Experiment? The one in Ludington MI has been in operation since 1973 with a peak generation capacity of 1.8GW. It can go zero to 1.8GW in 30 minutes. It sits on the shores of Lake Michigan about 360 ft above the lake and smooths out the power here in Michigan all year long.

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So far the only thing that has 'broken' any of our Toyota hybrid power trains is a tree. It was not the tree's fault. We are on our sixth Toyota hybrid with at least 750,000 total miles on them and still own four one a 2001 model. Many of these miles would be considered serious abuse like delivering newspapers 7 days a week for years in one of them. Some days that car started with the springs crushed right to the axles. We live in the snow belt of Michigan and they are excellent in the snow though the mileage does suffer in the bitter cold of mid-winter. In all those miles the non routine maintenance has included a few wheel bearings. Toyota has recalled them several times for some water pump issues, replacement fuel pumps on early models, a steering issue, and a few other things. I could not recommend Toyota's hybrids more highly.

Yes the parts are expensive they tell me but we've never had to test that theory.

And should you actually RIDE one of these hybrid buses they are much smoother and quieter than their straight diesel counterparts. There is no revving engine and no lurching shifts. Due to the regenerative braking there is both less brake dust and dirt and they last far longer saving maintenance dollars. The more they build the better the cost will become and the better they will be for everyone in nearly every way.

I really don't care if there is a standard or not, if nobody is utilizing it then it's just fancy documents somewhere. If Internet over Power Lines was going to take off I would expect it to already have done so since the power lines have existed for a century and already extend to effectively every home that would want Internet service.

Our power provider services many of the most rural areas of the state which translates to 'areas that don't have high speed internet'. They have been reading meters over the power lines for 15 years so they know that data can traverse the lines but in investigating providing Internet they couldn't find a solution that would work and be cost effective enough for people to purchase it.

As various wireless technologies improve they are the best bet for rural areas to get reasonable speeds at reasonable prices.

I'm not quite sure how IPV6 makes a whit of difference in the equation. Do 128 bit addresses go faster than 32 bit addresses over Power Lines somehow?

Internet over power lines? Are there actually any of those working in the U.S.? Our power grid isn't so favorable to delivery that way. I live in a rural area with no cable or even DSL and our power provider tells me they looked into it and dismissed it completely.

You really think this would make airline pricing MORE complicated? That's funny stuff right there!

You must be a tiny little runt. 80 kg is only 177 lbs and 65 kg is just 143 lbs!! At 6'5" if I weighed 143 and turned sideways I would be invisible! My 5' 22" brother would appear a toothpick even at 177! 80 kg is normal to itty bitty where I look down on you from.

Say what you will but DB/2 on IBM i is the most SQL compliant database of any. It scales well and being built into the system means tuning it is not often needed. In addition there is near zero database administrative effort required for most IBM i systems. Since all disk space is typically viewed as a single store, space for tables and collections is automatically drawn from and returned to that space.

Because of the object oriented nature IBM i (the modern version of OS/400) a thing is either a program or its not. Creating programs from source generates an intermediate level code. This code is then compiled into lower level code that differs by O/S version and by the underlying hardware (e.g. POWER8 or POWER7). Because the object is a program you may only perform actions allowed on programs. Execute it, rename it, save it, restore it, move it, delete it, change it's owner or authority. That's it. You cannot change it's type to say 'File' and then edit it and then change it back to 'program'. The O/S blocks that which is beautiful and it's why there are no anti-virus products for IBM i! You also cannot execute something that is not a program. So that avenue of attack is also unavailable.

Yes! IBM i (The current generation of the AS/400) with its 128 bit address space would work well in a computer with only memory, no disk! In fact it was envisioned that way at its inception. Additionally the abstraction that it brings allows program objects going all the way back to the System/38 to run on current POWER8 hardware unchanged. That's software investment protection! Of course why you would want to run 30 year old software is a valid question but you could if it was valid and needed. The second benefit of the abstraction layer is that new hardware is easily introduced and over it's history OS/400 (the O/S that ran on the AS/400) and now IBM i have hit many first in the industry points. These include memory and storage technologies such as the first SAS based SSDs. Oft overlooked except by sysadmins the command line of IBM i is also second to none being very intuitive, very consistent, and easy to learn. One example is vfytcpcmn which does the same thing as ping. (Yes ping works too!).

Clearly not the first if this type of harassment. Check out Chip Rosenthal's nightmare. He registered unicom.com the first day registrations were available and used it as his company web site. Years later a very annoying man started a company named Unicom systems and then spent thousands trying to get the name from Mr Rosenthal. Eventually the courts finally settled it in Mr Rosenthal's favor. http://rightwingnews.com/speci...

We have a co-op rather than a private utility. They trim every year and if you don't allow that they add a cutoff switch to your leg so that when branches/trees/etc fall on the lines you get cut off and the rest of customers still have power. They then only repair your leg when the weather improves enough for it to be safe for their linemen to work there. The system isn't perfect of course as not every tree can be trimmed far enough back to make the lines immune to damage but our power rarely goes out even in high winds, storms etc and we're out in the boonies.

As an IT guy I know it's easy to know how much cooling a data center requires, just look at the input power and do the math. 3,413 BTU out per kWh in. But once extracted to keep the servers cool, where does it go? Mostly it gets dumped outside. If you're in Texas that probably makes sense. Here in the Midwest of the U.S. we had a brutal winter with lows approaching -20F (-29C) yet most DC heat went right out the window while the furnace worked overtime. Am I the only one that thinks this is stupid? I don't care what your stance on Global Warming/Climate Change/etc where's the economics in buying all that heat twice?

At my high school this was also the norm in the late 70s. You could have armed a decent size militia from our student parking lot. Then add various other items like axes, chain-saws, knives etc to the mix as well. Likely 75% of all students had a pocket knife with them at all times and it was normally very sharp. There were exactly zero stabbings, shootings, or other injuries from weapons in my three years there. There was never a concern spoken about any of this because parents taught their children to respect others and any student who got in trouble at school was in BIGGER trouble at home. Today it's nearly automatic for the parent to take the student's side even when the student IS in the wrong.

Exactly. So look up IEX. Their solution is to 'position' themselves electronically to be *EXACTLY the same number of ms away from all the major exchanges in the U.S. So when they execute trades across 5 exchanges they all happen at EXACTLY the same time on all the exchanges. Thus those HFT guys react too late, all the needed buys for the specific transaction have already occurred. HFT Guys loose. Bummer.

It's not all about speed it's about timing.