Um, no, you don't know what you're talking about. Many major servers and supercomputers run on things other than x86 chips. Sun (now Oracle) and IBM both design and sell their own server processors (the SPARC and POWER lines respectively). They sell billions of dollars of those servers a year and they power most large…

Apple's traditional strength has been making the basics very accessible while offering more powerful features under the surface. They've stumbled a bit doing that in more recent years (as evidenced by some lessons I've had to teach my parents), but they're still doing better than their competition in that regard.

open source doesn't mean copyright free. there's legal licenses associated with using anything in an open source project, and most of them include very specific clauses about what you can do with the sources for commercial gain. all that said, there's not much for which Google could successfully sue Apple since i…

In addition, it's actually not too difficult in many places to do identify theft with just that information. With a little social engineering, its probably enough to get a copy of your birth certificate, which can then be used to get other information such as your SSN or a driver's license. The chain of trust in…

well, sounds like he did have enough follow through to provide Zuckerberg with $2000 that he was trying to give back, presumably to effectively cancel whatever business arrangement they had. i believe monetary exchange makes for fairly binding business deals. haven't really researched the details (I honestly don't…

electrical engineers wouldn't do very well on this either; it's really more of a material science kind of questions. The thing to remember is that two solids touching each other should allow heat transfer such that, in the absence of other factors, the steady state is the same temperature in the two materials (this is…

I think for the near term, such manufacturing changes would be aimed at server levels chips, where the companies investing in hardware have a large interest in reducing power and cooling costs. For those buyers, the additional up front cost is not a major issue. In time, the production cost differential will probably…

@derilium: +1

@Ben R: That's good advice to follow yourself. The article states that he gleaned enough information to use the password reset feature of Facebook. This would make the newly reset password inherently different from their e-mail password. The "sent folder" referred to would have to be the private message folder, not…

@Jerm Deeks: I don't think this really works for that. He's getting the Facebook password reset, so it doesn't match their e-mail password any more. The only sent folder he'd have access to is the Facebook private message sent folder.

@Sid: I'm not sure how you buying the wrong cable shows that you shouldn't buy a cheap cable.

@jchen1: did you actually read the article about not buying the iPhone on Verizon? It didn't say you shouldn't go on Verizon, it said that there will likely be a new, better iPhone in June, and you're better off waiting until then (which is sound advice) because the new version will undoubtable be available on both…

@whoopingchow: the shape is designed to bend the waves around the object without distorting them. so by pushing all the sounds waves towards the outside rather than reflecting them, its curving them such that they continue without reflecting.

@mcfinley: They already have acoustic foam that uses geometry as well as composition to deaden sound waves. and some cities do border local highways with sound walls, but its not cheap to build those walls and only a small percentage of the houses benefit, so its difficult to raise the money for construction and…

@iLuvDynastyWarriors: If you have all the equipment for it, the reduction in cable clutter alone makes HDMI worth it. once i finally upgraded my audio receiver to HDMI (long overdue) i lost 70% of my cables. it makes a big difference.

@Charlie Jane Anders: I was very confused when I read the original paragraph because I couldn't figure out what the contrast was supposed to be since the statements seemed in agreement with each other. "but" is used to contrast statements, not emphasize them. "and" is used for non-contrasting statements, so replacing…

@Icon57: you make a lot of unsubstantiated assertions in your denouncement of the method. first, you're assuming they had to go for smooth clean rails. in reality, if i take a single tree of relatively small diameter, i can simply split it once (with a tool as simple as an ax) and have a surface that can lay…

@resvrgam: It's an unfortunate fallacy that people equate size with strength. Bulk is an poor indicator of raw strength, in both males and females.

@V864: Bandwidth is not a measure of latency. All communication protocols include features to mask the effects of latency for bulk data transfer (like the sliding window protocol used in TCP), which is what nominally being used for bandwidth calculations.