Comment WTF (Score 2) 277
I really like Marc Maron's WTF podcast. He get's some pretty cool guests like John Goodman and Kurt Anderson, and the interview he did recently with Byron Allen was incredibly interesting.
Comment Re:How wasteful we humans are. (Score 1) 349
The Palestinians would be better off if they took one of the many peace offers that were made (Camp David most importantly, which FYI gave the Palestinians E. Jerusalem).
The Palestinians want it both ways: they don't want peace, but are angry about living in total war (and losing).
Comment Re:Well, I *was* looking forward to watching this. (Score 2) 416
"rather poignant insight"
Lol.
This isn't "Obama's repeated tactic," every president has done this kind of thing. And every president does media events, makes appeals, etc.
And the fact that you think for the 120 minutes he spent on set, there was no one behind the wheel (so-to-speak) of the country, shows just how ignorant you are.
Ugh, these Fox News talking points have spread way too far.
Google Apps Deciphered 91
Lorin Ricker writes "Computing in the Cloud — Free Apps — Outsource It! Yippee! Automation TCO nirvana at last! You can hear the non-technical managers and home-users unite in grateful song and dance! If we can just offload our office applications and data to the Cloud Known As Google, that apparently bottomless source of storage, search and now other useful capabilities, our office automation problems will be solved! Hooray! 'Well, just y'all hold up there a minit, lil' cowboy. Thar's a few thangs y'all oughta know 'bout afore ya go rushin' off...' If John Wayne didn't say exactly that, well, he should'a." Keep reading for the rest of Lorin's review.
Wind Farms To Receive Future Wind Forecasts 57
An anonymous reader writes "If the US plans to develop wind farms across the country they need a better way to predict the wind direction and the duration. NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) is looking to do just that. In December, NCAR signed an agreement with Xcel Energy to develop a wind prediction system for the company's wind energy farms in Colorado, Minnesota, and Texas. Experimental forecasts may start as early as May. At present, most wind forecasts rely heavily on statistical forecasting methods, since the numerical weather forecast products available from operational centers are produced with coarse-grid, larger-scale models. The RTFDDA system, however, is designed to provide a birds-eye view of local weather for small areas of special interest, like wind farms, through a multiple level downscaling algorithm." I hope that decentralized weather-data gathering stations (like many people have feeding data to The Weather Underground) would be useful for this purpose.
Comment Re:Sounds like a job for Barcade (Score 1) 140
I would attend! Someone start it up!
Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone 290
taoman1 writes "Today Google showed off a ad-supported cellphone that the company plans to offer for free to interested parties. The product could reach the marketplace within a year, and will offer Google search, email, and a web browser. 'The move would echo another recent product launched by a phone industry outsider, Apple Inc.'s iPhone. But Google's product would draw its revenue from a sharply different source, relying on commercial advertising dollars instead of the sticker price of at least US$499 for an iPhone and $60 per month for the AT&T Inc. service plan. Negotiating the fairest way to split those advertising revenues with service providers could be a big hurdle for Google, one analyst said. Another problem is the potential that consumers could be scared off by the prospect of listening to advertisements before being able to make phone calls, said Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecommunications industry analyst in Atlanta.'"
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