Lightning is DC. Not many survive that

You know they used Amigas to developp Lightwave while doing CGI for Babylon 5 right?

They're not targeting the same market. But even then, the batteries are on the floor (meaning really low gravity center) and electric motors will have *way* more torque than even BMW's inline 6. But as I said, they're not catering to the same market.

A friend's neighbor owns a Model S. Winters get much colder than -20C in Montreal and the car has no problems (albeit with diminished range, but not by much)

Something like Chevy's Volt but with *way* more range on electric alone.

Hydro-Quebec (wonder where that name comes from) generates most of its power using, guessed it, Hydro. We also had Gentilly which was a Candu nuclear plant (shut down in 2012). What's nice about that design is it can use waste fuel from other reactor types

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Some women have higher silicon contents than others

Tchernobyl? learned how to hot-flash a BIOS thanks to that one...

All bongo drums and smoke signals here. A little laggy in Quake

"The Commodore, like the Apple ][, was a 6502 machine. Neither of these had anything to do with Microsoft, which was only working with the 8080 instruction set. "

Wrong on both counts. Commodore's BASIC interpreter was written by Microsoft. Apple's Applesoft was also written by Microsoft (albeit much slower than Integer BASIC).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Integer BASIC is the one Woz wrote (by himself)

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British Thermal Unit? just a guess...

AM would be better but can it be done on a chip?

Won't matter much if the links are cut. A radio station could at least install a temporary antenna if it doesn't have one on its roof.

"The core2 was introduced in 2006. - Almost a decade ago and core2 based computers are still quite damn fast today."

Agreed. My hands-me down i3-2100 is faster than the 3.2 C2D it replaced, yes, but I didn't fall off my chair. Anything more recent than a P4 will be usable for everyday tasks for most people.

As for AMD going down, I really don't want to go back to paying a thousand dollars for a CPU...

And YOU just made my day :)