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It was purchased by an unnamed startup recently. I guess maybe it was Brave? http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/04/link-bubble-is-under...

Exactly. None of the islands grids are connected. I worked for a power plant on the big island a few years ago and even then there was a big issue with too much power during the day and not enough at night. Coupling that with the intermittent wind power and you have a very hard grid to maintain.

I got a Chromebook as a supplementary computer. I'm a 3D Art student so I never expected it to replace my rig, but I thought it would be nice to take notes in GenEd classes and browse the internet between classes or on the couch at home. It works perfect for that.

What surprised me was some of my non-techie friends saw my Chromebook and decided to get one. They stream their music and the only thing they used their Windows laptops for was the internet and typing up essays and stuff up. It took them a while to get used to not being able to install anything but between their smartphone and their Chromebook they can pretty much do anything they need.

They use the hot brine to vaporize a motive fluid such as liquid pentane in the heat exchanger, when the liquid is converted to gas it creates a high pressure environment and is piped into a turbine which spins the generator. Then they condense the motive fluid back to a liquid so they can vaporize it again. It's the same way binary geothermal power works, with the Organic Rankine Cycle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Rankine_cycle

It's not a steady supply over power, it fluctuates with your supply and demand for it, so it takes work for another grid to take that power from you. If you send them power they have to scale their plants down to prevent the problem you're having. Then when your supply goes down and you no longer have an excess of power to send they have to scale their systems back up to make up for the power you're no longer sending. They can't store it or get rid of it easily. It's one of the reasons people don't like wind and solar power, it works great when the wind is blowing and the sun is out, but it fluctuates too much and causes heavy swings in power generation that have to be dealt with somehow.

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Does anyone know if Valve and Steam use the same servers as Playstation for processing? I purchased Portal 2 through Valve on my PC a week before they shut the network down and had my card stolen two days later (I didn't use the card for weeks before and didn't use it after) so it seems like these might be linked.

CNN too, http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.nuclea...

Small world. I live in East Hawaii and I felt that. It was from the Volcano, which after erupting for the past few days stopped last night and I guess it started again.

There are programs to sync Android Devices (such as Double Twist), but I find it much easier to just mount the internal SD on my GalaxyS and drag and drop it. This being said, I hardly ever use my phone for music (since I also have a Zune) so it doesn't bother me much. As far as I know for my GalaxyS there is a partition on the internal storage for the "Internal SD" and the external SD is handled as a different card. Both mount separately and operate interdependently. So you would have to split that 40GB of music between both Internal and External SD cards.

I would think the problem with that would be that it is ok to burn something like Ubuntu Live CDs, but people would start asking to burn illegal software, and since it says on the site they don't endorse piracy, it may get a little tricky.

That's what you would think, but I recall reading on Engadget that they just won't sell them at all if you do not activate them on Verizon. Although they also think it may be a typo. http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/06/verizon-locking-wifi-on-m...

Here in Hawaii I pay $50 a month for 5/1 mbps....

That seems kind of odd to me, here in Hawaii they split the school districts up on each island (the island I'm on has 9). The school I would normally have to attend is terrible, but over here you can simply apply for an exemption, which they almost always grant, and go to almost any school on the island. Are you not allowed to do that in states such as New Jersey?

I totally agree, I disabled the Skype Toolbar for Chrome a long time ago because it seems like it constantly crashes.

I absolutely love the URL of the story.

Oddly enough on Geohot's site and the professor's mirror it states "do not mirror file, link to geohot.com".

I think that for small stuff like that the difference won't be very noticeable,especially to the end user. If you get some designers to really look at it they might notice a difference, but I wouldn't want to pay for a Photoshop license for minor stuff like that.

That looks like a pretty amazing phone. Dual Core Tegra 2 and 1gig of RAM is around twice the specs of my Galaxy S.

Yeah, Skype Mobile is for Verizon. This one works great for me. http://www.appbrain.com/app/skype/com.skype.raider

I'm 17 and this makes me wonder what my generation will write about in 20 years. Pretty crazy how many things change in such a short period of time.

I have it installed on my Belkin router because the stock firmware doesn't support Telnet connections. It's pretty great.

Contrary to this article, my Galaxy S (Captivate) stays at 100% for quite a while before dropping down rapidly. I wonder if they programed the phone to do that and "trick" the user into thinking it's fully charged when it is really not; or if it really is at 100% and they have a different battery system.

The Gameloft game Dragon Hunter(Which isn't on the Android Market) comes with a 5mb .apk. Then once the app installs it connects to the internet to download the rest of the 240mb of files. That seems like the best way to work around the limit.

Steve Job's was working at a farm and someone gave him the idea of Apple Computers. Then, years later, Steve Wozniak was on Dancing With The Stars and met the brother of the person who gave him that name. Wozniak also thinks that the lawsuit from Apple Records was wrong because Apple Computers was not a musical device.

What makes this NSFW?