Comment It's just you, Elon... (Score 1) 951
The simulation part is correct, but they're just simulating your brain. Everyone and everything else is a construct of that.
Comment Re:Nice but... (Score 1) 385
Concepts were supposed to fix this problem, but they were booted out at the last minute.
I'm enjoying the implication that, when it comes to standardization, "at the last minute" can mean "two years earlier".
Comment How many bytes in a Megabyte? (Score 2, Funny) 252
63. As an aside, a ‘byte’ is a term that refers to a certain amount of data, namely 8 ‘bits’. A bit is either a zero or a one, given that computers compute by means of binary code. A ‘kilobyte’ is 1024 bytes, a ‘megabyte’ is 1024 kilobytes and a ‘gigabyte’ is 1024 megabytes.
Let the flamewar begin...
Comment Re:Impressive... (Score 5, Funny) 95
400 miles is about 640,000 meters
640k should be enough for anyone.
Comment Re:Civil Disobedience (Score 1) 325
So are you suggesting that the opportunity to create something that will deliver a return to your decendents is not an incentive to create? How many other fields of endeavour offer this kind of opportunity?
Necessary? doubtful, but to suggest that the current regime of life + 50 years does *not* provide an incentive is plain wrong.
Comment Could be just the cold causing this (Score 1) 452
It's not necessarily the "medicine", I regularly lose my sense of smell temporarily in the late stages of a cold these days. The loss of smell generally lingers for a week or so after the cold has gone.
Comment Re:These are still vapor (Score 1) 116
I think you can put them in the same corner as Duke Nukem Forever and that Holographic Storage thing that keeps popping up on Slashdot.
Likewise:
Flying Cars
3D TV
Fusion Power
Comment Dumb idea (Score 2, Interesting) 76
It's been shown on a number of occasions that creating airborne surveillance devices which look like animals simply invites predators to catch and destroy them.
http://gizmodo.com/359417/hawks-agree-wowwees-dragonfly-tastes-delicious
