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  1. Re:Multi-million euro? on Potential Landing Sites for EU Mars Rover Selected · · Score: 4, Informative
    Mars Rover: According this article on space.com

    The mission's total cost -- about $600 million -- may have to be deferred from NASA's budget, Weiler said, but would not cause the cancellation of any other mission at NASA. The Mars rovers are an "agency priority," he said. The second rover costs about $200 million, half of the $300 million to $450 million to build and launch the first.

    Wikipedia on MER Mission

    The total cost of building, launching, landing and operating the rovers on the surface for the initial 90 day primary mission was about US $820 million)

    And according to the (Pathfinder site on wikipedia

    Viking missions cost $935 million in 1974 or $3.5 billion in 1997 (not adjusted for inflation) Pathfinder mission $280 million, including the launch vehicle and mission operations.
  2. Re:You're wrong. on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    I second that, the game connects to STEAM every time I load a level.

    Spyware :/

  3. Re:Mod the original power supply on Getting Replacement Parts For Sun Clones? · · Score: 1

    I'd need to replace the whole chassis and maybe even more as the original SUN power supply come with special connectors that connect to the original chassi which then has the 20 and 24 pin plugs.
    I'm miossing that too :(

  4. Re:One ex-ISP did a purge... on Did Your Ex-ISP Purge Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    So you lost a couple of gigs worth of warez?

  5. Re:Photo and PIN on Cash Card / Credit Card?? on RFID MasterCard · · Score: 1

    There should be some asymetric encryption between your card and the terminal and additionally your credit card should have kind of ok/cancel buttons.. but thats prolly 10 years off

  6. Re:How did this post get moderated up? on Why Doesn't .NET Include a Linker? · · Score: 1

    the msil is made to be easily compiled into maschine code, there is no interpreter as its not interpreted

  7. Re:Bose-Einstein Condensate on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 1

    Thanks, was way before my first coffee! (No milk - eeek)

  8. Re:Bose-Einstein Condensate on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes and no,
    IANAP either... but here it goes.

    Blackholes and the like are thought to (slow and eventualy )stop time inside the Schwarzschild radius, without time theres no movement, without movement (eg excitements of atoms) you have no heat.
    Bingo :)

  9. Re: perhaps more surprising on Portable MP3 Hardware Sales Up · · Score: 1

    If you order one, get me one too!

    Yes, thats basically what I've envisioned too. Now if someone comes up with a similiar idea and tries to patent it we always have prior art :)

  10. Re:Great on Chimpanzee Genome Sequenced · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is one fundamental problem in simulating the whole genome and see what it grows.
    For every atom you simulate you need like 10000 times the atoms to store the information about it.
    This means the physical space alone needed to store a full human in memory would be 10000 times bigger than the human :/

    Lets see if quantum computers can help us here, because right now we can only store ~1 bit per atom, and we'd need atleast a few bits to describe what kind of atom it is and a few more bits to describe their position, states, charges, relation to nearby atoms etc. Superpositions might help us here, giving us more than 1 bit per atom.

    This is just discussing the storage aspect, if that should be realtime you'd need a SHITLOAD of processors working on that.

  11. Re: perhaps more surprising on Portable MP3 Hardware Sales Up · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes but it would be great if you carry 1 storage device (let it be the phone) with you and then connect all kinds of bluetooth hw to it.

    Oh, today, lets see, I'll take the video and mp3 player module with me..

  12. Re:Nasty on Black Isle Studios Shuts Down Development · · Score: 1

    PoP: Sandy of time while at first very frustrating turns out to a great game after you get the dagger of time. (first objective)
    The controls feel intuitive and with the ability to turn back time its a new kind of gameplay.

