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  1. Re:No, not really on LHC Discovers New Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Higgs field gives particles mass, and gravity acts on mass. Therefore, the Higgs field, while not binding the universe together, is vital for gravity to do so.

    it's probably over-simplified (there's no quantum weirdness described), but I think it sums up the link well enough.

    A thought occurs - if the Higgs is confirmed, and we find a way to cancel its effect out, hello anti-grav and inertia-free travel!

    Maybe we've found the Force after all... :)

  2. Re:Found at 125 GeV on LHC Discovers New Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson · · Score: 4, Informative

    Particle mass is usually in eV, because if it was measured in the normal SI unit (kg), the numbers would be extremely small. Using eV makes the calculations easier, and makes reporting easier too.

  3. Re:Muha on Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing · · Score: 1

    .net does not cut it on the efficiency and user-experience front. Imagine a .net game which freezes for GC in the second you want to lie down to dodge a handgrenade. When the GC is done, the handgrenade fragments will have killed you. So, .net is an amateur tool and it was designed to fend off Java. Java of course suffers the same systematic weaknesses.

    The following applies to all managed platforms, including .NET and Java:

    If the GC is causing a freeze, then you're not managing your resources properly. Just because there's a garbage collector, doesn't mean you shouldn't minimise the amount of garbage you produce.

  4. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 2

    Damn, /. ate my </sarcasm> tag.

  5. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 2

    Quick, we must prevent Google abusing their minisule share of the OS market

  6. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    Not sure if an injunction is the same as a monopoly, but I agree that Apple's being evil by trying to eliminate the competition with underhand tactics.

  7. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 2

    And to think, one Apple product was the Newton...

  8. Re:Absolutely amazed by this decision on Used Software Can Be Sold, Says EU Court of Justice · · Score: 1

    I've always though the tactic of enabling multiplayer (and nowadays even some single player) via a code that's become prevalent in just about every console game over the last year or two really stank of a complete breach of the precedent of the right to sell your content on second hand.

    Assuming you mean online multiplayer, the developer/publisher provides the service that allows the multiplayer to happen. It's underhanded, true, but also understandable, as (usage of) the service is licensed separately to the game itself.

  9. Re:when these genius people are 100% on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 1

    Principia Mathematica includes a proof 1+1=2, though the proof is too complex for the average person.

  10. Re:This would have been first post. on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 1

    Only if you define division by zero as 'infinity'. Besides, what if the net force is zero?

  11. Re:Time and Place on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1

    Scotland has its own parliament (Holyrood) in addition to Westminster.

  12. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 2

    Pushing software isn't evil. Abusing a monopoly position to eradicate the competition is.

  13. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    Apple's products don't weight over a ton, and aren't capable of speeds up to 200mph.

  14. Re:Wait... on The Boy Who Loved Batman · · Score: 1

    If they did, they put it back in for the BluRay.

  15. Re:Deserves Praise on Seth MacFarlane Helps LOC Acquire Carl Sagan Papers · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, the shows have different (separate) writing teams, linked only by MacFarlane himself.

  16. Re:Not to get TOO off-topic, but yes! on Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software · · Score: 1

    It's not the fines that are the problem, it's the fact that they're not issued where it would genuinely improve road safety.

  17. Re:Slow Adoption of Current Standards on A New C Standard Is On the Way · · Score: 1

    IMHO that meant Microsoft had an institutional issue with customer support and adherence to standards.

    Or they figured supporting the twelve people still using that compiler would be too expensive. Only MS knows for sure.

  18. Re:Give it a few months... on Sonic.net's CEO On Why ISPs Should Only Keep User Logs Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    Even penguins can get in on the act: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17960490

  19. Re:Thank you for participating. on Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom · · Score: 1

    That comes with 2tblsp rhubarb, on fire.

  20. Re:why in the hell on Google Launches Endangered Languages Project · · Score: 1

    To that I would say; incorporate those 'in-between' words and concepts into English

    Good idea - it's been working great for the last thousand years or so, long may it continue :)

  21. Re:I thought it was programming languages on Google Launches Endangered Languages Project · · Score: 1

    Wonderfully reasoned argument there. I like how you referenced the works of Ancient Greek philosophers to support your points.

  22. Re:Sauce for the goose on Free Speech For Computers? · · Score: 1

    I actually work on a product my company calls 'SkyNet'. Now I'm wondering if the top execs have plans for world domination...

  23. Re:What? on Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download · · Score: 1

    Isn't MBA = Marketing By Asshats?

  24. Re:Singularity on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 1

    Weird thing is, I actually work on a product called 'Skynet'. It's a website used to keep track of vehicle fleets.

    It's not self-aware yet, but I'll be the first to warn you when it does :)

  25. Re:Good to Know on Judge Rules API's Can Not Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    the judge was competent

    So they do exist... I thought it was just a legend...