True which is why I picked Perl. To me scripting languages like Perl and Python are the tools I use for simple one off programs like filtering a text file. I do not do much web stuff right now but I could see me using Python along with Perl and PHP. For anything more complex on the desktop I would use Java, C++ or ObjectiveC. If I need to do anything with or very old dos codebase I would breakout FreePascal. You see it is a need to learn thing. Now Haskel does interest me but when I have looked at it my head hurt.
You are correct. Also incase people have not noticed Intel is also pushing Thunderbolt. You are going to see Thunderbolt parts as standard on Intel chipsets soon. Of course the scary thing is when we see them on mobile devices. How long before I can plug my phone into a monitor that has USB ports for my keyboard and mouse and a network connection?
HP was not making PERSONAL computers in 1977. They where in the mini and workstation market. That is why I said PERSONAL computers. HP and IBM are both still making computers as are some other manufactures that predate HP in the computer market like UniSys.
I am talking about small single users PCs from that time mostly 8bit. Frankly even IBM doesn't fit in that catagory.
HP came late to the party and even then they are talking about doing an IBM and spinning off their PC division.
It comes down to time for most developers. For instance I need to filter a large text file a few weeks ago. I have been thinking about learning Python because it seems pretty interesting. Time ticks buy as I am reading and setting up things and then I think, " if I used perl I would have been done". So I write the four line perl script and I am done.
A tool just needs to be a lot better to be worth the time sink. A lot of the time Good enough is just that good enough.
Yes and no. Unless Dart is "much better" why take the time to learn a new language where support will depend on two codebases. You will have your Dart code and your js translation of your Dart code? If you know JS your going to keep developing in JS until Dart support is proven and universal. Even then you will probably keep using JS unless you start a new project.
I do not know if memreistors have the same limitations as flash does. Things like page based writes and such make flash more disk like than memory like. however some systems like PalmOS used Flash more like ROM than a disk. So if it does work more like RAM then I say that cacheing and such will be the way to use it.
Everything else you talk about leads to one problem. It becomes very much tied to hardware. This can be a good thing in that you can get better performance but it makes moving forward much more difficult. Using a vanilla model allows for easy porting of the OS and software to new hardware. I do not think we are holding computing back that much. I admit that am not happy with the cycle of Yet Another Unix that we seem to be in. Several OSs that had a lot of promise have faded like BeOS and even VMS but in some ways it is like the airliner industry. All new airliners are tubes with swept wings and engines mounted belwo the wings. The reason why is simple. It is the best platform for the job. That doesn't make it any less boring.
Yes their is more to life than science. He is going to need friends and social skills. Frankly the idea of pushing him as far and as fast as possible strikes me as being selfish. It is using him for the good "Society, world, whatever" more than for his own welfare. Find him enough work to keep him challenged. Maybe more classes on litter, art, music, and history to round him out. Maybe dancing lessons, sports of some kind. Their maybe some long term benefit to getting your PHD at 24-26 over 17. Instead of on prodigy you may have generations of brilliant people that way.
Really RMS? Sorry but this was nothing but grandstanding. For criticism to have any value it must be constructive. Steve Jobs can not change anything he has done so this is in now way constructive. Is this hurt full. Yes. People have lost their friend, husband, father, and mentor.
This makes RMS a small petty man that puts his ideology above his humanity. It would be far better to wait and criticize after some time has passed.
As to your post I disagree. Jobb's founded Apple which is the only hardware company from the early days of personal computing that is still making personal computers. Not even IBM is still in that market much less Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, TI, RadioShack, Heathkit, Altar, Osbourne, or any number of other companies that started around the same time. He helped make the GUI mainstream. Yes Xerox invented but they didn't do anything with it. Apple traded Xerox a bunch of stock and too the GUI and put into the hands of the public. He also showed that Unix could be used be user friendly when he started NeXT. He also turned around Pixar. He went back to Apple and turned that company around. He changed the way that the music industry sold music and pushed for them to drop DRM. While CEO Apple redefined what a smartphone was and how it should work. While CEO Apple made tablets a viable option for the public at large. He took Apple from the brink of death to become the most valuable company on the stock exchange. Let's not forget that Apple employees on the whole are happy and well paid. Apple even did respond when it's subs where not treating their employee's well. One can say they didn't do enough but you better jump down the throats of everyone else that uses Foxconn which is about everybody and they did even less.
