As I'm sure some else has pointed out, technically, its already late; it's just that the amount of time it late by is so damn tiny, that in order to comprehend it, we translate the number into how long before the clock is one second late. I wonder if its possible to ever build a clock that is never late given that…

Glad to introduce you to Ars Technica. Its great if you are willing to read articles that are a bit more technical than found on tech blogs.

I feel that the issue is not with your use of the word orbit, but the use of acceleration (also, your logic is off). The reason the Earth maintains a (relatively) constant orbit is because it is experiencing gravitational acceleration from the sun and a perpendicular velocity which means it is experiencing constant…

Not to be hateful, but I think most of the commenters and the author both missed the point of the Blade. In the Ars Technica write up of this, the head of this project said that they made this laptop because it is the laptop that they all want for gaming. They actually said that they didn't do market research, on…

If Apple pulls the same stunt that Microsoft did with ChevronWP7, then I will eat my hat. It just seems so far out of the way which Apple does things, to offer the public a way to jailbreak their phone via a security flaw.

It is very likely that the ship is not 'lost' in the sense that they don't know where it is, but in the sense that something went wrong and the trajectory was screwed up somehow, in such a way that they activated a fail safe destruction device that turned it into dust, rather than it turning some isolated village in…

ROFL!!! Well played good sir!

Touche. I was under the impression they stole it from Xerox. I guess you can't trust everything you learn in the movies

My opinion is that your comment is far more disparaging of Jesus than Jux. Jesus understands the difference between satire and hatred.

While I dislike the overarching assumptions made by this article (Apple doesn't copy or steal anything, and everything Android related is copied from Apple), I have to agree with the intent of the article which is that there are always multiple ways of doing things (particularly with software), and if you blatantly…

Which Apple stole from Xerox...

same here. cheap computers are always a good option to keep in the back pocket.

Wasn't there a concept for the Palm Pilot that did the same thing, only with cool, sci-fi looking red lasers?

Actually the really scary thing is that despite all the stealing and such, they are actually learning how to innovate and design and come up with their own new ideas. Which mean in the next 20-40 years all of our engineering and science jobs will be outsourced as well

So long Steve...And thanks for all the fish.

D'oh!! I still put AMD and CPU as hand in had in my head. I always forget that AMD does both now.

do we assume the feathers and the gold are in equally sized containers to provide equal total density? After all 500 lbs of gold is far more dense than 500 lbs of feathers, and that would mean the gold has better aerodynamic properties and would have a faster terminal velocity

I thought great artists stole, not mediocre wanna be artists.

Frequency response graphs?!?

HAHA! The other day I had a gut feeling that a large earthquake was around the corner, but I was expecting it to be in the SF Bay area where I live, and a large quake is far overdue, not in virginia.