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  1. talking about this for 25 years on Building Chips Like LEGO · · Score: 1

    I've been hearing 3D proposals since the 1980s, but not much has come to market. Even kludges like multiple 2D chips bonded together are more common.

  2. use "digital double" on Harrison Ford Turned Down Han Solo Role · · Score: 1

    Digital doubles are almost as realistic as the original actors, save their voice. You could use a juvenated Harrison Ford too. ILM's technology in this regard is probably as good as any others.

  3. what is the development/OS system for iPhone/iPod on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1

    Java?

  4. confusing iPhone icon on Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark · · Score: 1

    It looks like a curved rod with two knobs at the ends. It looks like the handset of telephone I saw in a museum once. But this would like putting a vinal record icon image on a music website or typewriter image on a word processing program.

  5. one serious error in ten years rampant? on Software Error Likely Killed MGS Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    My pc doesnt last ten days before crashing.

  6. a million doesnt go far in SF area on Living the Good Life, Leaving Google Behind · · Score: 1

    Interest on a million would barely pay property taxes on a new home in the area.

  7. people interaction important on MIT's OpenCourseWare Program · · Score: 1

    Theres something about being immersed in a sea of people where the average IQ is 140 that is very stimulating (I'm a MIT grad). A few very disciplined people could do this all solo online, but its the multitude of learning channels that works for most MIT students. I'm not sure if its worth 50G a year. It ws relatively cheaper when I attended.

  8. edgy science at the edge of computing on The Astronomical Event Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Its routine in physics collider experiments and seismic exploration to collect several terabytes a day. The limiting factor seems to be data management.

  9. fourth blizzard in four weeks in Denver on 2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever · · Score: 1

    Runs Thursday to Saturday. Just like the good old days decades ago when there would be snow on the ground all winter. In between storms the side streets accumulate a foot of ice which wrecks bottoms of average cars.
    Isn't global warming fun?

  10. engineering and science on Enter The 2160p HDTV · · Score: 1

    An architect could easily fill up a 2k by 2K image with a building plan.
    Oil geologists look at seismic data 10K by 10K by 10K samples.
    Astronomers have had 100 megapixel images for some time.

  11. like getting excited about the Ford presidency on SCO Bankruptcy "Imminent, Inevitable" · · Score: 1

    Both are history.

  12. can do both on Choose the New PBS Science Show · · Score: 1

    Some of the best science books and shows I've seen are both educational and entertaining. Entertaining does just mean jazzy images and special effects, but that one tell a good story. Aristotle described the proper elements of a story 2300 years ago in his Poetics. Any novelist, screenwriter, journalist, etc. still follows these rules if they wish to be a success. These rules include plot, conflict, character development.

  13. look at pawnshop restriction on Been Robbed Recently? Check Ebay · · Score: 1

    In many cases the shop has to periodically report the merchandise and identity of the owner to the police. This can work locally, but eBay is international.

  14. intelligent life on earth? on Detection of Earth-like Civilizations in Space Now Possible · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the way be behave, I wonder.
    Remember Star Trek IV when the aliens though just the marine mammals were intelligent.

  15. third blizzard in Denver in as many weeks on How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Global warming? This is most severe winter in the decade I have been in Colorado.

    The only bright point is they've closed the office four days and schools six days.

  16. "nothing new under the sun" on Why Software Sucks, And Can Something Be Done About It? · · Score: 1

    "Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."

    Software designers have griping about since there have been computers.

  17. LISP legacy codes? on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    My sense is LISP is the exception because it wasnt a core commercial language, save for an A.I. business bubble in the 80s. Academics tend to rewrite their codes more often. Or more precisely each generation of energetic grad student re-invents the next great system, but only writes 80% of it.

  18. incest on 'Web 2.0' Most Popular Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wikipedia is a Web 2.0 application due to its collaborative nature.

  19. pry that card deck from my cold, dead hands ... on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    To paraphrase what Charlton says about his rifle.

  20. many legacy FORTRAN codes too on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    Of the ancient three: COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP - FORTRAN has many legacy applications too. Its not uncommon to see some dusty FORTRAN-77 deck in an oil company or national lab. Most compiler switch back to that standard.

  21. Fortran updated each decade on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 2, Informative

    77, 95, 2003
    (I skipped the 80s too.)
    Like all the legacy languages it acquired all the new fad constructs. Still pretty conscise for formulas and array operations.

  22. Cheney's home on Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming · · Score: 1

    He a summer home near Jackson Hole and possibly another house in the state too.

  23. www.microsoft.com, www.msn.com ... on A Tour of the Google Blacklist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm, looks suspicious to me.

  24. The "pleasure" of forking over cash... on A Shopping-Scanner Darkly · · Score: 1

    My wife finds it a pleasure to fork over my cash.

  25. first to go in blizzards on 5 Strangest Materials · · Score: 1

    We had two blizzards in December in my town. The processed, slice white bread was the first to be emptied from the shelves along with milk, eggs, and TV dinners.