Supernova or Black hole

While I am 100% for not working in my off-hours, there's something to be said for someone who works a full day, then comes home and continues (to some degree) what they were doing. Personally, I find it rewarding to do the kind of work I do (electrical engineering) and little EE projects at home make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I consider myself to be lucky to enjoy what I do for a living, and realize that many people don't, so I think there's something to be said for hiring the kind of people who genuinely love what they do for a living enough to go home and continue to tinker and perfect their craft.

I don't know where you're getting your numbers, but a single, small windmill will produce 800 to 10,000kwh per *year*. A utility grade turbine will produce quite a bit more, but nowhere near 6mil kwh in 6 hrs.

Not that I'm arguing with you over the fact that a $1,080,000 a year is anything to write home about (at least when you consider the current budget problems California faces), it's just, as an electrical engineer who deals with these things on a daily basis, I don't like misrepresenting the facts. Although, I will say that if you can build a turbine which can produce 6mil kwh in 6 hours, I am very interested in investing in your product.

The energy commission estimates that people will save about $18/yr on their electric bills in the first year. According to 2005 census data [DOC WARNING] there are approximately 12million households in CA. Let's assume each household has only 1 TV (probably a low estimate). The lowest PG&E charges me for 1kwh of power is $0.11 (up to 100% of my baseline), the highest is $0.25 (130% or higher of my baseline). Let's assume an average somewhere around $0.16/kwh (that's what my last bill averaged to, anyway).

That means that each year, each household is saving ($18/yr / $0.16/kwh) = 112.5kwh/yr.

Which means that the state of California saves (112.5kwh/house * 12million homes) = 1,350,000,000kwh/yr

Now, let's be realistic. Not everyone's going to run out and buy a new TV year 1, but let's say even 1% of households do. Heck, let's save 0.5% of households do.

1,350,000,000kwh/yr * 0.005 = 6,750,000kwh/yr

Not an insignificant amount of energy by any means.

I agree, although I would extend this to most OSs. Even when upgrading Ubuntu I tend to start from scratch (On LTS releases, anyway, not the in-between releases), although it's pretty trivial to do so since I separate out my /home partition and use dpkg to mark all my installed programs and then reinstall them after the upgrade. It just gives me a nice, fresh feeling to start from scratch every so often.

3-phase 220V (or 240V, depending on if you're looking at the nameplate on the equipment or the voltage coming out of the plug) is not-so-commonly used in the US on commercial buildings in residential neighborhoods that are served by 240V transformers where the utility company is too lazy to upgrade their equipment and give you a proper voltage for a commercial building. It's called a high leg delta system where you have a neutral coming off of the mid-point of one of the transformer windings. This creates 120V for 2 of the phases to neutral, 208V for the third phase to neutral (this is the "high leg" part), 240V single phase when you connect line to line and 240V three phase when you connect line to line to line.

Electricity is fun!

In my experience, college tech support was unprepared to provide support for any OS, Linux or otherwise. The solutions they used to offer my college friends were always laughable and almost always included the same standard responses:

1) Run malware/spyware scan. Did that fix it? No? See #2.
2) Run anti-virus scan. Did that fix it? No? See #3.
3) Reformat and reinstall. Did that fix it? No? See #4.
4) Buy a new computer.

Occasionally they'd run into a help desk person who legitimately knew what they were doing and made an honest effort to fix people's computers, but in most instances I ended up being the defacto help desk for a lot of my non-computer savvy friends.

They started in the A's and quickly got to Asimov's books... only about half way done with them at this point.

"Shut up, that's why!"

Are these unladen men?

It's like the easy bake oven of processors. It just leaves your cupcakes gooey and soggy.

I just spent 3 weeks on jury duty, and while I would have probably agreed with you before that, I have to disagree. We have a fantastic justice system, and while it may not be perfect, it does work.

I was a firm believer that the MS Office ribbon was the stupidest, clunkiest UI to come along in ages, until I tried it for the first time about a month ago when work updated their software finally. Took me a few days to get used to it, but I have to admit I was wrong. It is intuitive and easy to use and learn, and I actually do prefer it to the old menu/toolbar setup. I'm not sure that OO.o necessarily needs (or even should) mimic MS, but I think that if there are good ideas, or new ideas, out there about how to approach to UI in a program, it's worth investigating at least. Maybe we won't end up with something like MS Office. Maybe we'll get something even better!

The only thing you need to know for a successful marriage, regardless of personality types, is one simple phrase: "Yes, dear."

I never got that to work for me for one reason or another. Maybe it was the ATI drivers I had installed, maybe it was my card, maybe it was problems with X... I'm not really sure, but I've never found the display properties GUI to be a fix-all solution for me, unfortunately. Every time I've wanted to do dual-monitors in the past I've had to go in and, through trial and error, set up my xorg.conf file. I don't mind doing it myself, but I know a lot of people who wouldn't put up with it if they had to do that every time they got a new PC.