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yes, Ghostery (firefox plugin) might stop it also.

I hope you all get chromebooks, hahaha.

SL has a couple full time employees building it. Also, they publish a lot of info about their build process. Centos doesn't. Sometime their releases are slower.

I think you can layer data on top of tiles from osm with the openlayers api without licensing issues.

about 54 TB. But only about 2% of tiles have ever been seen. Each zoom level has 4 times as many tiles as the previous level and zoom level 18 (the highest) doesnt have a lot of data.

Stock options are a fools game. Equity and cash are the only thing that matter.

20%? Over 60% of our electricity is consumed when the sun shines. Currently we get less then 1% of our power from solar. Storage will not matter for a very long time.

No tracking system. Here are some average numbers of hours of peak energy a day for a fixed system Portland Or 4.0, Chicago 4.4, Tampa 5.3, San Francisco 5.4

Total hardware costs are currently about $1.75 watt for panels, inverter and hardware. Fed Tax rebate is 30%.

In Tampa FL with optimal tilt and no shade a panel rated at 1 peak watt would generate 5.3 watts a day X 30.4 days a month * 4500w panels = 725 Kw per month

sunelec.com, PV Panels $1.28 Peak watt, Inverter $0.5 watt, Rails and Cables $0.27 watt.

In my area I expect to save .18 cents per year per peak watt.

Prices have been falling at 1-2 cents a week since june.

http://pvinsights.com/

Some counterpoints to the article

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/five-ethanol-myths-bust...

Foundations have quite a good tradition in Germany, and the benefits in terms of taxes, limited liability and international credibility are high. With the German-based model, activities are not limited to one country: the foundation can and will be active worldwide.

In addition, the German model provides a high security and stability, as the foundation's statutes cannot be changed and, therefore, cannot be abused. Setting up a corporation or an association, on the other hand, would expose us to the risk that, if a majority of all stakeholders so decided, the statutes could be changed, even as far as removing charitable purposes. In order to provide safety and stability, not only for our users, adopters, developers and enterprises, but for the whole community, a German-based foundation is ideal.

In addition, we have many active community members in Germany: the roots of the product originally lie here, we expect a lot of support from corporations and governmental bodies, and the adoption rate for free office productivity software is very high.

http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/why/

Its not all about you. There are a lot of reasons you could have been rejected. Its difficult to say what went wrong. You need to try this ten more times. If you get rejected all ten times try modifying your approach.

He did make a comment, however the way he was holding his phone dropped the call.

So you think Apple would outsell Android if they licensed their OS, not a chance. If Apple customer's compared features and not style they would be out of business

Whats the big deal, its not like you have flash on these things anyway. The only decent site you can get content from is Itunes. 2G of Itunes product is a lot of $. A little extra for the bandwidth is no big deal.

Since Apple remotely disabled it and Gizmodo didn't have a license agreement with them couldn't Gizmodo sue Apple for vandalism and destruction of their property?

yes really, its set by a 1979 amendment.

One reason Texas avoided the housing bubble is the property taxes are very high here. The tax rate is 4.5-5% of value. In California its 1%. Also, interest rates are lower in California, a foreclosure can happen in as little as 120 days which reduces the lenders risk and your interest rate. The result is a lot of carrying costs for investing in residential real estate.

cost of living has nothing to do with attracting manufacturing jobs. The lower the labor costs the more jobs you get. Same reason China has more manufacturing that California