You mean 640K programmers? :P

That's cool. I specially like the "J" alter ego.

I wonder how their keyboards look like.

Great, then every time the second definition changes, we can get rid of our old watches, clocks, motherboards, cell phones, and any other stuff we use to measure time, cause they're going to be outdated and defective. Sounds like a great idea to activate the economy with some extra sales! [sarcasm mode off]

Anyway, what's the reason why we'd need an invariable "SI second" if nobody would use it?

Ooops you're right, sorry for the bullshitting comment!

Actually it's not such a bad investment. According to Wikipedia, McAfee's 2008 revenue was $1.6 billion. Even if the software they make is crap, if Intel can keep this revenue from McAfee in the near future, they will need just 5 years to recover the invested money. And after all, they can even try to improve their products.

IMHO, that price is a bargain!

Very good point, indeed.

Here in Spain the government is spending million of euros in the high speed train (here it's called AVE, Alta Velocidad Española). Meanwhile, cargo transportation is virtually unavailable for companies, so the only option left is shipping all the stuff by road. Roads that, by the way, should be strongly improved if the government was not spending all the money in AVE. But hey, when the elections arrive is really cool to say they have made hundreds of kilometers of new high speed trains. After all, voters rarely give a shit about freight transportation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco#Languages

So at least, they seem to know the alphabet.

The answer they actually gave: "every answer will lead to another question". That's how they excuse themselves.

If a political system can be *that* abused, then there's definitely something wrong with it.

2010 is the year of Linux e-voting.

...One Site to find them, One Site to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them...

Aye, actually when I read the heading I felt some kind of a déjà vu... no wonder.

Well, it's not that you can throw to the bin the energy when those peaks are not happening. Energy production has to be controlled, and thermal plants (such as coal ones), along with hidro-electric plants, are way more flexible than a nuclear reactor. Even in France they use non-nuclear power to adjust production to those peaks. Nuclear power covers just about 75% of electricity generation there.

Anyway, I'm talking about how it IS done currently in MOST countries, like in the States, where only 20% of electricity comes from nuclear power. Any more exceptions apart from France, Finland and two or three other countries?

World's nuclear power generation is more or less steady over the time, as nuclear power plants are not capable to modify their output of energy. Power consumption is not steady. Thus, the variable energy consumption must be obtained by other means rather than nuclear power, and it will be mostly from oil, coal or gas.

Basically, this means that every single time you turn a light on you are producing CO2, like it or not.

Other than that, I agree with your comment.