Yes he really is in the same category as Edison and Ford. Far from perfect but with accomplishments that will be historical on scope. Had he lived to ripe old age and passed away long after his retirement you would see this display. Thing is that he didn't die at 80 he died at the young age of 56. he had at least ten more years before retirement. At this point anything really negative is just being cruel and petty.
Exactly. Sales tax are setup for brick and mortar stores. You pay the sales tax based on where you buy the item with an exception made for cars in many places. And you are correct in that if it was just 50 states that it wouldn't be a problem it is every county and town. This is easy to deal with for brick and mortar but a pain for online. For instance do you charge the tax based where your server is at? If so a lot of datacenters will pop up in Oregon, Montana, and New Hampshire. The billing address or the card? Or the shipping address? The real issue is even worse because each place you sell to can request a full audit of your books at any time to check that you paid the sales tax! So your little online store that sells a cool tee shirt you created could be audited 20 times month. In other words it is your classic case of what worked in the old days doesn't really work well in the internet age.
In fact I can not think of a single successful aircraft engine that used that design except for one German diesle engine that saw limited service on a few low production number aircraft in WWII . Maybe they where used on airships. The real popular use for them was submarines and trains.
Oh do not get me started on fun with the Canadian government. The government of Canada stopped an update disk we where sending to a customer because it didn't have a value listed. The update was free with support so we put the value as zero. You see the wanted to be sure that the organization getting the disk paid the import tax on it. I told them that it was free and that the disk was worth maybe 5 cents. That still wasn't good enough so they refused to deliver the disk. The thing is that the organization that was getting the disk was... The Canadian government! This was pre internet so we set up a BBS just for them to download updates.
Yes and no. Changing people is a lot harder than changing software. Think about it "files" are already a throwback to the old idea of paper files. You will still need to move data as well and know what is where. Now changing the OS is a given but not as much as you think. We already have disk cache's now. This should allow for an extremely persistent cache and a very low memory sleep state for computers. People are talking about never having to reboot which is more than a bit silly because if you power down the CPU when you bring it back up you still need to initialize the hardware. It will not matter one bit if the memory is static if you do not retrive things like the register states on power up. Using windows terms this could allow a hibernate that seems as fast to recover from as a sleep mode is today. That would be good enough for most people. A place where this could be huge is for disk systems. Adding this as cache to a raid controller an or a drive could really improve performance for disk writes.
Forget that. stope at 100,000. Actually when I look at other sites compared to Slashdot it is a revelation. Compared to CNN, Engadet, and most local new sites, Slashdot's commenters are on the whole much more civil, intelligent, and frankly good natured than most other sites. I would not allow AC commenters but I know that a lot of people on slashdot do not agree with that so. I would give people to ability to post as an AC but you still take a karma hit. Hey if it is not worth a karma hit to you say it then it isn't worth my time to read it. After all low karma on Slashdot does not hurt your job or income so who really cares?
That and get new editors. They are posting stories that are nothing but pure inflammatory click bait. For example "http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/05/1536214/big-brother-calls-shotgun-in-illinois"
There are societies where human sacrifice is not bad, murder? Let's make that killing and things are a lot more fuzzy. One societies murder is another's execution, population control, or solution to a problem.
I never mentioned the bible so not try to narrow the focus I said an absolute morality.
However you need to work on your logic skills. If their is no absolute morality then by definition morality is arbitrary. You may try and define it as what is best for society but what defines what is best for the society? Wouldn't that be the members of the society? Of not then who or what. Their must be some definer for what is moral and not. if their is no absolute morality then you are really only left with the members of society.
A favorite trick that is often used is cherry picking what you "include" in your sample. Capitol punishment is a great example of that argument. How many times do you hear that the US is the only "civilized" nation that still has capitol punishment. The truth is that the majority of the people on the planet live in nations with capitol punishment. So a group of people that oppose it add the word civilized which means those that they agree with. I am sure that the people of Japan and China would take some offense to the idea that they are uncivilized. It doesn't really matter but I am for not pro-capitol punishment, because I feel it is immoral.
