Comment Re:censorship (Score 1) 29
Because some would argue that the term "censorship" only applies to suppression by the government.
Comment Re:45% in 10 years != 4-5% per year... (Score 1) 118
Oh, that sure is, clearly I don't remember all my maths... thanks!
Comment Re:45% in 10 years != 4-5% per year... (Score 2) 118
More precisely, ~3.785% annual growth would compound to 45% over ten years.
Comment Re:RH gets NOTHING for radio play (Score 2) 301
A band like Radiohead write their own songs; so according to what you wrote, wouldn't they be getting paid as songwriters?
Comment Summary quote source? (Score 1) 33
Where is the quote in the summary from? It doesn't seem to be part of the linked article.
Comment Buzzwords (Score 4, Insightful) 192
7 paragraphs into the article before they bother to define what "exascale" means...
Comment Re:life-long updates (Score 1) 687
Or even better, kickstart it and front load your profits. After that just live with piracy.
This is a horrible, horrible idea on so very many levels.
Comment Re:That about sums it up.... (Score 2, Funny) 114
If sure if someone sent all 3 of them a $25 gift card to Applebees they'd abdicate willingly.
Comment Re:Rock & A Hard Place (Score 1) 564
Yet when you hear people bitching about a place it's usually a bitch about "management" rather than the people who are closer to the actual product/work.
Comment Re:Externalized costs (Score 4, Informative) 564
Actually, "those bastards" are practically the only thing that keeps the USPS running at all.
Mystery of the Shrunken Proton 171
ananyo writes "The proton, a fundamental constituent of the atomic nucleus, seems to be smaller than was previously thought. And despite three years of careful analysis and reanalysis of numerous experiments, nobody can figure out why. An new experiment published in Science only deepens the mystery. The proton's problems started in 2010, when research using hydrogen made with muons seemed to show that the particle was 4% smaller than originally thought. The measurement, published in Nature, differed from those obtained by two other methods by 4%, or 0.03 femtometers. That's a tiny amount but is still significantly larger than the error bars on either of the other measurements. The latest experiment also used muonic hydrogen, but probed a different set of energy levels in the atom. It yielded the same result as the Nature paper — a proton radius of 0.84 fm — but is still in disagreement with the earlier two measurements. So what's the problem? There could be a problem with the models used to estimate the proton size from the measurements, but so far, none has been identified. The unlikely but tantalizing alternative is that this is a hint of new physics."
Comment Re:Average, it appears (Score 2) 196
Well, figure 16 hours awake, with a 8-hour workday. The average office worker spends the whole working day in front of a computer, which means all it takes is another 96 minutes of screen time to reach 60%. Between your phone, your home computer and your TV, that's not very hard to hit.
Comment Give it 10 years (Score 1) 442
Consider the state of network technologies 10 years ago. There is so much that can be done in the last mile by actually deploying fiber, combined with up and coming high speed switching speeds that I don't think this will be a problem long.
Whether people want to invest another couple grand on a new display, that's another thing.
What they *can* do is put that kind of resolution on desktop displays. Please, enough with the "1920x1080 is high resolution" bullshit. We all had the ability to do 1600x1200 on CRTs over a decade ago.
Comment Re:No support for contacts!? (Score 1) 279
Och, that's too bad, transit directions are working in Chicago at least.
Comment No support for contacts!? (Score 1) 279
While I'm extremely glad to have Google Transit directions back, I'm honestly shocked at the lack of integration with iOS contacts. Typing in your friend's name for directions to their place is a pretty basic use case.
