And since SDXC cards are available at ~ $.40/GB (up to 256GB) addon storage is competitive with 2.5" SSD's in price if not performance. It would be nice if the internal SSD was about 4x that size though so you could have more programs than the base installed, but that would add ~$40 to the price which would make it too expensive to compete with Chromebooks.

Not really, for streaming writes a HDD is only about 1/3rd the speed of these drives (WD Caviar Black 1TB, 150MB/s sustained streaming write vs Intel 335 at 450MB/s streaming writes).

At least here in Ohio they'd get their transmission charge, which is roughly half of the cost of residential power, not bad for doing nothing but line maintenance =)

Residential installations also require fewer transmission system upgrades which can be a significant factor in overall costs. It's one of the reasons my mind boggles when utilities complain about net metering, the power is going to be produced and consumed on the local portion of the grid which is unlikely to require any new capital improvements to accommodate the solar generation until solar reaches stupid high concentrations whereas adding the same amount of total capacity at a remote location is going to cost them megabucks to build new transmission and distribution capacity.

If you're a utility you have your panels set up so that they rotate to face the sun

Nope, it's more economical to just stagger your layout if you want multiple inclinations, the cells are less expensive than installation in the western world, let alone expensive helio-tracking systems that are capital and maintenance intensive. The only solar tracking systems done at scale that I'm aware of are solar thermal plants, and even there the newer plants are single axis.

You don't need to do anything to get moist meat in an Akorn or any other Kamado, just cook to proper IT and it will be great. Last year I did previously frozen bird with 5% solution which is basically wet brined and no other treatment except some spices on the skin and it turned out great, the secret was pulling it when the breast reached 155.

The solution to not enough height is to spatchcock the bird, there's plenty of grate area to fit it.

how can anyone do that to the English language...

The correct response to that is:

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

On the other hand, I've heard advice that, if you're unavoidably going to hit an elk at highway speeds, you should slam on the accelerator to improve the odds that they'll bounce over the car rather than come in through the windshield. Not sure I buy it, but...

Myth busted

China, they're making as many AP1000 reactors as the rest of the world combined.

Now backup that dataset weekly for two months, tape wins easily. Even without the need for archives a minimal useful backup strategy favors tape.

Small claims court, no way does a PS4 level claim make it to a jury.

Actually, after the case was remanded the copyright office said that while they were a CATV system they could not just pay the compulsory licensing fees for some reason, it was a bizarre Catch 22 situation where they were a cable system for purposes of public retransmission under copyright law, but not for licensing purposes. Frankly it struck me as yet more proof of how corrupt and dysfunctional the system is.

Would governments be the only clients that private clouds truly make sense for?

Nah, we're on the small side of the S&P 500 and our "private cloud" has enough spare capacity to bring entire new projects online, spin up testing instances, provide an entire parallel Citrix farm (we're upgrading and want to have the old farm available for fallback in case we hit a critical bug), and still provide for the failure of up to two hosts without any overprovisioning. Infrastructure hardware and operating costs are less than 5% of our annual IT budget. For most companies that aren't doing massive public websites people and software costs will dominate over the cost of infrastructure.

I installed it last night on all domain controllers after testing it in my isolated testing network. It's not really optional since it allows any domain user to become domain admin and the only resolution to that is a domain rebuild or authoritative restore. It's also already been seen in attacks in the wild so you can assume the next client to get driveby malware will be going for domain admin.