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  1. I don't know if I will believe in the aliens idea, but if it is it may be:
    1. A spaceship with hairdressers and Telephone cleaners (Hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy)
    2. Aliens looking for intelligent life somewhere and they just by change passed near us.
    3. Aleins detected signals around this solar system and were exploring Venus or Jupiter
    4. Aliens have found us, and have alreadyy sent down a landing capsule to Earth loaded with explorerer

  2. Boston? on Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nice town. Just an observation from Scandinavia

  3. The local version on One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 · · Score: 1

    In 1981 I had the change to play with an HP system on its way out of production. To make a program you had to:
    Load an editor from a punch (paper) band
    Type in your programme
    Save the source to punch tape
    Load the compiler pass 1
    Load the source
    Run compiler
    Save intermediate code to punch tape
    Load compiler pass 2
    Load intermediate code
    Run compiler pass 2
    Save compiled code to punch tape
    Load linker
    Load compiled code
    Run linker
    Save executable to tape
    Load programme and test run

    Pål

  4. The license on Happy 20th Birthday, FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Is not a major part of the diffrence in success due to the license: In BSD you just take the code and use it, In most of the Linux-software it was GPL where you had to give back your development to the community?

  5. Neurons in human brain on Activity of Whole Fish Brains Mapped Second To Second · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nice work. I look forward to see the 1 millisecond time reolution. The researchers state that the human brain contain 85000*100000 -> 8.5 billion neurons. Most textbooks says the human brain has about 100 billion neurons. There are also papers out telling that the neocortex of a young male contain about 22.8 billion neurons (Pakkenberg). So the human brain is much more complex than stated.

  6. There is a nice Matlab - clone for Android on Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? · · Score: 1

    Addi with Addi -plot is a Matlab clone build on the Octave project. Seems to work nicely. Pretty close to BASIC

  7. How stay on top. on The Scalability of Linus · · Score: 1

    It is touched at above and you touch the issue: As long as you move faster than the others, people follow. When you slow down, people find others to follow. This is also true in commercial business - when companies start using lawers instead of developers they have lost.
    As long as Linus seems to keep up the steam, the rest follows, when he slows down, people will follow others. The bus-factor? There are clever people around who will be followed. Some will fight to take over Linus' position. If they get close to it, the development is already somewhere else.

  8. Re:NMT on Internet Access While Sailing? (Revisited) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use the NMT - system as implemented in Scandinavia (http://www.ice.no/). It works all places I sail. It cost approx as an ADSL-connection. I opted for a plan of $30/week when in use (summer and winter holidays) and nothing at other times.

  9. Re:It's not a law!!! on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    If you want to make a product and you expect to hae it in the marked in two years, you would drop the idea if your product does not fit in the marked included effects of Moore's law. Nobody would make a product that don't comply with the "law". It is driving/regulating the marked.

    Pål

  10. Again? What is the new take this time? on Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD · · Score: 1

    One of the biggest and best attempts to diagnose psychiatry by EEG-measures was R. John in the 1980-1990. His methods failed in practical use.

    There are no publications sited by Pubmed on this, but EImindAs website and the linked article gives an impression of this being the same again. Don't hold your breath.

    PGL

  11. Re:Stupidy, stupidy, stupidy... on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    I agree, but don't you think they have tried with a few independent testers first?

    Pål

  12. Keep them in house? on How Do You Monitor Documents? · · Score: 1

    When you let the documents out of the house, there are no way to prevent people from using the information. If the information was only available on a web-page with passwords and monitoring of user and IP-addresses you will at least have some control of the information.

    pgl

  13. Why not MYSQL? on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    It is fast. There are lots of applications, also GUI. My largest single table database is 5500000 records. It returns nice tables in between 7s and 15s.

    Pål

  14. Re:Behind Moore's law on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 1

    I agree but: Complexity of neural sciences follows Moore's law. It is my impression that most software follows Moore's law e.g. Word processing, so it could be expected that web pages should too. What about connectivity, does it lag?

  15. Behind Moore's law on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 1

    According to Moore's law the size should be up between 5 and 6 times, so relatively the pages are shrinking.

    Pål

  16. Re:403 Forbidden on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 1

    I guess I have to wait till all you american go back to sleep to see it ;-)

    Pål

  17. Long way to go on The Future of Putting Chips Inside Our Brains · · Score: 1

    Recording from the surface of the brain will hardly get you to the point where you communicate on an "in vivo" level. In 1 cubic mm of brain it has been estimated to be 4000m of neural fibers! There are million of neurons in a square millimeter of brain cortex (the outer 2-4 mm of the brain) each wtih 10000-20000 connections.

    There have been many studies on connecting brain to machine; some using e.g.nerve growth factor to make the nerves connect to the chips. They have been promissing up to a level, but it seems now to be a little quiet in the camp?

    The first paper i read on connecting the brain to machine, wasin the beginning of the 80. They tried to get a blind man to see. He did not.

    Pål

  18. Re:Some "expert"! on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    You don't have to. According to Groklaw the logs shows a DSL address.
    Also the "absence" of NAT is also possible with NAT in place according to a comment at Groklaw.

    Pål

  19. What a different world on Can You Be Sued for Quitting? · · Score: 1

    We have 3 months notice both ways. That works nicely. I need time to get a new person in and the employed need time to get a new job. The time is also used for brain-picking. I would never treat a person that quit in a bad way. I do not need enemies in the free out of my control.

    Pål

  20. Time to process visual signals on Web Users Judge Sites Instantly · · Score: 1

    When a visual input appears, it takes some 100 ms for the signal to get to the primary visual cortex. After some 200 ms it seems (from the outside) that you start "understanding" the signal. After some 300 ms you get the highest peak in oddball paradigms. It seems like most of the signal is processed within 800 ms, but you may see changes long after that. So that you decide about a website in 50 ms means that it is either nonsense or we have to rewrite all our knowledge on processing in the brain.

  21. Why do you have a boss? on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 1

    In many kinds of work it would be stupid to expect the boss to know more (or as much as) the workers on their central function. If you as a worker don't have something to "sell" the company, why are you there. In some industries you still only sell you time. However in IT and many others the company rent your brain and what is in it.

    If your boss think he is interlectually ruling the workers he missed it.

    A modern boss should use his knowlegde ( economy, organization theory and so on) to help you to produce more and better. You should work as a team. From time to time (that must not be often) he have to use his position to order something, but then he losing something in the production.

    E.g. I don't think a business educated leader of a hospital would tell the neurosurgeon where to cut.

    Pål

  22. Tried googling? on Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System? · · Score: 1

    Found some boards through Google:
    First link:
    http://www.mainboard.cz/mb/tyan/Thunderi7525S2676. htm

    Pål

  23. Re:2^25,964,951 - 1 on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Just a detail. The reason for the deviant filesize is almost 115000 '\' - one per line

    Pål

  24. Re:2^25,964,951 - 1 on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    It took 21m58.6s. The file is 8046119 byte. It starts:122164630061277948107753

    and ends:6698933257280577077247

    Pål

  25. Re:2^25,964,951 - 1 on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just started my PC to compute it:
    echo "2^25964951-1"|bc -l>prime

    If you put 'time' in front, the system will tell you how long it takes.

    Just checked that 2^1000000 took about 8,5s, but it is not linear. I expect it to take some 15 minutes one my AMD64