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  1. One more tidbit. on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    If my Chemistry teacher was correct (and I remember his description correctly fourteen years later), there was also the problem that the graphic control rods themselves will burn fiercely if you can actually get them hot enough.

    Of course, they did get hot enough, and the control rods were like kindling inserted into a blaze.

  2. Re:I'm supposed to feel good about trusting this . on FCC To Enforce Do Not Call List, Not FTC · · Score: 1
    Good call, best drop that broadband and go with IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149).

    If you're doing voice or video conferencing, you may wish to go with IP over Avian Carriers with QoS (RFC 2549).

  3. Re:look at the dimensions- english, not metric... on New BTX Form Factor Announced At IDF · · Score: 1

    When manufacturing it does not matter. The machines do exactly what they are told to do, regardless of whether the measurements fall on even fractions or reall oddball non-repeating decimals.

    This is all provided you don't pull a NASA.

    (However, NASA only had one shot at it... manufacturers here on Earth can make a couple incorrect prototypes without catastrophic loss. It's not like they just pack them up directly off the line and never test to see if anything fits in these new cases.)

  4. Re:Games! on NVIDIA's New Pro Graphics Quadro FX 3000 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Next time read the article first. The information you wish is presented on this page of the review.

  5. Ammunition for laser weapons. on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1
    You've been playing too much Traveller
    Traveller's personal laser weapons used either clips (with chemical combustion charges to create energy, as you suggest) or backpacks power sources that needed to be recharged. (Which you could accomplish by hooking up to any craft or ship power source.)


    I suspect the largest problem isn't the potential needed, but the current needed. And, yes, lase is a word.

  6. Re:True with a caveat on A Hydrogen-Based Economy · · Score: 1

    This may be waaay out there on a limb, but what if it's reality:



    Tom Bearden's Free Energy site



    What would happen to the world economy if energy were suddenly near-free (you'd still need infrastructure to distribute as everyone can't have a generator in their apartment.)

  7. Re:Games aren't about realistic physics on Physics For Game Developers · · Score: 1

    That may have solved the problem, but it will create a whole new set of problems should the car ever leave the ground... it's center of mass will now be so out of skew that the car will flip oddly when it finally does leave the pavement and take flight.

  8. On a completely unrelated note... on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    Just exactly what was "the phantom menace" anyhow? Exactly what was the menace and how was it phantasmal? Really... I never felt menaced during the whole movie.

  9. Re:Wrong Direction on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 1

    Try to tell that to the CS instructors at the U of Montana. When I arrived there in 94 their introductory classes were in ADA, of all things. Now they've moved to Java, which is leaps and bounds ahead of ADA, as far as being understandable... but I still don't understand why they don't just use ansi C. The decision, as always in a university environment, is political and personal. The faculty decides what standards and languages to develop as their cirriculum. It's funny... you can take a C class, but it doesn't count towards your CS core credits... it's a general elective.

  10. Good lord. on RSA Cracked - Not · · Score: 2

    I take it that "subtle" and "innuendo" aren't in your dictionary?

  11. Umm... they have a Horta. on Robotic Mining Arrives · · Score: 1
    In the surveying process, telemining employs survey systems using a HORTA (Honeywell Ore Retrieval and Tunnelling Aid) unit and laser scanners. Because satellite GPS systems cannot penetrate rock, HORTA uses a gyro and an accelerometer to determine geographical position.The scanners provide data, which is imported into the computer system and used to locate machinery.
    Do you think those boys at Honeywell grew up watching Star Trek?