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Comment: BlueGEN comercially available (Score 1) 137

by CoopersPale (#40207009) Attached to: Another Step Forward In Small Scale Electrical Generators

There's a fairly new commercial product called BlueGEN https://www.bluegen.net/ which connects to a domestic natural gas supply; I think they're marketed more toward light industrial use, but if the price comes down (currently ~ $45K Australian) it could be an excellent distributed electricity generation option.

Comment: Re:Judgement (Score 1, Insightful) 121

by CoopersPale (#39520791) Attached to: Australian National Broadband Network Releases 3-Year Plan

>>They've managed to get the incumbant telco to agree to seperate their wholesale and retail arms and hand over infrastructure to NBNCo.

This is a gross misrepresentation of the situation. The government is paying Telstra $11 Billion for access to its pits and manholes and the sale of _some_ of its infrastructure - they're certainly not handing over anything.
And private industry has historically been less effective in Australian telecommunications due to the dirty great monopoly of Telstra - which is just being replaced by the dirty great monopoly of the NBN.

Comment: Re:Scotty, beam me down (Score 5, Informative) 120

by CoopersPale (#36161978) Attached to: From Austria, the World's Smallest 3D Printer

It's small, but probably not as cheap as a Rep Rap which is a fully open-source implementation of a 3D printer that's been around for a few years. They've developed the first iteration into the 'Mendel' which has addrssed some of the issues they came across in initial development.

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Willow Garage Robot Fetches Beer, Engineers Rejoice 114

Posted by samzenpus
from the the-perfect-robot dept.

Comment: Re:easy. (Score 1) 842

by StuartHankins (#32150860) Attached to: How To Behave At a Software Company?
I'm not so sure that physical vs mental makes long hours any better. There are many days I go home with a ringing head and blurry eyes because I've been staring at a screen for hours and in meetings with people who all want a different outcome (thus no solution is acceptable to all).

One of my first jobs was very physical, and although I went home with tired arms and back and sore hands, there was something numbing about that which I found pleasant.

I think the difference between long hours depends on how hard you're working -- whether physical or mental -- vs those who just get by, whose days come easily to them because they are not challenged or do not challenge themselves.

Comment: Re:Silly Brits (Score 1) 568

by Kjella (#32149862) Attached to: UK Election Arcana, Explained By Software

From what I gather the UK system was rather screwed up and in 1832 they had a huge reform, making it more like the US system with first past the post. Not sure how much the Brits cared about what the Americans did at the time, but it seems they already brought the US system back. Not the best choice, then again there weren't that many great choices in Europe at the time...
