I'd wager they'll draw far less - the demand for long battery life in the mobile space has made its way into desktop hardware. It's amazing what the engineers can come up with when they actually try to reduce power consumption. Today's crappy outdated system might have been a high-spec machine five years ago; unfortunately, that was near the peak of our "throw more electricity at the problem" phase in hardware design (Prescott, anyone?).

The government shouldn't be practicing race or sex discrimination in awarding contracts. Can the bidder do the job? Do they have the lowest bid? That's what matters, and that's what the taxpayers deserve to get for their money.

-jcr

"The IT industry is hurting for women.

The IT industry is no more "hurting" for women than the coal mining industry or the forestry industry or the alaskan crab fishing industry. There are more men than women in the IT business. There are more women than men other lines of work. So what?

-jcr

they slice it to molecular thickness and fry it in cheap crappy oil

Shows how much you know. Bacon doesn't need oil, it's got its own fat.

-jcr

If you don't boil bacon, how can you make bacon soup?

-jcr

You're just saying that because I get your sense of humor.

So your post is now at "0", up from "-1"?

I'm grad.

And may I say that I don't want you to be at the bottom of the ocean, either, at least until it's your time :)

Right. Now it remains to be seen whether the Judge is going to call Verizon in on the carpet. If I were the Judge, I surely would be doing that, but I haven't seen any hint of that in the Court's orders.

So far.

None of the procedures you described are applicable in this court.

I know you think you'e being clever, but the fact is that NASA worked very hard to prevent any private development of space flight capabilities for several decades.

-jcr