Comment Re:Good Idea (Score 3, Interesting) 67
There's a non trivial amount of fuel involved in changing an orbital object's speed, inclination, or trajectory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_maneuver
Comment Re:Saying it does not make you cool. (Score 1) 59
I wonder if they would be allowed to go into movie theaters.
Comment Re:Counting? (Score 1) 404
Actually, the "counting" concept is built on top of sets.
This article about set is pretty good: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128231.400-ultimate-logic-to-infinity-and-beyond.html, so is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting
So, does the question become, is "set" innate?
This article about set is pretty good: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128231.400-ultimate-logic-to-infinity-and-beyond.html, so is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting
So, does the question become, is "set" innate?
Comment Re:the true obfuscation (Score 2) 46
Notepad was never intended to be a source code editor. To really mess things up, use Wordpad instead.
Comment Re:LaTeX (Score 0, Troll) 642
Oblig xkcd :)
Comment Pictures of the glasses (Score 5, Informative) 249
From their design study.
And an article about it: project glass.
Comment Re:Danger! (Score 5, Funny) 249
Yes! Then you can play racing games while driving to work! Using Google Maps layers for tracks! Better yet, you can race against your coworkers to see who will get to work first. Productivity will soar!
Submission + - Yahoo Layoffs Begin, CEO Sends Employees Apologetic Letter (ibtimes.com)
redletterdave writes: "As expected, Yahoo began laying off more than 2,000 employees on Wednesday morning — roughly 14 percent of the company's total workforce — in its effort to slim down and pivot its focus in a new direction. The mass layoff marks the sixth time in four years — and under three different CEOs, no less — that Yahoo has dumped employees, but this one will the company's biggest in its 17-year history. Scott Thompson, Yahoo's CEO, sent an apologetic letter to all his employees this morning explaining the changes."
Submission + - Scientists Solving the Mystery of Human Consciousness (scienceworldreport.com)
fishmike writes: "Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one's surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness emerges first. Using brain imaging techniques in healthy volunteers, a team of scientists led by Adjunct Professor Harry Scheinin, M.D. from the University of Turku, Turku, Finland in collaboration with investigators from the University of California, Irvine, USA, have now imaged the process of returning consciousness after general anesthesia. The emergence of consciousness was found to be associated with activations of deep, primitive brain structures rather than the evolutionary younger neocortex."
Comment Misleading title (Score 1) 361
What was done (from the summary) was to run an ARMv5 (32-bit) emulator on the 8-bit processor. Then run Ubuntu on the emulator. Not to take anything away from the accomplishment, but that is not the same as porting / running Ubuntu on the same processor.
Comment Re:Does the display require power? (Score 2) 87
You still need electronics to flip / reset the eInk pixels. Maybe that's what the Thin-Film-Transistors are for. But that's pure speculation on my part. If that's the case, once the pixels are set, you no longer need power to keep the displayed image.
Comment Re:Cheapest? (Score 1) 312
Maybe that's obsolete, too :) at least these guys at StoragePipe would like to think so.
Comment Re:Cheapest? (Score 1) 312
With LTFS making data compatible between different vendors' hardware, we can now hope for cheaper, non-branded drives. I'm hoping in a few years I'll be able to afford my own Grandfather-father-son backup scheme for data at home.
Comment Re:Media compatibility between multiple vendors... (Score 1) 312
I should have said data compatibility. Media has always been compatible.
Comment Media compatibility between multiple vendors... (Score 1) 312
... is huge! Now even a home user can have a tape robot for back up without worrying to be tied to a specific vendor. Well, maybe... but I can dream :)
