Are you sure he's not also Dyslexic?
Comment Hunger Games Approach (Score 1) 213
If they make to the Oval Office, they get to join the cabinet!
Comment Re:The Bureaucrat Effect (Score 1) 403
Try this on for size: Lewis's First Law of Metrics: You get what you measure -- that's the risk you take.
Restated: "Be very careful what you measure; it will improve, probably to the detriment of everything else."
Comment Obviously a Search Conflict (Score 1) 399
Windows 95 has left a lasting mark, I mean, legacy.
Comment I can see it now: (Score 1) 269
In Windows 10, the Seldon monitor. I, for one, will welcome our new psychohistorical robot overlords.
Comment Impact on battery life? (Score 2) 153
Transmitting uses much more power than receiving. This peer-to-peer method may play havoc with battery life in a weak cell reception area. I hope they are considering that ramification in the design and metering of the service. How much traffic should one phone carry and how does it benefit the phone holder? Perhaps a credit scheme for carrying traffic?
Comment Re:3 is a "swarm"? (Score 1) 80
My initial thought as well. Upon further research, the Danish noun sværm (transliterated to the proper name Swarm for the three-satellite program) may be translated as swarm, flight or cloud. I can see referring to three satellites as a flight.
https://translate.google.com/#...
Comment Re:Where's the story? (Score 1) 318
Mod parent up.
Facts speak louder than vociferous opinions.
Comment Not Real-Time? (Score 2) 42
But this is geologic real-time!
Comment Re:The "flight" one is weird (Score 1) 288
Only if your speed or the atmospheric density varied enough to cause subsequent transitions would you cause multiple booms. Mach varies with atmospheric density, often expressed analogously in terms of altitude. Your aircraft and passengers would not enjoy the ride if that were the case.
Comment Now We Wait... (Score 1) 39
For the Russians to complete Guardian!
Comment Sanity Check (Score 1) 128
Who here honestly believes that a US government required weather satellite carries only a weather payload? Try reading a spy novel now and then, my fellow nerds.
Comment A Use for Everything (Score 1) 260
Look for non-profit schools in your area and offer these systems for teaching keyboarding and intro to programming. These functions don't require much horse power or graphics and free (as in Beer) software and courseware is readily available.
Ask your local clubs (e.g, Lions, Rotary, Exchange, Optimists) whether they have a need for free office automation.
Comment And Internet Streaming? (Score 4, Interesting) 383
Does the law encompass Hulu and other internet streaming services? Loud and repetitious ads are worse than merely repetitious ads.
Comment So, What You're Saying Is... (Score 2) 42
They finally folded?
Wasn't that the goal?