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  1. page breaks on Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    Oh finally those annoying page breaks in pdf are gone. I mean, time after time i switch to "continuous" mode, but, always, they were coming back. You click the scrolling arrows, but pdf shows the page it wants to show, not the one I want, so annoying it was.

    But it is gone now!

  2. Re:Lemme guess.. the article has no pictures on New Microscope Reveals Ultrastructure of Cells · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's absolutely crazy how stupid people can be.

    "We have new amazing pictures of living cells. Sorry no pictures."

  3. Re:Define 'observe' on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    What about the photon you used to measure something? Is that photon now in a superposition state itself, so you again have to measure that photon?

  4. Re:Define 'observe' on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    Imagine a world made of billiard balls. Everything is made out of billiard balls. If you want to 'see' something, you have to send some other billiard balls to it. Then you again have the problem of how will you see your second ball you used to see the first one. And so on. Doesn't this have some uncertainty built right into the model? How is this different from a real world?

  5. Re:Define 'observe' on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    This is similar to who photons don't really exist. Since they travel at the speed of light, from their perspective, every distance is zero, and it takes them zero time to get there. Therefore, from the perspective of a photon, photon never exists.

  6. Re:Define 'observe' on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    How do you know the "cloud" is even there in the first place?

  7. APB? on Failed MMO APB To Be Resurrected As Free-To-Play Game · · Score: 1

    With such a catchy name, how could it fail???

    Anybody for a round of MMO APB?

  8. he's at it again on How Often Should You Change Your Password? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Another suggestion from the expert where millions of people will waste time, yet, nothing security wise will be improved.

  9. Re:store and release energy? on Going Faster Than the Wind In a Wind-Powered Cart · · Score: 1

    Tell me, how can you live in that world of yours where you see something done, you measure it with gps whatever, and you still think it is impossible. Must be fun.

  10. Re:Googlewin? My attempt at a nuanced opinion. on New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance · · Score: 1

    Minecraft.

  11. Re:Power required to charge? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    Only one moving part? So, no doors?

  12. Re:How long does it last? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    "Ok, let's say those figures are correct. Now let's assume that the average nuke plant has about 25% of it's output used for other means - a conservative estimate. That means we're down to 825 cars."

    I don't understand this step.

  13. Re:How long does it last? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    Also, don't forget the accountants. Sometimes the slack off, so you require more of them for the same job.

    Also, janitors.

  14. thin black device? on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    There is no thin black device in her/his hands, the guy is full of bullshit.

  15. Re:Uber-silly on Helicopter Crashes While Filming Autonomous Audi · · Score: 1

    "Several times a day you make some complex judgement while driving, a judgement that will always be beyond the ability of a computer."

    You mean like in chess?

    "I don't think your ambulatory computers will ever be clever enough to figure out those situations."

    And I thing you are already not clever enough to judge that.

  16. Re:computer-controlled helicopter on Helicopter Crashes While Filming Autonomous Audi · · Score: 1

    There would probably be no crash in that case, so, all would survive.

  17. Re:GPS? on Helicopter Crashes While Filming Autonomous Audi · · Score: 1

    Humans are better drivers? In what way? Faster reaction time? Better route optimization? Accident avoidance? Lol.

    If you could switch every driver with a computer right now, you would double the throughput of roads in every city in the world. With probably one tenth or less accidents.

  18. Re:Evidence on Some Netflix Users Have Rated 50,000 Shows · · Score: 1

    "one movie or TV show per day, it would take 136 years"

    Yes, but if you watch 136 movies or shows per day, it would only take one year.

    http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=multimonitor+setup&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=E6GSTLnyL4bJswbYstH3CQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDIQsAQwAw&biw=1006&bih=558

  19. how do they do it on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    2,000,000,000,000,000 digits takes about from 200 TB (binary digits) to 3600 TB (hexadecimal digits).

    So, do you have to keep the whole number in the memory to calculate some more digits? Or can you keep the whole thing on the hard disk because it is not needed to calculate more digits?

    If the first is the case, how do they do it? It is more than 100 hard disks worth of memory, who has that?

    If the second is the case, why don't they just calculate the digits from wherever the last record ended...

  20. terminator on Morphing Metals · · Score: 1

    I didn't know that the Terminator movies were written by this Harry Potter person.

  21. UNREmoveable popup on Video Games Lead To Quick Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    The FA has an irremovable add that dimms the main page and cannot be removed. No scrollbars on Chrome. So, fuck that site.

  22. Re:Android overlords on Gartner Predicts Android Most Popular Mobile OS By 2014 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gartner can predict, but will Netcraft confirm it?

  23. Re:Too early to tell on Why Google Isn't Pushing Android For Tablets · · Score: 1

    "tablet-ready android tablet"

    Sir, is that tablet tablet ready?

    No, but our next generation tablet will be tablet ready.

  24. the new news sucks on New Silicon-Based Memory 5X Denser Than NAND Flash · · Score: 1

    Boy do I miss the old news, they way they would write this one for example, would be to put some large number for the thumb drives, as in

    "USB thumb drives of in the future could reach 150 terabytes."

    Or something.

  25. futu on Library of Congress Opens Records of Anti-Comic Book Shrink · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "(some say witch hunt)"

    For example, all of us.

    --
    I'd like to say you are wrong, so I will.