Absolutely agree. This seems to be another boneheaded move from Intel just like RAMBUS DRAM that made motherboard components more expensive.
Having the PSU only output 12V does nothing but move the point of failure to a more expensive component, raise the cost of the motherboard and make it more of a pain to replace when a VRM goes bad.

I also just ran into the issue you were describing, with regards to the modular power connectors. Since I had neglected to label the modular cables with the make/model of the power supply from which they had come, when I ended up needing to use the modular cable to add a device to a system, there was no indication of which modular cable would be OK to use and which one would result in magic smoke, since none of my modular cables agreed on a pinout (6 pins in a 2x3 plug matrix), yet all fit into the same modular socket on the power supply.

On one connector the upper-left wire is 5V and on another that same connector position is Ground.
On another set of cables that also fit, the upper right is +12V, and on another cable (again both fitting the same plug socket), that position is not connected.

You would think the PSU manufacturers would jointly agree on a spec for modular cables (maybe somthing similar to the molex 4 pin, but with an added pin or two to carry 3.3V for SATA.

I checked the article saw a distinct lack of any maths. How exactly have they proven that this system is twice as good as a human driver?

Bullshit we have many promising theories as to how we can travel faster than light and obey the laws of physics, like traveling within a bubble of space time, or wormholes. Also faster than light communication happens with quantum entanglement, its instantaneous regardless of distance. You're a bit like the old sailors thinking you cant sail faster than the wind, when all you need is a better wing shape (above and bellow the water) and to be traveling on a reach.

Personally i'm sick of morons that parrot the same speech about technology always making more jobs, and completely ignoring that these robots could one day be more intelligent, creative, and much cheaper than a very large section of the human race. Half of us have an iq under 100 and have never come up with a smart idea more complex than "what if the KFC bucket was even bigger". Now don't get me wrong i can think of many utopian possibilities with robots, but not many of them leave all the big, must make profit, companies in charge (i know you get that one special vote, but google gets to legally bribe politicians).

We don't really care about the camera, other than its drama all the news people can carry on about. Its the form factor that is the problem; having one stupid little lens in the corner of your eye that you can fit barely any information on it is useless. Give us holodeck like AR/VR (dual see through lenses) and people wont care about the camera, just like they don't care that your smartphone has a camera on it, because of all the awesome stuff you can do with it.

There are a few statements in your post that are misleading / incorrect.

While Vandenberg AFB did have runways extended to over 15000 feet to support Shuttle landings, the more important criteria for delta wings was that the Shuttle would have been *launched* from Vandenberg (from SLC-6) for *polar-orbit* missions.

A landing site at Vandenberg AFB in California or Edwards AFB (also California) being further *north* has little to do with the delta wing shape. It's the fact that the mission profile for a polar orbit is very different than what was flown from Kennedy.

Launching from Vandenberg would have the shuttle launching south (for polar orbit insertion) rather than launching east as it did for Florida launches. This was primarily for military missions, performing a satellite capture or deployment and then landing once-around the Earth.

Landing once-around after a polar orbit means that your launch/landing site has rotated with the Earth, 22.5 degrees east or roughly 1500 miles.

The straight-wing shape was unable to accommodate a translation west-to-east of that extent and so, a delta-wing was needed. A straight-wing shape, as proposed, mandated an extremely high angle-of-attack re-entry which necessarily lead to a dangerous flight transition: from stalling blunt-body re-entry to a subsonic flight. A stalling aircraft leads to increased risk of total loss-of-control and breakup of the vehicle.

Boeing's space division is mostly what was acquired in 1996 from Rockwell International's Space Division which earlier was North American Aviation.

Here's a brief stroll through history:

[North American Aviation]
Designs and Builds:
* the X-15 Rocket plane
* the entire second stage of the Saturn V
* the Apollo Service Module and Apollo Command module (aka Apollo CSM)

[Rocketdyne] (Established 1955 as a division of North American Aviation)
Designs and Builds:
* the F1 engines of the first stage of the Saturn V
* the J2 engines used on the second stage of the Saturn V, and on the Saturn IB and IVb rockets

In 1967, NAA merges with Rockwell Standard to become North American Rockwell
Rocketdyne also comes along with NAA / Rockwell merger

North American Rockwell acquires avionics company Collins Radio in 1973 among others and becomes Rockwell International

[Rockwell International - Space Division]
* Prime Contractor for Space Transportation System (aka STS / Shuttle)
Designs and Builds:
* the STS Orbiters (i.e. Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour)

[Rockwell International - Avionics]
* Shuttle Orbiter avionics and communications

[Rocketdyne] (as part of Rockwell International - Space Division)
Designs and Builds:
* the RS-25 (aka Space Shuttle Main Engine / SSME)

1996 - Rockwell Space Division sold to Boeing

So, when they say "Boeing", it's the lineage of those teams that brought you such feature films as "Apollo - Man Walks on the Moon" and "The First Space Plane" :)

Do you belive we will make an artificial intelligence that can do everything a human can do, including learning new tasks it wasn't specifically programed to do? If so how long do you think it will take, and what do you think is the mechanism that will be used (eg nerual network programing, albeit on custom chips)?

not necessarily stupid, but gullible and trusting of people/businesses in certain positions (they figure they must be good if they got to where they did, and if they wern't, some one good and pure would stop them). How many people command much more respect in many more areas than they deserve, just because they have been in some blockbuster movies; in the last american elections statistical people figured out if geroge clooney made a speach in california, 60% of women over a certain age would change their vote for him (in whatever direction was wanted).

it may look like that when they consistently say that the US is evil, but it actully just turns out to be a coincidence, and most of what america does is evil. If they spent 10% of the trillions they spend on killing people and controlling people, on actully helping people, then a lot less people would hate them.

nice work completely missing the point, then making up your own to support your own notions. You would make a good politition. The phone works just as well the phone on my old smartphone (maybe even easier as i can l link my hands behind my head to take a call) wearing it upside down is no issue because it just as easy to use, and its saphire screen dosn't scratch. It tells me the time much better than my smartphone did (and its better than a bunch of watches, because its readable in any light, even if i do have to press a button). Sure it might not suit you if you are writing 50 plus messages, want to play all the apps, and watch movies, but i have many devices that do all of that stuff, much better than a smart phone will. Its hard for me because i'm so far ahead of the curve; and by that i don't mean i bought the first iphone, i mean i bought a smartphone 8 years before the iphone came out (which is possibly why i'm bored with them now), the same time you lot were all saying "my nokia 5110 is the greatest because it lasts all week and can play snake". So i don't think i will convice you now, but in 5 years time when you look down at your standalone smart watch phone please think of me (and keep an open mind when i'm having my optic nerve hacked).

i've got a standalone smart watch phone (omate true smart). i get almost 2 days of use, but i'm not a heavy user (i would get 3-4 out of smart phone). Works fine as a phone, although i have it upside down so i can easily put it to me ear. typing can be a little tricky sometimes, but the flesky keyboard helps out a lot. i enjoy not having to remember my phone or have it jumping around in my pocket.

I thought south Korea had installed autonomous killing sentry robots in the demilitarized zone. http://singularityhub.com/2010... . Samsung made I believe.

"You probably have thousands of different individual memories of your phone number and address." that doesn't sound like an efficient way to remember few digits. Surely it just reassurers the original memory or a makes a stronger new replacement memory.

bastards, I knew they would weasel their way out of it some how.