Don't we as a nation have better things to be worried about than a teenager getting naked for another teenager?!
You must be new here. You see, we have actual problems but they might be hard to solve, so instead of considering real problems and solving them rationally we distract ourselves. And if absurd things like this aren't a good enough distraction I don't know what is.
Do you ever suspect that stories like this are out there - this, the whole adult swim guerrilla marketing fiasco, and so on- to get us to stop pandering to public idiocy and paranoia then when nobody is paranoid anymore they come for us? Also, I need a new tinfoil hat, this one has lost its pizazz.
OK, so in order to argue with you, I have to go read a book to understand the meaning of the word Fascism? Without the agreement before hand on the meaning of terms, argument isn't particularly useful, But if you get to define all the terms, well I'm not going to argue with you. How about instead, we use well defined terms from sources we could agree upon. Like say the dictionary, or Wikipedia (though I suspect from your tone, that one is out of the question).
Yea, but with doom in the name, maybe they could get there hands on some of that sweet DHS "anti-terrorist" money. "We gotta do more basic science research, don't want the terrorists getting there hands on the doom particle"
Just a thought, if they want any more financing out of all this publicity, they should come up with a better name than Y(4140). Seriously, They are going to get some level of coverage for this, which they can use to try to get more financing. But if they stick with Y(4140), well it may not amount to nearly as much as if they called it say the Mystery Particle of Doom or something.
the fish are to be lifelike in appearance and swimming behavior so they will not alarm their fellow marine inhabitants.
Whats more, what evidence do they have that swimming robots that do not look anything lifelike are alarming to any marine animals? Have they seen any really surprised fish swimming around? This seems like a completely unnecessary and really dumb feature (read bug) for such such a robot. It should be built to have maximum battery life, allowing for any swimming style that extends its range. I for one have never seen a fish in a state of "alarm" unless it was being hauled in on a fishing line. Even in this case, occasionally it was catch and release, so the sole reason for the activity was to cause the fish to go into a state of "alarm".
itâ(TM)s not possible to make incremental backups, nor to schedule them.
Yes, I want to buy a 1 TB drive, which cannot make incremental backups. That is quite a ways outside of the "bell curve" as long as by "bell curve" you mean "it has standard features that virtually any useful external storage solution provides".
Yes, he lied under oath. But then again, there was a congressional investigation into whether or not get got a BJ. That is absurd in its own right. Left or Right, what you do with your sex organs in private, with consenting adults shouldn't be the government's business.
The 4 Fascist American Presidents: Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Obama.
I don't think you know what this word means. And your feeble attempt at fear mongering doesn't work particularly well when it is clear that you do not even know what the words you use mean.
Therefore, I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to view the rooftops of the buildings for which we essentially paid.
I think I've figured out what this whole thing is about. Assemblyman Anderson has been going around doing lude and lascivious things on the rooftops of public buildings which he doesn't want anyone to find out about.
If people went around geo-tagging all of these locations as "On Fire!", and fire departments regularly looked at the meta information on all of the buildings around them in order to determine whether or not they are on fire. Or maybe he's just a tremendous ass.
moving parts in computers (and apparently can act as a replacement for the transistor).
I don't think this is a replacement for the transistor, there certainly wasn't any indication that these can perform any logic operations. A replacement for your hard drive, which besides the fan (which you will probably still need), is the moving parts of your computer. It remains to be seen whether this process could be useful at scale. You need billions of these little things, along with some method for reading and writing to each unit. The HDD industry has been working for years (still in R&D phase) on spintronics to store data, and there is still a long way to go. But there is indeed great promise in it as well.
Ok, here's the idea: Samuel L Jackson is some sort of space ninja - on the ISS right. Then, from nowhere, Bears! Get these Mothra-Frakking Bears of My Mothra-Frakking Space Station!
Yea, it doesn't make economic sense. GM knows they are going to lose money on every Volt that rolls off the assembly line. Thats not the whole story though. They need a new image for the brand, and they have pinned that image to the Volt. Forward thinking, efficient, and revolutionary in the auto industry is the idea right now for the Volt. Them going out of business might hinder their cause. But, then again, its their own damn fault for behaving like asses for 30+ years. Seriously, they may have made money of trucks and Hummers, but they were certainly not innovative or groundbreaking in their designs. Their overall structure was hosed for so long, its hard to see what restructuring they are gonna do to recover.
