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Except at some point enough people will watch on comedy central's site that cable companies will stop carrying comedy central - and stop paying them. At that point the site has to …

Japans new supercomputer cost $100M to build and takes $10M/year in electricity plus all the staff - so $1200/hour sounds pretty good. Of course the problem is that the Amazon mach…

That's why I always put African on the ethnic origin forms - I understand my ancestors came from Olduvai Gorge

A lot of which are already shot on things like the Canon 5d - but yes it's good news

Except that Lucent have no real reason to put firmware in a fiber switch to read your email as it goes down the tubes. A company that makes all it's money from targetted ads - migh…

It's also part of crazy Hollywood acounting. The more you can charge against the film the better, that's why flops like Titanic and Empire strikes back still haven't made a profit …

so we are shooting a $500M movie, $star$ is costing us $250M of that and the advertising budget is another $300M Can we see if we can get a deal on the camera rental?

We will end up with a whole bunch of pyramid schemes advertised on lamp posts that use this as a way of separating idiots from their money

Where does it say on harvard.edu that they wont kill students and harvest their organs? Edit: Oh sorry forgot that people in the land of the free don't have a human rights act prev…

It does however tend to color your judgement about how professional and reliable this service is. If they risked their future on the stability of the Somalia domain registry - just…

dupe - http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/two-decades-...

It fails when a certain proportion of the filament has evaporated. The evaporation rate is pretty constant, assuming either a getter or large enough bulb that the evaporated tungst…

So on one side you run a T-test to see if the correlation is significant. On the other side you have the ability to phrase it as a question in the same language as Aristotle.

Yes it was different in the middle ages, it has changed now. Only 10% of UK government ministers went to Eton and only 70% to Oxford and Cambridge so the power of the old-boys netw…

Presumably the greatest minds in computer science sat down and decided that silverlight was the optimum technology Or perhaps they were suspended over a tank of piranha by an evil …

Yep - you know it's the "end of days" when you look back on Microsoft as the hey-day of freedom in computers! See the shiny aluminium laptop - don't worry about not being allowed t…

competitiveness only matters when you have competitors. So if you are an engineering company and you work like this you will be destroyed by countries with more meritocratic hiring…

Successful go to elite college, successful only hire from elite college, therefore to be successful you go to elite college. Of course this system eventually breaksdown. But for Et…

>Half a mil to learn about Poetry Writing. Sorry, but that's just silly. Half a mil so that when you apply for a job at $MEGA-CORP or in government the hirer says "Oh you went to %…

ICBM's use inertial and (in the case of Trident) star mappers. The reason they don't use GPS is that you would (hopefully) only start throwing ICBMs around if you are in "nucular c…

Depends on the desired outcome. For self destruct systems you probably want all three to agree before going bang - while for an emergency escape system you probably want any one of…

Money back if not entirely satisfied!

But you don't need all that stuff any more - you have garbage collection !

Nice that the prospect of some competition is stirring things up! The Beagleboard was nice but at $150 - unless you REALLY needed the small size you could buy an old laptop for les…