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  1. Re:Is it "too real"? on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    You can see why the Babylonians picked 360 degrees for the circle, you can divide it up in so many different ways.

  2. Re:Change on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    The feeling I get is that all the normal motion of the actors and whatnot seems to pause while the camera pans. To me it almost looks sort of like bullet time in the matrix.

  3. Re:Great idea, probably not happening on The Greatest Machine Never Built · · Score: 1

    It makes me think someone should make something where the whole goal is for building logic, like a an actual circuit with transistors and all that that you could walk around in. Maybe it could even output the design to be actually fabricated. Or maybe you just have blocks of p-type or n-type doped material and dialectric that you build everything out of. I've seen enough of these types of videos to think there might be a demand for one that works a lot faster than what they're doing with redstone.

  4. Re:"really did invent" on The Greatest Machine Never Built · · Score: 1

    I always think it's funny to wonder why Da Vinci didn't invent the bicycle before even trying to build an airplane. It seems he had all the ideas for pedal powered mechanics but never thought to apply them in the simplest way.

  5. Re:wrong on The Greatest Machine Never Built · · Score: 1

    A much simpler design and more compelling what if to me is if you start with the idea that you can build logic gates with plumbing technology that's been around for thousands of years. A nand gate is where the water level rises in two containers and two floats in each one cut off the flow of a third.

  6. Re:I've followed these studies forever... on The Science of Handedness · · Score: 1

    I'm left handed and legally blind so I really have to contort myself to get close enough to see what I'm writing and write with my left hand in those right handed desks.

  7. Re:That means we lefties on The Science of Handedness · · Score: 1

    I think he was talking about the fact that left handed hitters find right handed pitchers easier to hit off of and most of the pitchers are right handed. One thing I was thinking a while back is I wonder if there has ever been a switch pitcher? It would be valuable for a pitcher to be able to pitch with either hand as different handed batters came up.

  8. Re:whoppie on NVIDIA Unveils Dual-GPU Powered GeForce GTX 690 · · Score: 1

    It's still not going to magically fix the fact that the game is designed for a xbox360 controller and not a keyboard and mouse, though.

  9. Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing on Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Discovered · · Score: 1

    I think that's what the platypus used; ended up too confusing.

  10. Re:Way too confusing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    I think that nowadays with so much hard-drive space each application could just come with every file it needs to run in its own folder. I mean nowadays who cares if you have 10 copies of the same library on your hard-drive versus the headaches of trying to share libraries between programs.

  11. Re:Physical Limits on Silicene Discovered: Single-layer Silicon That Could Beat Graphene To Market · · Score: 1

    Obviously you just start engraving the circuitry on the surface of the atom.

  12. Re:First Jerk to Fine: on Pay Less If You're a Nice Person: Valve's Freemium Model For DOTA 2 · · Score: 1

    DOTA stands for DOTA's Only Technically an Acronym?

  13. Re:So three monitors and ninety-seven hard drives? on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    Next is 15 different kinds of mini thunderbolt to ensure no particular one will get momentum.

  14. Re:"Non-Newtonian" =/= shear-thickening on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    Also he probably just skimmed the wikipedia article to become an instant expert on the subject for the next half hour.

  15. Re:erm... on Multicore Chips As 'Mini-Internets' · · Score: 1

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of... oh wait that would just be a beowulf cluster.

  16. Re:I'm almost scared to ask on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 1

    You start to watch paint dry or grass grow just to see some action.

  17. Re:Why? on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 1

    It might depend on as they're flying if they're flying in a slightly curved to the left or the right pattern.

  18. Re:Solved from Black's point of view on Rybka Solves the King's Gambit Chess Opening · · Score: 2

    Another point of relevancy to the story is in that particular game white was down by more than 5.5 points of material with no significant positional advantage in return but only a checkmate 7 moves in the future. I don't know if the computer in the article would have chalked that up as a loss for white and moved on by its criteria.

  19. Re:They meant well on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 1

    The law of greediness is that as greedy and smart as someone is; there is someone more greedy and smarter that leverages the first person's greediness to satisfy their own.

  20. Re:Why stop there??? on NASA Unplugs Its Last Mainframe · · Score: 1

    no eight is the one that looks like a venn diagram on its side. he has seven digits in his uid which is like an L upside down and backwards and one less than eight.

  21. Re:first science fiction on The Science Fiction Effect · · Score: 1

    All the Solomon stuff was scientific, but some would argue not fiction.

  22. Re:Print Escher stairs? on Assembling Your Own 3D Printer · · Score: 2

    You can but they only look right from a certain perspective. One part where they look like they connect is actually forced perspective of two parts farther apart.

  23. Re:3D printers suck on Assembling Your Own 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    I keep wondering, doesn't abs plastic melt in acetone? Why don't people just melt it down that way and then cast it, or doesn't it go back to it's original strength?

  24. Re:!EarlyAdopter on Assembling Your Own 3D Printer · · Score: 2

    Maybe the tolerances are normally distributed around too tight and too loose so every now and then you "accidentally" make one with tighter tolerances than you started off with.

  25. Re:webkit is the same in safari as in webos! on Insiders Call HP's WebOS Software Fatally Flawed · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I'm missing something. But I'm writing an app in pyqt4 and the python interpreter with all the qt4 libraries loaded up including webkit and my application running take together 20MB. I can't compare the speed of the loading of the interpreter and the app between my quad core desktop and a arm9 400mhz, but everything's instant and my actions in the app don't even seem to register on the monitor for the processor's activity. Maybe they botched the port for webOS, but I've found it to be really performant on the desktop. Why does performant trigger my spell-check that's a real word isn't it?