That's not the way DAC works. The output waveform is built by adding a SINC function at every sample point. This means even output frequencies very close to the sampling frequency can be reconstructed perfectly, that is as long as the extraneous and inaudible frequencies are filtered out.

It's a common misconception and one which drove me nuts as a scientifically literate audiophile, until I was able to get a signal processing professor to explain it to me.

I don't think that's the point. We're talking about the likelyhood of meeting something in our own galaxy, which would be far more likely than from another galaxy.

http://www.newslines.org/ exists to aggregate news in a timeline by SUBJECT, where the subject could be a person, place, event etc.

It does fill a niche that I think is not really covered well by wikipedia, google news, or any of the services I've yet seen.

*disclaimer, newslines.org is a startup of a good friend of mine and I do have a financial interest.

Yes, and as such every device must be certified to attest compliance to the standard.

They're cracking down on cheap non-certified sticks from China.

not sure if serious...

Minindisc was awesome, it only failed outside Asia because in Europe and America, where generally cheaper products were the norm, people started ripping mp3s to CDR en-masse before MD players were cheap enough for mass market.

The Clie was good, if a little fiddly. I knew a few people with those. Where *that* failed was sony's protectionis hogging of the Palm OS and getting usurped by Symbian and then Microsoft on smartphones until Apple took over the world.

The e-reader was behind Amazon by far in terms of simplicity, wireless connectivity, and catalogue.

In each case it seems Sony's made a product which enjoyed limited success amongst geeks willing to pay a premium for a couple of unique features, but failed to grasp mass market with affordable and easy-to-use products.

Yup, you need a different brand. I'm thinking the same about Apple these days.

Can this just die already?

Seems like an awfully complicated way to get aerodynamic dimples on a large surface when there's not much of a compelling reason for them not to be there permanently, Which would be orders of magnitude cheaper to do with long-existing technology.

I'm one of those Minecraft servers. Goddammit I ony found out why this was happening thanks to slashdot.

I know my own IP, but none of my users do.

Japan also considers bitcoin a commodity.

If this was happening two years ago it's more likely he spent them when they were worth a fraction of their current value.

Salaries are set by supply and demand, and if there are plenty of people of Indian nationality who are jumping at the chance to work in California, then the hiring company is, on average, going to get away with a lower average salary. In much the same way that trying to get a Californian to go live in Mumbai, they may have to pay more than they'd pay a local, due to a shortage of people wanting to work in a city with clearly lower standards of living.

The problem here is that "Indian" is used English interchangeably as a nationality an an ethnicity, so there are sudden screams of "THAT's WACIST" from the overcompensating PC crowd. If they'd said "That's plenty for an English person", "that's plenty for a Minnesotan" or "That's plenty for a young unmarried guy", there wouldn't be such a problem. It's common practice for companies to end up getting away with lower salaries for people doing the same job, for a variety of reasons which are not protected in law.

I had 1Gb/s fiber to my home in Tokyo for the last 5 years at least. That Sony is providing 2Gb/s now is not particularly noteworthy, except that thanks to Google recently offering 1Gb/s in the US, it's now in the public consciousness, whereas beforehand most of the world hadn't realised just how far ahead Japanese internet service was.

I wonder what they get in Korea... it wouldn't surprise me if they 1Gb/s was standard there for years already.

What is noteworthy to anyone with such a fast connection, is that most of the internet as we know it is throttled at speeds way below that anyway. It takes 40 or so connections to max out my download speeds from usenet.

Every time I turn on a ring on my gas stove, it's bleeding gas for a few seconds whilst the electric ignition goes "tickticktickticktick" then "whoosh" as the ring lights but by that time enough gas has escaped to make a noticeable smell from the added marker gas, even if briefly. multiply this by the total number of gas powered flames all over the place, and the level of methane in the air is going to be way higher than natural background levels.