Comment Time travel. (Score 1) 572
Uninventing time travel is actually my second choice; it appears that the CowboyNeal option has already been uninvented.
Comment Re:My imagination (Score 1) 566
Well, it is a network connection, obviously, but saying that's how I reach my workplace would be silly, what with the server being in the same room with me and also not being my workplace, as such. ("Workplace" is divided between my desk and the workbench in the next room, except when I'm working at someone else's premises; the server is merely one tool among many.)
Comment My imagination (Score 2) 566
Since I mainly work at home, "workplace" is largely a state of mind.
"Walking" sort of fits, as in walking from one room to another, except that I don't really have a separate room for work, so reaching the workplace is more a matter of putting on my Magic Work Hat.
"A network connection" would be a silly answer, given that I reach the work server by way of a few feet of Cat6.
Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch? 207
CWmike writes "Facebook's new messaging system may not be a Gmail killer, but it's definitely another blow in the growing battle between two Internet bigwigs. Facebook took the wraps off what it's calling a modern messaging system on Monday. The new system is designed to handle the convergence of different kinds of messages — Facebook messages, IMs, SMS and e-mail — and bring them together under a single social umbrella. The system also allows users to have a facebook.com email address, though it will work with other e-mail systems like Gmail and Yahoo. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is adamant that it's not intended to replace e-mail, but industry analysts say the new system will almost certainly draw some users away from Yahoo mail and Google's Gmail. Meanwhile, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Computerworld that he's not worried at all about Facebook's new 'Social Inbox.' 'More competition is always good because it makes the market larger,' Schmidt said, charging that journalists were hyping the rivalry: 'As a group, you all are focused on the competition rather than the market getting larger. It brings more people in. We are all served by having everybody in the world get online.'"
The World's Smallest Legible Font 280
hasanabbas1987 writes "From the article: 'Well 'technically' they aren't the smallest fonts in the world as if they were you wouldn't be able to read even a single letter, but, you should be able to read the entire paragraph in the picture given above... we did. A Computer science professor called Ken Perlin designed these tiny fonts and you can fit 500 reasonable words in a resolution of 320 x 240 space. There are at the moment the smallest legible fonts in the world.'"
Comment Re:I hope they're smarter than the article writer (Score 1) 159
Only problem is that the Ampere is a unit of CURRENT, not energy. It's like saying someone weighs 686 Newtons
The first sentence is correct. However! Newtons are in fact the pedantically-correct unit for weight. 686 Newtons = 154 pounds force, which is a perfectly reasonable weight for a person in Earth-standard gravity.
(The person in question would have a mass of 70 kilograms, independent of local gravitational conditions.)
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