So no logically you can not have it both ways. You can not say that is no absolute morality and then say it is also not arbitrary. Now I will not say that I am fully aware of what is absolutely moral and what is not. Their was a time when I was pro capitol punishment but I learned and changed my mind. Morality has an absolute base or it is arbitrary and and the whim of society. If society says you are immoral you are and you are wrong to go counter to them unless at some point you convince them you are right. Or you are moral untile society says you are not and then you are wrong. Terrible system isn't it?
Yet studies show that people that are religious tend to be happier and live longer. I agree that freedom is actually a requirement. Some religions even teach that none maybe truly righteous if all are compelled. However the stament that started all of this was. "You show precisely why religion is so evil and debilitating to society and why those who believe don't grasp the simple concept that they are bowing down to a narcissistic dictator.*"
I disagree and gave counter examples of societies without any religion that where far more evil. It is funny but even those that will use the "scary sky god" line believe in an absolute morality when it is convent for them. If they do not then things like slavery, discrimination, and even genocide are "not evil" if the majority of the population agrees. They will say that X is wrong and society must change. However if everything is relative in morality then they are wrong. If you disagree with the society than you are wrong if you agree you are right. That is the danger of dismissing the concept of an absolut morality.
Really? So you do not think that their motivation, ethics, morals, or belief system has anything to do with it? I think you better reconsider. And since the lack of religion is a mandatory part of Marxism I would say that you should start with the error and work back.
And yet the nations that outlawed religion completely where the most brutal and repressive. The death toll in the USSR, China, and North Korea make those that you listed look like picnics. In fact if you take the death toll from the USSR, China, North Korea, and Cambodia it is far more than Nazi Germany or any other group ever pulled off. The sad thing is that they where not even trying to wipe out whole populations. They where just getting rid of those that where inconvenient. Sorry but the hard facts really do not support your conclusions. Maybe you should try this theory instead. Individuals that seek power without any moral restraints and willing to use and misuse all the tools at their disposal to achieve their goals are the source of all evil. They way you can stop clinging to your illogical bigotry that your flawed world view depends on.
Man parts of Canada are just the beautiful but it is such a tragic county. Canada could have had American know how, French culture, and British government. Instead it got American culture, British know how, and French government.
This could be really bad for some of the medical clinics. I could be wrong but I think I read somewhere that a good number of small clinics in that area depend on video conferencing so that staff can consult with doctors in larger clinics. Add in the need to call for medevac and other services and it could really cause some issues. I bet the Ham operators are busy right now. Maybe the should keep a hot backup in orbit? Yes I know that would be expensive.
"You show precisely why religion is so evil and debilitating to society" Yeah they are so much worse than Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. All militant atheists.
Truth of the matter is no you are wrong. Westbourgh is a small group of loons. There is like 10 of them in a mini van and get way too much press. In fact Slashdot in posting this is doing EXACTLY what they want.
Judging any large group comprised of millions of people by a tiny band of loons is illogical.
I heard about this and started to do the math. " Aoyagi said a square meter of the material can generate about 5 volts at 7 watts under peak conditions, and can operate under far less sunlight than it takes to power a conventional panel, so it will be active for more of the day." Picture one meter^2 that is not a small area people. Next under peak conditions? Peak conditions means point south if you are in the northern hemisphere and at an angle that is equal to your latitude. Most windows are vertical so unless you live at one of the poles you are not going to be close. So let's say you will average half that and you have 10 meters of windows facing in the right direction and since your angle probably sucks. So let's be really generous and say that you will average half of that peak for 8 hours on a hot summer day. So we are talking about 35 watts for 8 hours. Or enough to run maybe one laptop. Sky scrapers will have less window area on average per person and will have the problem of shadows unless they are the only building in the area. Now the blocking IR is really cool and if it is cheap enough then it might be worth it just for that. Maybe make cooling windows where the glass powers a small Peltier cooler that chills the inside of the window while heating the outside. Triple glazed of course. One of those things that sounds cool but I do not see the math working out well unless it is just super cheap.
No need to be sorry. I am not a chemist I just got all As in it back when a Vax was a fast machine. It is the people writing the story that did know what they where talking about. I work from the basis of when I get some vague news story where the science seems wrong it is probably the reporter that blew it.
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True which is why I picked Perl. To me scripting languages like Perl and Python are the tools I use for simple one off programs like filtering a text file.
I do not do much web stuff right now but I could see me using Python along with Perl and PHP.
