Comment DIY Soylent Green (Score 1) 322
It's made from algae as far as you know.
Comment Twitter is for narcissists (Score 1) 280
Facebook is for those with low self-esteem.
Comment Put ointment on it (Score 1) 149
Sounds painful.
Comment There are no stupid questions (Score 1) 253
only stupid people. Actually that's a stupid question. How can anything neutral be a menace?
Comment Dumbass Wording Alert (Score 1) 238
Life was already well established 635 million years ago. We have the stromatolites to prove it. The question should be, 'Did multi-cellular life arise twice?" Even if the Earth had been completely covered in ice, life would still have survived around volcanic vents in the oceans and in the deep rock.
I saw a mini-series called Miracle Planet and it described a still forming Earth being bombarded where not only is the ocean completely vaporized the Earth's crust was heated to sterilizing temperatures down to several kilometers and the only life that could survive that would have been deep in the crust.
There may have indeed been multiple origins of life on the early Earth. There may even be an undiscovered shadow biosphere.
I saw a mini-series called Miracle Planet and it described a still forming Earth being bombarded where not only is the ocean completely vaporized the Earth's crust was heated to sterilizing temperatures down to several kilometers and the only life that could survive that would have been deep in the crust.
There may have indeed been multiple origins of life on the early Earth. There may even be an undiscovered shadow biosphere.
Comment Robert');DROP TABLE Students;-- (Score 0, Offtopic) 706
Comment Money Shots in 3D (Score 3, Funny) 201
Duck!
Comment Hooked on Monkeynomics (Score 1) 254
And some on Wall Street understood this phenomenon and exploited it. Enriching themselves while destroying the economy.
Comment MexiLeaks (Score 1) 518
anyone?
Comment Dirtiest Words in Astronomy (Score 1) 220
Hey, babe wanna see my corona mass ejection?
Comment I know this phrase has worn out it's welcome but (Score 1) 63
I for one, welcome our new Martian Underlords.
Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar 635
js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now cheaper than nuclear, at around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that financial markets will not finance the construction of nuclear power plants unless the risk of default (which is historically as high as 50 percent for the nuclear industry) is externalized to someone else through federal loan guarantees or ratepayer funding. The bottom line seems to be that nuclear is simply not competitive, and the push from the US government to subsidize it seems to be forcing the wrong choice on the market."
Southwest Adds 'Mechanical Difficulties' To Act Of God List
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War, earthquakes, and broken washers are all unavoidable events for which a carrier should not be liable if travel is delayed according to Southwest Airlines. Southwest quietly updated their act of God list a few weeks ago to include mechanical problems with the other horrors of an angry travel god. From the article: "Robert Mann, an airline industry analyst based in Port Washington, NY, called it 'surprising' that Southwest, which has a reputation for stellar customer service, would make a change that puts passengers at a legal disadvantage if an aircraft breakdown delays their travel. Keeping a fleet mechanically sound 'is certainly within the control of any airline,' Mann said. 'Putting mechanical issues in the same category as an act of God — I don't think that's what God intended.'"
Comment Re:Plone... AWESOME (Score 2, Insightful) 31
Plone is one of the best CMSes on the market, but does have a learning curve. But it's fine grain security model beats Drupal and Joomla hands down. Drupal and Joomla are fine products but the don't really compete in the same space as Plone. Each CMS has it's warts. And you have to choose the right product for the end user. In some use cases Joomla and Drupal would be fine and in others PLone would work.
I've worked with all three though Plone most extensively, and it's been my experience those who reject Plone have had little experience or patience with getting up to speed. I started off with Zope and had to convert a website to a full CMS. Plone was the natural choice, but I did do a survey at the time of a lot of PHP based CMSes and none did what we needed. That was 5 years ago. There are a lot more choices available now and all those CMSes have improved over the years.
I've worked with all three though Plone most extensively, and it's been my experience those who reject Plone have had little experience or patience with getting up to speed. I started off with Zope and had to convert a website to a full CMS. Plone was the natural choice, but I did do a survey at the time of a lot of PHP based CMSes and none did what we needed. That was 5 years ago. There are a lot more choices available now and all those CMSes have improved over the years.
Plone 3 Multimedia
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Trevor James writes "Plone 3 Multimedia is an excellent book focusing on adding multimedia including images, audio and video files to a Web site built using the Plone 3 CMS. Overall this book has a nice balance and mix of text, screenshots and code. I recommend the book for Plone power users including Plone developers and users who want to enhance and expand their core Plone multimedia arsenal. You'll get more out of this book if you already have a Plone site running but want to add more multimedia based capabilities to it." Read on for the rest of Trevor's review.
