Comment Re:removing the speed of light barrier (Score 1) 58
My personal theory is that once you observe one particle, the universe splits into two separate realities.
I love this idea, thanks for replying, I'll be thinking about that all day
Comment Re:removing the speed of light barrier (Score 1) 58
It's like a coin after being tossed; when you see what's face up you know what's face down, there is no communication between the two sides. It's just that in the QM case the two sides might be light years apart.
Comment Re: Passes (Score 1) 73
... and he scores! The crowd is going wild!
(My condolences to the family.)
(My condolences to the family.)
Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? 673
HughPickens.com writes According to Joanna Rothkopf Disneyland is already a huge petri dish of disease with tired children wiping their snot faces on Goofy and then riding log flumes through mechanized rivers filled with the backwash of thousands of other sweaty, unwashed, weeping toddlers. Now John Tozzi reports at Businessweek that five workers at Disneyland have been diagnosed with measles in an outbreak that California officials trace to visitors at the theme park in mid-December. The measles outbreak is a publicity nightmare for Disney and the company is urging its 27,000 workers at the park to verify that they're inoculated against the virus, and the company is offering tests and shots on site for workers who are unvaccinated. One thing Disney won't do, however, is require workers to get routine vaccinations as a condition of employment. Almost no companies outside the health-care industry do. "To make things mandatory just raises a lot of legal concerns and legal issues," says Rob Niccolini. Disney has been working with public health officials, and they've already put some employees on paid leave until medically cleared. "They recognized that they were just a meeting place for measles," says Gilberto Chávez. "And they are quite concerned about doing what they can to help control the outbreak."
Comment Re:I don't like to hear about competition (Score 1) 227
So it's a good thing that touch interfaces can have modal features like menus that appear when needed instead of every button having to be on the screen all the time...
Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships 227
jones_supa writes: The next game from the mind of veteran strategy and simulation game designer Sid Meier has been revealed. 2K and Firaxis Games have announced Sid Meier's Starships, a turn-based interstellar strategy game scheduled to arrive in early 2015 for Windows, OS X, and iOS (iPad). In the game, you control a fleet of starships as you journey through the galaxy to complete missions, protect planets and their inhabitants, and build a planetary federation. As you trek through the stars, you will be challenged to expand your federation's influence and reach. You shall also amass futuristic technology and take part in combat using a deep roster of customizable ships. When designing Starships, Meier was intrigued by the idea of exploring the next chapter in the story of Civilization: Beyond Earth. "What happens after we colonize our new home and eventually build starships to take to the stars? What has become of our long-lost brothers and sisters from the planet Earth," Meier asks. "My goal was to create an experience that focuses on starship design and combat within a universe filled with interstellar adventure, diplomacy, and exploration."
Comment Re:old != bad (Score 2) 189
Changed? Sure.
Improved? Well, the jury is out.
Comment Re:When they test these autonomous cars... (Score 1) 167
Just because it's been proven to be disastrous doesn't mean that it won't be the precedent that makes it okay in automobiles. I mean don't assume legislators will always make the most sane decisions.
Comment Re: Clearly (Score 2) 391
There is also the Veblen good effect where at higher price points items become more attractive to potential consumers simply because they are expensive. This is kind of a distortion or even contradiction of the normal supply and demand effect - Read the Wiki article here.
Comment Re:When they test these autonomous cars... (Score 1) 167
That's why there's still controls to drive it non autonomously.
And if that is the response, that is why autonomous cars will NEVER work on public roads.
Either the car drives itself 100% of the time, or I drive it 100% of the time.
If someone thinks that you're going to be driving along in your car not paying attention to the road, and suddenly the computer is doing to say "fuck it, I don't know, you do it" they're complete morons.
It sounds silly but that's exactly how autopilot and fly by wire systems work in Airbus and Boeing aircraft and they have hundreds of passengers at a time.
Comment Re:When they test these autonomous cars... (Score 1) 167
>If someone thinks that you're going to be driving along in your car not paying attention to the road, and suddenly the computer is doing to say "fuck it, I don't know, you do it" they're complete morons.
It sounds silly but that's exactly how autopilot and fly by wire systems work in Airbus and Boeing aircraft and they have hundreds of passengers at a time.
Comment Re:American chocolate (Score 1) 224
Lindt dark chocolate in bars starts at 75% but there are also 85% and 95% bars available. Truffles are not pure chocolate, consider them as a kind of fudge, it's a different sweet made with chocolate, but it is not pure chocolate...
Comment Re: Its a cost decision (Score 1) 840
It's not about cost. It's about design. They used to build things to last.
Did they really? Then why isn't our world still full of old working things that require no maintenance? I mean I can agree with the impression that things used to be built to last, but I think it might have more to do with the fact that old things were put together by hand, and were very big and electronic components were big and simple. It used to be easy to find a faulty component and fix it, but now that everything's been shrunk and stuck on a chip it's no longer simply a matter of replacing a universally available component, you have to find and buy the correct chip, which can cost more than just going down to the shop and getting a new entire product. Old things are still around and have the fame of being reliable because they are simple to fix.
Comment Re: Fingerprints are everywhere. (Score 1) 80
canada? i knew those bastards were after our women!!
"American Woman! Stay away from meeeee!
American Woman! Momma let me beeee!"
Kodak-Branded Smartphones On the Way 94
An anonymous reader sends news about Kodak's latest attempt to come back from the grave. "For a while there it looked like Kodak's moment had come and gone, but the past few months have seen the imaging icon fight back from the brink of irrelevance. Now the company's planning to push a Kodak-branded smartphone, and thankfully it's not going to sue everyone in the business along the way this time. To be clear, Kodak won't actually make its own devices — instead, it's going to farm out most of the development work to an English company called Bullitt."
