erno: "hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is."

Good for him.

It was discovered in 1947, they got the Nobel prize for testing the properties of it.

That's why I wrote the blog post mentioned in the summary, I wanted to show comparisons when lossless sources were used. Here are the high res source images from the post if you're interested: http://jjcm.org:8081/webp
-j
http://englishhard.com/

Yes it can, but only temporarily. Severed limbs still have living cells in them. Applying an electric charge to them *will* make them move, although this process uses the existing neural pathways to deliver the charge (similar to how the body does it). These pathways run out of steam pretty quickly though, so it'd probably only work for a few minutes after the limb was removed.

Playing the devil's advocate here, the flaking that you're experiencing will happen with all Neodymium Iron Boron magnets with nickel platting. The underlying metals are highly brittle, which means that continuous clacking together will eventually break off small pieces of the NdFeB under the nickel coating. This metal sand will no longer support the shape of the original coating, leading to warping, weakening, and eventually flaking of the nickel coating. The only thing that really determines the endurance is the depth of the coating, and Zen makes no claims that the depth of their coating is better (only that it's more shiny and possibly more uniform).
As a disclaimer, I have not owned either zen or buckyball's magnets (although it's very possible that I've gotten magnets from the same supplier). I'm just a fan of the NdFeB magnets and have a moderate-large amount of experience with them.

Ah the life of a journalism major...

LTO tapes aren't your best choice for data density anymore. Right now your most dense LTO drive can store 1.5TB, whereas your most dense microSD card can store 32GB.
MicroSD Cards => .0014m * .032m * .024m = 0.000001075m^3 =>32GB / 1.075 * 10^-6m^3 = 2.98 * 10^7 GB/m^3
LTO Drive => .102m * .1054m * .0215m = 0.000231142m^3 => 1536GB / 2.31142 * 10^-4m^3 = 6.65 * 10^6 GB/m^3

Why is this marked informative? Since when is a single opinion with no supporting evidence that's clearly flamebait written by an AC deemed informative? C'mon /., pick up your game.

So it's a generic convertible tablet PC like we've had for ages, except the screen rotates along the x axis instead of the y axis? Why is this news?
What does this do that my X61t doesn't?

Wont happen - while you can detect a touch action, you can't place the location of that touch. So if you were to have a dialer application, you could distinguish a button press but not which button it actually was. Even for knockoffs this is unacceptable.

They're small, about the size of a baseball. You can find plenty of personal tracking GPS systems online - look for hiking trail mappers.

So the real reason that cars of the future make that "bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop" sound as they go along is because of speakers?

I see that the effectiveness of DRM hasn't changed in 800 years.