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Comment: Re:Ugh. (Score 1) 331

by Chickan (#40026937) Attached to: Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans
Check out Pageplus Cellular. Works on Verizon's network with your verizon phone. $30 a month (including taxes) gets you 1200 minutes, 3000 text messages, and 100mb of data. Sure the data is limited, but the price is right. Best of all, no overage charges since its prepaid, and if you don't like it you can leave at any time. I had Verizon for years, but hated paying $30/month just for data when I rarely used it. Its the best of both worlds for me, I can use just about any verizon smart phone (which I buy used), use verizon's network, but its super cheap. I was on Virgin Mobile before, but Sprint's coverage sucks at my work.

Comment: Re:Bring back Neutron Jack (Score 1) 301

by Chickan (#34223408) Attached to: GE To Buy 25,000 EVs, Starting With the Chevy Volt
Its not a "diesel" engine, it is a gas turbine engine. They operate the same as aerospace gas turbine engines, except they are 10-20x bigger (think school bus sized). It is a continuous burn, no pistons or cylinders, and some of them are up to 60% efficient (compared to 35% for coal and 10% for your car). They can burn just about any fuel too. See ge-energy.com . GE makes quite a few land based gas turbine engines, in Greenville SC.

Comment: Re:Suicide? (Score 4, Interesting) 1343

by InsaneProcessor (#31439030) Attached to: Accidental Wii Suicide
I am a gun owner. This guy needs to be locked up for the rest of his life because he is an idiot. I do not leave a gun loaded in the house. Easy to load yes, but not loaded. I don't have any children that young and both of my kids shoot with me. All of my guns are always secured, even after intruder checks.

Comment: Re:False analogy. (Score 1) 664

by mackyrae (#31438598) Attached to: Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall
No, we pay to be told which pages of a textbook are relevant and take exams on the material. Classes are a waste of time. Skip them all, and read the textbook, and you'll learn it better than you will just listening to your professor gab. Twice now, I've discovered when reading the textbook just before an exam that hey, this stuff *can* be interesting, it's just the professors that make it boring! Stupid attendance points.

One exception: Gabe Parmer, GWU's new Operating Systems professor, can make confusing things like concurrency (spinlocks, semaphores, etc.) and page caches easy. After spending only one day on concurrency in his class, I got it. I overheard one student tell him that in a computer architecture class they'd spent 2 weeks on page caches without it making sense, but he'd just taught it in one day, and it made perfect sense. Such teachers are rare.

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