You can also do something you probably DON'T want to do with it, namely waiting for what seems an eternity while it reboots on those occasions when a reset is required or you have a brief power failure.

The author is fanboying Java. It's Java, it should be everywhere, Java is awesome, etc.

Java is proprietary, supplanted by CIL, which is ISO standard. There are better languages--like Python--and anything could run on CIL if you got LLVM to output CIL. You could even run Ruby and Java on CIL, if you were so insane as to go with Ruby. C and C++ work on CIL.

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You just described what it did, and described 1080i. It's like describing a human with male junk and physique and chromosomes and claiming you were promised a woman, and when someone points out it sounds like you got a man instead, you're like, "It's not a man, either."

libpoppler works; it just only meets the requirements that libpoppler was designed for. It correctly displays most PDFs, but fails with esoteric features used only in a small subset.

In that sense, libpoppler is like a swiffer mop: it handles most normal dirt, dust, and general cleaning needs for tile and hardwood; but you will need a mop, or potentially nylon or bristle scrubbers and power tools, to clean some deep-set grime from linoleum or porcelain tile. I've had mops fail to clean traffic grime from kitchen linoleum, at all; stuck a drill brush in a 3000RPM 600W output cordless drill and blasted that shit right off.

'minuscule', (with a 'u'), is the original spelling, and is still preferred: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/...

You said it yourself - the technology hasn't changed in 100 years. It was never designed with terrorism and climate change in mind. To continue relying on a grid that is vulnerable to cascade failures and can be taken down by an ice storm, (or a few well-placed bombs), thereby rendering a large part of the continent powerless, is silly and irresponsible.

Sure, continuous improvements are being made to the grid, and tech advances are making it more reliable and less vulnerable. But the complexity of the newer control systems constitue their own Achilles heel - see 'requisite variety' to understand why. The grid will never be as resilient and fault tolerant as widespread local power generating capacity will be.

Add in the fact that distributing solar capacity is more efficient than centralizing it, then consider the carbon footprint of coal-fired plants, and solar plus batteries starts to look damned good.