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  1. Physics Software Programming on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I write a lot of software for experimental physics applications, statistics is absolutely vital for data analysis software... Calc is essential for PID control methods as well. It really depends on what you want to do, but having higher level math skills will make you a better programmer in the long run.

  2. Re:If you can dream it you can Doom it. on Code Review of Doom For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Ha ha you're correct... I don't hang out enough at the coffee shop enough to be considered an "apple user" though. But from an ASIC design standpoint (when it first came out) it was pretty impressive what the iPhone could do -- I'm looking forward to seeing how the open nature of google will change the mobile device industry. I feel like the older games that people are porting over to mobile devices are popping out now because it presents software developers an interesting but achievable challenge... limited graphics, cache, memory, drive space, etc. There does not seem to be much seriousness in the whole process.

  3. If you can dream it you can Doom it. on Code Review of Doom For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    So when can I expect Counterstrike for my iPhone?

  4. Take my privacy (please). on An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment · · Score: 1

    "Restraints on governmental power have their pros and cons, and many people who are targeted by government investigations really are evil."

    The argument is already flawed, assuming that mostly evil people will be targeted. Now we have another loophole to be exploited. This is yet another example of the bastardization of our legal system.

    "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

  5. Quantum Hard Drives on RAID's Days May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is as cool as it sounds! Along with the implementation of the quantum computer (which have been speculated to crack pretty much every encryption algorithm known, because it's capable of sending every possible answer at the same time), the implementation of the Quantum hard drive has been explored. Different orientations of spin give 1's and 0's as well as both 1&2 spin (superposition factor). These properties could be used to create very dense and stable hard drives. Someday our HDD's will be the tape drives of today!

  6. This is just a slash article... on Future of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Looks Bleak · · Score: 1

    The $8 billion of the project money that has already been spent has gone towards research and development... which is the most expensive part of a project like this. The other reason why this is a slash article, is because of the technology that comes from the research and development... velcro, your 7 hour laptop battery, GPS, satellite television, efficiency improvements in solar panels just to name a few. Plenty of good will come of this trip if we see it through, not only the US, but the rest of the world... were all human here aren't we?

  7. Anti-Censorship on US Tests System To Evade Foreign Web Censorship · · Score: 1

    Hell Yeah! It should always be up to the user to censor themselves... not some organization with an agenda (whatever that may be)

  8. The German's are doing it. on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    I remember hearing about this thinking, "Does this actually work?". Many historians seem to think that If they had this earlier it could have changed the tide of the war... Still, what fool in a wooden plane would mess with the P-51 Mustang? Nobody, thats who. Very cool that had stealth technology... even if it was in its infancy.

  9. Dying News = Skewed News on Siemens, Nokia Helped Provide Iran's Censoring Tech · · Score: 1

    The trend here seems to be that Nokia and Cisco are the ones to blame. If you ask me this sounds like more bad news from a dying news source trying to get one last whiff of the limelight. They are all scared of social networking sites because they have millions of eyes and ears... most of which are not tethered to some political agenda.

  10. Maybe we'll get a chance to see this happen! on Black Hole Swallows Star · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well unfortunately you cannot tell very much about what happens in this system ( wether it is a binary system or not) by what is happening with the light. You would have to look at the x-ray spectrum to be able to measure the kind of energies in the system. Chandra observatory is the best we can do at the moment... but it seems they still like to measure things in Crabs! But in the mean time, this would be cool to get some photo's of this happening!

  11. Bad Parents... Bad! on Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    This is proof that the general public will buy anything if you market it right. If you need a baby monitor that operates at a distance that can't be reached by 900MHz, chances are you're parenting skills are pretty poor to begin with.

  12. GET A MAGNET! on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    It's amazing to me in this day and age that highly sensitive information is leaked via old hard drives. My understanding is this: a.) you have highly sensitive information on a hard drive b.) you thoroughly destroy the disk( magneto, powerful magnet, baseball bat) c.) you check to see if the information was destroyed d.) ? e.) PROFITS If this is not done, some sneaky cheeser is going to find a way to get your info. -- this does not include intentional leaking of info

  13. Rupert is doing some good. on News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites · · Score: 1

    I see many comments about charging for a service that is already free... like he said: "he strives to fix a 'malfunctioning' business model". After all they are businesses like any other, and ad space doesn't always make ends meet these days. I would love to have a free newspaper to read in the morning, but not at the cost of thousands of peoples jobs.

  14. Re:Re on Ubuntu 9.04 Released · · Score: 1

    The funny part is that this almost works: preverbal:Having not yet learned to speak --one day it will talk muhuhahaha But thank you!

  15. Quite a few stability improvements! on Ubuntu 9.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Today was the first time everything worked out of the preverbal box! I have owned an Inspiron 1526 for more than a year and have installed ubuntu since 7.10 (and just about every other popular distro). The reason why I got rid of 8.04 was because it would cause a kernel panic when connecting to a wireless network using CA certification... not the case. I used to have to explore the reaches of the internet to find drivers and tutorials for the HDMI hookup... both video and sound worked without a hitch! Loving this upgrade!!!

  16. 9M Euros and all I got was was this stupid .docx on Microsoft's Price Fixing Penalty, 9M Euros · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They have been caught... again. 9M Euros., Gates:"Put It On The Tab".

  17. Metric System Is To Blame on North Korea Missile Launch Fails · · Score: 1

    Oh those Koreans, still using the SI units. When will they learn the only way to get things into space is using FEET and POUNDS?

  18. I think lobbying is afoot! on New Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1.) Instead of a Czar, I like "Commissioner Of The Internets" 2.)Issues like this make me question where these senators get their information. They obviously do not know the current technology well enough to create laws involving it... maybe we should focus more on the lobbyist groups that funded their campaigns and figure out who benefits the most from this!

  19. The commercial said it all... on ABC/Disney Considering Hulu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Didn't you see the commercial.... Alec Baldiwn is an alien, ALEC BALDWIN!

  20. Re:Only half the problem on Storing Data For the Next 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    There's probably room for a lucrative business based around this-- Recording temperature/ weather related patterns Sports scores to every game Schematics on certain technology etc. etc. etc. The possibilities are nearly endless for it's uses. Pretty much everything we need to keep the future heading in the right direction... The only problem is: Could relying to heavily on this technology be leading us to the next Library of Alexandra scale information loss?
  21. Improper Usage?!? on Comcast, Pando Partner For "P2P Bill of Rights" · · Score: 1

    This is all coming from the same company that wanted to limit the amount of IP addresses that you could have inside your network. It is not legally comcast's job to participate in content control. This seems like a step toward an orwellian style of censorship.

  22. In the end on Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the long run, it has balance out somewhere. Money doesn't disappear. It's the old overused notion of squeezing a balloon again... we have to figure out where the bulge is.

  23. Hmm Linux on Ballmer Calls Vista 'A Work In Progress' · · Score: 1

    This seems to be one more small victory for open source operating systems. The fall of XP may just be the final nail in the coffin.