actually considering stuff like the planck length it might turn out the deep down analog underneath the digital cd may be way way deep down digital again....

I had an Allman Brothers CD I think it was Live from Ludlow Garage and the second CD was all one 45 minute song it was amazing.

that made me think what if that level were randomly generated each time so you could never memorize it, it would drive people mad...

He was using cheap as a synonym for low build quality which makes by no means cheap a good thing...

The way I explained why gravitational mass and inertial mass are the same is by considering the thought experiment of two balls in space starting off a ways apart, they gravitationally attract and then kinetically bounce apart, if inertial mass and gravitational mass were different they would either eventually become stuck together or drift infinitely apart which can't happen due to conservation of energy...

It doesn't really cost that much to patent something. You could take out a loan if necessary. Why isn't there a wikipedia article on magfets, they seem cool.

I just thought, what if you could remove all the higgs bosons from steel, you could have airplane frames that float. Or maybe that's not the way it works lol.

Wouldn't it be great if refrigeration and air conditioning could be done with semiconductors somehow? I'd love to see new air conditioners running for half the cost every 2 years.

Why would a console be a thousand dollars and only have some kind of integrated graphics. Why the emphasis that it be small and power efficient vs. powerful enough to play any game at max settings. I mean does this thing seem like any "gaming" rig you've ever seen? I think they should just compile a list of hardware that can be put together and be "steam" certified and be done with it. Just give the developers something to target.

Some people's most recent African ancestors lived there within the last few hundred years and others were many millenia ago. Of course then there are the Berbers that are a fair-skinned African tribe :) In general being real specific about how a person can tell in general what race a person is is probably akin to creating Strong A.I., but that doesn't mean people can't do it. It'd also be hard to describe exactly how people can tell the difference between a Escher painting and a Dali, or a Beethoven and a Mozart song.

In a double blind study, I believe people could do a pretty fair job of sorting say a hundred pictures of people who's families have lived in certain parts of the world for the last 20 or so generations, at least as to what continent they were from.

There is a scientific device to measure albedo: fresh snow measuring .9 and charcoal .4, it would be a simple matter to measure the albedo of all the finalists from the last few olympics in swimming and sprinting and I believe there would be a strong correlation between albedo of skin and whether the person was a swimmer or sprinter.

For the record I don't consider myself racist, maybe it's not even a good thing that the brain can organize people by race, but I don't see any point in pretending it can't.

That's funny, you can't put your finger on what exactly the difference is between the way the majority of swimmers look and the way the majority of sprinters look... hint the sprinters are about a 100 shades darker lol. I must seem psychic to you that I can tell whether someone either is from Asia or has Asian ancestors. I can even use my magic to tell whether they're from Korea, vietnam, Japan, or China. Maybe you also can't tell the difference between a golden retriever and a yellow labrador? Or maybe you just don't like the use of the word race to describe those obvious physical differences, that last one is a genuine question.

An amp is 6.24150965(16)×10^18 (1 coulomb) electrons flowing past a point in one second.

I keep trying to think if you are right that there will be no need for the dedicated graphics card, the way the FPU moved into the CPU a while back.. What would you put in the PCI-Express socket? Did I read you right that you think it would be another CPU? I wonder what kind of specialization it would have.

You can see why the Babylonians picked 360 degrees for the circle, you can divide it up in so many different ways.

The feeling I get is that all the normal motion of the actors and whatnot seems to pause while the camera pans. To me it almost looks sort of like bullet time in the matrix.