Nailed it.

Yes, Google.

Nexus whatever... you get updates quickly from Google. No muss, no fuss. They make Samsung look really bad, considering.

At the rate it's going, it'll be Kardashian.

I kind of feel like this whole movement towards vinyl is because of CD overcompression... like people go running to it because it sounds better, but only because the producers want to give it "that vinyl sound" by maintaining the dB range for the pressing. Sort of a weird feedback loop touting quality in an outdated, lower-quality format.

Sam

You should see how they mounted the battery on the BMW i3. It's buried behind/under a bunch of stuff up next to the firewall.

Took one look at that and said "NOPE."

Looks like they've more recently followed up with a "new OS" announcement for the machine called Linux++, which one would assume is a modified Linux. That's supposed to be the stopgap to Carbon their ground up new OS:

http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

So still some movement, and 6 months is a bit better than "3 years" or whatever the standard it-will-never-happen date is for computing (for fusion it's 20 years apparently).

Sam

Unfortunately, Sony is usually the one doing the thrusting.

Sam

That's why I'm just waiting for the torrent of the fan-cut 2.5 hour synthesis of the three.

The Hobbit is simply not the same amount of material as the entire LOTR series. 3 movies is insane.

As opposed to a book of dubious quality?

All these comments, and no one has mentioned Player Piano?

The book was obviously way ahead of the technology, but the picture it paints is a sad one.

If you'd been given a standardized IQ test in English how well would you have scored then?

It's almost impossible to separate education/background from intelligence in these tests, which is the whole point of this thread. And his point was that the illiterate oldest child of subsistence farmers probably IS just as intelligent, and capable of "making it," given the opportunity.

Sam

Now this guy, is an engineer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or maybe just an artist.

Sam

"Between 1969 and 1975, Bill Brown was technical director of a JPL Raytheon program that beamed 30 kW of power over a distance of 1-mile (1.6 km) at 84% efficiency."

From the Wikipedia article on space-based solar.

84% by microwaves isn't as good as wires, but it's not terrible.

The payload mass of Philae was only 21kg. So we've just kicked half the science off the lander for an RTG (assuming at least 3kg for the solar panels).

Ignoring the fact that income taxes were way higher in the 50's, of course.

Pointing that fact out makes obligate fools lose coherence.