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Ah, yes, apologies. KWh should have been MWh, I'll edit the comment above. Thanks for the correction.

That's a special case of what I believe is called the ratchet effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect

I'd be more inclined to sympathize if it had actually worked. As it stands it is a perfect example of how little knowledge of what goes on under the hood is present with the curren…

> No details about the planned solar panel array or its potential power output are known at this time Taking the 171 acre figure we can compute at least the limits of what it could…

Very large numbers of Amazon servers are used for something else than cranking out HTTP pages. Expect a lot of them to be crunching numbers for bio-informatics problems, physics si…

Nearly 100 upvotes for a page that fails its stated goal and which spends 100's of lines to do something you could do with one system call (sys_write) and a string constant? http:/…

At a guess, then you'll mail your daemon to fetch the page, to be mailed back by the daemon?

You don't hire a missionary with a vision to pat yourself or your audience on the back. That's like expecting Sylvester Stallone to do higher mathematics or Mother Theresa to do an…

But you do remember the talk and you are still willing to promote it, so from his point of view that's mission accomplished.

You either have a maid or you are a maid. Even some of the maids have maids, go figure.

So, 3 years ago you'd have called it revolutionary. Technology moves so fast these days that if you don't place the bar for your product sufficiently high you won't be able to get …

One of the most tiring responses to a comment is 'did you read the article'. Yes, of course I read the article. I thought of doing a 'point by point' because that seems to be the o…

They didn't have much choice in the matter. For a few months now there is a torrent floating around with most of this stuff in it.

That first referenced paper is very much in 'don't try this at home' territory.

What a load of junk. Pardon my French, but this is not slavery by any stretch of the imagination. This is modern slavery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery Poor imp…

A thing like Siri might benefit tremendously from being open source. Everybody with an itch to scratch and time on their hand would help to incrementally improve Siri for 1000's of…

"Rather more revealingly, Gates concluded that the “solution” to the problem of patents was “patenting as much as we can… A future start-up with no patents of its own will be force…

If your stock drops 12% when your profits drop 73% you're doing just fine. Anybody that thinks differently should short this stock. We'll talk in 24 months ;)

chugger == troll. A good one, but still a troll. http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chugger

Apparently a chunk of engineering went to Intel, another to AMD.

So, you got me curious. It turns out that the IP ended up with Intel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha , I can't seem to find out who owns the brand, but the DEC brand defini…