Oh what a shitstorm I started here in 5 words.

For everyone that called it racist, the joke is on you. China are a nation of power who do not respect personal liberty. They live in an existence different than the western world; one of conforming or being branded a political heretic.

I'm not joking about the idea that they have extra countrymen in China - that's fact. They have about 1,400,000,000 people, and as someone pointed out, their brightest 25% equal the USA's populace.

There was a time in the Industrial Revolution of the Western World that people were expendable too. What we now see as unthinkable, go look at those nostalgic skyscraper shots with guys walking beams with no gear. Don't act like no one fell. We are just rich enough to care now... or more accurately, we are rich enough to sue massively when this happens, so we care for everyone differently.

When someone dies in China, they move the next guy up.

Yes, but I have 10 fingers to do that with. Sometimes 26 letters each need a "button", touch or otherwise. There will be no "intermediate" input layout. We will go from qwerty to voice. All the rest is just .wma

Awesome - you got the reference! :)

The process assumes that a keyboard is less handy than a touch-rotate-touch-release. In short, this is doomed to fail because I must memorize things. It's probably easier for us to all learn Morse, and just have a deet da dee deet festival.

They have extras...

It's shameful because it's kind of like collecting aluminum cans from public garbage. If you're willing to give your time for that little money, you have a lame existence.

To every Tea Party type that thinks it was a shame, get over it. Fire protection is socialism. I WANT SOCIALISM. Let's fund these damned things, huh? Pay a fucking tax at the STATE level. And if they can't pay, let the STATE deal with it. Fire zones should be based on a municipality, but should be funded in the same way STATE POLICE are funded.

Headline grabbing. The signs have to be replaced over time anyhow. It's not the signs themselves that cost millions, but the people doing the work. All said, this money would probably be spent anyway, but now it's not in all caps.

This is just the old "pump quarters" deal. Arcade in your home. You sure you like it?

Umm... how about Root Mean Square calculation? I use it all the time. I have to master audio and the funny thing is unlike Creed & Nickelback, I care about not just peaks, but overall sound. It can be done.

If they're testing a ruler, fine. I can come up with a dangerous ruler. Maybe my ruler is lead-painted. I am entirely for dangerous shit in chemistry kits. But it's also fair to be 100% sure what goes in them.

Just as an exercise, geeks, try running your computer without a monitor for no less than 4 hours. It is a lesson you won't soon forget.

It's obligatory... an office suite that wears stretchy pants... for fun. :)

Man, the article makes it sound like NASA is allergic to tech. There's no reason not to bring up kick ass laptops and other non-essential tech that runs hella fast. But don't fuck with what works. It's kept a lot of NASA problems from becoming NASA disasters. Hyperbole will get you nowhere fast.

If vinyl sounds better than a digital copy, you're doing it wrong.
Fact is, if you record at a nice high 96/24 digitally, and even if you dither down to a 44/16 CD level, it sounds pretty damned accurate.
How you choose to rip into a data-compressed format is up to you.
As for vinyl, the format is reliant on analog-touch playback. It has inherent white noise, and will eventually degrade. Shitty compact discs from shitty replicators aside, digital is still "forever". But if you want to claim vinyl sounds better than 128k mp3, go ahead. You're right.
Just don't tell me that an m4a at a variable in the 300k range is anything but transparent.
If you like a little white noise with your audio, that's your flavor. Fly your freak flag. I'll take purity myself, dry as you might think that is.