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• it's outsourced because that company already has the expertise, so therefor overall cost will be less. In reply to: "Military wants bulletproof, dimmable windows to protect VIPs"

  September 11, 2009

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• Most likely since they're using it as fertilizer, the 'coal will release nutrients much much faster than allowing natural decomposition to occur, which releases nutrients much more slowly when it's woody mass. Think of hjow long it takes a log to decompose, or roots after a tree dies (some root masses are still found from when the tree was cut 150 years ago in the White pine stump praries in Michigan). In reply to: "Can charred coconut keep Maldives from submerging?"

  September 3, 2009

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• wow scdecade, bitter about something? NASA Has brought us a world of goods that is used every day, and major research is done in space. You want a for profit company doing that stuff? What incentive would they have to do bleeding edge research where profits wouldn't be seen for 10, 15, 20 years later? Go troll somewhere else.
  
  On another note: I'm glad that the current president is installing people into positions that actually CAME FROM those agencies (like this example, as well as other agencies). Those people know what the mission is about, and what that agency needs to do, and can go to bat for the agency against congress. In reply to: "New NASA administrator optimistic about reviews"

  July 22, 2009

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• I still love how people are going gah gah over download/streaming movies. I do it on netflix, but if there's something I want to watch in HD, I freakin' get the bluray from netflix. until we see bandwidth speeds in the entire country that is affordable like in Japan and S korea, streaming isn't going to overtake a single thing, although I did notice Dishnetwork is offering HD movies on demand now (but at $3 or more a pop, why would anyone bother with netflix?) In reply to: "Why Toshiba needs to think beyond Blu-ray"

  July 22, 2009

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• Amen, cable internet in my area is $65 a month for 5 megs down. I told charter to go to #@$# when I saw that price, and I have Verizon DSL at 3 megs down for $29 a month. It's fantastic, no downtime, almost always pull 3.5 megs down. Only after we had 5 inches of rain was there a slight problem with sporadic outages, probably due to water hitting the lines. In reply to: "Cable's numbers don't add up for metered billing"

  May 1, 2009

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• Amen.. I usually have 7 windows of IE open just to get all my resources. What sad is everything at work runs fine on IE8 at my house when I have to access a few things from home. FF is out for those sites, as it says "this has been programmed for use with IE5.5 and later" when I try to use FF3 :P In reply to: "What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6"

  May 1, 2009

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• Built in graphics cards that would come on these things are useless (at that price point), no one could game that well, not even just the Sims players. and, like some other people have said, one thing breaks, you're done. Throw away the whole things (cause that's environmentally friendly!) and buy a new one. They're essentially slapping a cheap laptop (it even says it runs the Intel Atom processor) on a base and sticking a 17" monitor on it. And what if you don't like the monitor that comes with the all in one.. this is just ridiculous, and I'll steer anyone I know away from buying these things. You can build a fully functioning desktop for just as cheap, including a 21" monitor. Apple has had all in one computers for years now..yet you dont' see the imac taking the world by storm (I'm not turning this into a Pc Vs Mac debate, so don't start). Concept is novel, however, implementation is ridiculous.
  
  I know with a laptop what I'm buying, and what I'm going to be using it for, and understand the hardware limitations as well as th efact I can't really fix anything on it, other than slapping in more RAM or changing the hard drive. People are going to buy these things thinking they're like desktops, but when that DVD Drive breaks, and they have to buy a new computer or settle for an external one, then they'll be questioning what it's good for. Getting rid of the traditional desktop and the ability for component exchange and repair is ridiculous, and just a way for companies to suck money out of people every 2-3 years when their computer suddenly isn't fast enough because of a leap forward in software needs. In reply to: "Adieu to the old-fashioned desktop computer?"

  April 28, 2009

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  The company denied the accusation and said a colleague stumbled over her activity, before Nationale Suisse banned use of the popular site in the company.
  
  Apparently the use of facebook is banned by the company, and a colleague stumbled on her activity before hand. I could see why a company woudl ban its employees from using it, a lot of information can be gleaned from peoples' accounts if they're ridiculous and 1) have an open profile and 2) accept any and all invites for friends. In reply to: "Facebooking while out sick gets employee fired"

  April 28, 2009

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• I guess these would work if you didn't want to do any gaming, and would want to buy a new monitor and computer every 2 years, since it appears you can't relaly upgrade these things. In reply to: "Adieu to the old-fashioned desktop computer?"

  April 28, 2009

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• all you need to do is change the CO2, CO, and Methane component of the atmosphere by a few tenths of a percent to have a pretty major impact on things. Just check all the ice core records. In reply to: "'60 Minutes' video: America's coal dilemma"

  April 27, 2009

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