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Comment Re:This is news? (Score 1) 253

 

I think that has more than enough extra capacity to satisfy ANYONE.

  Oh yeah, 480 kB RAM was enough at the time, but take a look at MY space ship -- it would hardly evade that thirty molecules of hydrogen before deflector moves them! Imagine that bang at the speed of light!

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Submission + - MIT Making Super Efficient Origami Solar Panels (inhabitat.com)

ByronScott writes: Could the next solar panels be in the shapes of origami cranes? They could be if MIT power engineering professor Jeffrey Grossman has his say. Standard flat solar panels are only optimized to capture sunlight at one point of the sun’s trajectory — otherwise they need automated tracking systems to follow the sun. But Grossman found that folded solar cell systems could produce constant power throughout the day sans tracking and his new designs are up to two and a half times more efficient per comparative length and width than traditional flat arrays.

Comment Re:I recommend blau.de (Score 1) 153

I am currently on my second visit to Munich, Germany, and I can just confirm that blau.de for EUR 19.80/month just works well with my brand new Nokia N900. Internet radio and ssh sessions are just fine. Btw, you can buy them in dm drogeriemarkt stores for about EUR 7.00 (effectively EUR 10.00 credit), but you need credit EUR 15.00 more for activation (vouchers available almost everywhere), which is in German only. You also need to make a paid call to activate the SIM card.

Comment Re:MS doesn't need Novell, not now, not ever. (Score 1) 215

At the end of the day, the fact remains. MS would like everyone to use their proprietary software. MS would like everyone to forget about open source. The only way this will ever change is if open source becomes more profitable to them than proprietary software. Then MS would transform into the #1 proponent of open source.

We've already seen MS transform this way, in Browser Wars.

This whole "We are Borg" attitude makes them look scary.

Comment try wiki (Score 1) 438

JamWiki.org, for instance, has search capabilities built in. Has security built-in and easily mnageable. You can upload the documents and even migrate them to wiki format later. Keeping the documents in near-text open format will help you re-migrate them into the future sometime later.

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