I was thinking these would be great to use for electrolisis to make hydrogen for my fuel cell. Oh, wait...

Perhaps it is for use by Duke Nukem....

This isn't very impressive. If it isn't mobile, then it is like any other cutting solution. Of course, if you want to see something really impressive for cutting metals, Petrogen is the way to go. It is an oxy-gasoline cutting torch and can cut up to 14 inches of steel at once. Be sure to check out their videos. Super impressive.

What happened to the second law of thermodynamics? As I read this, Windows is run in Wine which can then power the chip to run Windows.....

With a little global warming one of the world's greatest landmarks could be recovered, the sag in central Greenland would be fixed and a new source of income for Greenland could be tapped as tourists flock to this new "Grand Canyon" to go hiking, fishing, and camping.

I just gave up and switched to Windows 8 -- just like you suggested. I did find it easier to not install the programs you suggested as I'll just become dependant on them. Instead, I have grown to love the beautiful orange tinge that Windows 8 gives to the screen. I figure if I ever want to switch the screen back, I can switch from Cheetoes to Chicken in a Biscuit.

The more they try to make college "affordable" via loans, scholarships, etc. the more the colleges and universities will raise their prices until it is just barely affordable by all participants. They want to maximize their income -- as any business does. On the other hand, if we were to cut off student loans and scholarships you can bet that the prices would plummet and they'd stop building fancy buildings named after themselves. (Some universities have exercise areas that are reminiscent of spas and exclusive health resorts than a university.) It is amazing that our parents and grandparents were able to do things like send men to the moon without plush padded seating and nicely carpeted hallways at their universities. Even so, they could still afford to get an education.

Not really.

What they will find is that if they take the patterns created by the gravity waves and decode them as if they were sound waves, they would find it translates to: "Let there be light." (BTW: Just in case, anybody wonders, that will be in English.)

Interesting idea. The problem I'd see with something like this is that the sender expects mail to arrive within a predictable time schedule. (Since many times they are waiting for a response.). Your solution would require the sender to have some idea how far the recipient lives from a post office in order to have a way to set their expectations. With a MWF and TTHSat schedule, 1/2 the mail would arrive as scheduled. The other half would be delayed by only a single day.

I agree that there are certainly some things which can't be delayed. But doesn't it make sense that these be shipped Priority Mail where tracking information is available instead of first class mail? For everything else, a MWF and T/Th/Sat delivery schedule would cut the labor costs for mail delivery significantly. Admittedly, no solution will work for everyone.

Face it, we don't get any mail anymore that can't wait a day. Bills and junk mail are the norm. It makes a huge amount of sense to deliver non-priority packages every other day. It would cut the manpower needed for delivery almost in half. Combine that with community / street mailboxes and then that makes some real savings.

It is always a bit humorous for me when I think about the arguments that we need copyrights that are 70 years plus the life of the author but for patents, 20 years is adequate. What's more, that Congress can make copyrights retroactive. Just imagine the chaos that would ensue if they gave patents a similar term as copyrights and re-instituted patents retroactively as they did copyrights. While and enormous headache and make our economy come to a screeching halt, it would be a lot of fun to watch.

It boggles my mind that the Government expects that software developers will do patent searches as they write their code rather than simply implementing what is obvious at the time to implement. Software patents are written in such a way as to make them difficult to interpret and appear broad even when they aren't. It simply isn't practical for software developers were to do their "due diligence" as they write their code, and if they did no appreciable amount of code would be written.

It is quite likely that most if not all software written violates at least a small handful of patents (remember the XOR patent?) -- creating an unfair advantage for the companies who have enormous in-house legal councils who can pursue purported patent violations.

Why eat your vegetables when you can get a cow or a pig to eat them for you?

The Egyptians used hand written papyrus and we still have copies to look at. The laser printed paper copies of the Book of the Dead simply didn't survive.