Seems to me the good people at Stanford should be worried about being sued or thrown in jail, since they came up with some cool new technology that could be construed to circumvent copyrights... (yes, I'm rolling my eyes right now, but in a half serious way.)
What do the "little mountains that form" have to do with the density of ice compared to water? Those little mountains (if they appear at all) are just air bubbles trying to escape, where the water forms and freezes around them before they can get all the way out.
That is also why ice (and snow) are "light" compared to water - air content! When melted down, the air escapes and the water is, well, water - as much as what went into it. The water in an ice cube is not less dense than liquid water in a cup - it just has air trapped with it, so it may appear so.
I personally like that viewpoint - not necessarily trying to be an asshole, but not beating around the bush - if it sucks and there is a better way (or even if there isn't - the idea just sucks), SAY IT.
Years of being a corporate bitch have left me with quite the bitter taste in my mouth. I work with countless project managers, sales drones, and others who can't handle it when us engineers (and I'm a security engineer, they hate us even worse) don't sugar coat everything.
I sincerely hope my small hosting company/ISP is successful in the long run, as I can't take much more of this. If I could get away with emails like "no you dimwitted twat, that idea is NOT good, will result in massive customer outages, and I don't give a flying fuck if you have to look incompetent to retract your idiotic recommendations cause I'm not taking the heat for it when it all hits the fan" I would be sending them out many times a day. Not to be condescending (well, ok yeah I would be at least until I got the novelty of THE TRUTH out of my system), but to get things solved and move on. Things would be fixed 500% faster (literally) if the ass kissing and irrelevant crap was removed.
Oh, the RIAA can kiss my ass too. My $15 that I pay for a piece of plastic is my license to listen to it any way I choose. This is why we have magic inventions called mp3 players! If they want to block me from using their product, that's cool - I'll stop paying for that product. I can get much better looking coffee mug coasters for $15, and I'll just go find someone who did manage to rip it into mp3 on the 'net anyway!
To think that motherboards all over will be committing seppuku in little tiny hydrogen explosions.
I guess if you're going to lose data, that's a fairly entertaining way to do it. Beats the usual Windows "you're SOL, dude!" messages. If it's gonna happen inevitably anyway, it may as well involve fire and smoke somehow, at least that way there is some asthetic value until you realize you forgot to do backups for a while... hrm, speaking of which, I should go do tho$%%$#%^&^ YOUR COMPUTER WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 5 SECONDS.
Seems like the technology to do this has been available for years, yet they want to make you pay for yet another piece of useless clutterware not to mention USB1 is S-L-O-W for file transfers, so unless you're running newer hardware to begin with you're going to be at it a while.
Ethernet on the other hand, has been around a good long while and it would actually be cheaper to buy a $12 NIC and 6' cable, be faster, and not really be that big of a deal to set up.
Oh wait, these are average Windows/mac users... There goes the Network Neighborhood. If apple was serious about this, their code would be an integral part of OS/X from the start, with the capability there for enet transfer, and a USB cable extra if you really need it or want it.
As for the "can I get this for Linux" comment... umm dude, there are other questions you need answered first I think. Unfortunately with Linux becoming the "UNIX for Soccer Moms Worldwide" it's attracting a much less competent userbase than it used to, and since that seems to be welcomed it changes the scope of the operating system and it's resources en masse. But this is way off topic, so I'll quit.
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Seems to me the good people at Stanford should be worried about being sued or thrown in jail, since they came up with some cool new technology that could be construed to circumvent copyrights... (yes, I'm rolling my eyes right now, but in a half serious way.)
That is also why ice (and snow) are "light" compared to water - air content! When melted down, the air escapes and the water is, well, water - as much as what went into it. The water in an ice cube is not less dense than liquid water in a cup - it just has air trapped with it, so it may appear so.
Years of being a corporate bitch have left me with quite the bitter taste in my mouth. I work with countless project managers, sales drones, and others who can't handle it when us engineers (and I'm a security engineer, they hate us even worse) don't sugar coat everything.
I sincerely hope my small hosting company/ISP is successful in the long run, as I can't take much more of this. If I could get away with emails like "no you dimwitted twat, that idea is NOT good, will result in massive customer outages, and I don't give a flying fuck if you have to look incompetent to retract your idiotic recommendations cause I'm not taking the heat for it when it all hits the fan" I would be sending them out many times a day. Not to be condescending (well, ok yeah I would be at least until I got the novelty of THE TRUTH out of my system), but to get things solved and move on. Things would be fixed 500% faster (literally) if the ass kissing and irrelevant crap was removed.
Oh, the RIAA can kiss my ass too. My $15 that I pay for a piece of plastic is my license to listen to it any way I choose. This is why we have magic inventions called mp3 players! If they want to block me from using their product, that's cool - I'll stop paying for that product. I can get much better looking coffee mug coasters for $15, and I'll just go find someone who did manage to rip it into mp3 on the 'net anyway!
To think that motherboards all over will be committing seppuku in little tiny hydrogen explosions. I guess if you're going to lose data, that's a fairly entertaining way to do it. Beats the usual Windows "you're SOL, dude!" messages. If it's gonna happen inevitably anyway, it may as well involve fire and smoke somehow, at least that way there is some asthetic value until you realize you forgot to do backups for a while... hrm, speaking of which, I should go do tho$%%$#%^&^ YOUR COMPUTER WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 5 SECONDS.
Seems like the technology to do this has been available for years, yet they want to make you pay for yet another piece of useless clutterware not to mention USB1 is S-L-O-W for file transfers, so unless you're running newer hardware to begin with you're going to be at it a while.
Ethernet on the other hand, has been around a good long while and it would actually be cheaper to buy a $12 NIC and 6' cable, be faster, and not really be that big of a deal to set up.
Oh wait, these are average Windows/mac users... There goes the Network Neighborhood. If apple was serious about this, their code would be an integral part of OS/X from the start, with the capability there for enet transfer, and a USB cable extra if you really need it or want it.
As for the "can I get this for Linux" comment ... umm dude, there are other questions you need answered first I think. Unfortunately with Linux becoming the "UNIX for Soccer Moms Worldwide" it's attracting a much less competent userbase than it used to, and since that seems to be welcomed it changes the scope of the operating system and it's resources en masse. But this is way off topic, so I'll quit.