It gets even better than that -- this article claims that this technique can double the output of solar cells. According to the summary however,

if you have X electrons that can be captured, then you have Y electrons that are too hot to be captured. This technique takes Y and splits it into two X-type electrons, both of which can be captured.

Before: Your output is energy from X electrons

After: Your output is energy from X + 2Y electrons.

They claim now that X + 2Y = 2X, which only happens when Y = X/2. But what if your Y value happens to be much lower than that--say Y = X/8. Then output would be X + X/4 which is not equal to 2X....

There seems to be something fundamentally unimaginative and backwards about discussions like this. Let's say your world is inside a Honda car. Now you're thinking "Gee, isn't this amazing. In order for life to exist, we just had to have this protective red paint, the CRX logo, a perfectly sized stick shift, blah blah blah." Maybe Earth IS rare, but we also found unexpected things on our planet such as apes and crows using tools, life thriving around volcanic vents. Life has adapted to take full advantage of the situation here on Earth. That doesn't mean that life is any less likely to spring up in similar but different places. We wear clothes because we lack full-body hair to warm and protect us. That doesn't mean life would be fucked on a planet without clothing, right?

Get a tape recorder for your TI 99/4a and then you can SAVE CS1 and OLD CS1 your programs.

The first OS to allow dynamic firewall rule changes? I don't think so.

They're still playing catch-up to *BSD's pf and npf.

News flash kids: There's nothing real about "reality TV." Even the most genuine moments are likely scripted to some degree and the scenario is contrived. When it comes to marketing, EVERYBODY IS AN ACTOR. The guy in the white coat is not a doctor. The mature lady with a perfect complexion is not a soccer mom--she doesn't even have kids.

Every time they say "we grabbed 10 real people off the street" -- No, they didn't. Do you really think that Dominos Pizza snuck people into a conference room on a farm without them knowing it and then dropped the walls and they were surprised to be in a tomato field? Really? This Samsung crap isn't any different.

Remember that a comedian always prefaces a bs story with "True story! This happened to me the other day..." Why would you be shocked that a TV commercial premise is a load of crap?

I wish they'd post more information on how they dated the tools. It's not that I doubt the science, but the article makes it sounds like they dug 5 feet deeper and found tools, so they must be thousands of years older. I can almost hear Ray Comfort now saying "The Clovis people dug a 5-foot hole and buried their old tools. All these scientists found was an ancient landfill. Now look at this banana..."

Why does the quality of news articles always have to be so low? Off-topic now but: It's an online publication for cryin' out loud! A few extra words won't cost anything and grammar/spell check is just a friggin' button.

Checkpoint awareness promotes drunk driving the same way that birth control awareness promotes teenage sex. In short, it doesn't. I hate driving through checkpoints the same way I hate being groped at airports.

This comes to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9JWNdAX6jI Chappelle 911 call.

My thoughts on FreeBSD vs Linux... FreeBSD chroot jails are more secure than Linux chroot jails. Even says so in the Ubuntu man pages: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man2/chroot.2.html
http://www.bpfh.net/simes/computing/chroot-break.html

FreeBSD also has kernel-level virtualized jails which are far more secure than chroot jails, and a virtual network stack for jails is right around the corner (vimage/vnet). Then there's also the kernel securelevel, extended attributes/ACLs, TrustedBSD/MAC, and pf/ALTQ which is far superior to iptables. BSD has really been leading Linux in the area of security--Linux is more focused on spreading GPL and getting the media wheel on your USB keyboard to work.

I would say that Linux has much more diverse hardware support and more complete support for cutting-edge whiz-bangs and desktop gadgets like sound cards and webcams--although current FreeBSD is not too far behind. Meanwhile, FreeBSD is focused on powerful features for administration and for servers, such as jails, pf, ZFS, netgraph, GEOM framework, HAST replication, CARP failover, consistent integration of kernel and userland, consistent interface for startup scripts, the ports system and repository, etc.

