AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver 138
An anonymous reader writes "AMD has just released their open-source driver for the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards (sans the Cayman GPUs) with KMS, 2D, and 3D acceleration."
Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead 577
Dan East writes "In a fashion worthy of a King or Hitchcock novel, blackbirds began to fall from the sky dead in Arkansas yesterday. Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 birds rained down on the small town of Beeb, Arkansas, with no visible trauma. Officials are making wild guesses as to what happened — lightning strike, high-altitude hail, or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them."
Comment Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! (Score 1) 611
Put photovoltaics on roof tops. A surprisingly high percentage of roof tops have more than adequate solar exposure. Distribution (the grid) is unloaded in the extreme because neighborhoods would be generating most of their power needs. Here's the real clincher: nuclear plants cost $6,000 - $8,000 per kW of generating power and operational costs of 2.5 - 3.5 cents (US) per kWh whereas solar costs $6,000 - $8,000 per kW of generating power for installed residential systems and no operational costs. Solar panels are getting cheaper all the time and electricity produced by coal, gas, oil, or nuclear are all getting more expensive all the time. Keep in mind also that no one has ever been able to calculate Life-Cycle-Cost for a nuclear power plant. BTW Three Mile Island has not produced 1 kWh of electricity for decades but there is still a crew working at the plant 24/7/365 at no small expense to the rate payers in PA.
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