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Comment Re:Coal is dead. Already. (Score 0) 769

There is such a thing as clean coal. Please educate yourself. Anthracite burns clean than NG. There is also plenty of low sulfer coal in Utah, unfortunately Clinton unilaterally declared the land a national monument, probably to help his buddies in Indonesia (the other source of such coal). Thanks.

Comment Re:Solar Panels on homes is just a good idea... (Score 0) 769

No, it is not. Unless you live in the southwest, solar on its own is un-economical. With subsidies, it may be break even. But should we really subsidize (from forced taxation) a power source that is only available at best half of the day (and often far less of the time than that)? Go Geothermal instead: a power source that is potentially available 100% of the time from 100% of the land on earth. That makes much better sense.

Comment Re:Wrong reasoning (Score 1) 769

All above are wrong. Forget stupid limits which can easily be circumvented. FULL transparency (and a functioning press) is what is needed, including the origin (especially if foreign) of millions of micro contributions supposedly made from fictional characters.

Comment Re:Accurate answer (Score 2) 365

Since they are translating a program/algorithm into circuitry, they need only to know the maximum number of gates that are used at any one cycle time (taking into account necessary time delays), so just adding all the gates per operation way over states the answer since and, not, or, etc. gate circuitry can be reused for different operations at another cycle time. Also, as for logic operations, run it through a Quine-McClusky optimization as well to minimize them.

Comment Re:Is Bill Nye qualified? (Score 1) 611

1) Neither a BSEE or a BSCompE is a BSCS. duh. 2) You forgot the very first grade of a CS degree... one that is taught purely out of an interdisciplinary CS program independent of Engineering, Math, or Business (used to be called an MIS degree). I realize that many colleges did not have a CS program independent of those others in decades past, hopefully most are nowadays. But all the programs out of Engineering, Math, Business are inferior to those that are purely CS though the rest of the hierarchy is good.

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