No. It blocks mostly in the non visible wavelengths. You won't have any trouble seeing through the car windows.

So if you block 80% of the infrared and you are blocking 60% of the total energy you are only blocking something like 20% of the visible light.

Other than it's where you live what is your fixation with the Earth? I'm assuming you should have said towards the SUN since it happens to be the center point of the system as a whole. Or am I missing something technical that somehow shows that the earth is specifically effecting this interaction?

If you have to unscrew a light bulb it's not OK but if you have to get a friggen forklift to haul out an oversized side by side fridge it is OK?

You have some really weird attitudes about what is permanent.

I can unscrew a light bulb with no tools, no ladder, no forethought or planning.

You can't get a Washer/Dryer/Refrigerator out of the house without multiple people doing hard labor or one person with specialized equipment and lots of planning.

And what about the disconnect between saying "disconnecting it from utilities" and unscrewing a light bulb? Is not the AC power coming through a light socket the "utilities" and isn't unscrewing a light bulb the same as "disconnecting it from utilities"?

Not preinstalled enough.

1. Dell doesn't preinstall anything in the sense that they build to order. How many times do you read about something like the Dell mini 9 for $99 that people won't see for 6 months after they paid for it before you realize they aren't "just in time" they are "after they should have done it".

2. The statement about "a major manufacturer starts preinstalling it" implies that they do so for the majority of their products or do so in a way that it is the default choice when ordering a system. Until Joe sixpack orders a Dell without thinking "Hey, I want Ubuntu on that" and actually gets Ubuntu on it you can't call it preinstalled as though it has any significance

3. You can't even get Ubuntu from Dell on most systems. Take the Optiplex 740. Say I want to support AMD and still get Ubuntu preloaded. My choices when I buy that PC today are

Genuine Windows Vista® Business Service Pack 1, with media, 32, ENG [add $99 $38]
        Dell Recommended - Includes Windows Vista Business Assurance

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Service Pack 1, With media, 32, ENG [Included in Price]

Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate Service Pack 1, with media, 32, ENG [add $115]

Genuine Windows Vista Business Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade [add $99 $38]

Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade [add $115]

I'm not seeing a lot of love for Ubuntu in those choices. Given it's a business PC I'm not happy they are charging extra for the XP downgrade that was/is supposed to be free downgrade for Corporate users. I'm not happy they are playing bait and switch with a professional line of PCs that defaults to a home OS. Sure I can take whichever silly choice is in the list and format the drive. I have CD-Rs laying in plain site in my office with the last 3 major Ubuntu releases but anything I do with those ISO downloads I got from http://www.ubuntu.com/ is way far removed from the concept of "preinstalled".

Yeah you can't put the exact same heatsink on them but take a look at the Accelero S1 Rev. 2 at http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_&mID=105&language=en

You even putting a 120mm fan on it doesn't cover the entire fin area. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article793-page5.html

Yeah with fan it'll be a 3 slot solution and yeah it only weighs half the weight of a high end CPU heatsink but then again that is not their biggest GPU heatsink.

The heaviest solution on AC's site is the Accelero XTREME 4870X2 at 680g which is getting up there for weight on a graphics heatsink. http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_0&mID=244&page=spec

I'd say its more of an issue that pure clock speed only covers some GPU problems. Memory bandwidth/latency, number of GPU cores, design of the cores, programming issues are all more difficult to balance than just ramping up the clock. They could cool these chips better but would it really be worth the cost/effort if the rest of the design and supporting software can't take advantage of it?

or since you had to reboot after a crash anyway you could just hold the mouse button down during the reboot and the floppy disk would eject automagically.

Paper clips were nice for when the OS thought it ejected the disk but physically it was still in the drive. Then a paper clip saved you from rebooting.

Oh please. I used IE to download Netscape navigator/communicator back in the day.

Netscape Navigator/Communicator was my Firefox downloading tool.

Now I use USB drives or network shares to get Firefox on a PC other than my primary. I'm not going to use IE over and over to download Firefox. What are you a masochist?

Troll?

parent (644bd346996) mentioned it was far from cheap.

grandparent (edmudama) mentioned Intel SSD used MLC.

grandgrandparent (Joce640k) used the phrase "cheapest possible MLC"

MLC does not equal "cheapest possible MLC".

Not using enough words or quoted material to make it clear doesn't make what he said false.

I'd say the grandgrandparent was right with his entire post and deserves a 3 or 4 insightful and the so called trolling parent was modded down incorrectly. At worst his post should get a +1 or +2 and be ignored by most but it sure shouldn't be a -1 and marked troll.

Somebody needs to check the logs and metamod the moderator that marked that post as trolling.

Yet just as importantly if they exploit the patent with a company he isn't part of he still gets 30%.

While it is true they could just sit on it until he is dead if they made the 70% too high they are likely to want 70% of something more than 70% of nothing so they have an incentive not to sit on it if it is a truly marketable idea.

I doubt they are going the RIAA route of saying you get 30% of the income but have to pay for all the up front costs. 30% of the profit is much better than 30% of the income.

I suppose the real danger there is them letting the government use the patent for "free" and the government supporting the school with more funds as an "unrelated" matter. That'd be the best way for them to profit from your idea and keep you from getting 30% short of RIAA style math.

But lets face it once anyone has the knowledge they can screw you even if there is no legal backing. People do illegal activities for money all the time.

I'd rather have the agreement up front that legal use would give me profit than to have nothing in writing and have to hope the courts agree with common sense.

If :) is a smile then the bottom is to the right. 3 would be a ball sack then.

Why would people assume that all the other emoticons have the bottom on the right then switch it up for 3? Is there any other emoticon that the bottom is on the left?