For anything more complex on the desktop I would use Java, C++ or ObjectiveC.
If I need to do anything with or very old dos codebase I would breakout FreePascal.
You see it is a need to learn thing.
Now Haskel does interest me but when I have looked at it my head hurt.
Ahh but PHP isn't good enough for desktop applications. To change tools it must be much better or you have no other choice.
You are correct. Also incase people have not noticed Intel is also pushing Thunderbolt. You are going to see Thunderbolt parts as standard on Intel chipsets soon.
Of course the scary thing is when we see them on mobile devices. How long before I can plug my phone into a monitor that has USB ports for my keyboard and mouse and a network connection?
HP was not making PERSONAL computers in 1977. They where in the mini and workstation market.
That is why I said PERSONAL computers. HP and IBM are both still making computers as are some other manufactures that predate HP in the computer market like UniSys.
I am talking about small single users PCs from that time mostly 8bit. Frankly even IBM doesn't fit in that catagory.
HP came late to the party and even then they are talking about doing an IBM and spinning off their PC division.
It comes down to time for most developers. For instance I need to filter a large text file a few weeks ago. I have been thinking about learning Python because it seems pretty interesting. Time ticks buy as I am reading and setting up things and then I think, " if I used perl I would have been done". So I write the four line perl script and I am done.
A tool just needs to be a lot better to be worth the time sink. A lot of the time Good enough is just that good enough.
Yes and no.
Unless Dart is "much better" why take the time to learn a new language where support will depend on two codebases. You will have your Dart code and your js translation of your Dart code?
If you know JS your going to keep developing in JS until Dart support is proven and universal.
Even then you will probably keep using JS unless you start a new project.
I do not know if memreistors have the same limitations as flash does. Things like page based writes and such make flash more disk like than memory like. however some systems like PalmOS used Flash more like ROM than a disk. So if it does work more like RAM then I say that cacheing and such will be the way to use it.
Everything else you talk about leads to one problem. It becomes very much tied to hardware. This can be a good thing in that you can get better performance but it makes moving forward much more difficult.
Using a vanilla model allows for easy porting of the OS and software to new hardware. I do not think we are holding computing back that much. I admit that am not happy with the cycle of Yet Another Unix that we seem to be in. Several OSs that had a lot of promise have faded like BeOS and even VMS but in some ways it is like the airliner industry. All new airliners are tubes with swept wings and engines mounted belwo the wings. The reason why is simple. It is the best platform for the job. That doesn't make it any less boring.
When and if every browser on the market supports it.
Until then it is just interesting.
Yes their is more to life than science. He is going to need friends and social skills. Frankly the idea of pushing him as far and as fast as possible strikes me as being selfish. It is using him for the good "Society, world, whatever" more than for his own welfare.
Find him enough work to keep him challenged. Maybe more classes on litter, art, music, and history to round him out. Maybe dancing lessons, sports of some kind. Their maybe some long term benefit to getting your PHD at 24-26 over 17. Instead of on prodigy you may have generations of brilliant people that way.
Really RMS? Sorry but this was nothing but grandstanding.
For criticism to have any value it must be constructive. Steve Jobs can not change anything he has done so this is in now way constructive.
Is this hurt full.
Yes.
People have lost their friend, husband, father, and mentor.
This makes RMS a small petty man that puts his ideology above his humanity. It would be far better to wait and criticize after some time has passed.
As to your post I disagree.
Jobb's founded Apple which is the only hardware company from the early days of personal computing that is still making personal computers. Not even IBM is still in that market much less Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, TI, RadioShack, Heathkit, Altar, Osbourne, or any number of other companies that started around the same time.
He helped make the GUI mainstream. Yes Xerox invented but they didn't do anything with it. Apple traded Xerox a bunch of stock and too the GUI and put into the hands of the public.
He also showed that Unix could be used be user friendly when he started NeXT.
He also turned around Pixar.
He went back to Apple and turned that company around. He changed the way that the music industry sold music and pushed for them to drop DRM.
While CEO Apple redefined what a smartphone was and how it should work.
While CEO Apple made tablets a viable option for the public at large.
He took Apple from the brink of death to become the most valuable company on the stock exchange.
Let's not forget that Apple employees on the whole are happy and well paid. Apple even did respond when it's subs where not treating their employee's well. One can say they didn't do enough but you better jump down the throats of everyone else that uses Foxconn which is about everybody and they did even less.