Where are you at around here? Ever been to Boulder? It was ~ 10 years ago I'd say that one of my HS teachers handed them out to our class in an attempt to recruit us to get our parents to put them on their cars.
Teachers here in CO often have bumper stickers proclaiming: Welcome to Colorado, 49th in funding for schools. Perhaps there is a correlation, then again, I was educated exclusively in this state so maybe I'm just an idiot.
How far is the head from the media in a 3.5" floppy? And in an HDD? What sort of substrate is used in a 3.5" floppy? And in an HDD? How big is the head in a 3.5" floppy? And in an HDD? How robust are 3.5" heads to degrading? And HDD Heads?
The Jaz was just a bad idea is all. It was basically just an HDD, but instead of a single integrated system, you separate the media from the heads. Why is this a terrible idea? 1) dirty media will destroy heads right quick. 2) allowing people to move the media around, and even encouraging such behavior astronomically increases the chances you are going to get something bad onto the media. 3) Once a head goes, the whole thing is gone. Without fancy new stuff that goes into the freshest HDD's, this can mean that once the head goes you drive it straight into the media, forever destroying it and causing a general mess. 4) Instead of a nice pretty clean room environment (HDD's are sealed in a clean room), you introduce a bunch of dirtyness and nasty environmental particles every time you put a new disk into the reader.
Going forward, look for the eSATA interface to become more prominent.
While I would dearly love to see eSATA become more than at best a niche interface, its not going to happen. USB3 with backwards compatibility and Firewire poised to hit 3.2GB/s in it's next standard, I wouldn't bet the farm on eSATA becoming more popular than either standard. On another note, they mention the MD card, but none of Sony's other forays into proprietary storage systems. One could probably devote a whole article in itself to Sony's endless attempts to release a storage system only compatible with Sony products and have it gain main stream acceptance.
Incompetent? Undoubtedly. But they are also the only network that takes chances on shows like Futurama in the first place. You think CBS/NBC/ABC would risk something putting as original as Futurama on the air vs. "a sitcom about a female writer living in the city"?
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Don't we as a nation have better things to be worried about than a teenager getting naked for another teenager?!
You must be new here. You see, we have actual problems but they might be hard to solve, so instead of considering real problems and solving them rationally we distract ourselves. And if absurd things like this aren't a good enough distraction I don't know what is.
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Do you ever suspect that stories like this are out there - this, the whole adult swim guerrilla marketing fiasco, and so on- to get us to stop pandering to public idiocy and paranoia then when nobody is paranoid anymore they come for us?
Also, I need a new tinfoil hat, this one has lost its pizazz.
You have a valid point, but still most every other external drive solution comes with backup software that includes incremental backup.
OK, so in order to argue with you, I have to go read a book to understand the meaning of the word Fascism? Without the agreement before hand on the meaning of terms, argument isn't particularly useful, But if you get to define all the terms, well I'm not going to argue with you. How about instead, we use well defined terms from sources we could agree upon. Like say the dictionary, or Wikipedia (though I suspect from your tone, that one is out of the question).
Yea, but with doom in the name, maybe they could get there hands on some of that sweet DHS "anti-terrorist" money. "We gotta do more basic science research, don't want the terrorists getting there hands on the doom particle"
Just a thought, if they want any more financing out of all this publicity, they should come up with a better name than Y(4140). Seriously, They are going to get some level of coverage for this, which they can use to try to get more financing. But if they stick with Y(4140), well it may not amount to nearly as much as if they called it say the Mystery Particle of Doom or something.
the fish are to be lifelike in appearance and swimming behavior so they will not alarm their fellow marine inhabitants.
Whats more, what evidence do they have that swimming robots that do not look anything lifelike are alarming to any marine animals? Have they seen any really surprised fish swimming around? This seems like a completely unnecessary and really dumb feature (read bug) for such such a robot. It should be built to have maximum battery life, allowing for any swimming style that extends its range. I for one have never seen a fish in a state of "alarm" unless it was being hauled in on a fishing line. Even in this case, occasionally it was catch and release, so the sole reason for the activity was to cause the fish to go into a state of "alarm".
itâ(TM)s not possible to make incremental backups, nor to schedule them.
Yes, I want to buy a 1 TB drive, which cannot make incremental backups. That is quite a ways outside of the "bell curve" as long as by "bell curve" you mean "it has standard features that virtually any useful external storage solution provides".
