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  1. Re:Not a flying car on Flying Car Makes Successful Maiden Flight · · Score: 1

    if it had a electric spin up motor like some gyros have, then it could have VTOL capability

  2. what i want to know is why nvidias 3d glasses dont have a few leds on them, so they can implement head tracking with a webcam in their stereoscopic 3d system. i wanna be able to lean left and right and have the 3d object on the screen distort and change so it seems like the screen is a animated hologram, much like johnny lees wii glasses demo, except with added stereoscopic depth.

  3. Re:4K on the way on HDTV Expert Alfred Poor Tells You What to Buy and What Not to Buy (Video) · · Score: 2

    who cares about television. i want a 4k 40 inch desktop monitor. the same dpi as my current monitor with 4 times the desktop space.

  4. Re:It is not about "having" it on Ask Slashdot: How Would Room-Temp Superconductors Affect Us? · · Score: 1

    yes. it totally does not work that way. one thing never has a tremendous impaCOUGH COUGH CARS COUGH ELECTRICITY COUGH NUCLEAR POWER COUGH THE INTERNET COUGH COUGHct. ahem.

  5. well on Ask Slashdot: How Would Room-Temp Superconductors Affect Us? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OLED monitor floating in midair. pen floating in midair. FLUX PIN ALL THE THINGS

  6. Re:And in other news on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 2

    michael bay is conspiring to squeeze out a coiled turd over everything i watched on early morning cartoon shows as a kid.

  7. Re:Who is responsible? Irrelevant... on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 4, Insightful

    considering that a database of personally identifiable voter intent was kept at all, it would appear a atmosphere of disrespect for the electoral process already existed in that party, and provided fertile ground for electoral fraud. so yes. it does matter. and as for the numbers, how about when bush won florida in 2000 by 200 votes? its not the total amount of people who voted that matters. its about how much you can influence the often razor thin margins in certain districts, especially in close elections.

  8. Re:Expensive on Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites · · Score: 2

    if you combine that with a reusable falcon 9, much like what spacex announced they would be developing over the next few years, this starts to make more sense.

  9. Re:Can't Have your Pi and Eat it Too on Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers · · Score: 2

    "Tax money spent on government education has more than doubled on a per pupil basis in the last 30 years." is that adjusted for inflation?

  10. Re:Eventually... on Single-Ion Clock 100 Times More Accurate Than Atomic Clock · · Score: 3, Insightful

    a man with three clocks knows if one of his clocks is not working correctly.

  11. balloons on Startram — Maglev Train To Low Earth Orbit · · Score: 1

    why cant they use balloons to keep the tube up? 20km is still in the atmosphere, and the highest balloon has gone to 34km. just have huge balloons all along the tube, with cables to the ground keeping it in line.

  12. really, the ideal endgame for monitors is for it to curve around most of your field of vision, have a resolution high enough that you cant distinguish individual pixels, and have the best possible contrast and color gamut. and have eye tracking 3d. thats about as good as you want, barring a volumetric display.

  13. Re:They're fucked. on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    stop it. stop it right now. stop using the word 'mashup', stop using the term 'advanced/next generation integrated optical pointing keyboard'. stop double spacing your comment lines so your comment takes up more space. stop saying things that the user can already fucking do like its something new, like "The user can use icons or text commands at will", stop putting your url at the bottom of your comment, it leads to a empty fucking page, you asshole. just stop it. stop all of it.

  14. simians on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 0

    i dont know about server names, but i name my hard drive volumes after types of simians. c: is gorilla, i: is chimp, j: is monkey.

  15. Re:Idle? on Hotmail's Spam Filter: The Best In the Business? · · Score: 1

    it put my legit diablo 3 beta invitation in the spam bin, so fuck that shit. luckily i regularly check my spam and i caught it.

  16. Re:Slight correction on Australian Govt Holding Secretive Anti-Piracy Talks · · Score: 4, Informative

    yes. because the US invented the *english* language.

  17. misread that on Facebook's Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As Entire County · · Score: 2

    i read that as country. i shit bricks for a fraction of a second. but thats long enough.

  18. Re:Check the logs? on Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? · · Score: 1

    smells like arrogance.

  19. seriously on NetApp, Lenovo Raise Prices, Citing Thailand Flooding Effects · · Score: 1

    would it really be that hard to build a key hard drive component manufacturing facility on, oh, you know, not a floodplain?

  20. Re:Gamers... it's about it on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 1

    120hz is about as low as you can go with 3d shutter glasses without really noticeable flickering. remember you gotta halve the refresh rate as your displaying 2 frames one after the other. so that 120hz translates to a 60 hz on/off cycle per lens of your shutter glasses. have you ever had a CRT on 60hz refresh rate? yeah. so yes, 120 hz is quite bloody nessecary for shutter glass displays.

  21. Re:Why not use a balloon? on Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project · · Score: 1

    thats fucking stupid, and created by those with utterly no concept of the laws of physics. you see the dark sky in those high altitude balloon pics and you think HUUURRR ITS HALFWAY TO SPACE. you cant have buoyancy and no atmospheric drag. the only way thats gonna work is if your electric propulsion has enough thrust to lift the entire ship out of the atmosphere, at which point you may as well just launch it from the ground.

  22. Re:Why not use a balloon? on Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project · · Score: 1

    dont forget increased efficiency of the rocket engines due to lower atmospheric pressure since you are able to use higher expansion ratio nozzles on the first stage.

  23. hmm on PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if only there was some sort of technology that could elevate the extremely high value factory above any sort of flood. i think i have the solution. i call it a 'hill'

  24. Re:Bullshit. on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 2

    the cgi in the prequels should have had more respect for physical reality and movement, and been a bit less ridiculous and cartoonish

  25. this sort of thing on After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More · · Score: 1

    this sort of thing is why elon musk didnt take shit from the hippies in his company when building tesla motors into a viable business. sometimes you gotta bust some face and get shit done, or your company fucking dies.