You laugh at that, but with private corporations, sometimes things aren't much better. At one point in time, for about 4 months, I was the only person managing all the systems for around 250 branch banking offices in Japan for Citigroup. 1 person. This included the servers, diskless clients, and printers for them all. Across 3 data centers for load balancing and redundancy, so, counting spares, nearly 1000 servers. Stress level was increased until I quit.

And trying to get more people to "like" slashdot on social networking sites by putting the "Share" button where the "Comments" link used to be is just down right underhanded.

As predicted before, we'll get beta in the end... one code update at a a time.

Referring to this thread where you got put down.

Could it be because nobody who uses slashdot comes here to watch videos? There's already a million sites out there with that stuff on it. We now have slashdot tv, video stories, and that stupid video bites section sitting in the middle of the page.

Someone over there needs to figure out that nobody wants videos on here. None of the videos have any amount of comments on them at all.

Open your eyes.

Also, the fucking logon system is broken. Can't log in anymore. I hit the front page, login, it takes me to my profile, and then when I click on this story, it says I'm not logged in anymore. Had to log in while making the comment.

APK, will you just give it a rest already. Nobody's going to install your shitty software. The world has moved on. You've already been debated point by point on why your system is worse and you couldn't refute any of the rebuttals made without it sounding like you're sticking your fingers in your ears and chanting "la la la".

Give it up already.

I realize that this is a very simplistic explanation, but think of quantum entanglement like this:

You have 2 cubes. Each cube can be only either blue or green. You have no idea what color each cube is as you packed them into boxes for mailing across the galaxy in a completely dark room. They are then mailed.

Now, you open your box. Turns out that your cube is green. You instantly know that the other cube is blue, even if it's on the other side of the galaxy, however, you have no way of communicating your discovery to the other party.

You now have instant knowledge of what color the remote cube is, but no information has been transferred.

Simple enough?

No, it's not. It's exactly what the parent said it is. If you're driving along, and under 30kph, and someone stops in front of you, or someone walks in front of your car, the car will make every effort to stop itself before the collision will occur. That has nothing to do with cruise control, adaptive or otherwise.

I thought that word macros and such were a solved problem. Is anyone still running Office 97? After that, macros were disabled by default.

Alaska has caps like that. And the new "unlimited" plan that GCI just rolled out is 10/1Mb 40Gb max for data, then they throttle you down to 1Mb down/ 1Mb up. Oh, and they want like $60 for it.

But. It might end up on his PERMANENT RECORD.

What the hell is a "fast, interactive article"? What do you want to bet there won't be a block or close button on them either.

I work on full motion flight simulators (MD-11 and 747-400) and those things can move!

Like, several tens of tons of metal going from one extreme to another in less than a second in some cases. Building shaking? Not so much. Air displacement and the sound of the hydraulics moving that much mass that quickly? Scary some times.

Imagine something the size of a large dump truck moving straight up 4 meters, then straight back down 4 meters and them back up in just a second or so. It just "feels" wrong.

eh.

I think they should fly a tested copy of the thing up the the ISS, attache a MecJeb control unit and a solar panel to it, point it into deep space, let it go, and keep an eye on it.

All joking aside, one of these EM drives with an RTG and a transmitter attached and launched into space for testing should be done. Just get it up to like L2 and point it to celestial north to get it out of the ecliptic. Fire up the drive and see what happens. Use the transmitter to track acceleration.