Damn, that is what I am also wondering about. Would be really nice to see a good explanation for that.
I mean there must be some relation between the singularity that a black hole is and the singularity at the big bang. In one case the mass collapses and in the other one it inflates and forms a universe. But what is the difference, or isn't there any, and it is just looking at it from outside and from inside?
Below the article here is a link to an article about a theory related to that.. The theory is that the universe is at the surface of a 4-dimensional black hole, which would explain these things. Though I still don't know why it isn't just a 3-dimensional black hole.

But how did this agglomeration of energy / mass form? What started time?
The big bang model is an interpolation backwards in time from our current world. It shows how things must have been, but at the singularity it stops making sense. I think this interpolation is missing something important, something that we don't know about yet.

But there could have been something, right? What was there is just more of a philosophical than a scientific question.

I can't see this lack of apps on Windows Phone that everyone is talking about, I have everything there that I need. I heard many games are missing, but do we care?

It also plays in background tabs in Firefox, which is specially annoying.
It does not make any sense to me to play sounds or videos in background tabs. Anyone knows how to stop this?

FlashBlock did not work. Guess this is HTML5.

The article says that the SprayList algorithm is faster for many cores than a traditional priority queue, since there are collisions when several cores ask for the top priority task at once.
Couldn't you just distribute the tasks ahead of time, giving every core a new task before its current task is finished?
Also, the article syas:

I would think these problems are the same for the priority queue that they compare performance to. And I guess there are other ways which avoid these problems, which might produce faster results.

Tidal forces are slowing down rotation, until rotation is locked to orbit. Then they don't cause deformation anymore. Do they really also affect the orbit? Certainly not when rotation is locked.

How about having like 10 additional spare discs in your rack, and calling the service for replacement when 10 discs died? The cost of the service call does not matter much when it is for many discs at once.

Yes, that is stupid. The tracks are a natural monopoly, whoever builds a track has a monopoly for a certain connection. Natural monopolies should always be in the hand of the state.
Train services can be run by several companies on the same track. It is easy to have competition there, this is where the free market is good.
But I think no country is getting this right.

Well, you have to take the thrust from the black body radiation of your spaceship into count. This has the photon shot noise of sqrt(N) where N is the number of photons. So this will limit the accuracy of the trust, unless you can cool down the whole spaceship to absolute zero.

Were there any security holes in these areas in the last years? I thought these simple things are safe nowadays.

Can't be worse than the current system, where all kind of crap only gets tons of "likes" if it spreads enough.

But his employer bought the equipment he used, paid him for his time, and organised the research. And I am pretty sure that he did not work alone. What about all the other researchers?
Researchers should be compensated and motivated by their salary, not by the chance on a patent.

It was said before the flight that it is only a 50% chance that the landing works, since a landing like this was not tested before. This was the test.