selling an infringing device.

Ford made $35,900 million in sales in Q1 of 2014, they have 34 assembly plants. 34 plants * 90 days * 24 hours = 73,440 hours, so "only" $0.5M per hour, but that assumes that all hours are the same, they are not and like I said when they are selling all they can of a model it easily runs into the several million per hour.

No because my employer doesn't have any charging stations at our headquarters location (we do have Tesla stations at many of our shopping centers though) so I can't assume I'll be able to add any charge during the day (plus, even if this employer did there's no way I'd buy a 10 year capital purchase based on current employer amenities)

The Volt starts at $35k and the next generation (2016 MY) will have a low end offering starting at $30k which compares favorably with the average new car price of almost $31k last year

I for one don't need 300 mile range, but I do need ~120 mile rated range because I do 50-54 miles round trip each day and I live in a place that routinely sees temps of -10F so to have enough range to cover my commute after 5+ years of battery degradation plus cold weather I need a pack that starts around 120 miles of rated range.

Hell, $1M per day is nothing, when the major auto companies are selling a certain line of cars as fast as they can make them downtime is in the multiple millions per hour range, and with a steel plant a cold shutdown can result in hundreds of millions in damage.

Bilked? He lost his shirt is Solyndra, he owned over 1/3rd of the company and it's now bankrupt.

Hmm, that's basically everyone that matters with the huge, glaring omission of VMWare. At this point EMC is going to have to decide between being the 'leader' in the field with their early initiative or being standards compliant and interoperating with everyone else. There was a time where Cisco could go it alone in networking and push their own standards, but I don't think they could today and I certainly don't think VMWare has that kind of clout.

NWN predates EA, as do several other titles on that list.

Cool, good to know that NWN still has a way to do matchmaking post Gamespy. Even if I no longer run my own node I definitely have fond memories of NWN and realize that there's STILL not a better engine for rolling your own adventure game.

Sure, compare the cost of what you host to what it would cost on Amazon/Azure, if you're doing things halfway competently it's not hard to beat those rates by a few hundred percent =)

Think about it - in all the time you've worked in IT, how many times have you seen the electricity in a building just go out, without explanation? Now, how many times have you seen major server outages, costing more than a million dollars in lost productivity?

Uh, my infrastructure has a MUCH higher uptime percentage than the local grid, we've had to send home the entire main campus workforce 3 times in the last 2 years due to power issues, we've had to do that once in the last 8 years due to IT issues (SAN meltdown due to poorly designed switches).

LOL.

Thanx for the tip.

I think I'll buy a Corvette that way.

myke

Nope, as the GPL portion in question would be the Dalvik runtime libraries, not the kernel (which is also GPL but static linking to non-free drivers is a long standing practice that almost nobody thinks is GPLv2 infringing).