User: multatuli

Year length

On: An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com)

In astronomy class back in the '80s we were already taught a year counted roughly 450 days a billion years ago. Simple calculation from first principles and observed data. Nothing new here.

Re:Where did that headline come from?

On: SLAC Experiment Proves It Rains Diamonds On Uranus and Neptune (cosmosmagazine.com)

+1

Star Trek era looming

On: Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist At the Same Time

Yes! Subspace communications!

Big coils? Think twice!

On: Huge Tesla Coils Will Recreate Natural Lightning

Read 'Micro' before hitting the 'on' switch ... ;-)

Re:Analog = Unique

On: MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses

If it's analog, then it's behaviour is unique per chip, and so anything you build from them will be subtly unique. So "software" would behave differently depending on the unit it was running on. You thought 4 or 5 versions of Linux was tricky to support...

That explains why I always seem to hear things on my radio that other people don't ;-)

Re:Transistors are not digital

On: MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses

Transistors are analog. Transistor-transistor logic is digital.

Neurons are analog. What about neuron-neuron-logic?

Some seem to expect it quantum-mechanical or even completely non-deterministic.
Some are living up to that expectancy ;-)

Re:Transistors are not digital

On: MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses

Transistors are analog. Transistor-transistor logic is digital.

Re:Ignorant bastards

On: $80 Android Phone Sells Like Hotcakes In Kenya

So right you are.
We could try to address our US friends as if they were from Nicaragua or - better yet - from Cuba. Same continent, same people, same culture, right?
But that might be offensive to Nicaraguans and Cubans.

iPad as a tablet??

On: 1979 Apple Graphics Tablet vs. the iPad

The comparison got me wondering ... would an App that lets you use the iPad as a tablet device to a Mac (or any other OS) be worth developing? Is it already out there?

Re:University of Amsterdam

On: Drug Deletes Fearful Memories

Yes, but that's outside of the US, so can be ignored ;-)

Re:Law of Economics Applies...

On: Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe

So we should stop buying for a while and/or switch to freeware en masse to make this stop.
In fact, I think this is called monopoly abuse and the EU tries to make us think they are very keen on fighting that.

Other markets

On: Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe

like in Asia require localization as well and don't show the price gap.

Me too, please

On: DNA For Information Processing and Data Storage

Gosh! DNA s awesome! I want it, too. Tons of it.