Your lips (keys) to God's ears.

I was at Carroll Touch back in the 90s. It did not support multi-touch.

I think it is news because nobody, until now, came up with the obvious idea is to add a IR touch panel over the display in the car.....DUH!

New Brunswick?

She won. She will now sport a lucrative career as a public... whatever. The narrative has been formed. Political Correctness has no room for objective truth. Just like the crumbling of lies surrounding the Rolling Stone/UVA 'rape', we shouldn't be looking at facts and events. Brianna's feels are more important.

Once again, the most dangerous group to women is formed of other women.

This is excellent news. It's absurd that so many typical documents are stuck in proprietary formats. As stuff changes we should be able to read older documents using any tool we'd like. This is a major step along the way; there are now even more systems that support open document format. Congrats to Google!

I work for an aerospace cabin integrator and we're always looking for good TechPubs people. My company offers fully paid classes within our field. The great thing is that the TechPubs folks work hand in hand with the engineers. You can talk with them and figure what type of engineering work you want to do, stress, electrical, structures, flam, systems, furniture... and we just touch the inside of an airliner.

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Most software developers will take one look at the excessive parentheses required for Kawa and Scheme and say "nuke it from orbit". Even Lisp advocates like Paul Graham admits that syntax like "(* (+ 1 2) (- 5 4))" is painful to deal with.

Thankfully, there *are* solutions for Scheme: SRFI-105 and SRFI-110 (which I co-authored). These are extensions to Scheme that let you keep meta programming (and syntax tree editing in an editor) with readable syntax. To my knowledge Kawa doesn't implement them, but they could be added.

My understanding is that currently a patent is still valid EVEN IF the drug is taken off the market. But I think that's the right solution: Change the rules so that if you take a drug off the market, the patent is immediately declared abandoned, and anyone else can make it.

Stopping to make the original drug should cause immediate expiration of its patent. A patent is a government-created monopoly to encourage people to make the stuff. Clearly, if the company won't make it, there's no need for the patent. Requiring a company to make something they don't want to make is absurd; instead, just let others make it. And if they raise the prices substantially, perhaps require patent licensing in those cases (just as we did for music).

The Utilities should be focused on the need to dramatically grow the market for electricity rather than worrying about losing 10% or 20% of today's small market to DER deployments. Today, only 1/3 of energy delivered to end-users is in the form of electricity. The remaining 2/3 is largely fossil fuels. Those fossil fuels are primarily consumed in direct, point-of-use combustion to provide energy in transportation or thermal (heating) applications. The utilities should understand that almost every penny of revenue that flows to satisfy the 2/3 of demand not currently satisfied by electricity is, in fact, money that could instead flow to the electric sector (both utilities and DER).

The key to growing electric revenues, and thus making DER irrelevant, is "fuel switching" -- switching from fossil fuels to electric vehicles and heat pumps (for heating/cooling). This switch is largely inevitable and will result in greater efficiency of energy use, lowered emissions, lower costs for consumers and higher revenues for utilities. Over the next few decades, it is clear that we must move away from fossil fuels. The environmental impacts of fossil fuel use will only become increasingly unacceptable and it is inevitable that the price of fossil fuels will increase. Over time, we'll see an increase in the portion of delivered energy that is in the form of electricity. We'll also see it generated from cleaner sources.

What we will see over the next few decades is the "Second Great Electrification" of society. The first great electrification began over a 100 years ago and has primarily focused on lighting, communications, appliances and entertainment. The Second Great Electrification will focus on transportation and HVAC (heating/cooling). The result of this will be one of the most massive transfers of income in history: We'll transfer most of the revenue and profits of the fossil fuel industry to the Electricity Generation industry -- some of which is utilities but much of which will one day be composed of site-sourced renewable energy such as rooftop solar, wind, etc.

Isn't this because the monitor industry stole some pixels? The 1920x1200 monitor vs 1920x1080 chops off a good portion of the screen real estate.

Hell, a good 1560x1440 or more is perfect for side by side, no need to flip. (for me anyways)

Great, now I gotta carry 3 phones, my work phone, my personal phone, and the government mandated identification phone. You dont need the 4th phone the "weed" phone anymore in my state, its legal in Washington. Well, if weed is your only illegal activity...

Off-topic side note about WalMart. I've done data cable work at more than a few and found that they do one really neat trick when they build: For their main electrical room they haul in a 40' container (before the walls are up) and set it in the back of the store. All the electrical mains come in there through a wall. All the main breakers and the telco demarcation point is in there so if they catch fire the rest of the store has a chance. Off-topic but kind of cool if you're into that thing, which I am.

Go go Godzilla!

FTFY