    Give it a try

  13. Re:Nasty-The "cap" in capitalism. on Black Isle Studios Shuts Down Development · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually hes called president nowadays

  14. Re:Flash, I wish, give me a break on Transmeta Founder Talks Chips · · Score: 1
    How about MRAM

    "MRAM is up to six times faster than today's static RAM," said IBM spokesman Richard Butner. "It also has the potential to be extremely dense, packing more information into a smaller space."
    "Researchers have been trying for years to find a 'universal' RAM replacement, a device that is non-volatile, inexpensive, fast and low-power," Way said. "DRAM (dynamic RAM), flash and SRAM (static RAM) all have one or two of these characteristics, but MRAM appears to offer the best hope of an overall solution."
  15. Re:Keep in mind... on Benchmarking With Halo For PC · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that coding for the xbox is essentialy coding for windows + directx.
    Now considering the game was heavily optimized for the xbox, theres a NVIDIA chip inside.
    The test results show the best ATI card blows away the best NVIDIA card.

  16. Re:After three minutes?? on Who is Still Using FSP? · · Score: 1

    Some people do have a real life and dont spent countless nights messing with the slashdot options ;)

  17. Re:Waste of Time on X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    > I'd blame Slashdot for making them look like attention seeking idiots.
    They are. As soon as users are able to run custom code (thru a verified bootloader) they can run copied games - just do a "softboot".
    The whole point of the all the signing is to disallow the execution of non trusted code (like a self compiled "hello world.").

    Use the source Luke!

  18. Re:Mod parent down on X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if you would actually understand the concept of a trusted platform with signed executables you'd realize one insecure component causes the whole chain to fail

    The signed bootloader would still load and execute untrusted code, user code which code could start copied games.

    MS isnt going to do this, it makes the whole security scheme obsolete.

  19. Re:Pure mechanical error on SOHO's Antenna Jammed · · Score: 1

    > There's no atmosphere, so no little dust particles to bother it,
    Any scientific data to back that up? AFAIK space is filled with dust (and stars)

  20. Re:No it is DX 9 on Futuremark Replies to Nvidia's Claims · · Score: 1

    Prolly nobody is going to read this but never the less I will post it.
    (The internet will converve it forever ^^)

    DX8 was designed around the NV20 (NVIDIA) specs, DX9 was designed around the R300 (ATI) specs.

    clicketiclick for more detailed info

  21. Re:24 hours? on SETI Goes to Arecibo To Stat *Candidates* · · Score: 1

    Actually there are also stars aviable for search during day time but they are not visible for the normal eye as the sun outshines them.
    But a RADIO Telescope can still look at them.

  22. Re:Anyone who played this game in beta surprised? on Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Chaos Ensues · · Score: 1

    But OSI never listened to 3rd Party coders either.
    Only one time a Dev took the time to listen to me and I showed him like 4 bugs nobody knew about and he was like 'Shit man! You're right! We should have listened to you before!'

    Well I quit the game a few days after that anyways - lets see how much fun SWG is going to be :) *evil grin*

    The funniest thing was duping tho and I still remembering releasing UOPlugIn Speacial Edt. took them 15 minutes to disable the tailoring skill and within 1 hour all servers went down.
    (The tool allowed to sew 25 (i think that was the max each sewing kit allowed before breaking) items and only consuming the amount of cloths necessary to produce 1 item - of course it also had an auto sell function :)

    I emailed them like 3 months about this bug and they never fixed it - after UOP SpE release it took them a day to fix it ^^

  23. Re:ATi wasn't so bad on Futuremark Replies to Nvidia's Claims · · Score: 1

    No renaming the executable wont help as they use a different method of detection 3DMark.
    I guess they learned a bit from ATI and their quack.exe debacel .. not enough tho :/

  24. Re:Don't don the tinfoil hats prematurely... on FutureMark Confirms nVidia's Benchmark Cheating · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you would read the article you'd know that changing a few bits here and there (nothing affecting the actual code flow, just replacing one register with another) removed the 'bug' and the score dropped by 25%.

  25. Re:hmm on Build Your Own Cruise Missile · · Score: 1

    > +- 100 yards. YARDS, people. a football field either way
    All americans will thank you for converting this to an understandable format!
    How heavy is it? 1/10 of a VW Beetle?