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  1. Re:Don't review it! on Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted · · Score: 1
  2. It's just a matter of time on The Microsoft Office Rental Program · · Score: 4, Funny

    before people realize that OpenOffice works just as well AND is free.

    Of course so does a pirated copy of MS Office.

  3. Downright neat on Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores" · · Score: 2, Funny

    640K cores should be enough for anybody.

  4. Re:sphere on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 1

    4/3 * pi * r ^ 3 I believe.

  5. Re:I have to say it on Provider of Free Public Domain Music Re-Opens · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is sheet music, not actual music files.

    I don't think anyone can really claim to own Bach's Brandenburg Concertos written almost 300 years ago.

    The recordings of his concertos, on the other hand, are a different story.

  6. Chaos on Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Chaos: Making a new science, by James Gleick is an excellent book. It covers the history of fractals/chaos and reads a bit like a novel. The mini biographies of many cutting edge scientists that are discussed along the way are very interesting too. I highly recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/0140092501

  7. Now in paperback... on ICANN Asked To Shut Down "Worst" Chinese Registrar · · Score: 1

    ICANN Wants to Shut Down a Registrar
    and So Can You!

  8. Re:Oil not equal to nuclear on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pushing nuclear energy has relatively very little do with our dependence on gasoline via crude oil. Please lets not confuse the two. I disagree. We could use electric cars. Plug em into the wall and you've got yourself a nuclear powered car.
  9. So... on XP Deathwatch, T Minus 2 Weeks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does this mean that they will stop all updates and patching for XP as well? Or is that farther down the road?

    Either way, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy, because soon enough, the updates will stop, XP machines will be virus infested and even my grandma will have beef with Microsoft!

  10. Re:So... on Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Embraces Google Instead · · Score: 1

    Gesundheit!

  11. Re:What did you expect to see? on Study Hints At Time Before Big Bang · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Detailed measurements made by the satellite have shown that the fluctuations in the microwave background are about 10% stronger on one side of the sky than those on the other. I'm pretty sure that you could take any axis and get around 10% difference in fluctuations, it is fairly randomly dispersed after all, this should happen.

    I'm just saying it seems like quite a stretch.
  12. What did you expect to see? on Study Hints At Time Before Big Bang · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Didn't string theory already predict something like this?

    Really though, what (in the background radiation) would point to no time before the big bang? A Kotch curve? A Hilbert curve? Complete order and continuity? I fail to see how 'blips' in the cosmic background radiation proves anything about time before the big bang.

  13. Re:Milli-pascal? on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 1

    I drove 15 mile to work today,
    got there 5 minute late,
    was the second time in 3 day.
    My boss said if it continued to happen he would charge me 10 dollar every time. lol...

  14. Re:the name? on gNewSense Distro Frees Ubuntu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jentle Jiant!

  15. Re:No property rights on ANY land on The Case for Lunar Property Rights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The whole notion of organic is total bullshit and not helpful. Want a lower yield? Go organic. There is a reason we use pesticides, hormones, and fertilizers, is because it's more productive. Organic is a fad for fools.

  16. Re:You want to play the analogy game? on The Case for Lunar Property Rights · · Score: 1

    If I have a right to have a home do I have the right to have sex? If I'm not having sex, does someone higher up owe me a hooker? Because it's a biological fact? I don't think it's a really a RIGHT to have a home, it's necessity.

  17. Re:solved within 7hrs... on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 1

    Heh, most of what my wife says is noise to me...

  18. Re:solved within 7hrs... on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From an AC down the thread:

    The only 'basse' that I am aware of is a renaissance dance, which is usually in 3/2 time. The basse was the precursor of the pavanne. It may be a red herring, but John Downland composed a pavanne called 'The Shoemaker's Wife'
    3/2 is essentially the same as 3/4 as is 6/8 and so on.

    Found the sheet music
    http://www.freesheetmusic.net/dulcimer/TheShoemakersWife.pdf

    This may help somebody, not sure, I didn't find any obvious 24 note phrases, but music is interpretive, so I'll have to learn it and see if I can find anything.
  19. Re:solved within 7hrs... on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You may be on to something. Maybe the middle section are notes of a tune he didn't like? Like when your mom says rock and roll is just noise? Or maybe it's just random notes?(unlikely, I think)

    A--------
    G
    F--------
    E X here is our E
    D--------
    C
    B--------
    A
    G--------

    Those are the corresponding notes to the bass clef.

    BASSE could be referring to the E below middle C (seen above) which is the 32nd key (from left to right or low to high on a piano) and is sometimes notated as E3.

    Heres a link for non-musicians http://www.vibrationdata.com/piano.htm

    IMHO, if he were to encode a song, it would probably be by piano key numbers, or E3 is the starting point (value of 0 or 1) although, that shouldn't make any difference at all.

    A few more thoughts, 16 * 2 = 32.

    14 unique symbols, thats 2 octaves of a 7 note scale (99% of what the average person has heard).

    There are 24 'notes', possibly a song in 3/4, a waltz. (Think german drinking music, oom pa pa, oom pa pa. Or the underwater melody from Mario Bros.). That gives us 8 measures, plenty for a melody.

    Burnt out for now, but coming back to this tomorrow.

  20. Re:Why open source doesn't work for business on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    If that's not tongue in cheek, you need to think about that question a little more. Which programmer forced you to use his free open-source software?

  21. Poor analogy on Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0 · · Score: 1

    I would think beer = running OS, ingredients + recipe = source code. Let me know when the ingredients are free.

  22. Re:The root cause of all of our problems on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1

    Eventually we will become callous to death as they were in the middle ages. Good.
  23. You don't say? on Gaming Gear Showdown, Simplicity vs. Hype · · Score: 1

    No one really believes their peripherals make them better, right?? I thought all the fancy 'gaming' mice and keyboards just looked nice.

  24. Re:This is what comes... on Who Owns Software? · · Score: 1

    180 degrees is what my boiler is set at in the winter in Wisconsin. Far far too hot for a cup of coffee. Most hot water heaters are set to 120 or below.

  25. Re:TFA very light on details on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1

    I wish I had a link. Years ago I downloaded a floppy that will give you an XP admin's password instantly. No joke, still have it.