Of course FreeBSD has the better license without question.

I think the clear choice for security and network related infrastructure is always a BSD box. The only times I choose Linux are when I'm forced to, such as installing to embedded hardware or using as a desktop/workstation.

I've been using ZFS for about a year without any data loss. I had a kernel panic once on a 32-bit system with about 1GB of RAM, but no data loss. I don't think it's risky at all. I have a 2TB raidz1 pool that's full and gets pounded daily, as well as ZFS running on single disks in both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. There's some sysctl and kernel option tweaking required for the 32-bit low-memory systems, but all has been well after that.

It's very tempting to dismiss China's progress because it doesn't mesh well with our previous experiences and observations. They're playing in a different socio-econo-political universe with different rules. They don't fit our standard model of a nation and we're using the wrong strategy/foreign policies with them. It seems that a lot is done under the assumption that China will eventually slow down or implode or that global economic success is eventually going to drive democratic reforms. This makes a lot of sense if you sit in your armchair and think about it, but it's not what is happening now and it's not what is going to happen. China is using our own hubris against us and it is working beautifully for them.

As America's economy shrinks and war spending is scrutinized, China is working hard to advance their military capabilities in the air, sea, and space. We will lose our ability to maintain a strong military presence in China's part of the world just as they develop the capability to inherit it from us. As the new economic superpower and protectors of the region, China will be calling the shots in Asia instead of us. Nations will vote in Chinese favor for environmental, trade, and military agreements. China will remain a one-party nation with even more strict censorship laws and they will be the ones spreading their culture and political ideals around the world.

It's important to take the modern rise of China very seriously. Our leaders need to think beyond tomorrow when setting policy and realize that we are walking right into a trap. China is using us to destroy ourselves in a way that is eerily reminiscent to the way some terrorists took flying lessons in American schools to learn how to use our own aircraft as weapons against the very nation that taught them how to fly. Chinese come over here in droves to be at the tops of our schools and companies, then they can return home to better China's economy instead of ours. It really doesn't matter if Chinese were educated abroad, copied manufacturing technology, or stole intellectual property. How they acquired expertise in these fields is not important in the long-run. What is important is that they got it and they got it ahead of the schedule we had set for them. They have the expertise--they're not pretending by copying as we'd like to believe.

We as a nation are just dying to borrow money from China and hand over all our technology all for the sake of a quick buck and because we think they're going to either collapse, feel obligated to reciprocate, or develop a severe case of white-fever and try to emulate our ways. IT IS NOT GONNA HAPPEN. Wake up and write a new policy please, for your own sake and for mine.

So far I haven't had any iPhone apps kick my door in at 4am, shoot my dog, drag me around the house half-naked while pointing guns in my face, make sexual remarks about my startled wife, stand on my chest so I can't breathe even though I'm not resisting, and then drop some coke when they fail to find anything and then admit to having entered the wrong house 10 years later after I'm financially ruined from lawsuits and losing my job.

So no, we haven't entered a time when apps and gadgets are taking the place of cops.

yi bai One hundred. Learn to read some numbers:P
The Chinese subtitles for that section read "186 kilometers". Read the article and you will spot the connection.

I've got about 3 99/4a's and a peripheral expansion box. Wish I still had my Corcomp 9900 :( Getting more nostalgic?

OLD CS1
RUN

oh yeah

I guess you didn't bother to read the message with links to both the old and new documentation, or the note that points out that the documentation is in the userguide module of all releases. If it looks like an error message, it must be an error message, right?

And your logic is flawless. We should totally disregard any product or entity with a website that ever goes down for any reason. I've got a lot of documentation for TI Extended BASIC. Maybe you'd like to switch over? To hell with the merits of the architecture, right?

Kohana's major features are its active development, supportive community, documentation, examples apps, open development (vs developer overlord), and a lubricated passage to the current decade vs "Let's use yesteryear's technology, woo hoo, php4 and legacy support ftw."