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Comment Forever cool (Score 1) 130

by eis271828 on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @07:31PM (#36617300) Attached to: Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation

"By making energy conservation as fun as a video game, the fickle on-again, off-again of human nature might just be overcome."

Because people never change their idea of what is cool....

Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar 635

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, 2010 @05:25AM from the sunlight-is-free dept.

js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now cheaper than nuclear, at around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that financial markets will not finance the construction of nuclear power plants unless the risk of default (which is historically as high as 50 percent for the nuclear industry) is externalized to someone else through federal loan guarantees or ratepayer funding. The bottom line seems to be that nuclear is simply not competitive, and the push from the US government to subsidize it seems to be forcing the wrong choice on the market."

Comment Re:Uh, no it's not. Never was. Never will be. (Score 1) 328

by eis271828 on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @05:17PM (#27232829) Attached to: Computer Science Major Is Cool Again

Actually, between the Angelina Jolie nudity and the awesomeness of a 28.8 Kbps modem, Hackers was pretty damn cool. Ridiculous, but cool.

Comment Re:Uh, no it's not. Never was. Never will be. (Score 5, Funny) 328

by eis271828 on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @03:49PM (#27231003) Attached to: Computer Science Major Is Cool Again

I don't think I want to be associated with Swordfish. You should have mentioned Office Space, though.

Comment Re:Different problem (Score 0, Offtopic) 544

by eis271828 on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @08:07PM (#18269680) Attached to: Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking

I'm sorry, but haven't you seen Back to the Future III? Flying trains are right around the corner, and we better start preparing. I think we should make skyscrapers able to fly out of the way, personally.

Submission + - Building the Interplanetary Internet

Submitted by

sighted

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @02:36AM

sighted writes: "Internet pioneer Vint Cerf is leading a NASA effort to create a permanent network link to Mars within the next two years. As Cerf outlined in a recent talk, the "InterPlaNet" protocol is designed to handle the delay caused by interplanetary distances. For example, it can take a signal up to 20 minutes to travel between the Earth and Mars, depending on the distance between the two planets."

Submission + - Fran Allen becomes first woman to win Turing award

Submitted by

shoemortgage

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @02:22AM

shoemortgage writes: "The Association for Computing Machinery, has named Frances E. Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for contributions that fundamentally improved the performance of computer programs in solving problems, and accelerated the use of high performance computing. This award marks the first time that a woman has received this honour."

Submission + - Apple, Cisco settle iPhone trademark lawsuit

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22, 2007 @02:10AM

An anonymous reader writes: Cisco and Apple have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit over the use of the iPhone name for Apple's new multimedia phone. The agreement allows Apple and Cisco to use the iPhone brand on their own products. Also, the companies said they would explore opportunities for interoperability in the areas of security, consumer and business communications.

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