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  1. Re:I hate kids like this! on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Yeah seriously - Stephen Hawking a rower in college. How does that fit into your view of the world?

  2. Re:Xbox 360 on PS3 Enjoys Retail-Wide Sales Spike After Price Cut · · Score: 1

    the problem with that is the 360 is a current gen console

  3. Re:FTFY on DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel · · Score: 1

    drastic fixes = actually counting how much you are spending trivial or not

  4. Re:Someday Somewhere In Some Court on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    lets be fair - using the same percentage that was misrepresented 1.46/1.36 = 10.7%
    so then, if the suspect was 5'11" - he would be misrepresented as 6 foot 6.6 inches.

    the weight is a little over the top (agreed) - 130 lbs = 143.91. either way - there is a glaring difference between someone who is 5'11" and someone who is 6'6". and personally i think the ratio is even more pronounced in a small form factor object - anyone who has compared the width of different phones should be able to relate

  5. Re:Lies make Baby Steve cry, Apple on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    you're not alone on that one oakgrove

  6. Re:Why electricity? on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    isnt that what a fly wheel and transmission is for? granted they may need to be improved / made for this application but isnt the purpose the same?

  7. Re:Nahhh... Never Happen on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 1

    your "power always increasing just as it always has" point fails the car analogy test. but i completely agree with your second paragraph

  8. Re:in other news on ARM Sees Mobile As the Future Gaming Platform of Choice · · Score: 1

    and also hammer wielders see only nails in the world

  9. Re:The "die" layer must be why on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1

    you can press with a die and you can stain with a dye. and you can dye a die, but you cant dye a dye because then you would just have more dye. but oddly you can press a die of a die. also if you like, you can press a die of a 20 sided die and then stain it with some dye. does that clear things up?

  10. t mobile on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    i like t mobile's plan scheme, where the first 2gig is at full speed and then your speed gets knocked down. instead of paying an arm and a leg for the data. their data plans are $10 a month and i've always been able to tether for free using the phone off the shelf. i hate to say it, but with their shitty service and all but they've got the best setup. all told i think that is a $20-50 per month saving

  11. Re:The "die" layer must be why on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1
    the author of the article actually switches from die to dye 3 times in one line of text (on my screen)- 'dye. During recording, a laser hits the die layer and burns it, changing the dye ' (page 2).

    but the face palm happened when i read this:

    "However, the discs write at only 4x or 5.28MB/sec, half the speed of today's DVD players. "We feel if we can move to the 8X, that'd be great, but we can live with the four for now," Shumway said, adding that his engineers are working on upping the speed of recording."

    they record half the speed of todays players at 4x?

    thats unpossible !

  12. Re:observatory on Saudi Arabia Constructing World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1

    i thought so too - but chicago has a huge observatory downtown. i dont think that it matters all that much with the equipment is used

  13. Re:prediction on Saudi Arabia Constructing World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1

    saudi arabians = bin Laden group? americans = ___ : you fill in the blank (pun not intended but that works too)

  14. Re:The hard parts on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    awesome back to the future reference. if only i had mod points...

  15. Re:Sounds great in theory on Massive Solar Tower Planned For Arizona · · Score: 1

    turn in your geek card - spice is not grown. no more than i grew some shit earlier today.


    just kidding - im not the geek police: i just take out my aggressions on the internet when i'm having a bad day. but no really... spice is worm shit

  16. Re:No on Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans? · · Score: 1

    that depends if you inhabit an area of strong forces or weak forces: http://sciencepark.etacude.com/particle/forces.php or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction#Weak_interaction (strong is just below that)

  17. Re:No on Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans? · · Score: 1

    its not a closed system - so no version (right or wrong) of the laws of thermodynamics apply.

  18. Re:No on Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans? · · Score: 1

    because of the reward system - given the current existential malaise that is natural in someone who isnt learning for survival. or more simply - because learning is currently not fun.

  19. Re:Have you not seen on Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans? · · Score: 1

    in my experience with remote instruction (CBT/ WBT) - the course only has value when the student already has a foundation in the subject area. and that value is always less than having a live teacher give instruction.

    for students in grades 0-12 that should not be the case (they should not have a foundation) and so i do not think that remote instruction is a viable option for the general student. please note i mean the general population of students, not the top school systems or students; those who dont have a hard time meeting state standards.

    i agree file under jet-cars of the future. it has already been written about in Mimsy were the Borogroves and was highly acclaimed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves.

    and my take away from reading that book was to always endeavor to give children teaching games to do - word and math games are common for me

  20. Re:Still need another 80m users on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 2

    TFS is a bunch of crap - they evidentally cant read the WSJ article they linked which says: "Web-traffic watcher comScore Inc. estimated Google+ has had 20 million unique visitors since its launch" unique vistors != users

    im not a coward i swear (just forgot to log in)

  21. Re:They tried this already. on Scientists Breeding Super Bees · · Score: 0

    that something is climate change. if we could fix that as easily, that would be really great

  22. Re:2 weeks for a WEP? on The Wi-Fi Hacking Neighbor From Hell · · Score: 1

    i LOLed

  23. Re:Flying... on Snail Discovered That Can Survive Digestion By Birds · · Score: 1

    QED - there actually is food

  24. Re:Isn't it dark in there? on The Birth of Optogenetics · · Score: 1

    Turning? i think the public being eager and willing lab rats is part of their business model

  25. Re:What about a butt-bomb? on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    what about everyone's laptop battery? to put it mildly, those things are very volatile