Comment do it (Score 1) 1186
i have the euler identity on my arm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_identity. it says the most about the universe in the least amount of space :)
Submission + - Fed Court: FCC has no Net Neutrality authority (nytimes.com)
salesbot writes: "A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. "
Comment a lot of careers have stalled these days (Score 0) 142
the only difference is that the astronauts' career is costing the taxpayers a god damned lot of money. let them join the ranks of folk who will never get to fly through space.
Comment eeerrraaaAAARRRGGGHHH!!! (Score 1) 80
OLD STORY!! this is 2010!
Comment aarrghh, (Score 1) 490
WTH? Using email is a requirement of modern business and personal junk. Glad there is no protection, under the Constitution, for communication.
Comment Re:Blast from the past (Score 1) 218
It's the return of IrDA!
only this version is Jonny Mnemonic compatible!
Comment How is this news? (Score 1) 196
people have been doing this for years via XNA... that crappy indiana jones games is the demo platformer that comes with XNA and compiling for XBOX, Windows, or Zune is just a series of #ifndef XBOX blahblah #endif...
save/resume files that work on all platforms isn't impressive: text files have worked on lots of platforms for a while now ;)
Freescale's Cheap Chip Could Mean Sub-$99 E-Readers 158
eldavojohn writes "Last week, Freescale Semiconductor announced their i.MX508 chip and a few days ago released a rather bland and boring announcement that it's available. But there was at least one interesting line from that press release, 'The i.MX508 applications processor is expected to be priced at less than $10 (USD) in quantities greater than 250K units.' Yes, less than ten dollars. This sparked a wave of articles detailing how this new chip will allow the sub-$99 e-reader to emerge and according to market research, consumers are thirsty for something much more affordable than the Kindle."
Submission + - 43 Congress members' websites hacked (theuptake.org)
salesbot writes: Red Eye CREW, apparently from Brazil, replaced 43 .gov sites with a message similar that that of Fox News...
Submission + - Hulu to begin charging for content? (chicagotribune.com)
SpuriousLogic writes: Hulu soared to popularity by offering free online viewing of popular TV shows. Now, that free ride soon may end.
The Internet video site is weighing plans to charge users to watch episodes of "30 Rock," "Modern Family" and "House." The move would mark a sharp change of course for the venture, which was launched nearly two years ago by a consortium of studios to distribute without charge TV shows and movies over the Internet.
The site has spent months studying how to strike a balance between what people expect to watch for free online and for what they would be willing to pay, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly.
One plan under consideration would allow users to view the five most recent episodes of TV shows for free, but require a subscription of $4.99 a month to watch older episodes. Hulu believes it will need at least 20 TV series, both current and those no longer on the air, to make such a pay service attractive to users. A firm pricing model could emerge within six months.
A Hulu spokeswoman declined to comment.
The Internet video site is weighing plans to charge users to watch episodes of "30 Rock," "Modern Family" and "House." The move would mark a sharp change of course for the venture, which was launched nearly two years ago by a consortium of studios to distribute without charge TV shows and movies over the Internet.
The site has spent months studying how to strike a balance between what people expect to watch for free online and for what they would be willing to pay, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly.
One plan under consideration would allow users to view the five most recent episodes of TV shows for free, but require a subscription of $4.99 a month to watch older episodes. Hulu believes it will need at least 20 TV series, both current and those no longer on the air, to make such a pay service attractive to users. A firm pricing model could emerge within six months.
A Hulu spokeswoman declined to comment.
Comment Re:metamaterials are just periodic structures (Score 1) 113
calling metamaterials periodic structures is NOT tautological: a great many periodic structures (as in all most all of them) are not metamaterials, and metamaterials are created by repeating metalic small metalic structures close enough to each other that certain wavelengths of EM radiation see perfect magnetic conductors (which are the same as perfect electric conductors, but a quarter-wavelength away.) this required periodicity is inherently narrow-band, because only a select range of wavelengths will be subject to the quarter-wavelength condition. ...the long and short of it is that you don't get a cloak of invisibility, because metamaterials are just periodic structures and as such are very much narrow band.
Comment metamaterials are just periodic structures (Score 3, Informative) 113
and they don't work at wide bands. setting mu_r and epsilon_r to -1 in an equation is not the same as making a physical metamaterial.
Comment nature does its best (Score 1) 347
nature does its best to let you make beer-goggle copulation decisions
Comment metamaterials are exactly what they claim to be... (Score 1) 219
...vaporware!
all the peer reviewed work is hilariously narrow band, to the point that the claims of this article (and most others) equate to 'we have this flashlight, so obviously we can build HD tv and put a picture of you as a baby on it that would fool your mother.'
LAME.
Comment well.... (Score 2, Funny) 53
or just add lithium and get over yourself.
