Wind will probably never supply that kind of percentage of any country's energy needs. It's too erratic and localized. If we're going to use renewable energy, it will have to be through a broad mix of complementary technologies (solar and wind are complementary, as when one is low, the other tends to be high). We should be using wind, hydro, solar, geothermal, and nuclear. Not relying too much on a given technology adds resilience to the system, and allows a given community to use whatever balance makes the most sense locally.

Offshore wind rigs would deal with a lot of the eagle problem. Not many eagles over the horizon on the Great Lakes, Hudson's Bay, or the ocean.

BC has had a carbon tax since 2008, applied in a revenue-neutral fashion to push down income taxes. Our carbon emissions are down 7.7% since 2004.

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/2035/carbon+driving+down+emissions/8473417/story.html

ten seconds with google: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro11,x

Bitcoin is divisible into 100-millionths, the "satoshi".

Well played.

Re-reading that story today, it's profoundly disturbing. These intrepid "explorers", on encountering an incredibly unique biosphere, proceed to destroy it.

It's pretty terrible.

Consider using a proper learning filter, like dspam. You can pipe it through procmail just as easily, and you can feed your corpus of spam into it. You won't get 100%, but it'll recognize spam you haven't seen. :0f
*
| /usr/bin/dspam --deliver=stdout

when he is making a mistake.

Side note, it actually enables a clever trick. Google 'zram'. Basically you create a RAM disk, compress any pages written to it, and use it as a swap partition. As your system memory fills up, less-used pages get compressed.

:(

Nail on the head. What about old games makes them bad? If anything, the time filter eliminates the bad ones.

And for those of us who've always gamed on Linux, being a few years behind is fine with me. I get new-to-me games cheaper. :)

So, better DX9 layer? Huzzah, my existing games run a little bit better, and maybe it opens up some new ones! That's a little exciting.

Odd that they wouldn't use the excess electricity to pump water up into a storage reservoir for future generation. That's what BC Hydro does.

I like and occasionally use Powershell, but it's hard to get excited about it, knowing that it'd probably sink with Microsoft. I'd be happier if the source were published, like other shell languages. I don't want to waste time on a skillset that's tied to a single company.

I know, right?

That was a good lunch. I had toast.