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  1. Re:"Twice As Dark TV" technology on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 1

    DLP projectors are much more efficient since about 90% of the light makes it to the screen (the mirrors are always moving, but there's still the color wheel) so they can use a smaller bulb.

    And multiple DLP chip projectors are even better, since nearly 100% of the light makes it to the screen (each chip is for a set color)

  2. not really "innovative" on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 1

    It is just multiple shutter glasses running at 240+ hertz. Frame one is in the right eye of player one, frame two in the right eye of player two, frame three in the left eye of player one, and frame four in the left eye of player two.

    What would be better would be normal multi-player with shutter glasses. (example: in a 4 player game every player sees only their frames and cannot see the other players pov. A person w/o a set of glasses would see a set of blurry images.)

  3. Re:Stop putting it on the grid! on In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid · · Score: 2, Informative

    One thing that you won't be able to predict is when the tank/lake will be so full you can't pump in it any more. I guess I'm trying to say that: what is unpredictable will stay unpredictable (no matter how many buffers you use to cushion against values you cannot handle).

    How is that unpredictable? You should always know the current water level. If you know the mean and maximum pump rates as well, then you can set a computer to fan the blades on the windmills, in turn generating less electricity, when you get near the limit. If you reach the maximum very often you should think about adding a second reservoir.

  4. Re:My street doesn't exist on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 1

    When reporting to Google be clear an concise. Also it helps to chose to be notified about the error when you report it.

  5. Re:NO NOT MATH on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    we mathematicians DO NOT wee calculators. We don't do arithmetic. Don't tag this math.

    that would be s/us/we/g

    s/us/we/ would be
    we mathematicians DO NOT use calculators. We don't do arithmetic. Don't tag this math.

  6. Re:The phone killed the GPS on iPhone DSLR Prototype 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I was talking smart phones in general.

  7. Re:The phone killed the GPS on iPhone DSLR Prototype 1.0 · · Score: 1

    "Phones" are becoming the jack of all trades, master of none.

    Except being phones. And possibly UUMPC.

  8. Re:No problem, long as they charge at night on Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    Surely thats a joke. I could believe hydroelectric storage: pump water against gravity, or selling the power to a neighboring network.

    Nope, That is what the local natural gas power plant does.

  9. Re:Plus they could be set to charge at night on Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    I mean for the most part you come home, you plug your car in. So, just have the car delay and charge off peak. Not a lot of usage at 3am normally and all the cars could be happily charging away.

    Then 3am becomes a peak, and eventually there is NO peak and just a constant mid-high usage.

  10. Re:No problem, long as they charge at night on Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the electric cars go home and charge at night, no, they won't strain the grid. Power is overproduced at night (you actually can't spin down the generators all the way, so they produce power even if nobody wants it.)

    Actually you can. You turn off four plants and keep two at half load. When there is a surge then the two plants can handle it, and when the surge is sustained then you turn on another plant.
    But typically turning on the plant off and on costs more than keeping it on in the first place, so you just add incandescent light bulbs all over the power plant to use as much as running the plant at the minimum produces.

  11. Re:Video stores... on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Not exactly what asked for, but, video stores in my local area that have been there for years have all of a sudden all gone out of business. Pretty sure bittorrent had something to do with it!

    Nope, that was Red Box, Netflix, and now Blockbuster.

  12. Re:Extreme on New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy · · Score: 4, Funny

    pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet What could possibly go wrong? (Also, FP?)

    There could be an explosion that wipes out a city when some idiot tries to open it to get the watch batteries out of it.

  13. Good for server farms? on New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90% · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Heat is later used to evaporate water vapor back out — heat that can come from a variety of sources such as solar or natural gas.

    or the servers that are being cooled?

  14. Custom machines? on Visual Network Simulator To Teach Basic Networking? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there one that I can load Windows, Linux, BSD, and any other system on? That can also emulate other CPUs?
    I would like to be able to do something similar to this XKCD, but with random software and routers.

  15. Re:vast distance to Mars? on Mars500 Mission Begins · · Score: 1

    The distance to Mars, relative to the other side of our galaxy, would be moving in any direction 1nm or less.

  16. Re:Cyberpunk on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    Hmm... have you read the CALEA requirements lately? The FBI already has access to the critical communications infrastructure.

    Only if CALEA support is enabled on the device. Even then it typically only allows them to sniff and log the traffic, but not modify it.

  17. Re:Uh, no, you can't have my network on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    Yet the US government does it every day.

  18. Re:Disregarding poor methodology... on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So a more likely cause would be pollution?

  19. Re:Um. on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    In this case she should have all the fault. There was a walking path that she had to walk past to get on the road.

  20. Re:Government on Congressman Steps Up Pressure On Google, Facebook · · Score: 1

    I choose A with a modification.

    Immediately delete the data, then turn yourself in.

  21. Re:Government on Congressman Steps Up Pressure On Google, Facebook · · Score: 1

    It was a accident, because ALL the data was being scanned then a filter was applied to see what to keep. The filter just happened to not be tight enough.

  22. Dalek on Scientist Infects Self With Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    Did anyone notice the Dalek in the background controlling Dr Mark Gasson?

  23. Re:Won't see 1000x for a few years. on Titanium Oxide For High-Density Optical Storage · · Score: 1

    I have never had a HDD smaller than my removable medium at the time. When I had a 5.25" floppy drive I had a ~30MB HDD, 3.5" floppy drive I had 200MB HDD, 700MB CD-ROM I had a 2GB HDD, 4.7GB DVD-ROM I had a 40GB Drive. Now I have ~10TB of disk space and no BD-ROM.

  24. Re:this is gonna be interesting on Google Audits Street View Data Systems · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last I heard the oil spill was about to hit the Atlantic ocean currents. (of course I may be wrong)

  25. Re:this is gonna be interesting on Google Audits Street View Data Systems · · Score: 1

    >>>Google's data gathering isn't destroying the Earth.

    Neither will an oil spill destroy the Earth. In fact about the only thing that would destroy the earth is the sun going supersized, or a black hole skimming by & tearing the planet apart. The earth is hard to destroy..... even when an asteroid hit the planet, the earth continued merrily on and life recovered. Nothing mankind could do would destroy the earth.

    Fine it can't destroy Earth, but it can destroy a large part of it's ecosystems.