That would be correct, if those were windows, and not Transparent Aluminium.

Jobs is that good.

Simple fix is to make the money collected for going over a "fee" that can ONLY be used to improve infrastructure.. (ie, it can ONLY buy hardware, and transit)

Plus, they have a large tract of land that is inhabitable on the surface. Easy access, no complaints from the locals!

For issue1.. Any system that gets installed in any jurisdiction I know of, refuses to pump power to the grid, if the power is out. For just that reason. (yes, it would break the "power yourself in an emergency" that the summary mentioned, but it does keep people from dying, which is good.)

I really am looking into doing exactly this. I live in a rural area, and have a propane tank, but nothing works without power (I guess the gas range, if I have a match to start it) . No well, no septic pump, no propane furnace or water heater (Since the electric exhaust fan has to turn on before it will ignite) etc.

I would love to setup a 3Kw grid tie system, and then, be able to do a physical disconnect, and power my own stuff. Being relatively rural, a large blizzard or tornado or other incident would mean a long wait to get back up, since i'm so far out of town.

Not if they are only off by 1% (or even less) over thousands of gallons a day, that is some decent money.

Also, this same division in most states is also in charge of things like Grocery Scales. Unless you want to drag a scale with you to the butcher, its a very good thing. Commerce only works when you know what you are actually getting, so you can compare.

Right.. Not like the FAA is trying to move to a new way of tracking planes using GPS or anything.. (http://www.faa.gov/nextgen/implementation/programs/adsb/) Or that Alaska Air already uses it on all its planes..

Doesn't Amazon pay Canonical if people make purchases? (I might be wrong about this -- if I am, please correct me.)

*If* Amazon does pay Canonical, and Bacon doesn't mention that in his post, I kind of feel like Bacon loses the argument. I mean, if they're getting paid, and he's making posts that say, "We're doing this only because we want you to have the best search experience," it seems a little disingenuous.

I use thunderbird at home, but the lack of cardDav support is really starting to annoy me, along with the fact that every time it gets an update, the version of lightning that I have to install seems to get worse.

How can I have imap, and caldav, to sync my mail and calendars (even if the calendars are buggy as hell) and no way to sync my contacts? is this still 1998?

I do the same.. but lately, been wondering how long my (very good) keepassX password would last against these GPU beasts.. :) Giving the computing growth of GPU's, i'm sure its not safe for nearly as long as I think it is.

Zarafa! I have migrated two companies now. Works exceptionally well. It uses outlook, so end users don't even realize they are not on exchange anymore. (course, webmail, or any imap/ical client work as well)

I remember the days of very, very slimmed down DOS boot disks to make your games run faster than they did with a bigger OS running on them. I often think of Linux in this context

They thought they had it, but realized they were not converting the units correctly. One group was using MebiBytes, and the other was using MegaBytes..

I like that virtualbox is available on multiple platforms.. Makes it much more likely to "play" with things when I can do it anywhere. it is also very, very easy to export with other common formats.

Wonder what the cost difference is between those two.. If you're putting it in a low cost device, a difference in price can be rather significant.. (ie, do I spend $30 more on each CPU, or go with the cheaper CPU, and $20 worth of extra battery)..

Oh, wait.. one is out in production. another has no firm release date.. So a brand new, not yet actually in use chip is faster, and uses less power than one that has been around a while.. Fascinating...