Comment Re:Apple shot themselves in the foot... (Score 1) 106
Yes, exactly. Which was my point, since dryriver seemed to suggest in his original post that everyone who likes Apple's products are "i-fanboys and i-fangirls".
Comment Re:Apple shot themselves in the foot... (Score 0) 106
I own a Samsung smartphone, tablet computer and laptop. Each product was well priced, well designed and quality built and works flawlessly so far. I've had zero issues with any of these products. So yes, I appreciate the quality Samsung brings to the market. Does that make me a fanboy? Hardly.
I own an iPhone and a MacBook. Both products was well priced, well designed and quality built and works flawlessly so far. I've had zero issues with any of these products. So yes, I appreciate the quality Apple brings to the market. Does that make me a fanboy?
Comment Re:The Oregon Trail! (Score 4, Insightful) 315
The "gravity of the earth" at the surface of the moon is much less than the gravity of mars at the surface of mars.
Remember, gravitational pull is proportional to the inverse square of the distance between the objects:
F=G*(m1+m2) / r^2
Remember, gravitational pull is proportional to the inverse square of the distance between the objects:
F=G*(m1+m2) / r^2
Comment Re:Teaching (Score 1) 220
thought...
Comment Teaching (Score 1) 220
If you enjoy working with other people and don't have a problem explaining the same thing over and over again (hopefully not to the same person), then teaching at college/university is great. I easily spend 6h per day walking back and forth between students in the computer labs. And unlike tech support and similar, the questions you tend to get are actually intelligent and well though out :)
Comment Christopher Polhem (Score 1) 542
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polhem
Among other things, he built an automated factory during the 17th century. Long before electricity, and even before steam engines were in common use.
Among other things, he built an automated factory during the 17th century. Long before electricity, and even before steam engines were in common use.
Comment Re:I use the Glasgow Subway you insensitive clod (Score 1) 159
So the Glasgow subway is missing the branches, and the Stockholm subway is missing the ring? Then we'll just have to colocate them. Problem solved! :)
Comment Re:Did you read the story? (Score 1) 197
Indeed I did.
Comment Re:Did you read the story? (Score 1) 197
I take it the 20-25 mbps is down speed? What about up speed?
As a comparison, my carriers 3G network here in Sweden gives you 32/4.6 mbps (up/down) according to their claims. I haven't tried it, but I'd guess the actual down speed wouldn't be lower than 25 mbps or they'd be getting a lot of trouble from the regulating authority.
As for their 4G networks, their first and currently only plan is listed as 64/9 mbps.
As a comparison, my carriers 3G network here in Sweden gives you 32/4.6 mbps (up/down) according to their claims. I haven't tried it, but I'd guess the actual down speed wouldn't be lower than 25 mbps or they'd be getting a lot of trouble from the regulating authority.
As for their 4G networks, their first and currently only plan is listed as 64/9 mbps.
Submission + - Only Firefox 3.6 is fully compatible with our site, says eBay (daniweb.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: This is truly astonishing, one of the biggest online brands on the planet tells a customer that it should only be used with Firefox and warns them off of using IE, Chrome or Safari. A support chap is recorded as stating: "I suggest that you kindly use Firefox 3.6 (not IE 9.0, Safari or Google Chrome as they aren't compatible) and certainly you won't face any issues."
Submission + - Brown Dwarf Radio Emissions and the Hunt for Aliens (discovery.com) 1
astroengine writes: "Penn State University researchers have detected flaring emissions from a very cool brown dwarf 33.6 light-years away called "J1047+21." The emissions detected were of radio wavelengths, suggesting some kind of interaction between a magnetic field and charged particles. This is a noteworthy discovery for two reasons: 1) It's the coolest radio-star detected to date and, 2) the method by which this brown dwarf was detected can be applied to large exoplanets that possess magnetospheres. Should the radio emissions from an exoplanet be discovered, this may indicate that an alien biosphere may be protected by a global magnetic field."
Submission + - Oracle Releases Java 7u4 - Their First JVM for OSX (oracle.com)
jensend writes: From the distant Mac OS 7 past until October 2010, Apple took charge of delivering their own Java Virtual Machine. They were slow to update their JVM, leaving security holes unpatched for long periods, and to get a major version upgrade you'd have to pay for a Mac OS upgrade. After a decade of treating it like a red-headed stepchild, they finally jettisoned their support for it, leaving Oracle to pick up the slack. It took a year and a half, but Oracle has finally delivered, releasing the 7u4 JDK&JRE for Linux, Solaris, Windows, and OS X simultaneously. (See also this FAQ regarding the OS X release). The new JVM also includes a new garbage collector and various performance improvements and bugfixes.
Comment Re:Gasified Pellet? (Score 1) 52
The idea is probably that it's carbon neutral since the carbon dioxide released comes from plants which absorbed it from the atmosphere.
It's new enhanced carbon cycle of life. Plants absorb CO2, monkeys eat plants, poo is flung at rickshaw, rickshaw turns poo into CO2 again.
It's new enhanced carbon cycle of life. Plants absorb CO2, monkeys eat plants, poo is flung at rickshaw, rickshaw turns poo into CO2 again.
Comment Re:Joint operation? (Score 1) 583
I don't assume there has to be only one. However, I do assume that creating a colony up there is a rather expensive exercise. So I think that each country creating one of their own would be a huge waste of money.
Comment Joint operation? (Score 4, Insightful) 583
Wouldn't it be better with a international joint operation to create a colony on the moon instead of just a colony belonging to the USA? I'm all in favour of a moon base, but I don't think it should be owned by any one country.
