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  1. No more robotic pianos on Clarinet Wins Robotic Orchestra Competition · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Robotic pianos have been around for over 100 years & they've never sounded as good as a human. After all this time they finally moved on to other instruments.

  2. Many formats in many locations on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 1

    Store some on DVD, some on Blu-Ray, some on flash. Store multiple copies. When new formats come out, copy to the new formats. Archive source code for the decoders. Redundancy is the key.

  3. Re:From global surveyer to today on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 1

    The credit should be Odyssey, not surveyer.

  4. From global surveyer to today on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Still remember when global surveyer first released the picture of massive amounts of water below the surface. It was too good to be true, no-one believed it, and it got put away.

    Now we've found massive amounts of water just below the surface, enough water to make huge amounts of rocket fuel, and it didn't even make a buried link on CNN. Where in Calif* can you find water just 2" below the surface?

  5. The aerospace career path on Robotic Aircraft To Supply Troops · · Score: 1

    Having met many former aerospace engineers, we have uncovered the standard aerospace career path 4 U.

    Aerospace -> unemployment -> Web 1.0 startup -> unemployment -> special effects -> poverty -> computer games -> more poverty -> Web 2.0 startup

    They certainly don't give out pictures of their concept vehicles.

  6. Almost as funny as China vs. Piratebay on China Launches Antitrust Probe Vs. Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Still waiting for China probe of Piratebay.

  7. The CEO of the 80's on Special Effects Wizard Stan Winston Dead At 62 · · Score: 1

    He was the 80's equivalent of the modern celebrity CEO. People devowered the stories of how the latest effects shot was done & Stan was always at the cutting edge. The technology was always changing. Every effects shot required a unique solution. Individual creativity made a big difference back then. Today the same shots would involve hiring thousands of Maya artists & following a standard procedure.

  8. where's the video on Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where's the HD video of the enhanced visual effects in 1280x720 at 14-29 fps?

  9. Before the green plug standard is ratified on Westinghouse Commits to Green Plug's Universal A.C. Adapter · · Score: 1

    I insist it support home networking.

  10. Control moment gyros on Groundbreaking Solar Mission Faces Chilly Death · · Score: 2, Funny

    Control moment gyros would have failed after 1 year & needed 17 servicing missions + 1 protest on capitol hill. U can't beat rocket fuel.

  11. China wrote the systems on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    Funny, since China wrote all of US's systems.

  12. The real credit goes to.... on Google's Brin Books a Space Flight · · Score: 1

    the share holders, AdSense users, & Google fans who actually made this possible. We bought the stock, clicked the clicks, read the ads, handed over our personal information to put this executive in orbit.

  13. l2 is the solution on Ionospheric Interference With GPS Signals · · Score: 1

    Obviously shares of GPS stocks are down today, but L2 was supposed to solve ionospheric interference. Go to Iran & get yourself some L2 goodness.

  14. Could have fooled me on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    This endlessly copied AP story has sounded like fiction ever since the first blogger copied it weeks ago. Every day gas goes up another 20%, car loans & credit lines get another 20% cheaper. For anything to happen, the money supply needs to stop growing just as fast as gas inflation.

  15. Java valley on iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games · · Score: 1

    Java is definitely everywhere in the Silicon Valley job market. It might be because Sun is here & the kinds of jobs that need to be here are related to Sun's world.

    There's someone writing a Java spec for every problem imaginable & no-one willing to program them. But outside Java valley, it's nowhere. People briefly switch to a cell phone game or a blu-ray game, say gee wiz, and that's it. Back to the native stuff that does what the product was intended for.

  16. Laptops without a sleep function on Acer Bets Big On Linux · · Score: 1

    Never got the sleep function to work in any laptop from the Toshibas, to the Dells, to the Clevos. Can't believe anyone would try to sustain a business of Linux portables unless they were intended for desktop replacements.

  17. Google on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters · · Score: 1

    It's sin, but face it. We all know it's going to end one day & we'll be sent to hell for not pumping out our sweep funds for the next greatest corporation in the world.

  18. Uborema on How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ubama's plan for NASA is boring. Back to low Earth orbit, basic science, divert the latest moon program to yet more entitlement programs. More of the same. Not very creative.

  19. Anyone else running? on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else running for president? Can't find any news about anyone but Ubama.

  20. Death by interactive TV on NVIDIA Enters the Mobile CPU Market · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hopefully NVidia won't sink in this mine field. Just look what happened to ATI & Intel's ventures into interactive TV. Broadcom is the immobile giant in interactive TV. U better know what you're doing if you're going to go up against The Broad. Now let's port OCAP to Tega or Tegra, or whatever it is.

  21. Where's the movie of the waltz on a pin's head? on Dancing Micro-Robots Waltz on a Pin's Head · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The blogger keeps referring to dancing robots, links to a home video of an amateur recital of something, links to some robot videos from years ago, but nothing here showing robots dancing a waltz on a pin's head.

  22. Anything but BD on Toshiba Going After Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    BD has been so persistently high in price like laserdisc, any competition would be good.

  23. flap of a deltoid muscle flapping around. on Huge Leap Forward In Robotic Limb Replacement · · Score: 1

    Sorta creepy seeing that patient's flap of a deltoid muscle flapping around. What does a patient without a deltoid muscle do for shoulder movement? Wish they would explain how the electronics actually work, but that's what China's for, isn't it.

  24. Management speak on Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next 4 Years · · Score: 1

    "IT is going to become much more about information and how it can be used to help the business grow and prosper."

    Management speak just keeps getting more & more powerful. Feel the power of these sentences.

    "you need to know what your firm does, and even more importantly, how it does it."

    We need to take charge people.

    IT is going to be much more about IT. Got to grow & prosper to grow and prosper. Got to succeed to succeed. Got to build the makings of greatness to make greatness.

  25. Such tiny photos on Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed · · Score: 1

    Such a disappointment that the photo releases are so tiny.