While driving around Honolulu back in February I couldn't help but notice something crazy like 1 out of every 6 homes had solar panels and/or solar hot water panels on their roof. I was in shock at the sheer number of solar panels strewn about on every single size and type of house I saw. I don't know what the power company there does but they seem to have it figured out since they seem to still be in business and everyone has power. I don't think the distribution lines are in any sort of disrepair as I didn't go through inspecting all the lines but it looked to all be in order. What do you think Hawaii has figured out that Oklahoma doesn't?

Don't forget that the basic idea is that you take the same electricity that was going to the oil well to pump up the oil, the refinery to refine the oil, and the gas stations to pump the gas up into every car's tank and just put that directly into the battery of an EV. Take out the super dirty, needless extra steps of getting from oil to your car's gas tank. Not to mention all the diesel that the tanker trucks and giant supertanker ships burn up to carry the oil and refined gasoline around.

Also don't forget about the vehicle to grid storage technology the power utilities get access to with very little upfront costs to them. They install a special meter in your garage and while you are asleep they can take a little power from the car and put it on the grid where it's needed then put it back later. Then you get a credit on your power bill - all while you were asleep. This is already been in use in Japan for a while now.

It's definitely best to go ahead and start building alternative energy cars now while oil is cheap instead of waiting until the last minute after oil is scarce and expensive. It's time to turn away from any fuel that you have to set on fire and transform into toxic chemicals that give humans lung problems or death. We need to put in our R&D into making every step clean and renewable.

In my case I customize ESRI's ArcGIS software. The most math I've had to use so far are things like algebra and a little trig. Mostly dealing with X, Y coordinates on a map to find distances using the distance formula and direction using the slope formula. But in every case I just googled up the formulas then wrote the code that would do them. So it helped to understand the formula in order to program it into the syntax of the language we were using at the time. The companies I've worked for started with VB6 but now use mostly VB.net and C# with a hint of Python and a dash of C++. In fact I actually took the branch of the CS degree at my college that had the LEAST math classes! It was called concentration in Information Systems and the highest math was Business Calculus which is basically "Advanced Math for Suckers". (Sorry if I offended anyone that loves or uses Business Calculus daily.)

I tried showing my mom how to use a PC a long time ago but she tried to pick the mouse up off the table to make the cursor move up the screen.
She would complain there were too many things to remember and too many steps and clicks and double clicks.
So I got her the 1st gen iPad back when it first came out and she has been loving it ever since. She figured most of it out on her own without any instruction.
I synced it to my iTunes on my PC with my iTunes account. This way I can control what goes on there and she doesn't have to keep up with anything at all. Also she doesn't have a credit card. I just update all the apps every time I visit every month or two and update the iOS every so often when I think to bring my laptop with me.
There are times when I wish I could see her screen when she has a question about a web page not showing correctly or acting right.
All in all she loves it and says it's the gift that keeps on giving!

This article, along with something I heard someone say while playing CoD:Black Ops on Xbox Live leads me to believe we are well on our way to having the predicted future depicted in the movie "Idiocracy" come to fruition. A future where everyone is dumb, lazy, and over occupied with entertainment to care that they are too dumb and lazy to notice the world falling apart around them. I'm not sure what or when it started but it seems that kids today are FERVENTLY against being smart. This has got to be one of the major problems behind the lack of enthusiasm and grades, etc. we are seeing in math and science. The thing the kid (I'm assuming high school age from his deeper range of voice tones compared to the higher pitched tones from obviously younger kids) said over the voice com on Xbox was, "I'm glad he quit that faggy science sh**." They apparently have a kinect which picks up ENTIRE CONVERSATIONS your opponents have going on in the room. They were discussing another one of their peers in choosing classes for something (maybe college in the fall?). This made me immediately think to myself, "when did kids start thinking this way and how can we change it?" Does anyone have any ideas because this needs to change soon if we don't want to become a nation of mindless, adult aged kids going to China, India, and Japan for all of our technology and innovation in the not too distant future.