It's an odd definition but it's a common one. People often complain (incorrectly) that solar cells take more electricity to manufacture than they produce in their lifetime.

This is a study saying that they "pay back" the input resources in a small fraction of their life span. It's refuting all of the FUD around green energy that it's just taking Coal and Petroleum and storing it inefficiently in a wind turbine or solar panel to be slowly released over the course of several years.

Nonsense. "White" is not a dirty word, nor is "Black", they are just terms. But if people are going to describe people's "race" based on a continent/huge region of origin, then "European American" is no different than "Asian American", "African American", "Latin American", etc.

If you are Black, I am White.
If you are Negro, I am Caucasian.
If you are African American, I am European American.

I believe strongly in *EQUALITY*.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

So, since we are into discrimination and punishing...

In my city, European Americans *are* the minority (to African Americans; there are very few of any other race). So would THEY be eligible for free preferential treatment from Google?

Or does "minority" just mean anyone who is not European American?

If you eliminated all of the tax-breaks, direct subsidies and petro-wars the price of a gallon would cost far more than it does now even with gas taxes etc.

Yeah premium Battlefield 3 and 4 player here too. I give up. I kept thinking the next patch would make it playable. It never was/is.

I don't care about EA, it's not EA's fault per say--EA owns Respawn and the launch of Titanfall was all around quite good. It's just the Battlefield team is incredibly terrible/lazy.

I'm also definitely not buying Hardline seeing as I saw someone play the beta and it even uses all of the icons and sound effects from Battlefield 4. It is Battlefield 4 with a couple tweaks but a full game price. Screw that. If it was a $10 add-on or gift to premium customers who were cheated on BF4's unconscionable launch I would happily take it for a spin but not another dollar to the Battlefield team.

All this silly "Volcano Warning" FUD. Why, 100,000 years ago, this whole land was covered in Ash and lava from a giant super volcano. Why should I evacuate or worry about this "volcano warning"? Billions of dollars on Volcano Warning systems when people used to co-exist just fine with volcanos without freaking out every few decades about "imminent death". /s

The problem with Dropbox and the reason I refuse to use it whenever possible is because they're a pyramid data scam. If I share a file with someone (say 10GB of footage from a photo shoot) and they want to accept it, the 10GB I shared with them fills up their entire capacity unless they want to buy more space themselves.

If I have 1TB of OneDrive footage and I share 1TB of data the other person has 0TB taken up of their own space.

DropBox seriously needs to drop their double, triple and quadruple + dipping of data limits.

The argument for Electric cars though is that we already have a huge interest in improving battery technology. From phones, to transportation to laptops etc. Developing and advancing the state of the art hydrogen technology doesn't have nearly as wide-reaching application.

It's the center of the case. The 5th protects you from self incrimination but you can be compelled to offer up a key to a safe. (And why wouldn't they). The gray area is a safe they find buried in your back yard. If you admit to knowing the combinations then you are taking ownership of the safe and the evidence within. If you say I never knew there was a safe buried there then you aren't liable for the gun contained within.

It's less of a gray area though if they dig up a safe and the police ask you "Is this your safe?" "Yes" "Can you open it?" "yes". You've admitted to having the key/combination. You've admitted the evidence that they found is yours. Similarly once a police officer suspects you of a crime and gets a warrant he can force you to unlock your door and let them in. They can't force you to unlock someone else's door and let you in if it's not established that it's your house.

Please consider running for office as a GOP candidate -- you've got that special je ne sai quoi.

Microsoft must be really desperate.

No thanks.... oh, and no thanks on that Air thing either... love my Nexus 10 tablet. :)

>" That's a Japanese sport touring bike with a big crotch rocket engine. It's reasonable quiet until you get onto the freeway and wind it up."

I *have* a 1.4 liter Japanese sport touring bike with huge performance. And like all other factory Japanese bikes, it is not loud at all, regardless of how much I "wind it up". Why? Because I didn't replace the stock, legal, quality, perfectly appropriate muffler with some loud, annoying aftermarket thing that serves no purpose except to scream "look at me" (or "listen to me, whether you want to or not") and pretend that it does something for performance (which they do not).

Loud is not performance. Loud is not safer. Loud is just annoying.
http://www.noiseoff.org/pipes/

But it doesn't need to be *LOUD* to accomplish that. It certainly needs to be no louder than a modern, quiet car.

I wish people with loud vehicles would be ticketed to death... and that especially holds for boom-box cars.

http://www.southparkstudios.co...

>"with the electric Harley able to go from 0 to 60 mph in four seconds."

Wow, so that makes it only twice as slow as my old gas Kawasaki. Extreme noise (because people think loud = performance, which it does not) and vibration (along with poor handling and old tech) are Harley trademarks... I can't imagine why they would be interested in producing such a model.

According to the article they're also developing a more traditional fork of *nix. However these aren't being shopped around to Windows Shops or someone wanting a faster LAMP stack, this will undoubtedly be sold to special purpose built computing customers who are more than happy to write-to-the-platform if it means more performance.

Super computer programming already is kind of off in its own playground. This will just be another option.