Ask any CS/EECS major about this and it would be a bit of a "duh" response. Just think about how computers are designed. Higher functions aren't activated until the BIOS activates, checks everything is good, then starts flipping the switches to turn on the "higher functions" (I/O, display, etc). Its good to see…

a little bit of Charger in the back, a little bit of Ferrari in the front, all Viper all the way through. The designers did right with this car. Bravo Dodge/Fiat, bravo.

Well, a MOAB is about 10 tons of explosives, so... all the Mythbusters explosives detonated at once it would surpass what is now the biggest (but not necessarily the most powerful) non-nuclear bomb in the world. Food for thought...

Origin of life would be a pretty big "Higgs Boson" moment. Maybe an asteroid or comet with proto-biological material, or similar material on other planets. If that can't be found because it didn't exist (or wasn't how the Earth's biology worked), then chaining together all the experiments with generating life and go…

wow... people are complaining about this? This has been around ever since li-ion batteries came onto the scene. Every phone does this, they just don't show it. Samsung phones actually don't even charge all the way to 100% capacity. This is a "feature" (I hate that term in this context) because maxing out a battery…

You do realize the people who are pitching in to this are probably the most ardent supporters of bioware right? They WANT the company to do well and make good games. Its very hard to criticize without coming off as ranty, entitled, or a hater. What the cupcakers are doing makes a statement while at the same time…

I actually like this idea. It makes a point while simultaneously being funny and giving back to the developers. I think any developer would love a cupcake, even if it is just vanilla :)

Saw this happen once without ice or snow. It was a fully loaded civic hatchback (I think... it was a small hatchback anyway) traveling north on 101 in Santa Clara. It was driving in the leftmost lane, then the right front tire blows. I watch this guy spin across 4 lanes of traffic before coming gently to rest on…

Oh how I miss Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Pushing Daisies. Each of those shows seemed to just get shoved around so much by the networks though. Dead Like Me wasn't even done by Fuller after the first few episodes! Wonderfalls got shoved off to a LGBT network (what... people couldn't take that a main supporting…

I would rather have a flawed but open game (DA:O) than a "polished" but stale one (DA2). DA2 got boring, and thats probably the worst thing that can happen to an RPG of that length. There are many ways to keep a long game exciting, whether it be the DA:O route (long story arcs and lots of loot) or the ME3 route…

Looks like a pit to fill with a good layer of foam for a really big crashpad

For the Genesis... welcome to the world of emissions control. The reason for the throttle hold is in order to avoid slamming the throttle shut and throwing a bunch of unburned fuel through the exhaust. Most (if not all) throttle-by-wire cars do this now. Dunno if you can tune it out or not (probably not) but its…

if you're only getting 14.7 Mbps on Verizon LTE then I want to see what the iPad can do when the network is, you know, actually good. I can regularly pull down 25 Mbps+ on a GNex in and around San Jose, CA. Not at peak traffic times mind you though, but definitely off peak. I'm fully expecting a 40Mbps+ from the…

At 1 mile up he should be going no faster than around 120 mph.

First it was meh... then I saw Eva Green and now I'm interested.

Even if you were jumping from LEO height you wouldn't burn up unless you were orbiting the earth first (straight up and straight down is NOT orbiting). The whole "heat shield or burn up" thing is mainly due to a deceleration from orbital velocity (something like 15,000 mph or 7 km/s) to less than 1000 mph. Just…

I think you have this kinda backward. Apple's been overaggressive toward android far longer than Moto has been aggressive against Apple. Its an escalating war that ends with no one winning and a bunch of pissed off customers.

I was wondering about the usefulness of a chainfed sniper rifle...

CM7 could do this, and hopefully CM9 will be able to as well. This would be great to just block a bunch of apps for having net access, that way any worries about unencrypted data going out is alleviated.

I would like to know how they are managing to compute the distance. From my reading of the article and some basic googling they're using a TOF (time-of-flight) camera setup, which basically means its a camera that acts like a LIDAR. A Pulse is sent out, and the distance is computed by how long it takes for the light…