Comment Re:Isn't this illegal? (Score 5, Funny) 193
But this is Science!
Comment This is great, but... (Score 1) 85
It's fantastic that air travel can now be powered using solar enery alone, but I think that our real emphasis needs to be on needs to be the successful implementation of renewable energy sources in automobiles. Sure, planes use a lot of fuel, but I'm sure that the millions of cars and trucks driven every day are burning through our resources much faster.
Submission + - Should Cities Install Moving Sidewalks?
theodp writes: 'The real problem nowadays is how to move crowds,' said the manager of the failed Trottoir Roulant Rapide high-speed (9 km/h) people mover project. 'They can travel fast over long distances with the TGV (high-speed train) or airplanes, but not over short distances (under 1 km).' Slate's Tom Vanderbilt explores whether moving walkways might be viable for urban transportation. The first moving sidewalks were unveiled at Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition, and at one point seemed destined to supplant some subways, but never took root in cities for a variety of reasons. Vanderbilt turns to science fiction for inspiration, where 30 mph walkways put today's tortoise-like speed ranges of .5-.83 m/s to shame. In the meantime, Jerry Seinfeld will just have to learn to live with 'the people who get onto the moving walkway and just stand there. Like it's a ride.'
Submission + - Pre-Fab Data Centres Shipped In Months (eweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: Service provider Colt has launched pre-fabricated data centres. Order one, and it ships to your site — currently Northern Europe — within four months, with a (target) PUE efficiency score of 1.2. These aren't the well-known mobile data centres — temporary capacity in a shipping container — they are about 15 times the size, and for permanent use. What we want to know is, why do we need them, when they cloud is supposed to be replacing in-house IT?
Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 365
You are correct in your assumption. Apple's patent specifically mentions being used in a power adaptor for a laptop computer.
Comment Re:Well... (Score 3, Informative) 365
At present, Apple won't license their "MagSafe" connector to anyone.
Comment Finally! (Score 1) 365
I hate that I always have to buy a new power brick if one breaks even though I have dozens of the things from other laptops.
Comment Not all resellers are scalpers (Score 1) 425
Where I live, people like to buy season tickets to sporting events, keep the tickets to the games they can actually attend, and sell the others at a discount. Because of this, I went to a hockey game where tickets cost $40, but I only paid $25.
Comment Re:Obvious Choice (Score 2, Interesting) 508
There are so many things that would take a lot of work to make an asteroid livable/ workable (terraforming).
For one it's cold in space. Any water would have to be heated and purified.
Also, asteroids have this nasty little habit, they like to crash into planets when they get to close, or each other. Spending all that time and money on an asteroid just to watch it crash is a waste.
If we're going to make one thing in our solar system livable why not Mars? Why not terraform Mars?
Making Mars livable could make the asteroid thing easier seeing as Mars is closer to the Asteroid Belt than Earth is. Making Mars livable could lead to asteroids being livable.
Starting out trying to make asteroids livable or workable won't work out to well.
For one it's cold in space. Any water would have to be heated and purified.
Also, asteroids have this nasty little habit, they like to crash into planets when they get to close, or each other. Spending all that time and money on an asteroid just to watch it crash is a waste.
If we're going to make one thing in our solar system livable why not Mars? Why not terraform Mars?
Making Mars livable could make the asteroid thing easier seeing as Mars is closer to the Asteroid Belt than Earth is. Making Mars livable could lead to asteroids being livable.
Starting out trying to make asteroids livable or workable won't work out to well.
Comment Re:2GB fine for living room computer (Score 1) 638
Sound like they're using their monopoly possition to their advantage over the competition... If this were the other way around you'd be crying for government action against MS.
Have you ever used Microsoft Office for Mac? It's just as bad and you actually have to pay for it.
Note: I do think that Apple really needs to improve iTunes on Windows.
Comment Re:Meat is murder (Score 1) 763
Ths reminds me of the song Disgustipated by Tool.
"These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust."
"These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust."
Comment Re:class act (Score 2, Informative) 377
It doesn't matter how big your credit limit is, it matters how many credit cards you have. Basically, they wouldn't sell more than two iPads to the same credit card while that limit was in effect.
Comment Re:Anon Advice (Score 1) 272
No, he has proven that Nintendo isn't taking advantage of available markets. If Nintendo made their games available on the Android Market, he would actually have the opputunity to pay for them.
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 214
Hard-drives are usually refered to as "storage" as opposed to "memory". The reason I used both of them in my example was to point out that hard-drives are measured in Base 10 multiples of bytes while RAM is measured in Base 2 multiples of bytes.
Sorry about the 10^5 mistake. It definitely is 10^9, though my value for a gibibyte was correct.
Sorry about the 10^5 mistake. It definitely is 10^9, though my value for a gibibyte was correct.
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 214
Unfortunately, I fail at math today. I realized it was wrong as soon as I clicked submit...but it was already too late.
