I skimmed the articles too, the authors glossed over a lot, but where the heck are you getting your numbers? By way of example, a 3kW rooftop PV rooftop system TODAY would cost you around 3.50 / W for the modules (10.5k) and $2000 for the inverter, for only around 12500 in materials. (solarbuzz) You think there will be no more progress downward in PV module costs?

how about it just goes to a home screen if it senses it's been whacked on something hard?

Funny you mention trig functions, I was just thinking this morning about the "black-boxishness" of trig functions.

I've wondered if maybe we'd be better of NOT teaching sin/cos immediately, and instead giving children Euler's identity first

Sadly, I've got to say, I never use Euler's, always the trig functions to solve real problems (I'm an electrical engineer.)

I've got a 3yrs old and a 2 years old and would love to see them have a better time with and a deeper understanding of math than I did.

Math was (and sometimes still is) a real pain for me, and I've never really understood why, becuase the rules are all very simple.

Ellison is an asshole, and Apothecker/HP are sissies.

What I really don't understand is if you're running a a database company, do you really want to trumpet how lousy your internal security is in federal court?

Always terrifies me at the bank.. bunch of Lenovo Peecees, running windows. But when I think about it, what could China steal from us that we haven't been just throwing at them anyways?

Not just pay folks who know how to exploit, no, they can pay folks who actually write the tax code! (congress) Look at the tax code, there's all sorts of crap like "15% deduction for drilling oil wells between 1003 and 1047 feet, in fartknock county, oblivia..." The tax code actually fills several rooms.

Hah, I read this "Cool is so old fashioned" Makes sense both ways.

Totally agree. FSF laid the foundation of tools for anyone to use to produce cool stuff. It'd have been very hard to get started with proprietary compilers and libraries. They're expensive, and they're all different.

Enough for a Beowulf cluster of shuttle fuel tanks!

Sure, watch this:

If Microsoft was allowed to make as much money as it should under a properly operating closed source software ecosystem, people from Seattle wouldn't need to sell overpriced coffee to get rich!

Let's have the tricycle gear, flying, snake dropping, driving, backfiring when stopping, autogyro and gyro-pilot from road warrior!

hahaha... yeah, me too, perhaps they didn't realize, in Corporate America, Oracle Issues Ultimatum to YOU!

Yep. I freaked out when I first saw this. The Register describes Boies as "The Reknowned Litigator".

The Register has better information. "reknowned litigator David Boies" Oh No.