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  1. ORLY? on Fast-Food Logos Burned Into Pleasure Center of Children's Brains · · Score: 2

    Do you really expect "appetite center" to lit up when shown logo of nappies?
    Right now it is simply Pavlov's dog - sime images are associated with food, some don't. Compare logos of providers of "non-healthy" food to some healthy food - vegetables, fruits - then you'll have something to talk about, but I bet you'll find no difference.

  2. Medical applications are extremly doubtful on Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists · · Score: 1

    First, this frequency range is absorbed by water very, very effectively (fractions of a milimiter is enough to shut it out completely) and man is mainly water. So it can see just under the skin. Then - resolution. 390 GHz has wavelength of about a millimeter - not much to see in a human tooth. At last - power. 2 microwatts is not much, it is not much at all. There is no very sensitive detectors without cryogenic cooling, so ...
    We have some time to figure out is terahertz radiation really safe.

  3. Re:Or, as Joshua put it... on How Do Games Grow Up? · · Score: 1

    Seconded.

    Chess, checkers, go, bridge, renju - over millenia humanity came up with a lot of challenging games which can and are very intellectually rewarding.

  4. Re:You know what's great about Soviet Georgia? on Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    You do realize that not so much Georgia was "annexed" by Russia in 19th century as it was taken over to protect georgians (fellow Christians, by the way) from Osman Empire in response to their own begging?
    The story, by the way is very similar with the story of "annexed" Ukraine. There were no war against Russia in either case.

  5. Not just an idea. on Nikon D2H: Digital Camera + 802.11b Option · · Score: 1

    Well, if you do have RIGHT camera, of course. Leica announced exactly this thing for its SLR bodies R8/R9.

    http://www.leica-camera.com/produkte/rsystem/digit almodul/index_e.html

  6. I18n on Site Review: 2002 Olympics · · Score: 1

    Have you noticed the website has a French version?
    - Oh yes, great!
    - Not so fast.

    A link at the very upper-right corner (almost invisible)will get you to the on-line shop (in English) and link at the bottom will eventually get you to some pages en Fran?ais, but they are so poor
    that looks more like a joke.

    Olympics is supposed to be international event, isn't it?

  7. Re:Thats not the problem on RMS: Putting an End to Word Attachments · · Score: 1

    How many years since you've got last attached WordPerfect document, please?

    I guess, people who use WordPerfect know better.

    And, concerning .XLS, you hit the point!

    I *hate*, really, when people publish their tables of data in .xls I had no Excel anywhere around (though most of the computers here are windows-based) and you go through hell trying to convert it in a reusable format.

  8. Re:That's wrong on Light Stopped, Held And Re-emitted By A Crystal · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but disagree.

    As electrons certainly could be excited by light into higher shells
    1) this is _not_ photoelectric effect, certainly not the one Einstein was dealing with (there is nothing "electric" in the process).
    2) Returning of the elecron to the lower shells is not always associated with light emission - energy could be transferred to the other channels, i.e. conducting electorns and/or phonos.

  9. Please, give some mod points! on Light Stopped, Held And Re-emitted By A Crystal · · Score: 1

    The best joke I've read on Slashdot for a long time.

    (Never moderated anything as "funny")

  10. Really? on Light Stopped, Held And Re-emitted By A Crystal · · Score: 1

    I did not find any mentioning of the emitting light in the same direction in the article (not even mentioning of the same frequency, but that may be expected).

    It would be really exciting, if thit lets you preserve direction, but it seems to me that combining of the "standing still" and "preserving the direction" is next to impossible.

  11. That's wrong on Light Stopped, Held And Re-emitted By A Crystal · · Score: 1

    Photoelectric effect of Albert Einstein is about exciting electorns so that they go out of the material (metal). There is no significant reemitting of the light in the matter.

  12. Re:Arwen Rewrite on Info on the LOTR:FOTR DVD · · Score: 1

    May be my memory is failing, but:

    In the film Boromir did not know about Aragorn before he was presented by Legolas at the Council as "descenadant of Isildur, heir of the throne of Gondor". Sure, Boromir knew about existence of such a heir.

