10 days to a week, 10 hours to a day and 100 minutes to an hour. The only reason we use the current system is to do with the Babylonians and their love of base 6. They tried to get something like this started in the French revolution but it never caught on.

Maybe the world wouldnt be so bad without patents.Discuss.

I read in the news just last week that Disney has brought the rights to our religion. This is an outrage, we must protest this my brother Jedi. Surely you cant copyright a religion. Imagine if Disney copyrighted christianity or Pixar bought the rights to Islam.

Unfortuntaley I dont know any, along with most of the population so I'll have to base my understanding on what I hear on the news and trust they dont exaggerate things. They should have more actual scientists in the media explain how they things work but instead we have a lot of people telling us to be very worried based on "scientific consesus", but no real scientific explanation. I understand the basic idea about how they model climate based on models in computers but the climate of the planet is so complex involving so many factors I find it hard to believe that accurate predictions can be made based on this. Then when the predictions dont match the model it makes me at least think that the theory behind the prediction could be wrong. When you then add to this that this is now a political and econimic issue its easy to see that reporting can be prejudiced because of whats at stake.

This would require a smaller volume balloon than the equivalent helium balloon. There is the small technological breakthrough that needs to be made for the containment vessel. At the moment the only thing that can contain a vaccuum is something very thick and heavy like steel which would ruin the whole project.

In general when someone makes an estimate of something, they are too low 50% of the time and too high 50% some of the time. Somehow they are always underestimating the figures. Doesn't seem very likely to me. More likely people are just exaggerating to get attention. If this isnt happening then looked at from a scientific point of view. If the model they are using for the climate is consistently giving figures that are too low, it doesnt mean we must give more credit to that theory, it means we must look for a new one.

From a commercial point of view, when you release software on windows, you want to be able to target the most people possible. As most people won't have windows 8 for a while, no ones going to develop for it. Personally I am still using XP on my home computer and have found no problems with it. I bet theres quite a few people still on XP. Most software still runs perfectly well, plus its hardware requirements are lower.

Trees take carbon dioxide and water together to make wood which we can then burn to generate energy. Much simpler and cheaper than setting up some complicated refinery.

am I the only one smells a rat here? Gold roman coins are worth a lot more than gold alone, therefore a tidy profit is to be made by printing you are own fake roman coins and then claiming to have dug them up.

..many other restrictions will follow. burgers & fries are bad for you, therefore they must only be sold in small sizes (no big macs, quarter pounders). Liquor is unhealthy so must be banned. Fast cars kill more people than slow ones, so everyone must drive renault 5's and so on. Which is why I dont like this at all.

This bill is pretty bad, but that doesnt stop me from thinking how unlikely it is that not one single person in 19000 replied in favor. These figures must be wrong.

The previous article said they were going to release it to the open source community. This one announced the opening of the actual git repository. Subtle difference.

I think using your phone is a good idea too. It saves you have to carry around an extra device which wont exactly fit in your pocket. I read on an htc wildfire which has a 3 1/4 inch screen which is bit small but I manage by using a big font size. This means I have to change the page more often than on a kindle or whatever but it doesnt trouble me.

Could I please ask our American friends to stop refering to the stuff you put in cars as gas? Its very cinfusing for the rest of us English speaking people where gas means light stuff that floats around in the air like oxygen or something. Please call it petrol or go juice.

If you have the technolgy to cause an asteroid to avoid earth, couldnt you use that same technology to make an asteroid to hit earth? You would just need to find an asteroid that was on a near miss course and give it a nudge. Maybe this technology should be banned for the same reason they wanted to ban the recent paper on flu research.