Biden said he also learned from his talks with tech's top CEOs that 200,000 of the jobs that companies provide each year to highly-skilled H-1B visa holders could in fact be done by Americans with no more than a two-year community college degree

So perhaps he can reconcile those two concepts and explain why we allow H1Bs when we have MILLIONS of unemployed college grads?

Mr. Biden, I have a word of advice for you - CEOs lie. And not just a little, but as their primary (and sometimes only) qualification. You might not want to go around repeating the crap they spew to try to sway you to do their bidding. It just, y'know, make you look like a little like a Special Olympics winner, if you get my meaning.

some say oxygen and ozone were in the early atmosphere in significant concentration due to disassociation of water by ultraviolet light

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

you are full of shit, the money Nasa spends on manned space flight is in the few billions (like a billion for Orion or 1.7 billion on space launch system); private companies can deal in that range.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/defa...

No, they're there to cater to a couple of UI designers' whims, which is how we got an interface that none of the users wanted.

Better be satire, because that is factually incorrect, there are industrial colliders, a subset of the thirty thousand of commercial particle accelerators in the world, government owned ones are 3% of the total.

still it is meaningless to just fixate on diameter, energy of beam and type of particle(s) are the relevant parameters for determining what kind of useful physics can be done

There are two inches of white space on the left an text off the screen to the right. Whoever programmed that Scribd site was incompetent as hell.

The challenge is a challenge. The goal is clearly to produce usable power, not to need more filtering. While the requirements for this contest don't require grid-tie, that's something that can be implemented later.

Yes. Don't listen to the sibling comment, which ignores the well-known fact that deforestation in fact was a contributing factor. Of course, if you actually wanted to know the answer to your question, you would have found it with google, dozens of times over.

You don't get points for giving up what you can't hold at the time anyway.

Well, I'm not sure how long I would have had to wait to get a better player for $20 at a yard sale.

"On the other hand, if you want a solar-powered Chromebook, the inverter could be a deal-breaker on the weight."

You wouldn't need an inverter, really. In many cases, low-power laptops run on ~10VDC, so a direct solar panel connection with resistor would be roughly fine to hit the battery through its charge controller. For those needing ~20V, you just use a cheap-ass boost converter and resistor before you feed to the charging/power circuitry.

Been there, done that, made solar-powered headless laptop servers.

600? 480VDC would be fine. 5A roughly? Easy-peasy.

K. gimme an oscillator, variac, and an inductor.

Deuces.

I have the world's slowest blu-ray player, an original Sony. BDP-S300, I think. It lacks both ethernet and performance. Sadly, the Raspberry Pi lacks SATA, which is what the unit uses to connect to the optical drive. That gives it hack value, though not with R-Pi. I'd probably have to shoehorn something Micro-ITX in there, or use a laptop motherboard, as the optical drive is smack in the center.

I've bought just one Blu-Ray movie because the player is so godawful slow and I have to use a crappy remote with it. Ideally I'd be able to run XBMC on Windows (XP or 7) on whatever I stuffed into the case, and then I could use the android remote app. Right now my entertainment system is a mk908 running Finless 1.4 or so and it leaves a lot to be desired. Playing discs is one of those things.