Bullshit. While direct exposure to Merc is not good for you in any sense, old issues of NatGeo have pictures of people handling liquid mercury (and even a photo of an ore miner sitting on top of a pool of liquid mercury - it's that dense).
Mercury doesn't "fill your pores" - it's very cohesive and your hand is dry when you lift it out of a pool.
Japan and Korea have govt. subsidized and in some areas, regulated pricings on broadband. The US could easily come within striking distance of those prices if we broke up the oligopolies that charge exhoribtant prices to access the backbone.
At first, I thought he did have a typical savant language problem, or at least a speach impediment. I didn't figure out it was a British thing until the end of the article.
That means I've already met half the requirements of being an idiot-savant myself!
"Phone numbers (In the US, at least) are limited to 10 digits because research shows the average person can only memorize 10 digits, as a result"
I think your analogy is a bit flawed there.
1234567890 is not much easier to remember than
"One,two,three-four,five,six-seven,eight,nine,zero." But is a hell of a lot less secure.
Yes, that's definitely one layer of the onion. The unabashed and immediate self-recognition/assumption of such intelligence is a more humorous one, though.
I love the responses. The headline is "Smart people crack under pressure," and every reply amounts to "I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON WHY I DO WORSE ON TESTS!!"
There are so many levels, it's like a big, inflated onion.
People have already pointed out the sonicare toothbrush, but this is also used for the Abiocor artificial heart. Especially in the case of something embedded in your body, it's much better to have a system that does not require electrodes sticking out of your skin! And while a toothbrush may fit in your pocket, I'd wager a replacement heart qualifies more as a true mobile device!
That's not certain. His method of linking to a "live" page is questionable, but he could have saved the page in his browser and linked to it directly, rather than do what most of us would have and taken a screencap and viewsource.
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Bullshit. While direct exposure to Merc is not good for you in any sense, old issues of NatGeo have pictures of people handling liquid mercury (and even a photo of an ore miner sitting on top of a pool of liquid mercury - it's that dense). Mercury doesn't "fill your pores" - it's very cohesive and your hand is dry when you lift it out of a pool.
Japan and Korea have govt. subsidized and in some areas, regulated pricings on broadband. The US could easily come within striking distance of those prices if we broke up the oligopolies that charge exhoribtant prices to access the backbone.
At first, I thought he did have a typical savant language problem, or at least a speach impediment. I didn't figure out it was a British thing until the end of the article. That means I've already met half the requirements of being an idiot-savant myself!
"Phone numbers (In the US, at least) are limited to 10 digits because research shows the average person can only memorize 10 digits, as a result" I think your analogy is a bit flawed there. 1234567890 is not much easier to remember than "One,two,three-four,five,six-seven,eight,nine,zero ." But is a hell of a lot less secure.
Nah, these guys are probably just cracking under the pressure ;)
Yes, that's definitely one layer of the onion. The unabashed and immediate self-recognition/assumption of such intelligence is a more humorous one, though.
I love the responses. The headline is "Smart people crack under pressure," and every reply amounts to "I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON WHY I DO WORSE ON TESTS!!" There are so many levels, it's like a big, inflated onion.
That chip is friggin' huge. I wonder how big the heatsink/fan is going to be.
...as early as a year ago. I saw "Thresh" there. I wonder if it was patent-related.
It's just intel leaking info that they're getting ready to release a G5-based laptop.
People have already pointed out the sonicare toothbrush, but this is also used for the Abiocor artificial heart. Especially in the case of something embedded in your body, it's much better to have a system that does not require electrodes sticking out of your skin! And while a toothbrush may fit in your pocket, I'd wager a replacement heart qualifies more as a true mobile device!
That's not certain. His method of linking to a "live" page is questionable, but he could have saved the page in his browser and linked to it directly, rather than do what most of us would have and taken a screencap and viewsource.