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Most OS installs probably happen from a rescue partition in the HDD...
Netbooks and smaller laptops no longer have optical drives (even my thinkpad doesn't have one by default). More machines can probably boot from USB today than from CD.
Finally, perfecting this technology will be the final introduction of *true* 3D (2.5D).
(Without the need for extra glasses
And it will be the end of big TV screens sucking up power and manufacturing resources.
As a bonus, in games I can really look around with my head.
Can't wait...
The other major problem with nuclear power is it's massive carbon footprint. An average nuclear plant will have about 75%-80% the footprint of a gas/coal powered station. This is due in no small part to the 'carbon cost' of extracting the nuclear ore from the ground, shipping, enriching, shipping, turning into fuel rods, shipping
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Solar thermal is a much more efficient system of 'nuclear power' and it is very very very clean, with the nuclear reactor being 93 million miles away.
Please, somebody mod parent up as informative.
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