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Comment Re:"JUST" 12 light years? LOL. (Score 1) 420

> and voila! Adam and Eve.

You mean, like, Mowgli ? Running around, furiously eating and fucking (provided a Mowgless).

Now see, there are these things called "finesse" "erudition" "skill". They are impossible to attain without society, without mentors - well, at least, in the form of books, but do you think unattended humans would control theis chaotic natures for long enough to settle down and read ?

And no, forced indoctrination would not work, for it produces robots, people with no ambition.

Face it - generation ships are unattainable with current breed of humans, unless we find a 100% reliable way to give birth to little Buddhas.

Human interaction and inspirational figures in your life are more important that you may realise.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 352

It is strange how it could hypothetically turn out if you take evolution in the face of technology as a possibility (as seen in "A Mote in Gods Eye"). If the extreme survival topic interests you, definitelly read that book, one of the most gripping (ah-hem) books I've read.

Comment 4 GB DDR3 is current (Score 1) 291

What did the company exchange it for ?

I have, in my quite modern machine, that runs most every game full speed @ max settings, 4x4 sticks 1866 MHz RAM. This is a huge overkill for everything, most people settle for 8 GB and that is with a healthy safety margin.

If the company is getting rid of 4GB sticks (one stick is enough for a normal-range desktop system to function properly on modern desktop OS. throw in a second 4GB if you want to overkill stuff), what are they replacing it with ?

Also, DDR3 RAM is modern and current, and in wide use, not some legacy abomination.

Is this article from the future or just a subtle troll ?

In worst case, you cn list it @ 10 bucks a stick on ebay (going price ~14-15 per stick) and make $5K FAST.

Submission + - Diablo 3 Open Beta weekend (battle.net)

Qwade79 writes: Blizzard invites you to assist with stress testing Diablo 3 this weekend in an open beta. If you've sold your first born but still haven't received your beta key this is your chance.
"We're pleased to announce the Diablo III open beta weekend, which offers open access to all players with a valid Battle.net account! Beginning this Friday everyone is invited to log in and help us put the game and servers through their paces in this three day stress test as we march toward the game's release on May 15."

Space

Submission + - Cosmic Rays still a mystery as IceCube array fails to find Neutrinos (newscientist.com)

Fluffeh writes: "The failure of ghostly subatomic messengers called neutrinos to show up at an Antarctic telescope has knocked down a major astrophysical theory involving some of the most dramatic explosions in the universe. The IceCube telescope monitors a cubic kilometre of iceMovie Camera beneath the South Pole for neutrinos of various types, including the cosmic variety. Vertical strings of detectors frozen into the ice watch for flashes of blue light emitted when neutrinos strike. The energy of the neutrino determines its source. One source of neutrinos was thought to be explosions known as gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and IceCube has been looking for neutrinos occurring at the same time as GRBs. From May 2009 to May 2010, gamma-ray satellite observatories saw 190 GRBs. Theory predicts that IceCube should have seen a handful of neutrinos at the same time, from the same region of the sky. But today IceCube reports that it saw absolutely nothing – a serious blow to a cascade of processes astrophysicists thought they understood."
Space

Submission + - Mystery company may be an asteroid mining project (theverge.com)

MMatessa writes: From The Verge: MIT's Technology Review has just gotten news of a mysterious new project that claims it will "create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources.'" Space exploration company Planetary Resources will be unveiled in a conference call on Tuesday, April 24th. Besides the audacious announcement, which promises to "overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and natural resources — to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP," what makes this unique is its high-profile support group. The venture is backed by Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, director James Cameron, and politician Ross Perot's son, among others.
Cellphones

Submission + - Apple's Business Model Vulnerability, Exposed by a French Upstart, Free Mobile (forbes.com)

suraj.sun writes: Free Mobile is a company few Americans have heard of, yet it is up-ending Apple’s prospects in France. Analysts are blaming the firm for driving down iPhone sales by 10% in the past quarter alone. How? Free, a classic example of “disruptive innovation,” is offering unlimited domestic calls and texts, free calls to many international countries, 3 GB of data per month, and no contract commitment — all for $25 a month. Free doesn’t subsidize handsets at all. If you want a new phone, you buy one yourself without it being tied to any carrier. Free has won nearly 3 million subscribers in its first three months. While carriers around the world have resisted becoming a “dumb pipe” for communications, Free has demonstrated the latent demand for a cheap, reliable, dumb pipe. It seems only a matter of time before the model is replicated in country after country. And this is a major problem for Apple. The most basic iPhone 4S sells for €629 without the carrier subsidy, while entry-level Android and Windows phones are priced around €299. Unsurprisingly, people who have to pay the full price for a handset flock to the less expensive, and technically quite solid, Android and Windows offerings.

Comment Re:20 years? (Score 1) 743

Haha, I would wager that electric stove would last over a single millennium, which at max of about 2 KW and is pretty luminous in modern settings, and puts out sufficient light to read (and burn your book and nose simultaneously).

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