Posts by diodesign 3496 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011
Oddly, this wasn't at first pitched as "an end-user retail thing" for normal people. It was aimed at architects at work, CAD users, surgeons, and so on. Serious uses with serious budgets and serious prices.
The dev kit costs $3k (as the article says) but we were kinda expecting the final thing to cost in the area of $1k anyway.
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Edit: Hm. Are you in Australia? For various boring reasons, the teasers for that region weren't updated (accidentally). I've refreshed them.
If you're outside of Oz and still seeing old stuff then I'm at a loss. It may be aggressive caching between you and us? Maybe a corporate or home proxy?
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"Maybe that's why he's so salty."
Linus is a multimillionaire - he was given shares worth $20m when Red Hat and VA Linux went public and gets paid a lot by the Linux Foundation.
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"Sometimes I've found ads on El Reg so visually intrusive that I've copied and pasted the whole article text into an editor and read it there"
Psssst: insert Print between the .co.uk/ and the /2015 to get a cleaner view, eg:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2015/09/15/to_read_this_page_please_turn_off_your_ad_blocker/
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No. We weren't. Apple makes a point of inviting every journo and blogger in San Francisco except us. After the public show, they thrust hacks at the gear they've announced so they can do hands-on reviews, take photos, and talk to exec with PR handlers breathing down necks. And they wouldn't want us within 500ft of that.
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"50,000 times the mass. What's the diameter?"
The boffins don't say (their paper is here).
However, what we can do is calculate the Schwarzschild radius of the phenomenon, which is 147km.
That means if you take enough material that's 50,000 times the mass of our Sun (9.942175 x 10^34 kg in total) and compress it right down to an object with a radius of 147km, the escape velocity from its surface is the speed of light.
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> This sort of reporting ranks alongside such tosh as 'advanced persistent threat' and 'sophisticated cyber-attack'
Bear in mind, I hate those words and usually kill them on sight.
> I read El Reg for their technical accuracy not their ludicrous hyperbole
Why not both? Seriously though, the story has the technical accuracy, and the headline is a headline - have you not noticed that we go a little OTT? ;-) You wanna know the truth? I picked "stunning" because it fitted the space better on the page.
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> > In order to register someone as dead a form detailing the cause of mortality needs to be filled out by a doctor within 24 hours of that person's final breath.
> This definitely isn't true in the UK - it can take much longer than that to get an autopsy - but it's not clear from context whether it's talking about Australia or the US.
I've tweaked the sentence. I think the gist was supposed to be that a report of the death must be filed within 24 hours of its discovery (not the cause) at least in the U.S.
Don't forget - if you spot something odd in a story, email corrections@theregister.co.uk so it can be looked at immediately.
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