"Someone is coming. Quick, tell them you see them."

"Why? I don't see them."

"It scares the hell out of people."

"R-O-F-L! All right. I see you."

"Ask her if the's still there."

"Are you still there?...She didn't say anything."

"No shit, Sherlock."

"What should I say now?"

"Come out, bitch!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5cl131KTk

So why is Microsoft still calling it "Windows"?

Apple doesn't call its OS for iPad/iPhone/etc. "OSX" anything, even though that's what it's derived from. It calls it "iOS."

So can't Microsoft pick another name for this thing, just to eliminate confusion? Like, say, call it "Metro OS," after the visual style it uses?

CM9 feels a bit sluggish on the Nook Color, but it's usable.

Thorium is a natural impurity found in coal. It has been estimated, in fact, that the thorium in coal would, if used as fuel for LFTRs, generate eleven times the energy that you would get from just burning the coal. And right now, all that thorium is simply wasted in the coal ash, or worse, goes up the smokestack and becomes an environmental pollutant!

Also, due to the higher temperature LFTRs run at, they can directly supply heat to drive the Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the coal that we'll no longer need to burn for electricity into synthetic petroleum. This would allow the U.S. to completely supply all its petroleum needs (especially for transportation fuel) from coal for at least 100 years, and eliminate the need for foreign oil. This, in turn, would allow the defense budget to be cut in at least half, as much of that expenditure is to protect our access to foreign oil. And it also reduces carbon emissions, since, while we're still burning the coal (after it's been transformed into synthetic petroleum), we're not burning the oil it replaced!

None of this requires new technology; we were running LFTRs at Oak Ridge in the 1960's (and they proved their safety by literally cutting power to the reactor systems and going home for the weekend!), and Germany was using Fischer-Tropsch back in World War II. All it requires is some engineering refinements...and, of course, the political will to do it. The latter, sadly, is lacking.

She has passed for all time between; we accord her a dragon tribute. May she always sing the black, and cut well.