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  1. Re:God help us on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Not to mention too many question marks. I totally hate it when people forward me e-mails and their only contribution to the e-mail thread is: ???

  2. Re:Telepathy on That's Using Your Head · · Score: 1

    What does the spin of an electron, photon or any subatomic particle have to do with communicating telepathically?

    It's an interesting point of view also expressed by Gary Zukav in "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"; however, he failed to complete the picture.

    Based on the big bang theory, there might be more entanglement going on between particles that weren't recently close to each other. If this form of telepathy is really true, quantum physics can explain the chance of it to occur between different consciousnesses.

    This also applies to remote viewing, which has been successfully applied during the cold war by people who have never been close to the places they described.

  3. Re:Correction... on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    Wow, time flies. Actually I gave up on waiting for it and was surprised when I saw the "now in stores" ad on slashdot.

  4. Re:Doom3 Engine Comparisons? on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    HL2 and Doom 3 are very different. HL2 engine is more of a mix between Doom 3 and Far Cry. The transparency and water patterns in HL2 are far better then anything I've seen in Doom 3.

  5. Re:My review: on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 2

    Level design - the belivability of the world is unmatched. City 17 looks and feels like a real place.

    Actually because of the bizarre setting and strange dream-like lighting (bright light hitting at a low angle and very dark shades) it is better then real, it is surreal. It is very much like a playable Dali painting.

  6. Re:Energy Storage...OF THE FUTURE! on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    Luxeon LED flashlights, which are bright, last for 7 hours on one battery charge.

  7. Business 2.0 cover story on Firefox News Roundup · · Score: 2, Informative

    They have a Microsoft's worst nightmare article in the last edition.

  8. The story goes on ... on The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    Bill gates finds QDOS, buyes it for $50,000 dollars and sells the rights to it to IBM.

    IBM buys the rights but doesn't agree to pay a lump sum so they offer a percentage from the sales :)

    A good book I recommend reading is "Accidental Empires"

  9. Re:All your LCDs on Bright LCD Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    That is actually very true. I work for Honeywell and they provide me 2 of them.

  10. Where Jar-Jar ... on Mel Brooks Says 'Spaceballs' Sequel In The Works · · Score: 1

    ... gets tortured somwhere in a corner.

  11. Architects over Vendors on Gates, Jobs, Torvalds: Who is Most Important? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Graddy Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson to name a few.

    Gates was influenced by technology more then he influenced it. He'll be remembered as the guy who made a lot of money from technology not as someone who created anything.

  12. DB Connection Pooling clarification on Nerdorama for All Your Geeky Needs · · Score: 1

    These are the exceptions that the slashdoting caused:

    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nerdorama.com/httpdocs/ include/db.php on line 9

    Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nerdorama.com/httpdocs/ include/db.php on line 10

  13. DB conncetion pooling on Nerdorama for All Your Geeky Needs · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if they sell any books on how to do that :)

  14. Re:Linux is currently not in the archive... on Tracking The (English) Words We Use · · Score: 1

    Not that disturbing considering:

    Windows crash
    Windows virus removal tool
    Windows error x
    Windows problems
    Windows .... ............

  15. Too much math on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 1

    I personally would appreciate working with people who know that 2+2*10 does not equal 40! :)

  16. Romanian aeronautic history on Romanian Team Entering X-Prize competition · · Score: 3, Informative

    To anyone interested in the subject, Romania (pre- fing WW2 and fing communism) has had potential for a strong position in the aeronautic industry. Henri Marie Coanda, known for the Coanda-effect and the first jet aircraft, was Romanian. More info about Coanda can be found here

  17. Mintrubbing - The Romanian attitude towards work on Romanian Team Entering X-Prize competition · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is another proof that mintrubbing can produce amazing results.

  18. Re:NOT environmentally sound! on Romanian Team Entering X-Prize competition · · Score: 1

    True, here is a web site dedicated to raise awarness to the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide

  19. Something to add on Is Intel Making Too Many Chips? · · Score: 1

    if you make too many chips that you don't sell, you increase costs, but without any increase in revenue.

    You increase operational expense without increasing sales throughput but you are also reducing cash flow.

    Cash flow is what keeps a company alive.

  20. Re:The Wiki-Tome on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    "That, and the fact that we are yet to develop a good enough quantum error correction system. "

    If you read the article, it is about the fact that a team of scientists in China figured out a way to do meet the requirements needed for that error correction to happen.

    Your negative thinking is affecting your reality.

  21. Re:What this means on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Quantum theory at its best. A large group of people (including China) oriented their thought process to deliver something that a small focus group couldn't have guessed right.

    How quantum theories apply to society.

  22. Network latency on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Finally something that might make networks managable and fast. Fluctuations of latency due to distance will remove limitations on maximum transmission units.

    These news are the best that I read in a while.

  23. Queueing issues on Cray CTO Says Cray Computers Are Great · · Score: 1

    I'm not a subject matter expert but it seems like the Cray is a M/m/X (X>=8) system while Linux clusters are multiple M/m/x (x=4) systems.

    It seems to me that the mathemetical limitation of how much workload a Cray can handle is a lot worse then a Linux cluster.

    Can it be that the price/performance issue that he is talking about is just for specific applications?

  24. Re:cost on The Indian Info-Rickshaws · · Score: 1

    "Probably, but because richer economies have to produce more robust products to even be considered for funding. "

    Bullshit. People in rich economies as people in poor economies have to produce products that make money. Look at Microsoft and Linux as an example.
    Microsoft is getting a lot of funding to create new products while Linux houses aren't getting as much. Can you tell why since Linux is much more robust?

  25. First post ... on Netscape 7.2 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... With netscape. This browser is either a lot faster then IE or it just gives you that feeling. I'm very pleased so far.