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  1. Re:Other examples on Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers · · Score: 1

    Man. What the guy is trying to say is that he chose other games that are NOT M:TG. And these games FAILED, unlike M:TG. He is an adopter of failed projects, like those M:TG wannabes.

  2. Re:Other examples on Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers · · Score: 1

    If you had read better, you would've noticed that it says "CCGs that tried to make it LIKE M:TG" :D

  3. Re:That's nothing; think how they store the passwo on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that gets the hunter2 reference? http://www.bash.org/?244321

  4. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    Working in the area of Li Ion battery state of charge estimation and prognosis, I promise we would all be baffled at how easily you can solve the problem with a LUT. You are completely ignoring the evolution of the battery, the ambient effects, the non linear nature of a battery, the regeneration effects, etc, which have a BIG impact. Kalman and Particle Filtering are used not for the laughs, but because they are necessary to have even a DECENT approximation of the remaining charge.

  5. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that every battery has the same decay rate, and capacity, which is wrong. There is a lot of mathematics involved in estimating a battery charge, and it has its own name fancy name: State of Charge Estimation (SoC) and Remaining Useful Life estimation (RUL). For Li-Ion batteries, estimating the SoC involves having a model of the battery (which actually involves a lot of math), and a method for extrapolating the SoC based on a number of things: battery health, charge use profiles, etc. This is usually done by mathematical estimation and prognosis methods: Kalman Filtering (EKF, UKF) and Particle Filtering (AKA Monte Carlo) are two great approaches. You can't assume everything is constant and linear all the time, and you cannot assume that every battery is equal (not even same model/make batteries are equal in terms of charge and discharge).

  6. Re:0xB16B00B5 on Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    So, since when do you use B in octal?

  7. Re:Confused...and performance is a problem... on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Trustworthy VPN Service? · · Score: 1

    Latency is a problem when you're waiting for keystrokes or weapons fire to be transmitted 'twixt server and client, but it is a total non-issue while watching streaming video with a buffer measured in minutes.

    Mod parent up.. If streaming video is the necessity, 50ms or 300ms don't really make a difference when buffering.

  8. Re:Looking for family in Japan on 8.8 Earthquake Near Japanese Coast · · Score: 1

    I live in Chile and experienced the massive comms breakdown after the earthquake. Best advice is NOT to use telephone at all, you are just making it harder for everyone, including emergency services. Best way to get information is using http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en, email, sms, facebook and other types of asynchronous communication. Be sure to post contact info of people you are searching for on a place they or their friends can see. Rest assured that odds are they are OK, but just incommunicated. Also sending emails to Police/Firefighter stations in Tochigi with info about the people you look for is a good idea. Just once though. My thoughts go with you and your familiy.

  9. So sad on 8.8 Earthquake Near Japanese Coast · · Score: 1

    I live in Chile and experienced last year 8.8 earthquake. I really understand how people in Japan are feeling, and I can only give them my best wishes and support!

  10. Re:It will be a critical ability. on Spaceflight Formation Flying Test Bed Takes Off · · Score: 1

    "Or by simple ballistic movement" That means that people can fly unaided, for very short amounts of time?

  11. Re:screen on Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect? · · Score: 1

    bummer...

  12. Re:Weight... on The Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009 · · Score: 1

    Better way to do it. Just push really hard, and see how much it accelerates.

  13. Re:Sexting on The Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009 · · Score: 1

    Well, the same could happen if instead of nude pics, they were her panties, or a very cheesy love letter, or a webcam striptease, or anything you might call private and part of a love relationship. Does that mean that we have tu punish the girl? Nope. Does that mean we (her parents, school, whatever) have to teach her better? Definitely. Criminalizing (Does that word exist?) something doesn't teach you better.

  14. Re:Hurray! on EU Accepts Microsoft's Browser Choice Promise · · Score: 1

    So your job has a 110% of computers?

  15. Re:Well, at least the rest don't do this. on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    So you will be hanging around while pulling 650 kg of C4? Why dont just rip the support columns with your bare hands, Hulk? :)

  16. Re:WWII terrorism : Who wrote the history books ? on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    cue 1984 newspeak in 3, 2, 1 ...

  17. Re:Not sure on The Science of Irrational Decisions · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be so sure. Why do you think peer review exists? You may disagree with the methods used, with the conclusions obtained, and lots of things that are subjective and part of a scientific study

  18. Re:In a movie on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    Oh, you can read Slashdot, sure; but don't you dare to say that only reading makes you a real slashdotter!

  19. Re:First pulse. on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    I can see what you're doing there!

  20. Re:Gold account on The Nickel & Dime Generation · · Score: 1

    WHOOOOOOSH

  21. Projection on The Night Sky In 800 Million Pixels · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know what kind of method they use to "stitch" together the images? What kind of projection they use, so the final imagen does indeed look like the milky way, and not stretched nor distorted?

  22. Re:But... on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes because we know a driver never speeds past a red light, ever.

  23. Re:If only... on Copyright Troubles For Sony · · Score: 1

    Redneck detected

  24. Re:I foresee on Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI · · Score: 1

    No! Your idiots!

  25. Re:Train wreck phenomenon on The Outing of Pranknet · · Score: 1

    1.- She's a girl
    2.- Where is the -1 prick mod when you need it?