How's that Windows think working for ya? Specifying Windows as the main operating system may appear to save you money, but you also have to pay money on security software and services as well. Sure the whole package may be less expensive than Linux, Unix, z/OS or IBM i, but you still have to include the security piece.

They better start caring about Windows Phone 8 or Steve Ballmer is going to throw some more chairs!

Actually, it was one story I was upset about and now I've forgotten what the subject was. Time to update the sig!

Horace Dediu of Asymco wrote about Nokia's situation yesterday and showed where Windows Phone phones have not filled the gap in the loss of sales for Symbian phones. He also concludes that the goal of 150 million Symbian phone sales (beginning Q1 2011) will never be reached. He's got some good thoughts on this situation.

The case has to do with items purchased overseas then imported into this country. If you didn't purchase your item overseas, it doesn't apply to you.

Okay, if cold fusion is so limited, explain why NASA has applied for a cold fusion patent.

Just think if all that money had been spent developing cold fusion instead. We might have actual power plants by now.

Here's an analogy: They're trying to build the most powerful vacuum tube amplifier of thinking about replacing the vacuum tube with transistors.

Ars Technica got a call from the scammers today.

Alternatively, the requirement could be constant contact with the ground. Most objects will fly at 1,000 mph; I know the takeoff speed of my Corolla is around 120 mph.

Horsepower lets us visualize 80,000 horses and the manure that they produce. Now, since each of the 80,000 horses is limited in speed, you still have to figure out how to put them in series to get the desired 1,000 mph (they can't pull but they could push), but, still, it's important to some to think of the problem in this way.

Traffic jam? There will be no traffic jam once this car goes through.

It still won't be as big as the original Ferris Wheel which could hold 2,160 people at a time. Also, will a 9-minute ride still be 50 cents?

The whole point of this part of the discussion is that heating your house with a heat pump will take less electricity than heating your house with light bulbs (traditional, CFL or LED). This is because the heat pump using a specific amount of electrical power can produce more heat than light bulbs using the same amount of electrical power.

Thanks for the explanation. I do try to judge which way the consensus is leaning when using my mod points.