The break-even point would immediately change to about 2 years if people had to actually (gasp!) pay for the damage their carbon emissions produce, or carbon emissions were capped at the level necessary to avert catastrophe.
What price would that make solar cells? The initial ones would cost a massive amount in carbon taxes. Think about the energy costs and emissions involved in the production of solar cells. Of course once they reach critical mass and the amount of energy produced by them that goes into production of more.... but until that point.
Wi-Fi overseer the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) will in June begin testing pre-standard next-generation 802.11n wireless networking kit to make sure the products all work with each other, the organisation said today.
I mean really old machines, 486DX66's and P100's.
Im supposed to believe that my job means something when I am asked to get several of these working from a pile of quesionable hardware (reliability, not source).
All the simple programs have been written.