A building or complex or a designated area. See outside plant and inside plant.
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- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.Get the environazi boot of our neck.Build more refineries.Reduce government regulations.Eliminate the Endangered Species Act.Build more dams for flood control.Build more highways to relieve traffic congestion.Relax nuclear power plant requirements to build more reactors.Your mindset is...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Sony PlayStation's site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software
- The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a recent post at SophosLabs's blog : "Researchers at IT security firm Sophos have warned lovers of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Daily Debrief: California gets Tesla car factory
- On Monday, Tesla Motors announced it would build its electric sedan manufacturing plant in Northern California. In the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with CNET Car Tech Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham about why this decision is a win for the company and the state.
- Videos 2008-07-01
- Why computers fail
- Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable
- Solar power, no money down, could prove profitableNot so fast...I have the perfect roof for this: South facing, steep pitch, no trees, and in Florida. So you'd think I would be a perfect candidate, right? Even with Florida's rebates and net metering, I wouldn't see breakeven until around...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses
- Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die
- Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-dieAmerica is finishedThis latest downturn coupled with the internet and lax foreign ownership laws means that the devaluation of housing, which would normally ultimately let poor Americans back...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
- Fired up for new coal plant in VirginiaCoal in Tampa BayWe've got coal here as well. Since moving here, they've put scrubbers on it and other sort of things to clean the exhaust. It's not my favorite type of power generation, but it has the benefit of buffering...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- News to know: ICANN hacked; IE flaw; OpenSuse 11; Hyper-V; iPhone 3G
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride Matthew...
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
- The Commonwealth of Virginia has given the green light for a large coal-burning plant to generate electricity. It's planned for the southwest corner of the state and is expected to require lots more Virginia coal. The utility has promised to burn only coal mined in Virginia Opponents...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Time to blow up the software industrySoftware is designed for Libraries and Charter or Municiple School systems.Big competition in the Linux vs Windowes Enterprise software her; Unix and Novell for Agencies and Police Departments. The Court House use Proliant-Linux I heard.BBD - old wine in new bottleBBD is just old...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT
- Photo gallery:2009 Pontiac Vibe GTWe found the economy car efficiency, the tight build quality, and the odd body style all appealing on the 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT. But once we started looking at the details, we realized it was a Toyota. The hard flooring in the cargo area and the...
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- Sure, energy tech is sexy and could be profitable. But think real green, as in chlorophyll and growing plants. That's the most crucial green tech now.
- There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power. And all that makes economic and ecological sense: energy is at the base of the economic pyramid, less energy means less of everything for...
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Car makers are doing all they can, you and I are the problem
- Enclave, courtesy Buick. The very nice man at the Auto Alliance did not accuse me of being stupid, nor did he even accuse you of being short-sighted. But that's the bottom line. The auto manufacturers have been making high mileage cars and bringing...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Photos: A visit to the Corvette factory
- CNET's Road Trip visits the assembly plant in Bowling Green, Ky., where every one of the iconic cars has been built since 1981--and came away impressed. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-18
- BossJoker (zip)
- BossJoker is a software that hides in the background of your computer, and pops up after a predetermined time with a joke about your boss, teacher, father, bigger brother, or even your self. For example your boss's name is Mr. Jack your jokes will be like: If you spell Mr....
- Software downloads 2008-06-18
- Brown rice, white rice, now GREEN rice
- A major rice grower in California is looking to sell green rice. "Green" as in solar-powered. Of course, like all crops, rice needs sun to grow and ripen. Now Far West Rice, Inc. of Cypress, California, is going to harvest, mill, store, move and bag rice using...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
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