Well, strictly speaking the cloud is 'remote storage and remote processing', which is a bit of a mouthful. Cloud is one syllable in place of several, which is more of a practicality than marketing hype IMHO.
I'd be more inclined to say 'Idiocracy' covered this topic. The kind of parents with that level of morality are more likely not to have kids at all, or at least fewer than the rest. It's Gresham's law applied to genetics - bad genes drive out the good.
Just for fun, the fictional MiG-31 aircraft from the movie Firefox was capable of Mach 6, the advantage presumably being that it could simply outrun any incoming attack.
How about burning? I know dried animal dung is used for cooking, maybe the same could apply with dried human waste? The resulting ash would still be high in N and P and of course pathogen-free.
The best use for human excrement is fertilizer really - high phosphorous and nitrogen content, ideal for the fields. It's certainly more environmentally friendly than fossil-fuel based fertilizers (and not just in the third world either).
I'm not so sure. She has kind-of become the fruit-fly of molecular biology, famous that way. You just _know_ that in 100 years time, some crazy young genetics grad is going to figure out how to turn off the 'infinite lives' mod, switch the cell-type from 'cervix' to 'stem' and clone the old gal for the lulz.
And Broadcom too, while we're at it - it's not as if we're asking for the schematics to copy the chips, just some low-level api information would be nice for OSS driver development.
Quick comparison with a regular AA battery... they are usually around 2000mAh, 1.5V, or about 3Wh energy. So about 1500 hours of constant knee movement at 2mW. Assuming a generous 4 hours/day of walking, this generates the equivalent of a single AA cell every year. Meh.
The problem is that the trillion dollars becomes worthless without that oil belonging to the brown people. Take the oil out of the equation and a trillion dollars doesn't get you a starship, it gets you a loaf of bread (ask somebody from Zimbabwe)
Actually, gamma rays can be used to cure cancer rather than give you it - they are part of some radiotherapy regimes. When I had a month of radiotherapy many years ago, it had a kind-of reverse Hulk effect though - rather than turning green, bulking up and gaining mega-strength, I went sunburn-red, dropped 30 pounds and needed to sleep up to 16 hours a day.
Given that the GDP of India in 2011 was $1389, compared with $48,387 for the USA, I really don't think sales of CD's and DVD's are going to sky-rocket after blocking torrent sites.
TFA is wrong in saying "When the first 10,000 devices shipped in mid-April", Only around 1500 devices were shipped in April I believe, with another 8000 going out during May. This is because the ethernet jack had to be replaced by hand on all 10,000 initial boards which takes a lot of man-hours (more likely woman-hours) to do, and so was done in 2 stages.
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Well, strictly speaking the cloud is 'remote storage and remote processing', which is a bit of a mouthful. Cloud is one syllable in place of several, which is more of a practicality than marketing hype IMHO.
This recent news story in the UK Makes me sad. It doesn't matter how long you want to live if you have no legal choices when you want to stop living.
It seems like we give our pets more compassion at the end of their lives than we do our fellow humans.
Personally I love Andrew Wiles' description of the process of scientific research in the first minute or 2 of this science show.
We toss cabers, not cellphones.
I'd be more inclined to say 'Idiocracy' covered this topic. The kind of parents with that level of morality are more likely not to have kids at all, or at least fewer than the rest. It's Gresham's law applied to genetics - bad genes drive out the good.
Just for fun, the fictional MiG-31 aircraft from the movie Firefox was capable of Mach 6, the advantage presumably being that it could simply outrun any incoming attack.
How about burning? I know dried animal dung is used for cooking, maybe the same could apply with dried human waste? The resulting ash would still be high in N and P and of course pathogen-free.
The best use for human excrement is fertilizer really - high phosphorous and nitrogen content, ideal for the fields. It's certainly more environmentally friendly than fossil-fuel based fertilizers (and not just in the third world either).
I'm not so sure. She has kind-of become the fruit-fly of molecular biology, famous that way. You just _know_ that in 100 years time, some crazy young genetics grad is going to figure out how to turn off the 'infinite lives' mod, switch the cell-type from 'cervix' to 'stem' and clone the old gal for the lulz.
Duh, I mean 92 of course.
Already happening. Her name is Henrietta Lacks. She's recently turned 98 and will live forever in various labs around the world.
I think it's telling that both TFAs linked in the post are by women. Please keep the creeping feminisation of the media out of Wikipedia!
Some other people doing low-cost A10/A13 board stuff:
Olimex are developing an A13-based board currently.
Gooseberry is an A10-based board sourced from a tablet designer.
It's raining. As usual.
It's finally over! Hooray!
Just read This story from Fark. FFS America....
Santa's epic Christmas Eve journey proves FTL travel is possible! Take THAT Einstein!
And Broadcom too, while we're at it - it's not as if we're asking for the schematics to copy the chips, just some low-level api information would be nice for OSS driver development.
Quick comparison with a regular AA battery... they are usually around 2000mAh, 1.5V, or about 3Wh energy. So about 1500 hours of constant knee movement at 2mW. Assuming a generous 4 hours/day of walking, this generates the equivalent of a single AA cell every year. Meh.
The problem is that the trillion dollars becomes worthless without that oil belonging to the brown people. Take the oil out of the equation and a trillion dollars doesn't get you a starship, it gets you a loaf of bread (ask somebody from Zimbabwe)
Thanks :) 14 years in remission now and still around, lucky me.
Actually, gamma rays can be used to cure cancer rather than give you it - they are part of some radiotherapy regimes.
When I had a month of radiotherapy many years ago, it had a kind-of reverse Hulk effect though - rather than turning green, bulking up and gaining mega-strength, I went sunburn-red, dropped 30 pounds and needed to sleep up to 16 hours a day.
"'SMS is the closest thing to pure profit ever invented" - Sir Chris Gent, founder of Vodafone.
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Given that the GDP of India in 2011 was $1389, compared with $48,387 for the USA, I really don't think sales of CD's and DVD's are going to sky-rocket after blocking torrent sites.
TFA is wrong in saying "When the first 10,000 devices shipped in mid-April", Only around 1500 devices were shipped in April I believe, with another 8000 going out during May. This is because the ethernet jack had to be replaced by hand on all 10,000 initial boards which takes a lot of man-hours (more likely woman-hours) to do, and so was done in 2 stages.