Yes he really is in the same category as Edison and Ford. Far from perfect but with accomplishments that will be historical on scope. Had he lived to ripe old age and passed away long after his retirement you would see this display. Thing is that he didn't die at 80 he died at the young age of 56. he had at least ten more years before retirement.
At this point anything really negative is just being cruel and petty.
Exactly. Sales tax are setup for brick and mortar stores. You pay the sales tax based on where you buy the item with an exception made for cars in many places.
And you are correct in that if it was just 50 states that it wouldn't be a problem it is every county and town. This is easy to deal with for brick and mortar but a pain for online.
For instance do you charge the tax based where your server is at? If so a lot of datacenters will pop up in Oregon, Montana, and New Hampshire. The billing address or the card? Or the shipping address?
The real issue is even worse because each place you sell to can request a full audit of your books at any time to check that you paid the sales tax! So your little online store that sells a cool tee shirt you created could be audited 20 times month.
In other words it is your classic case of what worked in the old days doesn't really work well in the internet age.
In fact I can not think of a single successful aircraft engine that used that design except for one German diesle engine that saw limited service on a few low production number aircraft in WWII . Maybe they where used on airships.
The real popular use for them was submarines and trains.
Oh do not get me started on fun with the Canadian government. The government of Canada stopped an update disk we where sending to a customer because it didn't have a value listed. The update was free with support so we put the value as zero. You see the wanted to be sure that the organization getting the disk paid the import tax on it. I told them that it was free and that the disk was worth maybe 5 cents. That still wasn't good enough so they refused to deliver the disk.
The thing is that the organization that was getting the disk was... The Canadian government!
This was pre internet so we set up a BBS just for them to download updates.
Yes and no. Changing people is a lot harder than changing software. Think about it "files" are already a throwback to the old idea of paper files.
You will still need to move data as well and know what is where.
Now changing the OS is a given but not as much as you think. We already have disk cache's now. This should allow for an extremely persistent cache and a very low memory sleep state for computers. People are talking about never having to reboot which is more than a bit silly because if you power down the CPU when you bring it back up you still need to initialize the hardware. It will not matter one bit if the memory is static if you do not retrive things like the register states on power up. Using windows terms this could allow a hibernate that seems as fast to recover from as a sleep mode is today. That would be good enough for most people.
A place where this could be huge is for disk systems. Adding this as cache to a raid controller an or a drive could really improve performance for disk writes.
Forget that. stope at 100,000.
Actually when I look at other sites compared to Slashdot it is a revelation.
Compared to CNN, Engadet, and most local new sites, Slashdot's commenters are on the whole much more civil, intelligent, and frankly good natured than most other sites.
I would not allow AC commenters but I know that a lot of people on slashdot do not agree with that so.
I would give people to ability to post as an AC but you still take a karma hit. Hey if it is not worth a karma hit to you say it then it isn't worth my time to read it.
After all low karma on Slashdot does not hurt your job or income so who really cares?
That and get new editors. They are posting stories that are nothing but pure inflammatory click bait. For example "http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/05/1536214/big-brother-calls-shotgun-in-illinois"
There are societies where human sacrifice is not bad, murder? Let's make that killing and things are a lot more fuzzy. One societies murder is another's execution, population control, or solution to a problem.
I never mentioned the bible so not try to narrow the focus I said an absolute morality.
However you need to work on your logic skills. If their is no absolute morality then by definition morality is arbitrary. You may try and define it as what is best for society but what defines what is best for the society? Wouldn't that be the members of the society? Of not then who or what.
Their must be some definer for what is moral and not. if their is no absolute morality then you are really only left with the members of society.
A favorite trick that is often used is cherry picking what you "include" in your sample. Capitol punishment is a great example of that argument.
How many times do you hear that the US is the only "civilized" nation that still has capitol punishment. The truth is that the majority of the people on the planet live in nations with capitol punishment. So a group of people that oppose it add the word civilized which means those that they agree with. I am sure that the people of Japan and China would take some offense to the idea that they are uncivilized.
It doesn't really matter but I am for not pro-capitol punishment, because I feel it is immoral.
