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Comment I hear ya brother, (Score 0) 11

I teach a digital electronics class (hardware) to high school kids and fortunately it attracts kinda the cream of the crop of kids in the school. If I'm ever out for a day I throw em on App Inventor and let em build apps for their phones. If they can use something easy like drag and click blocks and build an app that does stupid shit they're pretty happy I think if I had more time to throw at it I could get em to build some actual games, there's certainly enough tutorials around. Programming is a difficult thing to teach to anybody, it has a steep learning curve, to a novice it all looks like gibberish, but the icon based IDE and games as a goal seem doable to me. Now if I could get the morons that run the school system to let me teach a programming class I could see if this works. Or I could quit and get a "real job" and be able to put food on the table again (I was an engineer for many years before doing this)

Comment Re:That's it? (Score 0) 594

by dmrobbin (#26631539) Attached to: Progress On Electric Cars

the trick to the single back wheel is it gets considered as a motorcycle by the government and gets around all kinds of safety regulation stuff which is WAY expensive. not saying this is good or bad (I ride a Harley) but it's the motivation for doing it. that plus lower rolling resistance

Comment sorta (Score 0) 480

by dmrobbin (#26293501) Attached to: Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes?

yea, my F8 box went down, but not right at midnight GMT
here's the last line from /var/log/messages

Dec 31 17:44:31 tomcat ntpd[2380]: kernel time sync status change 0011

I'm EST so it was 22:44:31 GMT
I guess it was talking to one of Redhat's ntpd servers
It's been rock solid in the past
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Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming 492

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the and-we-will-need-an-additional-10,000-coal-plants-to-power-this dept.
SUNSTOP writes to tell us that a relatively unknown Maryland scientist has proposed a public patent that he claims could combat global warming. The proposed plan would require massive amounts of water to be sprayed into the air in an effort to bolster the earth's existing air conditioning system. "First, the sprayed droplets would transform to water vapor, a change that absorbs thermal energy near ground level; then the rising vapor would condense into sunlight-reflecting clouds and cooling rain, releasing much of the stored energy into space in the form of infrared radiation. Kenneth Caldeira, a climate scientist for the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University whose computer simulation of Ace's invention suggests it would significantly cool the planet. The simulated evaporation of about one-half inch of additional water everywhere in the world produced immediate planetary cooling effects that were projected to reach nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit within 20 or 30 years, Caldeira said."

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