What are you talking about? As the iPod developed multiple versions came out with various price points, mostly lower.

No it shows that humans are stupid. You will find idiocy like this anywhere and everywhere.

I believe it did, one of the first books to really describe the transition through a singularity.

You should check out Accelerando (which I believe Glasshouse evolved out of) as well as just about anything else he has written.

Never tell guys who like sci-fi not to press the red button. We have to press the red-button.

Ah, one of the few people around the world who know what a Sun Crusher is. I still have my old Star Wars vehicle schematics book with this in it.

Considering it's "Schwarzschild radius resolution", doesn't that mean the event-horizon sphere itself would only be roughly a pixel across?

The Wedge can be very painful. It is downright scary during a surge.

I am so envious that my hypothetical kids a decade or two from now won't have to carry the ridiculously heavy backpack I had to in school. I think my slight scoliosis comes from that.

As time goes on, tablets like the iPad and others will become more and more affordable. Apple is smart to capture the textbook market now to hook families into their ecosystem.

I don't know what's a more amusing title. The article, or "National Anti-Vivisection Society".

LastPass was hacked yes, but no useful information was taken.

Hahah good catch.

Good to know, I had forgotten which was substituted out.

I'm waiting for a trackpad that comes even close to Apple's.

How else would you have them do it?

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Agreed, I mentioned our being in caves more as a figure of speech than as an accurate guesstimate.

That assumes that civilizations inevitably continue to spread. That is a very large assumption. Perhaps 99% of civilizations collapse before getting too far. Perhaps by the time a race is that advanced they cease travelling and exist entirely in simulated virtual worlds. Perhaps they just aren't interested in…

"I feel like the world is too small for these ETs to not show up."