So no logically you can not have it both ways. You can not say that is no absolute morality and then say it is also not arbitrary. Now I will not say that I am fully aware of what is absolutely moral and what is not. Their was a time when I was pro capitol punishment but I learned and changed my mind. Morality has an absolute base or it is arbitrary and and the whim of society. If society says you are immoral you are and you are wrong to go counter to them unless at some point you convince them you are right. Or you are moral untile society says you are not and then you are wrong. Terrible system isn't it?
Yet studies show that people that are religious tend to be happier and live longer. I agree that freedom is actually a requirement. Some religions even teach that none maybe truly righteous if all are compelled.
However the stament that started all of this was.
"You show precisely why religion is so evil and debilitating to society and why those who believe don't grasp the simple concept that they are bowing down to a narcissistic dictator.*"
I disagree and gave counter examples of societies without any religion that where far more evil.
It is funny but even those that will use the "scary sky god" line believe in an absolute morality when it is convent for them. If they do not then things like slavery, discrimination, and even genocide are "not evil" if the majority of the population agrees.
They will say that X is wrong and society must change. However if everything is relative in morality then they are wrong. If you disagree with the society than you are wrong if you agree you are right. That is the danger of dismissing the concept of an absolut morality.
Really? So you do not think that their motivation, ethics, morals, or belief system has anything to do with it?
I think you better reconsider.
And since the lack of religion is a mandatory part of Marxism I would say that you should start with the error and work back.
And yet the nations that outlawed religion completely where the most brutal and repressive.
The death toll in the USSR, China, and North Korea make those that you listed look like picnics. In fact if you take the death toll from the USSR, China, North Korea, and Cambodia it is far more than Nazi Germany or any other group ever pulled off. The sad thing is that they where not even trying to wipe out whole populations. They where just getting rid of those that where inconvenient.
Sorry but the hard facts really do not support your conclusions. Maybe you should try this theory instead.
Individuals that seek power without any moral restraints and willing to use and misuse all the tools at their disposal to achieve their goals are the source of all evil.
They way you can stop clinging to your illogical bigotry that your flawed world view depends on.
Man parts of Canada are just the beautiful but it is such a tragic county.
Canada could have had American know how, French culture, and British government.
Instead it got American culture, British know how, and French government.
This could be really bad for some of the medical clinics. I could be wrong but I think I read somewhere that a good number of small clinics in that area depend on video conferencing so that staff can consult with doctors in larger clinics. Add in the need to call for medevac and other services and it could really cause some issues. I bet the Ham operators are busy right now.
Maybe the should keep a hot backup in orbit? Yes I know that would be expensive.
"You show precisely why religion is so evil and debilitating to society"
Yeah they are so much worse than Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.
All militant atheists.
Truth of the matter is no you are wrong. Westbourgh is a small group of loons. There is like 10 of them in a mini van and get way too much press. In fact Slashdot in posting this is doing EXACTLY what they want.
Judging any large group comprised of millions of people by a tiny band of loons is illogical.
I heard about this and started to do the math.
" Aoyagi said a square meter of the material can generate about 5 volts at 7 watts under peak conditions, and can operate under far less sunlight than it takes to power a conventional panel, so it will be active for more of the day."
Picture one meter^2 that is not a small area people.
Next under peak conditions?
Peak conditions means point south if you are in the northern hemisphere and at an angle that is equal to your latitude. Most windows are vertical so unless you live at one of the poles you are not going to be close.
So let's say you will average half that and you have 10 meters of windows facing in the right direction and since your angle probably sucks. So let's be really generous and say that you will average half of that peak for 8 hours on a hot summer day. So we are talking about 35 watts for 8 hours. Or enough to run maybe one laptop.
Sky scrapers will have less window area on average per person and will have the problem of shadows unless they are the only building in the area.
Now the blocking IR is really cool and if it is cheap enough then it might be worth it just for that. Maybe make cooling windows where the glass powers a small Peltier cooler that chills the inside of the window while heating the outside. Triple glazed of course.
One of those things that sounds cool but I do not see the math working out well unless it is just super cheap.
No need to be sorry. I am not a chemist I just got all As in it back when a Vax was a fast machine. It is the people writing the story that did know what they where talking about.
I work from the basis of when I get some vague news story where the science seems wrong it is probably the reporter that blew it.
It is the new slashdot. Same editorial standards as the Midnight Sun. I do not even get why this is a story?