That James gives others with the same first name a bad name =[

Man, it's a shame usernames chosen here aren't unique. He gives me and others with the same first name a bad name.


... and I can't even prove I'm not the one above.

@Tarnation:

They work and are pretty viable, and have been used in several european countries already. There's a lot of untapped power out there

The problems are mostly in materials science issues: The incredible power of waves means that the devices must be designed to withstand massive pulling/wrenching forces lest they be broken by a strong wave or storm. The second problem is that of corrosion, whatever material is chosen must be able to work underwater in a salty ocean for many years without corroding to the point it ceases to move, breaks, or otherwise is compromised.

@Sarig

50 cents is well worth it for texing a family member coming to pick you up to say your flight got diverted due to weather and is in a holding pattern till the rain clears, rather than them driving to the airport to find me not there and having to wait 40 min in the car.

Seriously +1

I heart mini USB; best part which is I carry the same cable currently that syncs my mp3 player, hooks up my compact external HD, charges my motorola phone, and connects my digital camera.

how does it..... how does it work?

Everything blends. Except Chuck Norris.

So it's not funny or witty to ask the question anymore, because blendtec have done so well at proving that other than the man who waits himself, there's nothing they cannot tackle.

The intel X25 series SSD's are high performance SSD's, targeted at gamers and those with high perf needs, and their numbers hold up at the upper end of the pack when put into tests. Comparing it with 10X SDHC cards is pretty silly, because the performance won't be quite up there. That said, there are devices out there which let you convert multiple flash cards into an SSD, though I don't think there's one which'll do 10 of them. They are certainly plausible for a budget SSD.

Even if Apple/OSX had a 95% market share, it wouldn't be a "monopoly" to force OSX to only run on apple machines. Tivo has a substantial market share in the DVR market, and Tivos are just modified linux PC's. You wouldn't expect Tivo to just open up or start selling their software to run on your home-built media center PC, do you? (Other than the open-source portions, which they're required to distribute) It's a major part of their business model, which they'd lose if competitors could just run the Tivo software.

If you just pretend a mac is an appliance, then you can just think of it the same way: Apple wants to control the hardware that you can run their OS in. I'm not saying it's the best business model in the PC world, but it's not illegal, and they're free to do it as they see fit.

@MM: Most people won't be driving at 1000HP very often. It's likely that just like any other vehicle, running it at max rev/HP will eat the fuel very quickly. The 150-220 mile quote is probably for standard city/highway driving, at which a small light car like that will be using well under 200hp. (Except for those times when you zoom down the onramp at full throttle)