Apparently Trump has the power to alter physics for nuclear reactors, cause the first line says he "sped up the deployment of nuclear power reactions". Amazing.

The article states that heat pumps are "delivering three to four times more heat per dollar spent than oil- or gas-fired heating equipment" the final number will depend on your cost of electricity vs fuel. in many markets the cost per BTU for natural gas is significantly less than the cost per BTU of moving that same BTU of through a heat pump. if you read the links, the articles actually say that heat pumps generate less emissions than Gas or Oil heat, even if the electricity comes from coal. none of the links talk about the "Cost" of producing the heat.

Quickbooks. Intuit has already moved to cef https://bitbucket.org/chromium... Read their announcement here https://quickbooks.intuit.com/... What they do not say is - all previous versions of Quickbooks, which small businesses generally use for years without upgrading, will not be updated. So if your OS refuses to run the browser, you may not be able to see your accounting program. Fortunately just leave the system alone, don't update. better yet virtualize it and run when needed.

In fact up until 2 years ago that is exactly what they did. Turn it OFF. The rate limiter is a GOOD thing, people.

There was a management book, written in novel form, by E M Goldratt back in 1984, at the height of the Kaizen movement in the US. Among it's various concepts it demonstrated how various staff in a manufacturing concern had significant input to the efficiency of the operation because of their "experience" as much as their "knowledge".

I believe these are the kinds of things missing from so many Manufacturers these days, but present in companies like Tesla/SpaceX and those in "start-up" mode. I'm not saying this book, or it's concepts are a panacea. But valuing the production floor as much as R&D and Marketing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Electric cars getting lower range in extreme's - heat and cold. So their cumulative "environmental impact" will be greater on hot days too.

Did you know all aircraft need to take air temp into consideration? Hot air is less dense, which allows less fuel to be burned and therefore less power from a given engine cycle. Jets, piston, rotary - they can actually be grounded in some cases.

Will "they" get to the point of outlawing all vehicles in high altitude locations because they are less efficient than at sea level? Sorry, Bolder, no cars for you.

It's interesting to point out that Apple was started by two guys who were "hackers". well, the one who built the first Apple computers was. Steve Wozniak started out as a Phreaker, building little circuits to send groups of tone's through the PSTN and AT&T's network, that would allow him to bypass toll restrictions and make long distance calls for free. Later he took his knowledge of computer circuits and the current state of mini/micro computers like the Altair 8800 and designed something new. This illustrates both sides of the "Repair" debate. Basically if you can take your whatever apart you might figure out how to build a better/cheaper/smaller/faster whatever.

Apparently, back in 2009, people did this, according to posts in the TechNet forums. But who is running a PIII today?

from the post:

Someone has managed to install Windows 7 onto a 266 MHz Pentium II processor, 96 MB of SDRAM memory, and a 4 MB video card. But even a Pentium III system took 17 hours to install Windows 7, and it takes 17 minutes to boot the machine. Someone else claims to have... "installed Win 7 RC on a Pentium III 850 MHz notebook with 512 MB RAM and 100 MHz FSB in slightly less than 1 hour and it works exceptionally well." Monday, July 06, 2009 7:49 AM

https://social.technet.microso...

Vindicated. Phew.

Memory ! what it used to be.

That was a great read.

First, I remember my father working on PLATO during the mid and late 70's, working with PDP's at University of Calgary, when I was a teenager. Of course my priorities then were playing Collosal Cave and Hammurabi on the PDP via teletype.

Back to the original post, I am certain that Bill Gates, and Steve's Job and Wozniak, were both intimately familiar with the PLATO system. In another great book about the era, "Dealers in Lightning" about the team at XEROX Parc, in Palo Alto, "Early in 1972, researchers from Xerox PARC were given a tour of the PLATO system at the University of Illinois."

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t...

Of course, a few years later, after building the Xerox Star with graphical interface, both Microsoft and Apple were given tours of the new graphical interface, and promptly incorporated the concepts into what became the MacIntosh and Windows OS.

And, on that note, I have very clear memories of installing Windows 2.0 on 80286 Hewitt Rand computers (not the other HP) using the then very very new "paper white" monitors.

I agree. And I haven't seen signs of coercion to utter anything at this point.

When I saw the subject line of this discussion I feared for the worst. I am glad to see that a great many Slashdot readers are well educated in the relatively simple concept of national voting. When a potential 230 million voters need to have their opinion heard, it could be a very dangerous to rely on a simple majority.

The animation reminds me of those Supermarionation TV shows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...