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.
Amazon Delaying Public Domain Submissions On Kindle 100
John B. Hare writes "Many publishers of public domain content on the Kindle are being turned away for reasons that Amazon declines to clarify. In the past two weeks any publisher posting a public domain book (or a book that appears to be a such) has received the message 'Your book is currently under review by the Kindle Operations team as we are trying to improve the Kindle customer experience. Please check back in 5 business days to see if your book was published to the store.' Amazon claims that this is a quality control issue, apparently believing that readers can't figure out on their own that a five-page Kindle book for $9.99 is a rip-off, or that yet another Kindle edition of 'Pride and Prejudice' is pointless. This was supposed to be the point of user feedback and the Kindle return policy: users can quickly decide what the best choice is, and if they don't like it, back out without any harm done." Read on for details of this reader's interaction with Amazon on the subject of public domain Kindle submissions.
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
Comment Separate Power Circuits (Score 2, Interesting) 646
My Company has "white" power outlets and "pink" power outlets. Pink outlets provide power 24/7, the white ones all shut off (along with the office lights) when the building alarm is armed. All offices have at least one "pink" outlet so if you really want your PC to stay alive you connect to that one.
SCO Relies On IBM-donated Servers With Groklaw 100
Technician writes "It appears that SCO and Groklaw have the exact same tie to IBM: the ibiblio service. 'An eagle-eyed Groklaw ninja, sk43, has spotted an ftp site where you can get binary copies of Linux libraries needed by SCO's OpenServer and UnixWare customers who use lxrun. But you can't get the source code from that sco.com ftp site. SCO directs their customers to .... sunsite.unc.edu. Why bless my stars, sunsite.unc.edu is the old name for what is now ibiblio!'"
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