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Comment HOLD IT! HOLD IT!! (Score 1) 294

If you look at the charts on nature's site, they only mention ONE sugar substitute - SACCHARINE! Good grief, we've known for decades that stuff is not too great. No mention of the more modern sugar substitutes. Basically a junk article, but it's being quoted all over the internet as if it were fact.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 232

I completely agree with DoD. This is NOT a new trend....I left such a place almost two years ago. It was FDD plus liberal amounts of intimidation by a certain senior engineer, who thought his way was the only way to do things. When you identify an FDD shop - in the words of Commander Keen, avoid, avoid, avoid!!

Comment Re:NT is best (Score 1) 190

" The desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, ect.) on Linux are ugly, slow, buggy, and generally shitty." Shows what very little you know. The main problem with KDE and Gnome is, they improved them both to death. If you are not running top of the line hardware, forget it. As for XFCE and others, you clearly do not know what you are talking about. I switched to XFCE a few years back (from KDE). It does what I want, looks great, never gives any grief. And this is in a development environment, mind you. You may want to try a Linux distro that is not 10 years old next time.

Comment OOOps! (Score 4, Informative) 115

My mistake...Pluto has FIVE moons. Charon: Discovered in 1978, this small moon is almost half the size of Pluto. It is so big Pluto and Charon are sometimes referred to as a double planet system. Nix and Hydra: These small moons were found in 2005 by a Hubble Space Telescope team studying the Pluto system. Kerberos: Discovered in 2011, this tiny moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra. Styx: Discovered in 2012, this little moon was found by a team of scientists search for potential hazards to the New Horizons spacecraft flyby in 2015. may the 'little planet that could' keep right on thumbing it nose at everybody!

Comment AHEM... (Score 2) 115

Uh, folks, Pluto actually has FOUR moons... Charon: Discovered in 1978, this small moon is almost half the size of Pluto. ... Nix and Hydra: These small moons were found in 2005 by a Hubble Space Telescope team studying the Pluto system. Kerberos: Discovered in 2011, this tiny moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra. ...and it just keeps on thumbing it nose at the dwarfists, and now, the binarists. But tell me, how is a FIVE body system a BINARY system? Hmmmmm?

Comment Re:Glad to see you use the term 'assemble' (Score 1) 391

Boy, these kids are a mean bunch of mothers! I saw them bump that poor sod (or sods) off twice for calling them down on lack of technical expertise, and general nastiness toward someone who ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING! I agree, mate, REAL computer building is wire wrapping and monitor programs, neither of which these young pups would have a clue of until they googled them. My first machine was an 8080-based system on an S-100 bus. The power supply was a real monster, and when running, it would destroy over-the-air TV reception for the neighbors. (this was the 1980s; the neighbors did not yet have cable). Sheesh, you lot, lighten up with the grandpa jokes!

Submission + - Frigid Temperatures Show Future Threat To Electric Supply (spiweb.com)

Unknown74 writes: The frigid temperatures of early January had PJM Interconnection, the power grid operator for much of the mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, with its finger on the trigger ready to order forced electricity interruptions.

Fortunately, PJM barely averted forced interruptions. PJM made emergency appeals for consumers to make voluntary reductions. Michael Kormos, PJM executive vice president, reported "it may just be that last couple of
hundred megawatts (saved) that allow us not to take forced interruptions".

What many do not realize is that thousands of megawatts from coal plants that performed so well during this frigid cold spell will not be around in the winter of 2015/2016. PJM region currently has about 78,000 MW electric generating capacity. In 2015, 15,000 MW of capacity is expected to be retired — because the plants will no longer meet the new excessive EPA standards.

In other words, this region is going to lose about 22% of its generating capacity. And, we may not have to wait until next winter to feel the pain — what if we have a hotter-than-normal summer?
Will renewable power be able to step up in the next several months, and take up the 15,000 MW slack? Or will we have periods of no-power existence?

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