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  1. Re:Voting on US Senate Passes PRO-IP Act · · Score: 1

    heck, maybe China will even consider outsourcing some work to the newly minted 3rd world country in the west.

  2. Re:Huurah! on US Senate Passes PRO-IP Act · · Score: 3, Funny

    Poland is part of the EU now ;)

  3. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 3, Insightful

    forgive me if I don't understand you, but ultrasound simply does not apply to the fluid phase of the injection process because it would have to be applied *before* the injector. Since the pump does it's best to present a solid column of fluid at the injector there won't be any effect.

    Applying it after the injector would theoretically be possible but the engineering challenges in filling the combustion chamber with ultrasound would seem to me to be pretty formidable.

    What the link to frozen diesel had to do with it is really beyond me...

  4. Re:Next stop, infomercial and/or MLM on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 0

    buy condoms.

  5. Re:Next stop, infomercial and/or MLM on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Daihatsu Charade Turbo Diesel, 1:27, that's 4 liters and a bit for 100 Km or about 60 mpg. 993 cc 3 cylinder engine.

    Quite amazing how long you could drive that thing on a single tank of diesel fuel.

  6. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    amen.

  7. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Well, you'll need something to keep the electorate motivated for these oil wars, see.

    If you spent only a few % of your monthly income on petrol the rationale behind that would quickly evaporate.

  8. Re:Easy way to massively improve fuel consumption on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 2, Informative

    plenty of european and japanese cars already feature such a device.

  9. Re:Blind testing needed on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    An AC in support of a product that has been labelled snake oil (and for good reason).

    You let your device be tested independently, not by your own 'labs' if you want any credibility.

    Until this is peer reviewed and marked as solid science it's just as good as the 100 mpg carburettor.

    Besides that, the nozzles operate on a fluid, not on droplets. And you can't electrically charge a fluid with respect to the rest of the engine if it still needs to pass through a bunch of metal tubes connected to said engine.

    It sounds like high grade bs to me.

  10. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    it says 'frozen' diesel fuel, that might be a bit of an issue. And it also does not state that the fuel efficiency will increase (it won't).

    Here is a good reason why:

    The fuel in the fuel lines going to the injector is under very high pressure, there are not 'droplets' in the tube, there is a solid column of fluid there.

    The injector nozzles convert the fluid to droplets.

  11. well, at least they're open about their commitment on US Senate Passes PRO-IP Act · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you don't know who runs the USA after today then you're simply blind: Corporations are the real government.

  12. neat on MySpace Digital Music Service Is DRM-Free · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now for an easy way to get to a catalogue using XML so we can do machine-to-machine catalogue matching to download whatever we're still missing.

  13. Re:Go with the flow on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 0

    Your post is about as arrogant as they come.

    Who do you think came up with unit tests to begin with, someone in the help desk department ?

    You've been programming for *all of 2 years* and you think you are in the same league as people that have been doing it for 30+ years ?

    I'm sure you'll point me now to your amazing track record during these two years ? It's a funny state of affairs when help desk people get promoted to write software when there is arguably a surplus of seasoned programmers out there (according to an article a few days ago on this site).

    What am I doing wasting my time with an AC anyway, but really, come back when you've written a nice little os or something like that instead of a few 'scripts'. That hardly qualifies as programming anyway.

    Writing scripts is 'programming' in a sense, but hacking three blind mice out of a piano is also 'making music' in that same sense.

    Go take a look at the guts of GCC, the linux kernel, some of the more interesting stuff that comes out of SIGGRAPH, write a speech recognizer for a large vocabulary and multiple users and we'll talk about your programming skills.

    Until then, at least have the decency to recognize the difference between 'programming' and 'scripting'.

    Scripting can be a step in the right direction, but for the most part people get stuck there because they can make a living.

  14. Re:99% off-topic question on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    every time I read a comment like this I wonder where you get your information, the USA really has a ONE party system, with two factions of the same party jockeying for position.

    The 'democrats' are about as 'liberal' as the 'republicans' and vice versa, which is to say, not at all.

    The USA *has* no left wing, none worth speaking of anyway.

  15. Re:99% off-topic question on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that Putin when offered would decline. What you consider to be 'hot' in the US doesn't even approach 'lukewarm' in Russia.

  16. Re:99% off-topic question on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    you can have the whole of my karma for that one post, why on earth do that anonymously.

  17. Re:How about on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    so, by design your elections are unfair.

    Maybe you should stop exporting 'democracy' until you've managed to run one yourself ?

  18. Re:Thanks from the reminder on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    it didn't go that way in Great Brittain, and I'm sad to report the dutch soft of 'lost' their promised inquiry as to why we got ourselves into iraq due to some very shady political negotiations.

  19. Re:Go with the flow on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    neat !

    I'm actually tutoring a kid that is 10 right now, he's quite amazing...

  20. Re:The one player missing from that list... on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to make out if they have legs or not. The zune has to be the biggest case of crippled by design ever. Just think of what that hardware *could* do if it was accessible to hackers.

  21. Re:Go with the flow on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    from the summary: "Now my company will be training me, so I think the technical side of things will be covered"

    That pretty much puts me in the 'stick with the help desk' camp, if you think a couple of courses are going to make up for a lack of interest and prior knowledge then please don't...

    Coding to me is like making music, sure you can learn how to do it by rote but it will never ever make up for the elegance and quality of someone doing it for the love of it.

    That said there are plenty of corporate trained coders that produce excellent work but they almost without fail have an engineering or scientific background, hardly ever an office one.

  22. Re:Go with the flow on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My advice to you would be: Stay the hell out.

    Seriously, if you're just attracted to programming because of the career opportunities then programming is not for you, and it will make the life for the rest of us that much harder.

    You'll compete with people that *really* like to program for jobs, you'll give us all a bad reputation for producing crappy code. The world has too many third and fourth rate coders already for you to think that your support desk background is the stepping stone to becoming a programmer.

    Real Programmers (tm) were doing it when they were 12 or 13 (and sometimes even younger) because of a fascination with the tech, not for the money.

  23. Re:simply boycott them on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 1

    the alternative is to simply NOT PLAY, what's so hard about that. Is life so boring now that gameplaying is a must, even if it means being sold stuff that basically takes over your machine and/or installs all kinds of shit that have nothing to do with the game ?

  24. Re:simply boycott them on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If there are alternatives and those alternatives do well (without the DRM) then I'm sure the message will come across loud and clear.

    And if it doesn't then the market will take care of them eventually. We're really only in the beginnings of this phase of the copyright game and it will take a while for it to play out but I'm pretty confident that eventually all media will be DRM free and will use open standards. It's the vested interests that have the most to lose here, new talent really couldn't care less, they'll take the audience and run with it.

  25. simply boycott them on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and do the same for any other DRM laden product, it'll teach the manufacturers quickly to stay away from DRM.