We don't need to model all the proteins and chemicals in the brain and how they interact because the brain is a static object on a short enough time scale. Nobody is proposing that we start out by understanding the complex effects of changing a protein or a thousand proteins. We only need to know how groups of…

@badplaid: Apple must think they can find some way to make the LiquidMetal process way cheaper. Everything you are saying sounds about right from my experience interpreting manufacturing drawings and looking at the final costs for machined parts (I was just a normal mechanical engineer).

The reason nobody has heard of this stuff is because it's a solution looking for a problem. Aluminum and titanium do just fine for most applications and they are cheap and well understood for the most part.

@Zoot: If we are able to simulate the human brain before we can create real artificial intelligence then this is exactly how it will work out. I think it would be wayyy easier to bootstrap ourselves with reverse engineering the human brain (which has some pretty damn good software already sitting there waiting for us…

@davidda08: Agreed, a very slight bend is correct on the downstroke. Even an inch or two off that makes things rough on your knees on hills.

The bike seat is too low and the guy's legs aren't straightening out on the down stroke. That's a pet peeve of mine when I see people biking on the side of the road. I really should just get over it, but it's so much harder to ride a bike with a seat too low.

@futureboy: If this helps, typically the old firmware is on your computer somewhere. If you can't find it then you can get it online pretty easily. Then hold down the control key (or maybe it's shift) when you click on restore to put on an older firmware.

@notrock: I guarantee you wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers

@mschipperheyn: The fact that Japan would not surrender after the first attack kind of proves the point that so much destruction was necessary to end the war. The other alternative would have been to slaughter the rest of the Japanese army man by man which would have ended up taking as many if not more human lives on…

@bdinger: I remember reading that dropping it in a sparsely populated area was considered and then rejected since the Japanese were so determined to fight to the end.

@hal9000mx: Do you really think that the USA military leaders were clapping themselves on the back in happiness when they decided obliterating a large city and most of its occupants was necessary to get Japan to realize the war was hopeless?

An engineer's point of view: Anything as brittle as glass is a poor choice to start with (can't deform much to suck up the energy of a drop), but using it for such a large panel is even worse. As you go larger the natural frequency of the front panel will have more danger of resonating with the shock pulse frequency…

@Error601: You need a bumper that will soften the shock pulse of hitting the concrete. Hard bumpers will still transmit the shock pulse to large "membranes" like that glass. The softer the bumper the better.

@erawsd: Cydia seems maybe 30 or 40 percent slower than normal to me over the last week.

@Misfit7707: Nope, the benefit is in multi-directional light gathering capability as CaptainJack stated. It's the equivalent of using a paraboloid instead of a sphere to focus light. Light coming in off angle will not focus on the same spot if you're using a simple sphere shaped lens.

Perfect for chunks of TV shows, although they've gotten pretty good at removing copyrighted stuff.

I wear lead lined underwear for this exact reason.

Someone should do this with the remains of the Office Space printer (and then sell it on Ebay for a billion dollars)

I'm probably being way too picky, but quantum computers aren't necessarily fast with respect to networking inside the CPU. They do many many calculations in parallel to give a single answer that would have taken a conventional computer lots of serial operations and shuffling of data.

Now there's hope that I'll be able to play football when I'm 90.