Comment Obviously (Score 1) 736
Obviously, they do it for the chicks.....
Comment Towing and tunnels? (Score 1) 891
What about when a car is towed, or ferried, or moved some other way which gas isn't used?
How about driving through tunnels where you can get a GPS signal? I say we build our own underground road network!
Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 1235
Meanwhile I have yet to find a cell phone with an option to record the calls made on it.
I'm pretty sure my Nokia phone had that ability. It has since died a slow antenna loss death.
Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 1235
I'm pretty sure my old Nokia phone had that ability.
Comment Re:Humor? Entertainment? (Score 1) 1654
According to the story she somehow accidentally ordered the laptop with Ubuntu. I am not sure how she managed that because I have to *search* Dell's site to find their Linux offerings, but I digress and that is irrelevant anyway.
1) Go to http://www.dell.com/
2) Choose "Laptops" under the "For Home" menu
3) Choose "Less than $700" under "Price" on the left hand side.
4) Click on the first result, "Inspiron Mini 9n"
5) Order the cheapest laptop
6) Ignore the second line of the specs, "Ubuntu Linux version 8.04.1"
If someone just wanted the cheapest laptop, they could easily order it on accident.
But I agree with you that she's at fault for not trying to use it.
Comment Depends... (Score 1) 361
It depends on the area they're going to work in.
If they're trying for tech support, maybe a book on Indian (or even Chinese) accents.
Submission + - Nuclear Power: Too Hot to Handle?
miketheanimal writes: The Oxford Research Group http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/ have published a report arguing that Nuclear Power is incapable of providing anything like enough generating capacity to have any useful effect on greenhouse emissions. In their report http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications /briefing_papers/toohottothandle.php they argue that there is no way that the nuclear industry can build anywhere near the number of reactors needed; that even if they could then the global supply of suitable Uranium is limited to around 25 years, at which point it would be necessary to build Plutonium producing breeder reactors; and that most of the expected 50% increase in electricity needed over the next half-century is in the developing world (ie., in countries you might not want to have nuclear reactors).
What do SlashDoters think? Realism in the face of a nuclear whitewash? Green propaganda from the environmentalists? Global warming is a load of rubbish so it doesn't matter a jot?
What do SlashDoters think? Realism in the face of a nuclear whitewash? Green propaganda from the environmentalists? Global warming is a load of rubbish so it doesn't matter a jot?
