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Comment Bats? (Score 1) 387

Bats? We are talking solar are we not? Don't bats fly when the sun is down? There might be certain losses, but not catastrophic. If you balance it out I would guess bird loss from oil spills, all sorts of carbon, coal pollution, global warming have a much more severe effect. I'd choose solar any day, even a cloudy one.

Comment College, not ace tech (trade) school (Score 1) 583

I earned a 4 year BS degree in CS years ago. I took 2 terms of calculus, which maybe helped. I also took various discrete math, finite math courses as well as operating systems, assembly language (that i've never programmed in for financial gain) and more. While it may not have taught me how to walk into and office and just do Cloud Computing, what it did (clearly IMHO) give me a huge leg up an every and anyone that didn't have my background in the theoretical stuff. Thru the years it has been so much easier for me to understand computer concepts, e.g. the GUI, UI, much OS related stuff, IT stuff than people that had to learn how to do computer related stuff that didn't see all the thought underlying.

Comment why MS at all (Score 1) 475

Regardless I still can't understand with the option to buy and iphone or android based phone why anyone would go with MS. At least with PCs (versus Apple computers) you can pay much less (and get much less along with crappy windows bloat) but why pay the same for a windows mobile phone when you can get a clearly superior android or iOS.

Comment get a mac (or maybe linux?) (Score 1) 609

I'm on macs 98 percent of the time but periodically (2 percent that winds up being more do to all the wasted bloatware time) I have to show someone at work how to do something on a previously purchased pc and its infuriating all the crap that one has to put up with on a pc. Unfortunately I have a feeling most people have no idea and just assume this is the way it is.

Comment I thought it explained some BSG questions (Score 1) 602

I always wondered about the intensity in which the toasters loved God so much, how that evolved. I though the Caprica series delived into that. I don't think a multi season episode list would have worked, but one season, wrapping up those loose ends would have satisfied me. One the new SciFi buz model, isn't that what Sanctuary was all about?

Comment My idiot (ignorant at the least) teachers (Score 1) 612

Growing up and going to school in Queens ny in the 50s, my teachers told us about the great MW. All I could do was scratch my head. It wasn't until 10 years later (I was 16), smoking a joint on a clear winters night in VT--visiting a friend--that EUREKA. I finally knew the beauty they had spoken of. Of course none of my teachers bothered to explain that one can't see the MW from Queens ny. How ignorant could they be? colonel spalding

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