Twitter gets much more than 60,000 tweets an hour on a normal day.
Look at the numbers increasing at http://www.twitpocalypse.com/ as an example. The page currently says 204 tweets per second - 66,000 in a little over 5 minutes. I imagine they easily hit millions when MJ died.
Anyone remember the nutjob who carved a backwards B into her face and blamed it on a black man?
I'm very skeptical of this without corroboration.
Nuclear power
Yeah, because if anything screams 'post-scarcity', it's a technology that relies on digging up limited amounts of minerals and using them up...
Uh, what? Bletchley Park is an estate. The buildings would be the museum, not the grass.
Or, how about the "space dive", where they leaped out of a shuttlecraft and suddenly lost all their inertia? How about re-entering the atmosphere in a space-suit without any worries about friction or heat?
Or how about that giant drill? Why did it fall when they cut it off the ship? If the ship was in geosynchronous orbit, then the drill must have been traveling slightly slower than geo-synchronous orbital speed; it should have very gently drifted eastwards.
The Bad Astronomer covered this.
First off, something they got right once I thought about it some. The shuttle left Enterprise to go to the Romulan ship. At first I thought both ships were in orbit, but thatâ(TM)s not true! The Romulan ship had lowered the mining drill from above the atmosphere, but it had to be hovering above the ground to do that, not orbiting the planet, or else they wouldnâ(TM)t be stationary over one spot (true, there is a geosynchronous orbit that keeps you over one spot, but itâ(TM)s tens of thousands of kilometers over the surface, and the ships were clearly just above Vulcanâ(TM)s atmosphere).
So when the trio jump from the shuttle, my first thought was that theyâ(TM)d still be in orbit; to deorbit means theyâ(TM)d need to change their velocity by several km/sec, which is clearly not possible. But they werenâ(TM)t in orbit, so they just fell. OK, +1 internets for the movie.
They would fall fast. And they did! Their speed was a little less than a kilometer per second, which sounds about right. At their altitude there wouldnâ(TM)t be much if any air to slow them, so theyâ(TM)d free fall; as they plunged deeper air resistance would slow them down. At first I thought theyâ(TM)d actually burn like meteors, but in reality (ha! Reality!) they werenâ(TM)t going that fast.
Yeah, what next... revealing the existence of a secret bunker under the White House?!
Bingo.
See also Microsoft's anti-Mac commercials they're running lately. Mac's a trademark, but there's no way Apple can prevent them from mentioning it in an ad.
If you got a call from a "Google salesman" for a $10/day AdWords budget, it was likely a scam, not Google.
This is not technically "carbon dating", it's detecting the presence of a newer isotope that wasn't present in any quantities prior to a certain date.
Nice try, but they're checking for Carbon-14, discovered five years before the first nuclear bomb was detonated and used for "carbon dating" materials up to about 60,000 years old. 14C is, in fact, the reason it's called "carbon dating".
The cell modem is likely subsidised by the prices of books more than the initial hardware sale. Plus, they're relatively tiny files.
Spammers sell their code to other spammers all the time.
Yeah, that's why they call it the GNU General Public License , eh?
This tends to force the writing to be polished, which online articles, blogs specifically, never achieve.
Bullshit. Newspapers have been cutting costs by firing copy editors for years, and many of the blogs I read have better writing and fewer errors than the local papers.
I read your links. Seriously? "100% of Circuit City's profits are from warranties"
I seriously doubt that claim. It sounds a little like irresponsible journalism.
Considering Circuit City went out of business due to not making a profit, the claim is a little more believable than it seems at first glance...
compatibility with standard headphones
Uh, have you tried just plugging one in? They work fine...
a FM radio receiver
Entirely possible without needing a receiver. The Public Radio application streams NPR audio from anywhere to anywhere - I can listen to Cincinnati's NPR station from here in Rochester. Superior to a radio tuner.
I'm amazed more radio stations aren't putting out apps to do this.
MMS
Attach your pics to an e-mail! One of the many benefits of an actual e-mail client on the phone.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
