Better yet, think of something totally new. If the primary joke of your Brady Bunch reboot is "Ha! Remember Brady Bunch?" then you've failed.

Seth MacFarlane's giant bags of cash beg to differ. ;)

I believe there's a Turkish solar panel maker that has hybrid PV/hot water panels (which increase PV efficiency as well as generate hot water) but I don't know if they can or do sell into the US market, or if there's a US-built competitor that does the same thing?

Except we did this for lead, CFCs, DDT, etc. And gee, no Global Communist Government seems to exist...

Who said the globalists would necessarily be a publicly-visible government?

Also, I would bet that malaria kills more Africans than war, and irrational fears of DDT have contributed to more African deaths than the AK-47.

There's no such thing as irrational fear of global communism.

As far as Global Warminating is concerned, I'll take it seriously when the self-righteous greens and politicians take it seriously. That means: MASSIVE investment in LFTRs (as in, Manhattan Project with factories cranking out thousands of community 2-10MW reactors per year, NIMBY preemption, with 25% of all power generation in 5 years and 75% in 10 years) and making celebrity/pol lifestyles match their rhetoric (no more 10k sqft houses with massive power bills, no more private jets to wasteful junkets, etc).

When the hypocrisy stops and the real technological solutions begin, maybe I'll pay attention.

Also, all climate _data_ must be opensource and publicly available, for free, along with methodologies. That's what real science means.

OK, 10 years is a bit long to be avoiding the IRS/Inland Revenue, but I still believe it.

The lead photo's caption says:

"Workers celebrate as the "Big Becky" tunnel boring machine makes its breakthrough in Niagara Falls May 13, 2011 for the new hydroelectric project there."

To be fair, the print is relatively small.

You actually should look for the best processor/disk/etc BEFORE memory, since RAM is where vendors like to bend you over a counter and rape you. I miss the days where you could buy computers (especially Macs) with 0MB RAM and then fit it yourself.

The only exception to this is where the RAM is soldered onto the system board, like the Macbook Air. Or, if you're exceedingly lucky, you buy from a vendor that doesn't have a one-size-rapes-all RAM pricing policy.

Paid time off for training plus certs I would consider tantamount to vacation time, and would appreciate it.

Last training I went to was for SunCluster, and there was some neat hardware to play with in the lab, and the instructor was actually pretty solid. Got to do some extracurricular HBA tweaking as well as one of the other students' systems wasn't recognizing the one in his workstation.

Plus, A5000 arrays, which I just think are neat even though their capacity can be matched or exceeded by desktop drives these days.

Wifi can be handy as a 'core' network if you live in an apartment and don't want to (or can't) drill holes to run copper throughout. An extended 802.11n 5GHz-dedicated works well enough to feed 1080p from my upstairs NAS to my downstairs home theater. Still, if I owned, or had an apartment with ethernet wall plates, I'd take advantage of that..

Is there a SugarCRM module for running a medicinal marijuana biz?

This crap is basically what Richard Pryor was doing in Superman III, shaving off the difference between bid and ask, millions or billions of times a day.

Also, if you want to see more fraud, check out dark pools and fake bids..

My question is, how do you get picosecond performance with any networked system? Wouldn't you need a CPU clock to resolve that finely first at a bare minimum?

What, no Cyberiad reference? Maybe it's folded into a reply or under my threshold...

I'd turn it into an opensource 'App Store' that catalogs opensource software, provides downloads for all platforms, source and documentation, as well as interactive help wikis or other sorts of user-generated docs and troubleshooting help. Add a search engine or mechanism that lets folks put in the name of closed-source software they wish to substitute and have it come up with a list of well-supported opensource alternatives.

Or, sell it to American Express for a healthy profit and use the proceeds to fund OSS development.

The faster this channel can be made dead the better, they've been out of my Tivo channel list for many years. Fuck them dead with a fuck tool.

I guess Iceland's made its peace with geological instability (one would think you'd have to, by definition), but other geothermal efforts around the world are being halted or seriously delayed because of earthquakes they are believed to have caused:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/science/earth/11basel.html