I don't know why he said lead, that's foolish. What you need is a faraday cage, which is just a (conducting) wire mesh.

If you want the smooth-wall look or the lightly textured look, put the mesh up behind the drywall. If you like stucco you can use the mesh as your plaster-holder and keep it outside the drywall.

Talk the price down as much as you can, too, site a bunch of bogus studies, blah blah, then offer something way below what they currently want. I'm sure you'll be able to work something out.

All this team needs to do is continue on with the project, strip their names from it, and let it "leak" out onto the internet.

Basically, it means, that when the sun is shining on the solar cell, we can say that a certain amount of power, in watts, is hitting the solar cell. Say there is an available 100 Watts of total solar (light) power hitting the cell. If a solar cell is 10 percent efficient, then that means that cell would output 10 Watts of electrical power. If it's 50 percent efficient, it's outputting 50 Watts of power. So, if a solar cell were 100 percent efficient, and 100 watts of power were hitting it, it would generate 100 watts of electrical power.

Now, you can always increase the amountn of power your cells are 'exposed' to by increaasing the area/size of the solar cell, or by using multiple solar cells connected together, but both approaches increases costs. So, the reason people want more efficient solar cells is that, all else being equal, higher-efficiency == cheaper solar cells (well, cheaper per kiloWatt-hour; of course, all it not always equal - it doesn't do much good to get 2x efficiency at 2x costs).

So, the 'holy grail' of solar power is a technology that is both relatively cheap per square-meter, and a bit more efficient than current, comparitively priced, offerings.

"Notice that you referred to the space as a 'killer' apartment."

Editors (kdawson) write the headlines, not the submitter. (IME)

The programming community has been stuck at 3GL for way too long.

Well, if Facebook patented a specific implementation that wasn't right out of software engineering 101, maybe the patent would be valid.

As tempted as I am to respond in kind, I must say that "DUH" is exactly the way to garner enemies and opponents of your position, of whatever dubious value it may have.

Ok, so I would love some clarification here...
A) exactly what do you mean by that first statement, that god describes something with a physical reality? Im sure you could make a statement from that that a vast majority of Christians would agree with, but based on your second assertion I do not think that is the case. B) exactly what kind of evidence would be both appropriate and sufficient to prove God? As has been noted by many fairly clever apologists, a SuperNatural God is outside of (super) the natural. This does not mean He does not act within nature, but it makes it rather difficult to demand the same sort of evidence that you would for a rock. You might as well demand evidence for a miracle (and Im sure that the claim would be that since it can be accounted for by natural causes, clearly nothing outside of nature can have influenced it).

How about we flip the tables around and I DEMAND an explaination for where the ball of matter which caused the big bang came from, and then demand solid incontrovertible evidence to back up your claim. You see the problem, I assume, of demanding evidence IN the universe for something from before it presumably began?

But Which CNN was it? Ted Turner's? Rupert Murdoch's? Bill Gates'ss? How will I know the appropriate de-spin to apply to turn the report back into reasonable information?

" The final blow will be the day that YouTube switches off Flash and starts streaming only to HTML5 browsers. On that day all browsers will be HTML5 compatible or they will perish in the flames of user outrage."

Except, YouTube won't turn off Flash until a super-majority of users have HTML-5 compliant browsers. (Actually, since a super-majority is usually considered to be 60% or 66%, that probably still wouldn't be enough - I wouldn't shut off any potential customers until I was north of 90% deployment, though Google may surprise me and throw the switch a bit before that). No business that hopes to succeed just shuts off the ability for any significant portion of their customer base to consume their product.

It's impossible for for the future to be a vendor locked in device. The lock in slows down innovation to much.

Also in your version of the future there's no multitasking? That's going to be a problem.

I used dialup from 1995 until just recently, so I don't care about that, that's a non issue to me about something like this, it is still usable if you turn images off and use adblock plus and noscript. The other thing is..it's the principle. We keep having problems with ISPs and so on from them being dinks, if you get an opportunity to fight back and give 'em a bloody nose, from them being just slap wrong about things, it your duty as a netizen to do so-IMO.

I mean, heck with it, I have had to deal with lawsuits before, going up against "big names", etc..you just do it. If you are in the right..you just do it. I even acted as my own attorney, and have won every time. Ya, it took a lot of my "spare time" learning proper procedure and whatnot..still worth it. You just can't go through life getting pushed around by bullies. I'm a nerd, they tried that when I was a nerdling back in school..heck with it, learned to fight, that's it, put some big jocks down on the ground eventually, dudes who had near a foot in height and a hundred lbs on me, left them hurtin' bad with near flat faces and cracked ribs. Most satisfying...

    Bullies never expect it, they expect you to roll over, cower, just take whatever they want to dish out, whether it's a physical bully or some corporation bully. Fight back!

> Phones are hardware, but the software is key. ... but if the software is buggy and lacking functionality,
> they will turn to a new source.

There is a big community around Motorola mobiles (modmymoto.com, motorolafans.com, motofan.ru). For each of their architectures (P2K, MOTOMAGX, EZX), there is a good deal of mods, flashes, skins, language packs, all things software existing in all possible colours and varieties, eventually bumping into the hardware limits. And all of it works.

I bought my L7 back in 2006 in The Netherlands, and it had (reasonably) no Cyrillic support. After a week of texting in translit, I had reflashed it, and have been happily texting ever since -- all it had taken me was, google the matter. Do I owe this improvement to Motorola? Yes, but only for making it possible and not being in the way.

You see the care and attention you seek in Apple's being ever at war with modders, where every next system update wrecks the phone that's been previously jailbroken: I see in this a monumental waste of resources. If Motorola refrains from enfocing their control over the devices they sold to you, this is by no means negligence, and least of all, evil.

You're obviously one of the lucky ones, who doesn't have to deal with their boss forwarding emails to them.

There is no global recession. If you look at the world economics it's still growing, just slower then normal.