Slashdot Mirror


User: hvm2hvm

hvm2hvm's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
544
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 544

  1. Re:An eclipse is NOT more common in S. hemishere on Curiosity Rover Sees Solar Eclipse On Mars · · Score: 1

    I didn't bother to do some math on this but I'm pretty sure the odds even out after a few hundred years...

  2. Re:MMO Joust on How Indie Devs Made an 1,800-Player Action Game Mod In Their Spare Time · · Score: 1

    Or make it a 3D game where each player has to protect a face of a polyhedron. When players exit their face of the polyhedron is removed. Maybe even put another polyhedron inside the polyhedron and have players bounce the balls between the polyhedrons.

  3. Re:Those amazing stem cells on Stem Cells Turn Hearing Back On · · Score: 1

    Baby teeth can be pushed out since they don't have roots but the adult teeth are tightly locked to the jaw and can't be "pushed" out. Also, there probably won't be enough room for the new tooth to grow since the root of the other is in there.

  4. Re:Trading's Too Fast When It Ceases to Mean Anyth on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are right about that, long term investments don't care about this stuff but the thing is HFTs still act like leeches, sucking energy (i.e. money) out of the system by producing nothing. I never understood why an investor needs a response time faster than 1 second.

  5. Re:On a philosophical level its just bits on Rick Falkvinge On Child Porn and Freedom Of the Press · · Score: 1

    I don't see how that is not a police state...

  6. Re:Welcome to the 21st century! on When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    holy fuck... not "you're", should be "your"

  7. Re:Welcome to the 21st century! on When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Shiiit, you're post made so much sense that it lowered my faith in humanity for the whole day...

  8. Re:Back to School on When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I think that the whole idea that Wikipedia is too unreliable for citing is absurd and this is a clear example where the article is the real deal because the author himself edited the page.

    Unless you personally recognise the sources listed in a work how can you tell which ones are reliable? I've seen a lot of people writing papers from wikipedia and then just linking the sources of the wiki page. The papers are all accepted since the sources are obscure and expert sounding. It's all the same bullshit in the end.

  9. Re:Working as intended on When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nobody said anything about suing for money. Typical thinking of today, someone wronged you - time to cash in. No, some people just want the mistake fixed and I'm pretty sure the author would have been OK to just have the modification permitted.

  10. Re:The Answer summed up: on Book Review: Why Does the World Exist? · · Score: 1

    That says that proving theorems in complex enough systems is not guaranteed to be possible. It doesn't have anything to do with creating physical models and testing them through experimentation. Also, arithmetic and logic are certainly used when describing and using those models but are not relevant to the issue I was referring to.

  11. Re:I can easily Halve the space needed. on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 1

    So you want to store the light? That's an interesting idea, how about 2 mirrors facing each other and one that opens. You could open it to let light in and close it s.t. the light keeps bouncing until you need it.

  12. Re:The Answer summed up: on Book Review: Why Does the World Exist? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You had a pretty good argument up to this point: "The violin did not evolve, neither did we human beings evolve". That's where you turned into a troll.

    We didn't make ourselves but it's pretty much settled that we did evolve from other life forms. Now you might start a debate on who or what made the earth, life and the laws that let evolution happen but saying we didn't evolve is stupidly ignorant.

  13. Re:The Answer summed up: on Book Review: Why Does the World Exist? · · Score: 1

    I agree with your post but I am going to nitpick on one detail, that is regarding this "Not saying that simple = wrong, but to ASSUME the universe is so simple given so much evidence to the contrary". I see your point but I also give an example - before people knew the earth orbited around the Sun and that it did so in an eliptical path they tried to explain movements of sky objects with circles.

    When those circles didn't work they used more circles and things got more and more complicated. But two new (I think basic) notions entered, Heliocentrism and the ellipse and things became simpler. I now look at the way quantum mechanics is defined and I think there has to a concept other than the particle that simplifies the QM model. I think that in the end the Universe is simple, not in the sense that a 4year old can grasp all of it but that there isn't a never ending complexity to it.

  14. Re:Whole new can of worm on Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data With Wolfram Alpha · · Score: 3, Informative

    They said they keep the data for only 1hour for caching purposes and I would think they can't access stuff you deleted. Still, I don't see the problem with WA having your data... Facebook already has it, including the one you deleted so why the hell does it matter any more? It's the same old story - if you don't want your data to be stolen don't post it on the internet, especially on sites that sell it to others...

  15. Re:If the odds are against you on What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance · · Score: 2

    Not a good idea... you still want to make it and not feel like lost something while doing so. The autograph idea is pretty good actually. A dead astronaut's autograph probably sells well.

  16. Re:get a real car on Kindle Fire Is Sold Out Forever · · Score: 1

    For stop and go traffic I'd think driving a stick would be better in the long run - you get lower consumption and the gearbox probably lasts longer. That is assuming you know realyl well how to drive a manual.

  17. Re:A class act on Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And that's why Harrison Ford is actually the main actor in that movie and why he became a huge star while the others disappeared.

  18. Re:Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    I believe he did what he did because I wanted to encourage and enable scientific research as a betterment for mankind

    Ha! Caught you time-traveller!

    Sorry for doing the same joke twice but I had to because he told me to.

  19. Re:Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 5, Funny

    science that is applied for dubious rather than nobel goals

    Yeah, all scientists should have a nobel as a goal, not money

  20. Re:About the "age" of things... on NASA Considers Apollo-Era F1 Engine For Space Launch System · · Score: 1

    So? Of course the same damn principles apply, physics didn't change and for now we don't have quantum computing technology or the ability to make tiny fusion reactors for every car.

    You are insulting decades of engineers that put a lot of work into improving CPUs or engines. They did that step by step, inventing completely new ideas to make everything go faster and work more reliable. If we lost all the technology since the 70s we would have a tough time reproducing everything. Just saying "use logic gates, flip your bits" doesn't even come close to the problem of building a CPU. You would do a shitty job only basing yourself on "the basic principles".

  21. Re:About the "age" of things... on NASA Considers Apollo-Era F1 Engine For Space Launch System · · Score: 1

    Well to be fair, the Intel CPU might be old in name but the architecture and design of modern CPUs is very different from the ones at the start. The only thing that is the same is the basic instruction set which are just specification of what the CPU should do, not how. The specification for a rocket engine didn't change either (i.e. output a lot of thrust) but the inner workings design can probably be improved.

  22. Re:My question is: on Space Fish: ISS Aquatic Habitat Delivered By HTV-3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How about dolphins for example? They might be able to live normally in space

  23. Re:Relativistic vs Intrinsic mass on Interviews: Giovanni Organtini Answers About the Higgs and LHC · · Score: 1

    Photons have gravity, just like protons have gravity far in excess of what their rest mass alone would imply.

    Gravity takes into account rest mass, photons don't have rest mass. You also mean protons have less gravity than what their whole mass would imply, right?

  24. Re:Sensational? on Defcon Researchers Build Tool To Track the Planes of the Rich and Famous · · Score: 5, Insightful

    “Getting on an airplane shouldn’t amount to forfeiting your security and privacy to anyone, anywhere in the world with an Internet connection,” adds Hubbard

    Because they afford to pay for their privacy whereas we must forfeit our security and privacy when we get on the plane just because we can't buy the plane.

  25. Re:crash faster on Windows 8 Graphics: Microsoft Has Hardware-Accelerated Everything · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, some OSes have drivers separated in groups