Silicon Asylum

Looks like various forces in the industry are trying to get USB 3.0 "SuperSpeed" out next year. @ 4.7Gb/s it will be 10x faster than today's 480 Mb/s. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/29/intel_seeks_usb_3_contribs/ I wonder if Apple et al are working on Firewire 4000?

I recently came across this article Firefox Homepage JavaScript Execution , which asks the question: "how often do you click on the Homepage button?" To which I think to myself, "as often as I need to visit about:blank....ie: never." How often do other people use the Home button? Personally I always found it kind of useless.

Will wonders never cease, eh? Reading through some comments on Bad Astronomy BLOG I came across this . "11 kilopicoseconds as Earth’s escape velocity makes no sense. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/correct.htm" At first I didn't understand what the commenter was talking about. "kilopicoseconds, wtf" I thought to myself. After reading the colostate URL info it struck me, Phil had written "11 kps" in his blog. "The symbol for a compound unit that is a quotient of two units is indicated by a solidus or by a negative exponent. * RIGHT: km/h or km·h-1 (for kilometers per hour) * WRONG: kmph or kph (do not use p as a symbol for "per".) * BUT: It is correct to say or write "kilometers per hour"." I know lots of people that use p as "per" but now I know better. I'll stick with the "/" in the future.

The green sign above says it's an Exit (even Green for GO!!!!). The signs to the left say 1st floor stairwell & "-> Exit this floor". The sign on the door says "Not an Exit". WTF? In case of fire, get stuck in logic loop, burn, die....GAH!

I've decided to wage a small war against the use of "and/or" in English. I'm going to fix the world one small step at a time :D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Grading_scheme#Grading_Template_Needs_Copy_Editing Well I probably won't fix the world but at least it makes me happy to try and fix the problems I see. Edit : The historic link is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Grading_scheme&oldid=175558152#Grading_Template_Needs_Copy_Editing