just what i was thinking, looked over at an old self and wondered if i could sell them an old backplane box as an example of how to make it work.. it was so nice to just drop in another CPU card as you needed.

You just gave me a great idea for a product, Camo LEGO. have them colored, painted to look like carpet, hardwood floors, tile's. then they could also be strategically placed in plain sight for the amusement of children.

But while i see the market as huge, i see the cost being a problem, as LEGO are so expensive that only the adults can afford to buy them and what right minded adult would by that for their kids to use against them?

But then again, given the path of society and the very scary nature of a lot of parents now days. it might be a viable product.

so while i don't have experiences in storing wind energy at sea or building islands. something that stands out to me as the same solution but i would think would be much cheaper and quicker. Do it the same way the oil platforms do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_(platform)

the nice large vertical cylinder is used to store the oil until a tanker comes and then it pumps into the tanker, then it moves to a new well and refills the tank.

Using the same basic design, you would not need nearly the same build requirements as an oil platform because a potential leak just reduces the effectiveness and isn't an environmental issue. Also using this design they could store them closer to the wind farms, move the potential energy as needed, and you could make them unmanned units which would further lower the cost to build.

for shallow waters the oil companies use the same design but rather build a concrete cylinder that is connected to bedrock, this is a permanent storage platform that normally gets it's oil from multiple small wells via pipelines and gives tankers a central point to load up. they could possibly use that design in place of a sand built island.

Also note, that you can just go out and buy a platform, new or used, (lot of old used Russian ones on the market). which could accelerate the time to market, and reduce their engineering overhead.

again, this seems a simpler solution then trying to build a sand island.

nope

that is far more difficult to do than if the exploit works on the WAN side.

SCOTUS rulings mean very little until you are in a court room.

i'll take that weeks pay, but then i might be cheating with a few pieces of old mil spec equipment laying round

I'm personally very unhappy about the x230's getting the chicklet keyboards. sure Lenovo did do a MUCH better job on them than others i've tried. almost to the point that it isn't a problem. BUT why? the traditional thinkpad keyboard worked perfect, and is still better. so while their chicklet keyboards are better than the rest, they are still worse than what they had. if they wanted to offer it as an option sure, but don't force something that is a downgrade from previous models onto your business customers, they spend alot of money with you and they don't like that.

So a funny thing about unwanted items, in the scrap steel industry, when buying/importing cars,containers, and things that have open cavities from Japan it is a common problem to find them stuffed with garbage.

you up for a game of GO? i haven't played in years..

http://kfor.com/2012/11/26/missing-kangaroo-on-the-lamb/

that's awsome

Right, but his complaint was that we eat too much meat and it causes health issues, and this article is about seafood. My point being is that eating more seafood isn't going to cause health issues, at least not the ones he is commenting about because we "eat too much meat".

Oh and my the way, most of what you listed is "sold in stores" now days, it just isn't the main consumer purchase as it's very expensive comparatively.

The Netbook market went from boom to flop because CPU manufactures didn't want to cannibalize their normal market and pulled production back, and the OS vendors didn't want to supply something light weight enough to be run on it. End the end to get something netbookish, that was current you where back to the cost of a low end laptop, so why bother? yes it went flop, but it wasn't because the consumers realized it didn't do what it wanted, but rather the suppliers realized people wanted it more than the higher margin items, and while they where making money, they where not making as much money.

FYI health wise, eating marine meat (fish & shell fish) is completely different then eating red meat.

you laugh, but there is a lot of science in making toilet paper, i can easily see 120 slides in a presentation on the topic.