Reagan only proved that you could already spend money your kids will have to earn. Problem is: We're the kids.

...if you get it started, of course. But you should pick your model carefully when you're in, say, Finnland.

Tesla Model S (or Model X) would fit the bill. But yeah, it's waaaay too expensive right now.

Doesn't matter. There's no sidetalk (i.e. you can't hear yourself) on the mobile phone, so lots of people scream even with earphones.

A lot of people ALWAYS scream into mobile phones. I _know_ that I can whisper into the microphone and it will be picked up just fine, but lots of people seem to think that you have to speak LOUDLY.

No, that's my stimulus package.

Back to Steve Woz?

With a ground-pointing camera and an estimation of altitude you can use feature detection to get a moderately accurate estimate of speed. This won't work if you're above the clouds, but if you are then doing the same thing with the clouds will give you a rough estimate of air speed, as clouds are approximately stationary relative to the air that contains them.

BeOS 5 is not easy to compromise remotely because the network stack crashes under load, or after a few minutes of low load. Does Haiku have the same feature?

The grid losses are about 7%, but that's because the distances are kept quite small. Most consumers are in the same state as their power stations, and often a lot closer. There's a reason power stations are built quiet close to cities. Try powering the coasts from a solar array in the middle of the USA and you'll see much bigger losses. And the middle of the USA is exactly where you want to have large-scale solar collectors: where you have lots of empty space with lots of sunshine.

Solar is not great for powering the grid, where the supply and demand must be balanced and where you want to put the supply and demand close together to minimise transmission losses. It's much better for workloads that are effectively charging batteries. If you stick big solar collectors in the middle of the desert, connecting that up to the grid for the rest of the USA is pretty difficult and you'll still have the problem that there are big demand spikes just as the solar sun starts to set. In contrast, if it's all producing hydrogen (or charging batteries), then you can build up a small surplus to cover times when demand spikes above production temporarily and you just need pipes to ship the water in and trains to ship the power out.

Well, I don't know about frat houses, but they sure invented the booze.

So you say we all evolved out of a bunch of managers?

Sorry, but there I draw the line. When Darwin said we evolved outta monkeys, ok. I could dig that. But managers... YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW!

So we should mod him inciteful, I guess?

There's a difference, which is that most crappy corporate software isn't attempting to define standards and a platform for everyone else to build on top of. OpenStack claims to be developing a vendor-agnostic standard and reference implementation for interoperable systems.