Slashdot Mirror


User: kcelery

kcelery's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
459
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 459

  1. Re:Troll Question on What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy? · · Score: 1

    My notebook also has color graphics and multilanguage and it has unlimited battery life. It can take on 40G force without cracking.

  2. Re:Bugus science at it again on The Galaxy's Largest Diamond · · Score: 1

    at 3500 degree C carbon melt. Its hard to distinguish which part is molten graphite or diamond.

  3. Re:Use a Better Biomass on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    Ok then I'll start planting industrial hemp in Mexico and sell the ethanol, hemp fibre and hempseed oil to US and get rich. I'll name the my new corp Hemp-isphere. IPO next month, ummm....

  4. Reminds me the song of Bee Gees on California Man Sues Penis-Enlargment Firms · · Score: 0

    ....how deep is your love.....

  5. Re:we pay for crippled printers? on HP Discusses Anti-Counterfeiting Measures · · Score: 1
    Just my wild guessing.

    HP use laser to burn a few dots on the selenium drum. When you make a print out, you will observe such defect under high magnification. The output image is not compromised to naked eyes. By examining the defects of the output, HP can identify which machine is responsible for the crime.

  6. Re:How do they taste? on Smog Busting Paint Breaks Down Noxious Gasses · · Score: 1
    titanium dioxide is used in food processing as a whitening agent. It is chemically stable and does not react with strong acid/alkaline or other enzymes in your stomach. I remember there are some restaurant serving bread which looks 'white'. But as we know, bread comes from wheat, and wheat is light yellowish brown. So I asked those guys, how come the bread looks so 'white'. Half jokingly, he said they used top quality Canadian wheat. Years later I found out it was the additive of TiO2. It is one of the safest additve around. The other component is something like silicone rubber, which is chemically stable.

    But why would you like to like the paint, I'll buy you a grill ribs.

  7. Re:For those that can't be bothered to read it thr on Smog Busting Paint Breaks Down Noxious Gasses · · Score: 1

    The concentrated acid rain is eroding your wall, there is little protection to your wall by puting a ring of limestone around the base of the building. When the rain got absorbed into concrete through tiny cracks, it is eroding the structural steel bar/beam. But you might consider sprinkling the building exterior with lime water and make the window cleaning guys rich becuase when lime water dries up, a smear remain on the glass, someone has to clean it.

  8. Re:Could this be used on pollution sources? on Smog Busting Paint Breaks Down Noxious Gasses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It'll do the trick only in the presence of ultra violet light with wavelength shorter than 400nm. Sunlight contains a small percentage of such UV light. For areas within the car tail pipe, ask Scotty.

  9. Re:Let it die on NASA to Reconsider Hubble Decision · · Score: 1

    Why wait? Let's send a few robots to the Moon, extract mercury from the rocks and make a 6 metre liquid mercury telescope at a fraction of the Hubble cost.

  10. Re:Thank God on NASA to Reconsider Hubble Decision · · Score: 1

    No one wants to take away your Hubble, its just cheaper to replace it with a state of the art telescope than fixing the aging Hubble. Its even cheaper to launch it to the right orbit with an one-off rocket than the shuttle.

  11. Re:Space now belongs to developing countries? on NASA to Reconsider Hubble Decision · · Score: 1

    Or put dozens more when the replacement parts are always 200+ miles below.

  12. Re:What's the bus speed on that thing? on What's Inside the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    Cache in French means hidden. If you can physically address it, then it shouldn't be called a cache.

  13. Re:Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here on Switching from Another Industry to Engineering/CS? · · Score: 1

    It will be cheaper to shoot a new refined telescope to the orbit than doing high altitude repair stunt.

  14. WITH $2,200 on Toyota Offers Automatic Parallel Parking Option · · Score: 1

    the manufacturer could install landing gear at 4 corners of the car. To park the car, you press a button, the landing gear will slide perpendicular to the line of motion of the car. Thus the parallel parking problem is solved.

  15. Re:If the spaces are so small . . . on Toyota Offers Automatic Parallel Parking Option · · Score: 1

    I saw it once on a snowy wet morning. My French teacher came late, so he parallel parked his car in a hurry. First backup, bump, hit the car behind. Then shift to forward, quickly turn the wheel, bump again, hit the car in front. Backup a little bit, just to pretend no collision had done. Pull the hand-brake and swiftly came out of the car. The whole process was so smooth, much like a stunt movie.

  16. Re:Revisit Sojourner! on Spirit Rolls on Mars · · Score: 1

    The brush might cost a million in Mars though.

  17. Re:Usefulness? on OQO Ultra-Portable Impresses At CES · · Score: 1

    The matrix style keyboard is for 2-finger typists, not too useful if you really want to type up something. And again, the price tag makes it a vapourware.

  18. Re:So... on Chemists Crack Secrets of Mussels' Super Glue · · Score: 1

    you cannot fill your teeth with superglue, I tried but it failed. Research has been going on use this glue in dentistry, if it sticks to every surface it might stick to your teeth.

  19. Re:let's get this out of the way first on Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    Establish a safe economic earth to orbit vehicle should be the top priority. The shuttle have been criticized by many /.ers as a monster creation that is unsafe for the passengers and suboptimal for the cargo. In the second stage, is the improve the bandwidth of communication between earth and mars so by the time we send millions of robots to Mars the lines would not be all jammed.

  20. Re:Flamebait? Huh? on Build Your Own Scanning Tunneling Microscope · · Score: 1
    Offtopic...

    I just want a DIY electron microscope, anybody.

  21. Re:I try to avoid them altogether. on Fake ATM Fraud Expose · · Score: 1

    If you lost your PIN/card, replace with a new one. If the thief took a picture of your retina by a fake retina-activated-ATM, you got robbed for life.

  22. Re:Who Would Want This? on Israeli Super Drone Stolen · · Score: 1

    You've forgotten Pizza Hut. Its a perfect piece of pizza delivery machine. Still sizzling hot when the chopper landed.

  23. Re:Perfect... on Bombardier's Hot Wheel · · Score: 1, Funny

    I remember years ago, I went horse riding with friends. One of my friend really know how to ride, he took a tree branch as a whip and start acting like a jockey. After an hour, the horse returned to the stable at a high speed. Well suddenly, the horse hit its brake by stretching out its fore legs and lower its head at the same time. We friend wasn't quite prepare to handle a horse with an attitude went frog leaped to the ground right in front of the horse. Yes it was like a frog hopping from the back of the horse landing with hands and feet touching the ground at the same time. He was shock but not injuried. This picture flash in the back of my brain when I saw the Bombardier's Hot wheel.

  24. Re:Only buy what you need on When a PDA is better than a GBA for Gaming · · Score: 1

    If you want a PDA buy a palm, if you have to run Outlook, Office, Excel .. or whatever buy a full version laptop with the right size to fit your need. There is no reason maintaining a half baked excel spreadsheet on a PDA and moving it back and forth between the laptop.

  25. Re:Invade and liberate? on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 1

    Good point, but to invade US you cannot tell your soldiers to go on foot, right. Naval force of China is so weak, S B Chan of Taiwan could sit comfortably talking ( or practicing ) independence everyday.