The 4 Fascist American Presidents: Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Obama.
I don't think you know what this word means. And your feeble attempt at fear mongering doesn't work particularly well when it is clear that you do not even know what the words you use mean.
Therefore, I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to view the rooftops of the buildings for which we essentially paid.
I think I've figured out what this whole thing is about. Assemblyman Anderson has been going around doing lude and lascivious things on the rooftops of public buildings which he doesn't want anyone to find out about.
The only possible purpose for censorship is evil.
If people went around geo-tagging all of these locations as "On Fire!", and fire departments regularly looked at the meta information on all of the buildings around them in order to determine whether or not they are on fire.
Or maybe he's just a tremendous ass.
moving parts in computers (and apparently can act as a replacement for the transistor).
I don't think this is a replacement for the transistor, there certainly wasn't any indication that these can perform any logic operations. A replacement for your hard drive, which besides the fan (which you will probably still need), is the moving parts of your computer. It remains to be seen whether this process could be useful at scale. You need billions of these little things, along with some method for reading and writing to each unit. The HDD industry has been working for years (still in R&D phase) on spintronics to store data, and there is still a long way to go. But there is indeed great promise in it as well.
Ok, here's the idea: Samuel L Jackson is some sort of space ninja - on the ISS right. Then, from nowhere, Bears! Get these Mothra-Frakking Bears of My Mothra-Frakking Space Station!
You can charge off peak. Thats the idea anyway. Then, ideally during peak hours you can sell energy back to the grid at a profit.
Yea, it doesn't make economic sense. GM knows they are going to lose money on every Volt that rolls off the assembly line. Thats not the whole story though. They need a new image for the brand, and they have pinned that image to the Volt. Forward thinking, efficient, and revolutionary in the auto industry is the idea right now for the Volt. Them going out of business might hinder their cause. But, then again, its their own damn fault for behaving like asses for 30+ years. Seriously, they may have made money of trucks and Hummers, but they were certainly not innovative or groundbreaking in their designs. Their overall structure was hosed for so long, its hard to see what restructuring they are gonna do to recover.
Where are you at around here? Ever been to Boulder? It was ~ 10 years ago I'd say that one of my HS teachers handed them out to our class in an attempt to recruit us to get our parents to put them on their cars.
You owe me a keyboard and my dignity. Soda just came out my nose. And thank you sir.
Teachers here in CO often have bumper stickers proclaiming: Welcome to Colorado, 49th in funding for schools. Perhaps there is a correlation, then again, I was educated exclusively in this state so maybe I'm just an idiot.
How far is the head from the media in a 3.5" floppy? And in an HDD? What sort of substrate is used in a 3.5" floppy? And in an HDD? How big is the head in a 3.5" floppy? And in an HDD? How robust are 3.5" heads to degrading? And HDD Heads?
The Jaz was just a bad idea is all. It was basically just an HDD, but instead of a single integrated system, you separate the media from the heads. Why is this a terrible idea? 1) dirty media will destroy heads right quick. 2) allowing people to move the media around, and even encouraging such behavior astronomically increases the chances you are going to get something bad onto the media. 3) Once a head goes, the whole thing is gone. Without fancy new stuff that goes into the freshest HDD's, this can mean that once the head goes you drive it straight into the media, forever destroying it and causing a general mess. 4) Instead of a nice pretty clean room environment (HDD's are sealed in a clean room), you introduce a bunch of dirtyness and nasty environmental particles every time you put a new disk into the reader.
Going forward, look for the eSATA interface to become more prominent.
While I would dearly love to see eSATA become more than at best a niche interface, its not going to happen. USB3 with backwards compatibility and Firewire poised to hit 3.2GB/s in it's next standard, I wouldn't bet the farm on eSATA becoming more popular than either standard.
On another note, they mention the MD card, but none of Sony's other forays into proprietary storage systems. One could probably devote a whole article in itself to Sony's endless attempts to release a storage system only compatible with Sony products and have it gain main stream acceptance.
Incompetent? Undoubtedly. But they are also the only network that takes chances on shows like Futurama in the first place. You think CBS/NBC/ABC would risk something putting as original as Futurama on the air vs. "a sitcom about a female writer living in the city"?
You know, you might be right. But if they bring it back, I'm still gonna watch it.