    Honestly, I do not remember Frodo exhibiting any obsession with the ring in the book until much later in the story (time of actually keeping it on himself counts, most probably). May be, slightest sign of it with Bilbo, but nothing more.

    I believe, Narsil was reforged later and presented to Aragorn by don't-remember-who together with the Gondor's banner, made by Arwen.

    I don't remember who exactly was tinkering with the weather on the Caradras (Sauron or Saruman), but it was certainly affected by magic - there is nice scene in the book where Legolas discover that the snowstorm exist on a quite limited space.

    I agree with you on the matter of scene of killing of Sauron. I also think the whole prehistory of the ring would fit better to the point where Gandalf discovers it or to the time of Council (as in the book), but PJ was in position for better judgement :)

  13. Re:Right back into the swing of things on U.S. Penalizes Ukraine for Abetting 'Piracy' · · Score: 1

    Hey, nobody in his right mind will blame America for 09/11, but that the international policy of the USA is widely hated (or at least considered highly arrogant) around the world - that's certainely true. And believe me, there are quite a lot of people (and not only in the countries you've mentioned) who could not tell the difference between the goverment of US and the people of America and who've said on 09/11: "They deserve it."
    (No, I have not)

  14. It resembles something... on Robots Go To War · · Score: 1

    "Protection" by Robert Shekley, anyone?

  15. Re:Should other countries have self-determination? on Preserve Your Rights Online - Act Now · · Score: 1
    Perhaps the U. S. has meddled in other countries' affairs, perhaps arrogantly, but never to my knowledge without invitation.

    Surely you do know that Soviet army was invited to the Afganistan by head of the goverment of the time?

  16. Re:What we must do on More WTC News · · Score: 1

    Sure, you want war to be fought "in the middle of nowhere" instead of your yard. I think, everybody is sharing this attitude. Just guess that for a guy from the Middle East "middle of nowhere" is exactly at downtown Manhattan.

    Isn't it better do no fight anz war at all?

  17. Any good strategic turn-based game. on Creative Games sans Violence? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Really. Violence in the turn-based strategy is very abstract and, most important, you never have adrenaline rush due to it (that's what should be avoided, as far as I understand).
    All kinds of Civilazation, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, xyz General and so on.

    Learning curve may be a bit too steep, though.

  18. Re:Taking advantage of the developers on Extreme Telecommuting · · Score: 1

    Actually, I guess they need guns to keep away a crowd of programmers.

    Well, I'm joking, but these are really good money for that region (hell, for anywhere in Russia but Moscow), believe me I've been there two weeks ago last time.

  19. Re:Taking advantage of the developers on Extreme Telecommuting · · Score: 1

    Hey, boy, you've really low demande!

    $10 will by you only about 2 l of decent product. And thats all for whole month?!

  20. Re:Games dont affect kids on Lego Vs. Meccano & Engineering Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Yes! Think rave party :)

  21. What is bad about opera... on Mozilla 0.9.2 Storms Out The Gates · · Score: 1

    Opera has rather poor i18n, comapred to Mozilla and IE. So, if you are cursed with cyrrillic language, for example, you should think twice choosing Opera. On the other hand, I really love gestures!

  22. Re:Nethack on Preview: Diablo II - Lord of Destruction · · Score: 1

    Íåy, man, say ADoM!

  23. Re:And the russians up there? on Home Improvement · · Score: 1
    No, it is not just you.

    And, considering that the table was set up in Russian living quarters their part, probably, was not just to keep their mouthes shut. But, anyway, is it NASA or Russian Space Programm who desperately need some good publicity after the Tito's flight?

  24. Re:The only thing I would like to point out on Stepping Closer To The Space Elevator · · Score: 1
    The Mars trilogy is amasingly accurate, really. And more over, it covers very, very broad range of scientific fields. I would really like to know, whether anybody was able to find any major slap in it.
    Concerning the falling elevator scenario - dense air will make things different on the Earth, at least higher parts will have no chances to reach ground, but, nevertheless, it would be tremendous catastrophe.

    Crio

  25. Re:What other MS-compatable alternatives are there on Mozilla 0.9 Out · · Score: 1
    Not for me. Win98/Opera 5.11 - works fine with /. If only it has foreing (well, native for me :) languges support...

    Crio