I would have to agree -- you are no Electrical Engineer.

Just a quick look around any high-tech company makes this pretty obvious.

I miss the old days when somebody could be wrong without being crazy, retarded or evil.

that point in time where the frustration/unhappiness curve for engineers/developers shoots to infinity. All development stops, ushering in a new stone age.

hooked up to the most convenient "search" box. I apple just puts in a mildly similar looking set of search results, and a colorful 'apppppple' logo above the page numbers, most people won't give it a second thought. Sure, slashdotters would notice, but Ma and Pa and the 90 percent of the population that is not the least bit techy could care less. They're just interested in the stuff they find in the sites that are found, not in who provides the search. I think it is kind of silly for Apple to go on giving all of that money away to Google every year. They could be making a fortune off of the advertising in their own search instead of giving it away to Google. Getting back to "most people", I think they will also continue to call it "googling" eventhough they are typing their search into an Apple search box. (just like we used to say "go make a xerox of this on the Kodak machine" when I worked at Kodak a million years ago -- though that was just for fun -- come to think of it, does Kodak still make copiers?)

All your freedom are belong to us. . . In reality, it is already too late to "fix" this by changing the slope of the curve with governmental restrictions on amount/types of energy use. The only viable solution, and the most likely to happen, is some form of Geoengineering. At some point, some large country, acting in its own self interest (or in the interest of a well-monied lobbyist) will unilaterally enact a Geoengineering "solution". This will mostly likely outrage and inconvenience some other country (or lobbyist or large company with internal resources capable of Geoengineering), setting off a chain reaction of competing attempts at geoengineering. The only viable solution to the coming geoengineering crisis is to put democracy on hold. . .

Apple is doing just fine all by itself just like it has from the start. The thing that has me bothered is that I've been driving Ford's all my life (Dad worked for Ford forever). Now that Ford has been infected with Microsoft I may have to get my cars from somebody else. ;(

Now they will have to start CGI animating the Golden Globe and Emmy shows too... Nobody wants to see a 60 year old grandmother accepting an award for a movie where she played hotness.

Having just committed the ultimate /. sin, I read the company info after posting. TFA erroneously combined the properties of two different products from the company with similar names. The product that is used on groundwater is intended only to grab and hold harmless the bad stuff, not for removing it from the ground.

groundwater |groundwôtr; -wätr| noun water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock. Me thinks this is a bogus article about a bogus "invention" by a bogus company. Water ON the ground is sometimes called "a flood", and sometimes called "a lake", depending upon whether or not the condition is chronic.

The proponents of the two sides of this "argument" seem to me to be artists and constructionists. In software, art is what happens at a hacker conference or at a startup BEFORE the investors start poking around. Construction (including architecture and source control and coding standards and design patterns et. al.) is what happens at a medium to large company that takes huge amounts of skilled workers to build something that can then be charged for in copious amounts and which will then make investors rich. In short, hacking vs. coding. Both have a place in the world. Neither should be influenced by the other. The big problem with software is that the former usually morphs into the later rather than being a completely separate effort which should include none of the original source material and none of the original players. And finally, a good hacker is NEVER a good coder, and a bad coder is often NOT a gifted hacker, but someone who shouldn't be doing either type of work.

Why the heck do you need to print anything anymore? Forget the e-waste dude, you're a tree killer! :)

Ok, but what is the albedo of an albino?

Where we're going, we don't need roads. (The road to hell is paved with good intentions)

Scan everyone involved with the design, construction, sales, and use of the scanner...