I kept thinking that they just took the 20 min. running time and divided that by 1 day. This is roughly 1.38 percent. Make an assumption about energy consumption being constant while the machine is running, and viola instant buzzword compliance. But then I read the article,

*the JuGene supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Julich requires about 52800 kWh for one day of operation on the full machine, the IBM demonstration required an estimated 700 kWh

Which is roughly 1.32 percent. So no big surprises.

Yep that is amazing. Not the same thing as 2^(-14). Not at all.

(And just to preempt some wise ass C programmer, I do not mean -16.)

Oh yah, YOUR MOM has prior art.

... and both were as wheelchair replacements. One individual was Vietnam vet and was missing his lower legs. He used a platform that was attached halfway up the shaft of the segway and balanced forwards and backwards on that. The other person had muscular dystrophy. He was unable to walk without arm braces. Hate on the segway all you want, but they are a great technological solution to some problems.

In summary,

Best quote from the article:

Giant shiny spider paperweight!

For the Americans in the audience, 1 £ kg = 3.33 $ lb.


I recommend not saying this aloud for it sounds very silly.

I'm just waiting for the advertisement that says:

I can't wait to get PLAID by the Australian government.

I'm going to make a reasonable guess that you took >= 5 years for the PhD. (If you finished in less, please don't be insulted.) This puts you graduating at Spring 2004 or Winter 2003 at the latest.

What popular social networks are you talking about? It certainly wasn't facebook.

I'd have lost this bet too. I live in NYC and I would have bet it wouldn't have lasted a day without receiving a shift kick to its ever smiling cardboard face by a crowd rushing to their respective destinations.
The pictures seems to be taken near NYU ( Broadway and Waverly and WSP ). Maybe people who hang around universities are particularly helpful?
From experience, these are relatively calm areas (for NY). And I don't see evidence of it crossing streets. Is there any evidence of the author trying tougher challenges like union square or handling traffic lights?

And yes, there has been construction off and on 4th and Broadway (2 blocks south of the sidewalk picture) recently.

The song playing in all of the pictures is Lithium by Nirvana. Lets just look up what that song is about:

The song ... tells the story of a man who finds religion as a last resort after the death of his girlfriend.

*blink* I dunno what exactly this says about why the car was built, but I think there is an employee at Tesla who needs a hug.

My hypothesis is that all this talk about ring shaped diaphragms got 'em all hot n' bothered.

Also Nate Lanxon, I am keeping my sennheiser headphones away from you.

If there were a lot of suspected offenders of this policy, the good ole head on the pole could solve the problem and be cheaper (and safer) than firing all of them.

While I agree that Apple is arguing that jailbreaking the phone should not be granted exemption, their lawyers do however frequently claim that jailbreaking a phone results in illegal actions. From Apple's reply:

Jailbreaking therefore involves infringing uses of the bootloader and OS, the copyrighted works that are protected by the TPMs being circumvented.

In sum, the jailbreaking of the iPhone that would be permitted by the proposed Class #1 exemption in 5A and 11A would result in infringing uses of copyrighted works. It would involve the creation, distribution, and copying of unauthorized modified versions of the bootloader and OS, and it would facilitate and encourage the making, distribution, and use of infringing copies of copyrighted material such as games and applications, owned by both Apple and third parties, that run only on jailbroken phones.

Not exactly a long leap to accusation of illegal activity.

When the two overlap (which they mostly do), I prefer "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, And Computation" by Hopcroft, Motwani, and Ullman* over Sipser's "Intro to Theory of Computation". http://books.google.com/books?id=pvPeAwAACAAJ