I’m not sure where they got “Less than 3 weeks ago”. October 10 was just 11 days ago. To make matters worse, the path it’s on will cross the path of where the Earth was just about 10 days ago. In other words, it could have hit us and we would have never seen it coming. Either that or they discovered it too late and…

AGREED! Hard drive manufacturers should have simply made the drives with matching terms to what everyone was already using before hard drives became a consumer item. The 1.44MB floppy was listed as having 1,474,560 bytes. This was referred to as a 1.44Megabyte disk, not "mibibyte". Even the earliest commercial hard…

Much of the ice when talked about in this regard is either sitting on land or has huge amounts actually floating above the surface of the ocean. In this case, the WAIS is attached to the land and it is over a mile thick with the majority of that above water. It is held up by the attachment to the land. The bottoms of…

I wouldn't go so far as to call people idiots, but when Microsoft's current browser won't even properly display OWA from Exchange Server 2007 without going into a "compatibility mode", something is clearly wrong when it works fine in Chrome.

Depending on what I'm wearing I'll tuck a shirt in. Usually it's either a polo or a dress shirt - even a dress shirt worn with jeans and a jacket. But the idea that there are people who actually give a shit about multiple methods of doing so just has me laughing my ass off. Seriously.....why waste the time to write…

The idea is that if they have the technology to revive you from cryo stasis, they will have the technology to fix whatever else is wrong with you as well. Besides, the way current law is setup, if you were frozen before you technically died, those doing the freezing would be committing murder.

I think you're totally missing the point. At the moment we are already trapped inside a computer. Assuming the biology could be duplicated in another media, there is no reason to think that living inside a man-made computer would be any different or inferior to the biological computer we inhabit now.
As for the copy…

192k is about my limit of being able to tell the difference with my $80 earphones. I can usually tell a 128k file from a 192 but anything higher I just can't tell the difference. So I rip everything to 192k when I put it on a player. But I do always buy CDs and they are all ripped as wav files.

Even assuming the quality WAS better, how many people are going to buy the $400 earphones necessary to hear the difference?

OK. I'll be the lone voice of dissent. I saw it in theaters and what quite underwhelmed by the whole thing. I've watched it a couple times since while others around me watched it for the first time and I've come to see it as a decent, fun movie. I think the expectations for it were just too high.

I'm trying really hard to understand why anyone would upload anything to a service like Dropbox that would be so critical that it would be worth a lawsuit. If your stuff is THAT important, you should probably be on your own dedicated cloud server and possibly mirroring to an alternate data center. This is a…

Wow. A bunch of grown people griping that a group of movies based on cartoons from their childhood is lacking in plot development.

I really don't think an accurate analysis can be made of this. Are you counting torrents or data file size? Are you eliminating duplicates? Are you counting both a "U2 complete discography" file and a 2 minute clip of a camwhore each as a single torrent? I would love to see the methodology.

Now....to get this technology into a screwdriver.

Exactly. With film it's easier to protect the shadows without blowing the highlights. With a film scanner you can do nearly anything to that image as you can to the digital image. It's just a much more complicated process to do so. I still drag out film from time to time when working with high and low key images. For…

lmao

I wouldn't put it past google to be working on a housing solution to the sea-level rise problem. I can imagine a barge with 20-30 apartments that is fully connected for data, powered by solar or hydroelectric, with water desalination facilities within the barge.

This is just getting too boring. All of these phones look alike. They all function nearly the same way. Upgrades are becoming completely superficial, often just moving things around and making you re-learn things with no real benefit to functionality. The larger screens make it harder and harder to operate one-handed…

What makes anyone think that a civilization would want to escape into the greater cosmos when so my energy is required to do so. I suspect that our lack of evidence for alien life is due to something rather simple. The tech to escape into "smallspace". Baby universes, and extreme miniaturization both likely take a lot…

I think you're missing an important point here. Most people who donate to things, usually donate to multiple things. They may donate $200 per year to starving children, $100 to homeless shelters, $50 to animal shelters, and maybe $5-$10 to little things like this as well. You just don't see news stories telling you…