This is a university press release. They probably talked to him and and asked him questions until he put it that way, because "if we say chemically oxidized no one will know what we're talking about". I bet he doesn't use that word in the paper.

Coal is 84% carbon, 10% oxygen, 4% hydrogen, and 2% nitrogen (or so). Short of nuclear fission or fusion, you're going to get carbon and oxygen out of it no matter what you do.

The question is how much energy you get out. If this process were twice as efficient (in terms of CO2 per MW) then it would still be a worthwhile improvement wouldn't it?

If they don't tinker with the OS, how are they supposed to add value?

Why, with what you're suggesting, they would just be commodity dumb pipes. When has a phone company ever admitted that?

You're not forced to take the update, but at least it's available to you if you want it.

Depending on the specific manufacturer/phone, an Android device may get a few updates, possibly very late, or none at all.

Sounds find to me, as long they teach real CS, and don't just teach Word and Excel and Powerpoint. It constantly frustrated me that my little sister's computer classes where never anything more than "Make a presentation in Powerpoint". Microsoft should work to put an end to that being the end-all of computer education. That should only be a small part.

It's basically a return to the backplane days of the 8080/8086, except that memory has to stay on the CPU card for speed reasons.

People are mad because (say) 500,000 manufacturing jobs were replaced with workers overseas. If 1,000 jobs are created here to manage those robots, that still leaves 499,000 people mad because their job doesn't exist any more.

And the truth is that there is a large difference between people making portable DVD players and people running the robots to make the portable DVD players. It's quite possible that very few of those 1,000 "saved" jobs would even be people in that original pool.

I understand we don't want them watching what we're buying on Amazon, but isn't part of their responsibility as a network operator to ensure that their network isn't actively harming others?

It's been done, but I'm having trouble finding links.

• ABS strikes me as a bad idea because of the fumes.
• PLA has been used to do casting. It's a bioplastic based on corn so I don't believe it's toxic when burned like ABS is.
• PVA seems like it might be ideal. PVA dissolves in water, so you could make your mold and then just flush the positive out of it with hot water.

I know I've seen this on Thingiverse. I believe I've also seen people make negative molds on a Makerbot, use that to make a was positive, then use that to make a negative and cast from there.

Is IMAP really so bad?

The first iPods were just FireWire hard drives. There was nothing special to them. As long as you had software that could update the library file to make the thing recognize music, you could run it from Windows. I remember that there was at least 2 or 3 third party programs you could buy at a computer store to let you use your iPod on a PC.

I don't remember anyone being sued over it.

That's not entirely true. Windows CE code was available, but developers basically didn't use it much. cnet covered this at the time of launch, and in the end only around 50 games used it (out of over 700 created).

One of the Japanese launch titles, Sega Rally 2, used Windows CE, and it had a very inconsistent framerate. I believe the game was later re-released as a "native" game, which may have been the version released to the US. You can still fine some sites that mention some of the problems.