Comment Re:Not the only place (Score 1) 179
Hopefully those maps are better than the one that put Nebraska in the desert.
Comment Re:In other words, (Score 5, Funny) 645
It will squirt phone calls...
Comment Re:I will most certainly be modded troll for this. (Score 1) 1027
Any company that makes a practice of telling the customer that they are wong (what
Yes, not all customers are wong. Some are wu, and some aren't even Chinese.
Comment Re:This won't work (Score 1) 370
When you're dealing with the borg, "interface" is the proper term.
Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All 269
cremeglace writes with this excerpt from ScienceNOW:
"You've heard the controversy. Particle physicists predict the world's new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, might create tiny black holes, which they say would be a fantastic discovery. Some doomsayers fear those black holes might gobble up the Earth — physicists say that's impossible — and have petitioned the United Nations to stop the $5.5 billion LHC. Curiously, though, nobody had ever shown that the prevailing theory of gravity, Einstein's theory of general relativity, actually predicts that a black hole can be made this way. Now a computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole."
That said, they estimate the required energy for creating a black hole this way to be roughly "a quintillion times higher than the LHC's maximum"; though if one of the theories requiring compact extra dimensions is true, the energy could be lower.
Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes 538
artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"
Comment Re:Dumb (Score 2, Informative) 347
Insightful my ass. My utility has a time of use plan and I save quite a bit with it. The two biggest power consumers are ac/heating and the hot water heater. The water heater only runs during off peak times. I get plenty of hot water in the morning because it shuts off just before I wake up. If I do need it during peak hours I can press a button and have hot water within a few minutes. As for the ac, peak hours are mostly when I'm not there. So the temp is set to something uncomfortable. By the time I need it, it is comfortable. During the summer peaks I save $50 - $60 per month, less in the winter. So no, it is not a theory, it works just fine in reality.
Comment Re:This is new? (Score 1) 23
And before that, Harris Corp was using similar methods (using image metadata) as far back as the early 80's to generate accurate geolocation on any given pixel as well as to generate dted. Definitely not new.
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