BTChina and its mirrors are already down. Many of the forums have closed their sharing forums,etc
The crackdown is on any site without an Audio/Visual distribution license. Which you probably cannot get without paying some unknown bureaucrat somewhere

There's got to be a triple word score joke in there somewhere!

Top 1000 might be also making more than that from google adwords placed on their sites... Mark Cuban needs to make a bigger offer

Given that the dome will be a mile high, the idea that the dome surface will be less than that of house surface is rather unrealistic. At max, the roof area will be the full base of the the dome base, in, which the only walls will be along the base, by definition it will be of less unless the building heights are avg 1/3 mile high.

In reality. building roof coverage is significantly less than half the area of the region in all but the most densely populated cities. So, even though there are four additional sides to account for in most houses, it's not practical to consider that it will be able to overcome the surface area of such a massive construct

I must have taken a dumb pill this morning. I don't see how the square cube wiki article applies to the heating issues? Are you agreeing with GP that the heating bill will be worse or somehow will be lower heating bill? All the wiki seems to say is that there is more volume to heat, so there would be higher heating bills like GP was suggesting. Did I miss something?

Also, why would outside surface temp not drop below freezing?

Or you can rent a car which has one?

Are belongs to us!

This reminds me so much of Gattaca. If you send your children to this camp and one does well and another does poorly, you can't help but feel differently about the children. This is evil

I question the idea that funding of military is good for the economy. Military spending is often on manufacturing of non-renewable items. Items, like bullets and missiles, that need storage when not used and can only be used once(often to destroy objects of value).

As opposed to producing things that have utility value, like fishing nets, rakes, pots/pans, etc.

Yes, intelligence satellites became used for GPS and stuff, but what if money was used for civilian benefitting tasks to begin with? Would it have yielded better economic results

I agree! OEM's put very high premiums on any changes to standard config. So, if you want a better vid card or a mem upgrade (two easy ways to bring a PC over 1000$) It's cheaper to buy the components than to get it from the Dells or HPs pre-installed

yeah thinking the same thing.
They say that it's square miles in area, so, let's say 2. As this is microalgae. algae would be 2x10^6 sq miles in surface area. Earth is 197x10^6 sq mile in size.
so, a hecto-algae would cover the entire earth!

totally agree! they (artist/publicist) should either buy a pro photo or schedule a session where they get all the privileges. Then, they can donate it to open source. It shouldn't be that expensive, maybe a couple of hundred dollars, for the millions that can see their clients is a small price to pay

No, they're just creating skynet.

Proof is in the video, ~36s mark

When companies go into feature race, they forget that it quickly becomes diminishing returns. As the features you enable are less and less likely for your client base to be interested in.

However, if you improve the performance of your core functions (thru UI or speed), your entire customer base gets improvement and have a real reason to upgrade