but it is.

I'd rather have fps listed for fallout 3 or something rather than gflop ratings from Intel on GPU performance(since they've had a habit of lying about what you can actually do with their gpu's since.. well since they started making gpu's really).

on paper their next chip always is better than ewwrytwhing.

chances of them finding out some new chemical properties universal to all batteries and announcing them this way: 0.000000001%

chances of the tech being already existing and integrated into most devices that would benefit from it: 99.99999%

they're more like a posse of people trying to sell you a ram packer that will make your 640k function like 5120k

that same wikipedia article says that they were "Invented" in 1971 (in the same sense this stuff was invented 2001).

it's just that 2007 hp announced they had made a "prototype" of sorts using some physical phenomena known since 1960's.

seriously, I've quite taking hp seriously on the subject already due to them talking like they have a fabrication process in place when they don't.

series of goals, contests and rewards is putting public money into it, is it not?

also, universities are companies now with poachable employees it seems. with private funding and all.

actually that would have gotten them around the patent/litigation.

that would have been genius ;D.

a hundred years.

like, you steal a loaf of bread 100 times. you deserve 100 times the max sentence for shoplifting?

the whole system how it works is crooked in USA at the moment and the prosecutors don't care because it gives them extra power for when doing plea deals(so they don't have to bother with actual evidence in the trial).

sentencing for something that you didn't do is another bad joke in the system.

also - capone who ordered _actual_ factual hits that took place got less of a sentence on same sort of bad character basis.

think about that. CAPONE GOT 11 YEARS and only sat EIGHT FUCKING YEARS. the most famous gangster godfather got ELEVEN YEARS for running a murderous criminal enterprise selling illicit substances and gambling businesses.

that's all nice and all..

but that's not an unintended hack? I mean, the humidity sensor is meant for reading humidity (you're not just using a piece of cloth and two wires), the wattsup is meant for reading electricity use and the rp is meant for having pins to communicate with both of those and to take wifi.

my unintended hack.. using an electronic cigarette 'mod' as a multimeter replacement to read contuinity while soldering a hack charge cable on this laptop when the charging ports middle pin broke up

so how much is the night time electricity in hawaii then? the daytime price alone is meaningless for knowing if it makes sense to store the energy in the battery to be used during the day.

it's just a battery.. I never understood the tesla fanbois who started claiming that we can power everything with the batteries..

making the battery packs for ultra-quick charging of cars makes much more sense (it avoids having to build thicker power lines to the houses, which in most western locales is more expensive than an interim storage at the house).

how the frig would congress or whoever foots the bill know? the flights are on purpose not registered to the fbi.

on what purpose? well because it's illegal on variety of levels.

though, because of the structure, the fronting companies should be sued by the fcc among other parties.

olympics and football world cup has already gone to the level of "whoever wants to take it and do it can have it" - that doesn't stop the bribes though and coincidentally the countries getting the games lately are places where bribes are normal way of doing business so those countries weren't yelling foul over them.

for example jack warner has now provided info/claims how he got bribed - but he doesn't even think of it as a bribe, just as normal. buying votes or getting his votes bought was normal order of business for him.

it's called poaching when you do it from a competitor in business.

why an university is a business then, so that it's considered poaching? I think the case tells more about CMU than about uber.

companies do this all the time. that's what an university is for anyways.

or at least it sometimes jumps you into an android apk installation page.

also the ads on the mobile make the mobile slashdot site pretty much unusable. they're so bad. they not only take the whole screens worth every few articles but also run some javascript that makes the browser crawl and jerk. in addition some of the ads are friggin videos.

for the amount of work done in greece at the moment it is a paradise.

not for long of course. or maybe. who knows, they've been dodging the bill for quite some time. if they weren't in eu they would have forefeited the debts already through some revolution or another.

they don't need it to. as long as they can say they did the worlds first of X, they'll do it, even if they don't roll it out even.

you see, that's enough for getting a triple phd in china. even if you just rolled some off the shelf open source software and hacked it into it.

btw all atm's in asia are buggy. there's something buggy about the ui in every single one, like ok button not being ok on the keypad, the languge selection only affecting some screens or some shit like that. that is when they're not crashed into the windows os running them.