"MN wants 7% wind? well, uh, push it back to 2020 when we have more transmissions lines." "X percent solar? we have enough online already."

same thing the telcos are seeing and saying, the 60 year old plant out in the hustings isn't a cash cow any more, and relevance is quite expensive to maintain as technology changes. same thing you'd see from the hospitals if the Google Pill diagnosed and treated, all in one, for $12.95 plus a monthly subscription of $9.95.

so connect that meter to the oven and dryer. put up solar panels (you will need a permit to install and a permit to tie into the safety-isolation panel.) and let the utility's big cigars figure out how to maintain and prosper. it is not the function of a disruptive technology to salve the wounds of the old-timers. perhaps the Edison Electric Institute might consider assembling packages of solar/wind/grid systems for their member companies to sell (or lease) and stay in the game.

changing them all now... Post-1t.

because, hey, the killers took them once.

grow up, man. learn something. it's not too late.

that they take their regulators and public statements like they take their customer complaints... with a wave of the hand, and "Bah." all they want is negotiable checks, and everything else is crap to ignore.

are still dangerous. the half-life of plutonium is over 400,000 years (estimated.) and the slapdash solutions of the people tasked with guarding and encapsulating all our radioactive trash are still dangerous. we don't need another news report to make up our own minds on this...

you've never had the experience of having to port out data from SpecialApp on one system to ThunderCode on another system? dude, you always have to flush it through something, sometimes multiple somethings. this is the history of computing. why is bits that tinkle any different from bits that make payroll?

don't know about Day One, but when I bought the original iPod Mini on first day of sale, I had no problem importing MP3 files and WAVs into iTunes and the player. I was also able to export playlists as WAVs onto CDs for the car. that seems to void the whole premise of the lawsuit.

if it ain't in my pocket, it's on top of my videotape machine... a TT-70B the size of a Fiat. /-coot

namely, outsourcing all the equipment and control. make no mistake, OctopusCo doesn't suffer joy in the cubes, and doesn't care a damn about whether the work gets done. all they care about is the gaps in the contract. the way I'd look at this is, ramp up the cloud replacement, work in parallel for a while, and when it's proven, come in one night and pull the big switch on all the rusty old big iron.

let them war without me, I will be hanging Christmas lights and playing carols on my original iPod mini through fine 70s/80s stereo equipment.

this is what I call a trend ;) droids are not what we're looking for :-D

just don't vacuum up the spills, let the kiddies roll it around in their palms like we did. probably be a more efficient way to pick it up.

it's possible to dig it yourself...

so let's not talk any further about Carly ruining the US, OK?

Windows has so many piles of APIs and hooks rotting in the corners, unpatched for 15 years and longer, that it's perhaps time to blow up the known universe and start afresh.

the danger is that it becomes open competition for all business and consumer apps. but with a fully sandboxed emulator, as Apple did, the well-behaved stuff should get enough life to allow CrankyCo to take down their FrankenCode and streamline the apps around the core data.