If it were possible for Parker to do that record-setting speed and run right next to the ISS in its same orbit, the ISS would get lapped 14 times for each single orbit.

Parker could go from New York to Tokyo in minute and a half.

London to Athens in 22s.

Washington D.C to Boston in 6s.

It could get from Chicago to St Louis quicker than John Force can get a car from line to chutes.

Uh-huh. That's exactly what someone who is watching would say.

They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

I went out on a date with a girl, a bit late. She had so many friends. I brought my pogo stick just to show her a trick. She had so many friends.

Unannounced twister games, all players with no names. They lined up double quick, but just one pogo stick. Everyone gets to play, runaway, exposé. It was so exotic, but just one pogo stick.

Pogo sticks! Of course! This is obviously the solution to the rash of E.R. visits that have resulted from the scooter craze.

Bingo.

You want to be a sovereign state? Go right ahead. Just know that you're upgrading from fighting with other citizens for survival to fighting with other sovereign states for survival. Think about what that fight looks like and maybe reconsider.

So did I. It was easy. I'm not even a scientist. No 4-10 years of university, no multi-million dollar lab.

His name is James and he's been doing that eating and growing thing for 15 years now. It was touch-and-go for a while there. The AI kept trying to find inventive ways to kill itself and seemed to have a mind of its own that wasn't very accepting of the training programs. It's gotten much better at general purpose intelligence and autonomy but in the past few years has become prone to sudden illogical and inexplicable behavior. And there's some weird bug in the visual processing that causes cron to suspend when a video screen becomes active nearby. When the screen shuts off cron resumes but crontab has been wiped and you have to rebuild it. It's really frustrating.

I'm hoping that with a couple more years of training the AI will stabilize and - fingers crossed! - it'll get a job so I can start to realize a profit on my investment. Or at the very least the money hemorrhaging will stop. Wish me luck!

Yeah, that little tiff was annoying, but the YouTube Moble site worked just fine in Firefox for FireTV.

Citation needed.

I'm not questioning the value of incremental improvement. My question is how this incremental improvement gets us into the realm of "dirt cheap".

I have been under the impression that the problem with solar as a power source wasn't the collection or direction of light but the conversion process itself, no? If that is the case, how do intensifiers or collectors help with this? Efficiency gains in collection are only going to be incremental and not Nobel Prize worthy paradigm shifts, right? The real prize is in conversion. Correct my thinking here.

In a landmark study I'm totally sure exists somewhere, it was discovered that 100% of Alzheimers were life-long heavy users of the gas "oxygen". With this indisputable evidence in hand researchers say it looks like the end of Alzheimers is in sight. Preventative measures are easy to describe and implementation can happen in the next 5-10 years. Options range from complex operations like shifting to a methane based metabolism or switching to photosynthesis to as simple as preventing air intake to block the absorption of oxygen.

Eh, normally I would agree with you but in this case I'll accept "miss". When sales were a gimmie (due to zealotry or lock-in or whatever) and you still fail to make them then you 'missed'.

Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Effing Insane Pricing


So, $9bn huh? What's that, like 36 new iPhones or something?

I thought this video would be cool to loop on my big screen TV at home, maybe as a screen saver, but that crud on the window made me nuts. I couldn't watch it. Just skipped through to see if it ever got cleaned. It did not.