The IBM 3850 mass storage system, announced in 1974, held up to 472G on strips of magnetic tape. The 3850 was a rectangular box large enough walk into, with the strips stored along its interior walls in a honeycomb arrangement of slots. A pair of robotic pickers took turns running along a set of rails where they would fetch a tape strip, carry it to a device that wrapped it around a drum for read/write access, and later return it to its slot. You could watch it operating through a window in the box (IBM loved to show off their stuff).
My point is that none of this is new. It is neither interesting nor innovative.
Yes, yes, and the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached.
All "things that move other things" are not equivalent. Kivas aren't restricted to running on rails. I suspect the IBM picker-bots weren't actively scanning their environment to avoid collisions, either, and so on.
It is neither interesting
Oh, isn't it? I thought it was. I guess I must be wrong about that.
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Yes, exactly like that. You disagreeing with them doesn't stop them being principles.
In your opinion.
Yes I can. The particular principle in question is that Wikipedia does not carry advertising.
Wow, that was easy.
Luminiferous ether!
Nature Makes All Particles Free To View
Trippy.
Yeah, why let silly little things like principles get in the way?
Once it has realised that...
...it will employ, cajole or blackmail as necessary to get whatever minimum infrastructure is required for it to do away with the meatbags.
I have literally never been denied a request for a copy when I managed to locate an author of a paper.
You might if we all start doing that.
Researchers want their papers read and will often host them on their websites.
Nature apparently restricts authors from doing so for six months (on pain of not getting their next paper published in Nature, presumably).
10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial
I misread that as "10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawyer."
Apple already uses that name..
So does the Spanish post office! Kinda...
Want To Work For a Cool Tech Company? Hone Your Social Skills
I think you meant "hone your social skills please."
Workers On Autism Spectrum...
Everyone is on the autism spectrum. That's why they call it a spectrum.
Alternative post: No thanks, I'll wait for the Autism Amiga.
Well, how close've yoouu got, huh?
Why the "notsexist" and "!sexist" tags for this article?
I read the summary a couple of times ( yes, I really did! I dont care if you dont believe me ), and I am struggling to find any sexism or innuendo.
Whats the deal?
Whadyamean, what's the deal? There's no sexism or innuendo, so it's not sexist. See?
Like how you're supposed to announce yourself as "not a paedophile" when going to the pool. Right?
Its getting really hard to tell these days whats sexist and what isnt
That's why we have the tags. This story is simply not sexist.
I think it should also be on record that it's not racist, just in case, but I guess we're expected to figure that out for ourselves.
The IBM 3850 mass storage system, announced in 1974, held up to 472G on strips of magnetic tape. The 3850 was a rectangular box large enough walk into, with the strips stored along its interior walls in a honeycomb arrangement of slots. A pair of robotic pickers took turns running along a set of rails where they would fetch a tape strip, carry it to a device that wrapped it around a drum for read/write access, and later return it to its slot. You could watch it operating through a window in the box (IBM loved to show off their stuff).
My point is that none of this is new. It is neither interesting nor innovative.
Yes, yes, and the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached.
All "things that move other things" are not equivalent. Kivas aren't restricted to running on rails. I suspect the IBM picker-bots weren't actively scanning their environment to avoid collisions, either, and so on.
It is neither interesting
Oh, isn't it? I thought it was. I guess I must be wrong about that.
He didn't even want to risk being gender-specific about it.
There is nothing resembling professional football that I would like to see a human being playing without a helmet.
Not a rugby fan, then.
If you make deadlines attainable, people slack off.
Birds, the organic things that flap their wings, are a far greater hazard to aircraft.
By that logic, there'd be no point legislating against murder because heart attacks are a far greater hazard to people.
No, that's Red Bull.
DNA can survive not only a flight through space, but also re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere and still remain active.
We've known this since 1961! Okay, it was well wrapped in meat and metal, but still.
Imagine a fleet of quad copters or drones equipped with explosives and controlled by terrorists.
Egad! Never mind that, imagine what they could do with an entire pla- nevermind.
But the summary does use the word "and" where it should use "or":
generating more power from "clean" technologies than nuclear, coal and gas.
Not that using "or" makes it much less ambiguous.
Really. You don't think fear makes humans dangerous?