Personally I'd love to see us progress to the point where it was possible to grow just the meat itself without the animal. That would end all the ethical issues with raising an animal for food, potential issues from mad cow disease, bird flu and whatever the next media induced panic is."
I'd like to see that too, but what does that have to do with this story?
The cable television industry does need to invest heavily in upgrades. These upgrades are called satellites. Of course, they could also kill two birds with one stone and put cable television on a faster internet.
The article says that this machine is much more efficient than other supercomputers. Is it actually cheaper to run large programs like SETI@HOME on a supercomputer? Electricity isn't cheap.
... It is. Windows XP works pretty well, and there's really no more reason to switch PC platforms than there is to change your heat pump. It works. You'd be an idiot (quite literally) to waste time and money for no reason. That's the public attitude.
Sorry to upset you. Mod me down.
A 20 year old Mazda works "pretty well" too. I guess that's why nobody buys new cars.
Actually the said 'single photon' that comes back from the retroreflector arrives with millions of others coming from everywhere around (from our atmosphere to the neighboring moon land), and is totally unvisible within this "noise".
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The cable television industry does need to invest heavily in upgrades. These upgrades are called satellites.
Of course, they could also kill two birds with one stone and put cable television on a faster internet.
This.
10. Apollo guidance system 9. Excel spreadsheet Hahahaha!
[blockquote]And are the games going to work as "well" as they do with Cedega?[/blockquote] Let's hope not.
Well that sounds like a pretty cool movie. Is Bryan Singer directing?
1. McDonalds Fry Cook 2. Math Teacher 3. ???
The article says that this machine is much more efficient than other supercomputers. Is it actually cheaper to run large programs like SETI@HOME on a supercomputer? Electricity isn't cheap.
It now costs 15 dollars per gigaflop. In the early 90s, a million dollars per gigaflop was normal.
Yeah but does it run Linux?
Remember that was the largest known object in the universe millions and millions of years ago. Who knows what it would look like today.
It's even bigger than Bono's ego!
Forget the complex winamp visualization and the blackjack.
Wow, a winamp visualization.
Just don't mix dino DNA with that of a frog's! Apparently they will have man-babies, because nature always finds a way!
I heard they were renaming their company to OURTUBE.com
Q: What's so great about emo bread? A: It cuts itself!