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Comment Re:he's lost it (Score 1) 1328

by curtix7 (#33454644) Attached to: Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang
Yeah but he will be dead some day, and 100 - 100 million years from now (whatever the time frame may be) when they prove that something can come from nothing, he will be the guy that said it first with conviction. At least that's how it will likely be remembered, when we are all dead and scientific history gets trimmed and reorganized into a more manageable memory.
Hardware

Submission + - USB 3.0: Everything You Need to Know

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: "After a lengthy gestation period, the third generation of the Universal Serial Bus is making its way to the market. USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, has throughput of up to 5 gigabits per second. That's even faster than the 3Gb/sec of SATA hard drives and 1Gb/sec. of high-end networking in the home, and USB 3.0: Everything You Need to Know goes into plenty of the techie details. But is it already obsolete — will LightPeak make USB 3.0 irrelevant?"
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Grad Student Invents Cheap Laser Cutter (reprap.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Peter Jansen, a PhD student and member of the RepRap community, has constructed a working prototype of an inexpensive table-top laser cutter built out of old CD/DVD drives as an offshoot of his efforts to design an under $200 open-source Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) 3D printer. Where traditional laser cutters use powerful, fixed-focus beams, this new technique dynamically adjusts the focal point of the laser using a reciprocating motion similar to a reciprocating saw, allowing a far less powerful and inexpensive laser diode to be used. The technique is currently limited to cutting black materials to a depth of only a few millimeters, but should still be useful and enabling for Makers and other crafters. The end-goal is to create a hybrid inexpensive 3D printer that can be easily reconfigured for 2D laser cutting, providing powerful making tools to the desktop.

Comment Re:Airships simply will not be practical, sorry (Score 1) 363

by curtix7 (#33151618) Attached to: The Second Age of Airships
FTFA

Taylor is most particular about the nomenclature of the new development: it’s not an ‘airship’, he says, it’s a ‘hybrid air vehicle’.

‘It’s a new vehicle. It’s a hybrid because we’re combining helium lift, aerodynamic lift, a hovercraft landing system and vectored thrust,’ he says. ‘If you can get beyond the word airship – because that has a lot of history – people think about them differently.’

Comment Re:Airships simply will not be practical, sorry (Score 1) 363

by curtix7 (#33151186) Attached to: The Second Age of Airships
rtfa.

Taylor is most particular about the nomenclature of the new development: it’s not an ‘airship’, he says, it’s a ‘hybrid air vehicle’.

‘It’s a new vehicle. It’s a hybrid because we’re combining helium lift, aerodynamic lift, a hovercraft landing system and vectored thrust,’ he says. ‘If you can get beyond the word airship – because that has a lot of history – people think about them differently.’

Comment Re:Bosses earn too much (Score 1) 1018

by curtix7 (#33084588) Attached to: High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay
Ok but how is one million dollars towards one yacht more circulation than one million towards 100 speed boats or 5000 canoes?

Are you assuming that if one million dollars was split up between 10 non-executives they would have it printed into cash so they could admire the "pretty pieces of colored, printed paper?"

When a sum of money is exchanged for goods and surfaces, those goods and surfaces are what the "leaches" are receiving.

As you said, money has no value. Salary is a measurement the value of what they are getting out of the system.
Idle

Submission + - Raises Are So 20th Century (zendesk.com)

Submitted by Tmal
Tmal writes: New research from Clearswift shows employees prefer the autonomy to surf the 'Net over pay raises.
Iphone

Submission + - Jailbreaking iPhone now Legal (appleinsider.com)

Submitted by whisper_jeff
whisper_jeff writes: "The U.S. government on Monday announced new rules make it officially legal for iPhone owners to "jailbreak" their device and run unauthorized third-party applications, as well as the ability to unlock any cell phone for use on multiple carriers."

I would imagine this news will hasten the (official) arrival of the iPhone on rival networks in the US.
The Military

Submission + - WikiLeaks Defends Decision to Publish Afghan Docs

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "The Guardian reports that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange today defended his decision to publish thousands of secret US military files about the war in Afghanistan, after the White House said the leaks "could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security". Assange rejected accusations that the leak had compromised America's national security. "We are familiar with groups whose abuse we expose attempting to criticise the messenger to distract from the power of the message," says Assange. "We have tried hard to make sure that this material does not put innocents at harm. All the material is over seven months old so is of no current operational consequence, even though it may be of very significant investigative consequence."" British military expert professor Michael Clarke, director of the Royal United Services Institute thinktank, says the leaked files were less damaging than the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal but would prove awkward for politicians. "There is no doubt that the leaks are politically pretty damaging. The papers give an impression of a lack of military discrimination in how operations were conducted. They are also appearing at the worst possible time, particularly in the United States, because people are looking for an exit strategy. This is old bad news at a new bad time.""
The Internet

Submission + - Verbed! -- Not every noun wants to stay that way. (boston.com)

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Ant
Ant writes: "Boston reports words and phrases like "friend, Google, TiVo, log in, contact, barbecue (BBQ), unlike, concept, text, Photoshop, leverage, party, Xerox, reference, architect, parent, improv, transition, diligence, host, chair, gift, heart, and impact have all been declared--by someone, somewhere, whether a usage expert or just a self-appointed language cop--'not verbs.' ... It doesn't matter whether they're useful, interesting, or entertaining as verbs; to many people, if a word began its life as a noun, then 'verbing' it (like I did there) is just wrong..."

Seen on Neatorama. So Slashdotting is a bad idea. [grin]"

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