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  1. Re:Lets just hope on NASA To Cryogenically Freeze Satellite Mirrors · · Score: 1

    So, when people speak of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background, they're just confused?

  2. Re:Lets just hope on NASA To Cryogenically Freeze Satellite Mirrors · · Score: 1

    Can the photons from those lasers be considered to have a negative temperature, because of the energy they remove from the particles being cooled?
    Maybe.

  3. Re:Peanut Hysteria is more of a psychological issu on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    Hee hee. I was, of course speaking of the seed of Bertholletia excelsa, or Brazil Nut.

  4. Re:Peanut Hysteria is more of a psychological issu on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    Peanuts, are soft and slightly crumbly, and are usually served in bags. Opening the bag usually involves a quick, decisive rip, which imparts some kinetic energy to the contents. The peanuts remain in the bag, but the smallest crumbs, the peanut dust, if you will, may not. Similarly, the act of chewing the peanut, particularly, but not exclusively by ill mannered individuals expels a small amount of particulate into the air.

    It's a particularly obnoxious allergy to have, given the commonality of the legume, but anaphylaxis is not pleasant. (I'm allergic to the Brail "nut", which is not so ubiquitous as the peanut.) Essentially, things start to swell up, including airways, which makes it difficult to actually breathe. A bit like a nascent cough that never really resolves itself into a full blown expectoration.

  5. Re:Funny on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Peanut butter sandwiches are a staple of childhood, are cheap, and are relatively nutritious. It's a bad thing.

  6. Re:Competition on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    You might have been able to use a Japanese Muse TV set. Such televisions can be seen in the 1991 film Bis ans Ende der Welt.

  7. Re:Just Pass a Law on Court Unfriendly To FCC's Internet Slap At Comcast · · Score: 1

    . They have no contractual obligation, they have not advertised to you any data rate and most of all, their service is free.
    Not if you pay them 9,90 Euros per month.

  8. Re:Competition on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 2

    30 years ago you were lucky to have a display capable of 640x480 which is .3MP

    There are two ways to think about this. In 1980, most personal computers had very low resolutions. The Apple II, for instance, had a resolution of 280×192 in HiRes mode. The IBM PC came out later (and even then, its graphics capabilities were nothing to write home about).

    But if you had a graphics workstation, dual 1280 x 1280 displays were available. Of course, such a system might have cost tens of thousands of dollars.

  9. Re:3d tv never ubiquitous? on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    Sports could benefit from 3D. Often it's difficult to judge whether a ball is in the strike zone, or a puck has crossed the goal line. Part of this is strange camera angles. But 3d might help clarify things for the viewer, and reduce the unpleasant surprise of a referee's call.

  10. Re:And? on AMD Launches World's First Mobile DirectX 11 GPUs · · Score: 1

    Some of the reviews of "Dirt 2" had suggested that ATI 5xxx cards were up to 50% faster in DX9 mode.

  11. Re:Build your own.... on Google's Book Scanning Technology Revealed · · Score: 1

    Judging by ebay's completed sales, it's probably worth two or three times that, if you factor in shipping.

  12. Re:And? on AMD Launches World's First Mobile DirectX 11 GPUs · · Score: 1

    Are these cards fast enough to run the games in DX11 mode?

  13. Re:Video of book scanner... on Google's Book Scanning Technology Revealed · · Score: 1

    And then, to top it all off, they present to us an unreasonably large book that takes it from the scanner.

    Large books are some of the hardest to scan-- too many curves. They're also among the best candidates for digital storage because they take up so much space.

  14. Re:Video of book scanner... on Google's Book Scanning Technology Revealed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Elegant, hypnotic, and not what google uses. Google scans the books, lying flat. It projects a grid-like pattern over the pages in IR, photographs up the distorted image using 3D cameras, and recreates a 3D model of the book, and uses that model to undistort the pages. It uses human slaves to turn the pages, since robots aren't as gentle.

    The link isn't slashdotted anymore

  15. Re:I Actually Side with Dick's Estate on Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate · · Score: 1

    Bloggers should learn to be less playful. Someone might get sued.
    I'll probably hold out for a Nexus-6, myself.

  16. Re:I never understood why... on Framerates Matter · · Score: 1

    ( Whatever moron invented DVI needs to be shot because of that.)

    Perhaps you could promulgate a different standard?

  17. Kadima? on Alleged Ponzi Mastermind Hacked In Antigua · · Score: 1

    So, is Kadima a lowly Panamanian import/export firm? Or is it a front?

  18. Chain of Custody on Alleged Ponzi Mastermind Hacked In Antigua · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an illegal search and falsification of evidence.

  19. Re:huh? on Alleged Ponzi Mastermind Hacked In Antigua · · Score: 1

    Indeed - isn't the institution is now run by the East Carribean Banking Group?
    There is no such entity, except in the fevered dreams of a 411 scammer. Perhaps you're thinking of the "Eastern Caribbean Central Bank."

  20. Re:DRM hurts legitimate customers only on DVD-CSS's Encryption Not Enough? Here Comes DECE · · Score: 1

    There's always the HD Fury. The benefits of 1080p are limited to proper deinterlacing. Sometimes the display gets it wrong, and combing results.

    Normal viewing distances could mean pretty much anything, but generally, if you sit more than two to three screen heights away from a 1080p display, your screen is too small, prole.

  21. Re:DRM hurts legitimate customers only on DVD-CSS's Encryption Not Enough? Here Comes DECE · · Score: 1

    HDMI came out after HDCP. However, despite sporting shiny new HDMI ports, many video cards/drivers had poor support for Windows Protected Video Path, or couldn't encrypt the output signal. It's possible that PowerDVD was complaining about that.

    My first HDTV setup had a HDCP enabled DVI port. It was a combination video scaler and ATSC tuner. The scalar applied HDCP, the tuner did not. Peculiar little device.

    Getting a display that doesn't support HDCP is madness. Most consumer video outputs require it, and stripping it out is a pain.

  22. Re:Pirating on DVD-CSS's Encryption Not Enough? Here Comes DECE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being from Texas apparently trumps being a American.

  23. Re:Again? on DVD-CSS's Encryption Not Enough? Here Comes DECE · · Score: 1

    FYE still sells CDs for $19. God only knows who their market consists of.

  24. Re:DRM hurts legitimate customers only on DVD-CSS's Encryption Not Enough? Here Comes DECE · · Score: 1

    His parents' TV doesn't support that, so no legal solution would be able to play it on that TV.

    I can understand DVI without HDCP. Back in the old days, no one cared about making computers into a sealed box. And if you looked long and hard, you could even find DVD players and HDTV Tuners that didn't apply encryption to the outputs.
    But an HDMI input that doesn't support HDCP is next to useless. Maybe the PS3 doesn't enable HDCP when playing games.

    Most likely, it's your laptop's drivers or hardware.

  25. Re:and why not ? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    Amen to that. Central planning works. Obama needs to seize control of the engines of production. Less Obama, more Obamao!