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  1. Re:classified? not completely. on Big Black Delta Mystery Solved? · · Score: 1

    Well, I forgot everything about GPL for a while. Sorry.
    Here is a reference to the original work... sigh.

  2. classified? not completely. on Big Black Delta Mystery Solved? · · Score: 1

    Above the terminal I'm using here at the Santa Cruz University there's a poster:
    "Visualization Research at UCSC"
    showing some nice 3D graphics. Picture #3 is "Subsonic flow over a Delta Wing aircraft [...] Simulation by NASA Ames Research Center." The plane looks exactly like a medieval arrow point.
    The planes may be secret, but we know very well how air flows around them!
    Rogue States(TM), d'ya want a copy? $4.99 apiece!

  3. They got you on China Launches Third Unmanned Space Capsule · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, no!

    You have fallen into the trap! The only aim of this spacepod-show was the slashdotting of NORAD! You have compromised US security.

    Prepare to pay!

  4. please... on Mystery of Loch Ness Solved? · · Score: 3

    Please, don't try to disprove this theory saying that a sea monster could cause sismic tremors.
    Have you an idea of how much energy is released in even a small quake (the one you don't feel but it's registered only by seismographs)? Either the monster is blowing nukes under that lake, or...

    By the way, I don't think that this is the right explanation for the sightings. People easily see what they desperately want to see. Think of UFO abductions and things like that.

  5. Re:the assumptions seem wrong... on The Ultimate Limits Of Computers · · Score: 1

    Well, an atom of uranium weights as 235-238 atoms of hydrogen, that is 10^2 times more. It means that 10^25 nuclei of hydrogen have the same mass than 10^23 nuclei of uranium. This is approximately the same.
    It's correct to speak of current and resistance, but the article is trying to find a theoretical limit, and (in a theoretical lab) one could build a superconductive computer (R more or less zero) and power it with millions of A's. It's safer to say that something cannot contain more energy than its rest mass (by definition!).

    Anyhow, I hope that they will NOT install Win3K on a PC that can convert mass/energy. Just one BSOD and... whooosh! you're history (and your town too).

  6. This only happens with HTML on UK Government Locks Out Non-MS Browsers · · Score: 1

    Poor, poor HTML.
    Just imagine:
    "Sorry. The jpeg file you are trying to open isn't supported by your browser."

    I pity the W3 consortium. It's hard to waste time and energy trying to organize a standard and then discover that nobody seems to care.

  7. Re:I hate the NY Times.. on Before The Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    Thanx nublord!