Small Nuclear Reactors

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Mark Urbin

The DoE is pushing for funding small modular nuclear reactors (SMR). These SMRs are designed to be pre-assembled in a factory and shipped to location.  They would range in size from 50 MW units to 300 MW units. These plants could come on line relatively quickly, providing a “carbon free” source of cheap, domestic electrical power [...]

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How to enable the start menu in Windows 8

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Mark Urbin

As a follow up to my earlier post on Windows 8. This requires the use of regedit. Pretty straightforward though.

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First commercial Spaceport under construction in New Mexico

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Mark Urbin

Pretty forward thinking, now that the US Government has gotten out of the manned spaceflight business. This spaceport isn’t entirely free-market, it is being build by the state government of New Mexico, but its purpose is to service private contractors like Virgin Galactic.

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Why Windows 8 will fail

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Mark Urbin

Oh, and fail it will. Big time.  The single driving issue behind its approaching and certain failure is the Metro Desktop. Metro clearly defined as a touch screen interface and it is just bloody awful to use with a mouse and keyboard.  Really, it’s truly horrible. To make it worse, you can’t launch your apps [...]

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