Comment Re:When "I am shark food" is attractive (Score 1) 153
I'm fairly certain that I can out run a shark, they damn animal doesn't even have legs!
I'm fairly certain that I can out run a shark, they damn animal doesn't even have legs!
Note that of this list of the 10 most dangerous animals in Australia, five are marine.
there was never enough data to confirm or deny the theory
I remember watching a documentary about about B&W striped wet suits where the guy got a whole lot of reef sharks into a feeding frenzy and then just jumped in with them, sure enough the sharks scattered out of sight. However they were common reef sharks that are pretty much harmless, I've yet to see it tested with great whites.
Do I detect a new game show here? "Survivor: Great White".
Never used it either. It sucked However 99% of all "RSS apps" for mobile phones, including the few that are worth anyone's time, use it for infrastructure.
This.
I never used Google Reader. However, I do use an RSS reader. And to keep in sync across the devices, my reader uses Google Reader infrastructure---as do most readers. That is, I keep my reading history "in the cloud", this being one of the things the cloud is good at.
So, Google did the RSS sync thing well, so well that everyone else used the infrastructure. Google Reader itself though was, at best, meh. Everyone else used the Google Reader infrastructure invisibly, so there was no contribution to Google's coffers.
Google could have competed with a better RSS client, but they didn't. Instead, they have killed their poor client and also their pretty good infrastructure. As far as I can tell, that's the reason people are upset. They don't care about Google Reader, but the loss of the syncing infrastructure is a problem.
everyone knows its going to let you shoot and kill people and monsters with lots of blood and gore in HD
the TV part is going to sell it to the wife and the ESPN features are the knife in sony's back
Is it going to be quiet, or sound like an unmuffled hovercraft like the original XBOX 360?
If you have the volume turned up to 11 for FPS then the loudness of the console is not so much of an issue, but as an STB replacement, it needs to be silent.
Once again, prison is to isolate dangerous people from the rest of society, not for harmless fraudsters.
harmless fraudsters?
In Dante's Inferno, Fraud is the 2nd most serious sin:
It's worthwhile considering why he thought that way. Who does more harm to society: a mugger or a corrupt banker? How many people do you know who have been mugged? How many people do you know who have been hurt by corruption?
the company is being forcibly wound up and the directors are facing further action.
Fiber optic is pretty fragile - far more so than a copper cable. Can't bend it past a certain radius, much less kink it.
Most copper data cables, including UTP, STP and co-ax react very poorly to sharp bends or kinking. If you take a Cat5 cable and kink it or stretch it, it's not going to work any more, at least not at Gbps rates.
Optical's main benefit is distance, not speed...
TOSlink and all that jazz worked because you connect stuff and that's it- the cable rarely gets disturbed. Think of your average business traveler - they'd go through optical cables like candy.
Good point, though I think the problem would more likely be the connector than the cable. Optical does not cope well with dust, grime etc.
This 100w power standard is pretty stupid, though. We're talking power levels where fires will definitely be possible from damaged USB cables.
Unless (and I have no idea if such is being implemented) a smart, bidirectional power protocol is in place that monitors the power sent vs the power received and shuts it down if there is a discrepancy---sort of like a super RCD.
So which weighs more, a pound of lead or a pound of aerogel? Who cares, my question is how did you fit an entire pound of aerogel in that room?
A pound of lead. No, really, unless you are weighing in a vacuum.
Think of weighing a pound of lead and a pound of wood underwater. The lower density of the wood and the weight of the water displaced makes for the difference. The same holds for air, but for most substances the difference is undetectable. However, lead vs aerogel is easily detectable. By my rough calculations, at room temperature, 1lb of lead weighs 0.99989418lb allowing for air displacement and 1lb of aerogel (at 1.9kg/m^3) weighs 0.368421053lb (and occupies 0.238732632m^3, so it'll fit in the room quite easily)
(Of course, to be ultra pedantic, I'm assuming you mean pound mass rather than pound force here)
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