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  1. No Go on MySpace on Wengo Releases Flash Softphone For Web Pages · · Score: 1

    This does not work on MySpace, because of the Java Script.

  2. Re:You made my day. on 256GB Geometrically Encoded Paper Storage Device · · Score: 1

    You're welcome.
    The point you make on quantum computing is so true, what are they going to do then? I mean quantum storage devices will have to be built what will the prototype be? It absolutely can't be binary even ternary bits couldn't hold up. In the world of phase-differential computing (LVD for SCSI and Double Data Rate for RAM) why can't there be a leap into a 3 state bit. Once that leap is made the paradigm will shift and in no time they'll teach 3rd graders about the Qbit and in the future they will refer to this time as the binary dark ages.
    D. Rhodes

  3. Patriotism maybe forfeit too on Newt Gingrich Says Free Speech May Be Forfeit · · Score: 1

    From the governments point of view there are more "bad" guys then we think, (lies) that's only because a bad guy is anyone who counters the agenda. A terrorist could be people who don't even acknowledge the agenda, if I say Newt is irrelevant as is his party's policies then I'm a bad guy. If I say both parties lie about the real agenda I'm labeled a conspiracy theorist and discredited. If I say in the 21st century America's leaders are guilty of the very things England's King was in the 18th century, I'm not a patriot. If I say had the founding Fathers of this country still been alive today they would have started a new revolution and a new form of government I would be labeled as an extremist. There is no good or evil, that we don't make ourselves. D. Rhodes

  4. Re:You are all MISSING THE POINT!! on 256GB Geometrically Encoded Paper Storage Device · · Score: 1

    I get it, the reason people don't is that they are still thinking binary. 8 bit's require 8 physical locations to store it's data. 1 bit only has 2 states, on or off. But what if on bit had 3 states? Then we require less real-estate to store the data. What if one bit had 7 states, like red orange yellow green blue indigo violet, add black for 8 states. Now let's add the idea that not only colors but geometric shapes are used, now we have another factor let's say we use 8 shapes, circle square triangle pentagon hexagon heptagon octagon nonagon. Now our single bit holds 16 states! That's 281,474,976,710,656 Decimal for 8 bits of 16 state bits vs. 256 Decimal for 8 bits binary. But now that I think about it it's paradoxical, and that's why it's hard to grasp, it's easier to think in black and white, right and wrong, on or off. This new idea is more along the lines of philosophy then data storage and this is where people get freaked out. D. Rhodes

  5. Re:The tiff? on 256GB Geometrically Encoded Paper Storage Device · · Score: 1

    My thoughts are close to this, what about PDF or Postscript format? If this deal is real, we are talking about mindboggling compression.

    What is the largest size a single A4 sized PDF file can be?

  6. Dunkin' Donuts in space... on An Indian On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 1

    I for one relish the idea of one day enjoying a hot Dunkaccino on the dark side of the moon, if you will. As with all Dunkin' Donuts coffee they are 100% Crustaceans-Free, which is a point of pride ask any employee and she will say. "You maybe feeling crabby, but enjoy our hot coffee it's crab-free!" Dirty