So how much value does IT generate in a year?

That's not bad for an open device that will run hostap. At that price, these are essentially disposable. 1800mah is fully powerable by a 28 watt solar charger. You could build motion capture field cameras or something out of them. I love it when tech gets cheap.

What's so funny about that?

Usually the noises.

i fail at preview. line one should read "cd $FF_HOME"

This "feature" is also responsible for freezing the entire browser whenever I open a new tab and start typing in the URL bar. It queries a friggin sqlite database to pull up all the previously visited urls I could mean to visit. I have to vacuum a database to make my browser usable.

cd
for i in */*.sqlite;
do
        sqlite3 $i VACUUM;
done;

I'd be very curious to see how many career paths this experiment just derailed. How large is this subset of string theory that just got wiped out? Also, what does it mean if the bigger version of this test doesn't find gravitational waves? Does it poke a big fat hole in relativity?

Farmers who produce grain would prefer that you buy meat.

No. We do not feed cows the same grain we feed people (absolutely NO competition between grain you'd buy and what they'd feed to a cow). Also, most cows don't eat grain. Farmers who produce grain, would prefer you bought grain.

You're incapable of eating raw carrots? I'd see a doctor about that.

That is NOT the only real difference. The biggest difference here is that there is NO variable timed engine. No cam lobes. No transmission. Just a gas powered electric generator. There is NO hybrid mode. This vehicle operators only on power from the batteries. When you take it over a certain speed, the generator kicks on to keep the batteries juiced. This decouples the generator from the power source. Also, it's not a little car. It's a 4 door sedan that gets 50 mpg on the highway.

In a church no less. He only got 2 years (he was a minor at the time). At least one of the other members is also a convicted sex offender (8 year old relative). "I'm a good person. I haven't done anything wrong. ... I don't go anywhere. All I do is go to church and home." Yikes.

The fact that anyone pays to use their software saddens me. It's absolutely awful. They're making a killing too. It's becoming the standard educational institution package, mostly because all the other universities use it. Their "clustering" solution is an absolute joke. They just recently started supporting 64-bit jvm's. That means that until recently if you wanted to scale, you had to launch multiple 1GB VM's and load balance requests yourself. The frequency, severity and apathy of the bugs is stunning. I personally don't have the capacity for hate that this "software" deserves. It's an absolute turd.

So does this mean the process produces as much electricity as it takes to de-salinate water? Or is it not a two reaction like that?

The location of their server no longer matters as GS was allowed to put a peeker in line between everyone else (on the planet) and the publicly traded ETNS. They get an opportunity to front run every transaction. Every single one. Zerohedge is a financial blog that has been keeping up with this story. Their coverage is good if a little breathless.

Link is to their "high frequency trading" tag:

http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/search/label/High%20Frequency%20Trading

Apparently my browser is incompatible with the "web app." One wonders what standards their web is based on.

Lighting is less than 6% of energy footprint. CFL's are 10x more expensive than incandescents, contain mercury, don't last as long as advertised (in fact, in my house they only last as long as incandescents) and cast a bare sickly palette. CFL's are just a waste of money. Perhaps there is an ideal living space where CFL's last the full 5 years, don't make walls look grey/blue and cost less than five bucks a pop (.88 for four incandescents at kroger).

I took the money I had allocated towards CFL's and put it into insulation with a higher R-value. Heating and cooling expenses are down 10%. Far more savings in energy and money than CFL's, and my reading lamp doesn't suck the contrast off the page I'm looking at anymore.