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  1. Re:According to Discovery Channle (aquatic apes) on Mutant Gene Responsible for Speech? · · Score: 1

    There might be a link between semi-aquatic behaviour and the shortness of our hair. There is also a link between mental activity and fish. Animals like dolphin, whales, sea lion etc are more clever than the grass eating mammal like horse, goat.

  2. Re:No worries... on Rat Mind Control · · Score: 1

    If the person who has a pleasure electrode implanted is allowed to press the "pleasure" key, he is most likely to be turned into a key- pressing junkie.

  3. Re:3.3 Billion ? on WorldCom Fraud Doubles · · Score: 1
    The days when I went to school. They taught about factorials, one example they used is factorial of 15 is about the size of US deficit.


    Well 3.3 Billion is about half of 13 factorial.

  4. Re:absurd on Gliding Into the Stratosphere · · Score: 1
    U see, this guy will not quit. Find something interesting, a little challenging and hit the headline as well. He will bite.

    If you want to get rich, make a few prototypes that will not work properly. You have seen how many times he went down to sea or hit the great wall.

    Going to the stratosphere is no fun at all. Hold up a blank A4, and you will experience what he sees up there. But wait, to get the feel, better put on my sister's diving goggle.

  5. Re:bunch of stuff to say on U.S. Developing 100-Kilowatt Laser for Strike Fighters · · Score: 1

    Re:1
    Basically, it is a warning to CNN reports who might be standing too close the the scene. Say, 2 km from the location of strike.

  6. Re:No free fry oil in Dubya's America! on Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel · · Score: 1

    My brother told me the lipstick are made out of those grease.

  7. Re:Not as effective as it seems on US Army to Test Laser Based Mine Clearing Device · · Score: 1

    Finding someone to drive the stupid vehicle is not easy. If you are assigned to go into a mine infested area, it is most likely that the vehicle would run over a land mine. Boom .... a mine went off, got one flat tire. Ok, put on a new one. Get off the vehicle. Boomm... again, lost a leg and a kidney. Sigh... better luck next time.

  8. Re:Corporate backing? on OpenBeOs Developers Talk About Progress · · Score: 1
    Fast thread is one thing, it is good for multimedia apps.

    Back to LINUX case, people start using linux because they can easily move their application from their old unixs. But can they move their applications to BEOS is important. Software development is an expensive whether is OSS or not.

  9. Re:Another day, another study on Video Games Found To Decrease Brain Activity · · Score: 1

    Video game did'nt fry any part of your body, it's just most of your muscle are at rest during the game, much like a people in stroke and lying in hospital. Only the shoot and react part of your brain is active, but have you ever enter a room in Quake and remember how many objects in there. The game would never ask you "answer where the apple, banana,.... before you can go to the next level". You just move on and forget about every thing. So did you learn anything? Nothing. Did you use your brain to tackle an puzzle? Nothing. So the Nothing game when on for days and months. Most game are designed to masturbate people's mind.
    One study analysed a shooting incidence of a shooting-in-school case, the boy went bang-bang-bang-bang hit on target with a series of continuous shots. The study commented if an animal kill another animal it will grap its neck until its dead. So take a guess where the hell does these young killers learn how to do such cold-blood shooting. The answer might lie in the distorted scene in the virtual reality world. No one there feel pain or sad being gunned down. Worst all you don't have to clean up the mess afterwards. That's something you never learn from a video game
    Besides, Video game has a cartoonistic space-time distortion, the action figure tends to move faster so the player wont feel boring. It is overall distorted so the youngsters has to readjust when they return to the reality. One thing they have to adjust is the on-off switch. In real life, there are situations where you have to face that you cannot simply pull the plug or switch channel as in TV.

  10. Re:530,000kWh/year on Sanyo Solar Ark and Giant LED Display · · Score: 1

    For 60kW. A normal hair-drier consummes 1.2kW, so this 3000ton structure good for catering 50 hair-drier at the same time. Not bad.

  11. Re:Sad? No. just well informed on China Plans Moonbase · · Score: 1

    if you think you can get the best picture from Chinese dissidents and democracy advocates, I guess you should go to China a see for yourself.

  12. Biological solution on White LEDs for a Brighter World · · Score: 1
    Photos show the houses were illuminated by 6 to 7 WLEDs. That is not much light. For the same effect, May be fire-fly will do the job.

    The link here says single firefly is 1/40 of a candle. A few hundred of these could help you for the evening.

    http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insect s/ beetles/Fireflyprintout.shtml

  13. Re:Slow hunters? on The Plague of Frogs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That does not work. Some area in southern China had such policy before in catching rats. Those guys who were rewarded for the catch found the business is profitable they start buying rats from the neighboring areas, or even farming rats.

  14. Re:Pied Piper on The Plague of Frogs · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good idea, robo mice is also ampheban. One can condition the mice by first play the sound of frog and then reward it with a 'kick' of electric pulse. Then send out the robo mice to patrol the infested area.

  15. Re:So the solution is... on Another Reason to be Annoyed by Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I our area (Hong Kong), the tunnel area is owned by the subway system. They charge the mobile phone companies for connecting antennae all over the places. I doubt phone service would be denied there for financial reason.

  16. Re:Schools... on Paintable LCDs · · Score: 1
    As you might remember there is a kind of thermo-sensitive LCD, the one that is used in aquarium to show the temperature. You can create a computer display by beaming an invisble (say infra Red laser) to heat up a spot on the fabric in making a color change. Use this material and weave into fabric for your shirt sleeve. Now what you need is a wearable computer equiped with optical fibre to beam the output display to the thermo-sensitive fabric. The hard part is to make a device to strobe the invisible light beam onto the fabric to create a display. Such device could be hidden within your pair of glasses. Two piezo device is used to control a tiny mirror of size 0.5 mm X 0.5mm so it could be diffracting the light beam in the x-y axis. When everything is hooked up and debugged. You have a miniature Laser display on your sleeve. Not to forget to put a "mission impossible" style self-destruction mode in case you are caught, it should wipe out the Bessel function, Langrange multiplier ..etc.

    Now for the interface. Leaving one underneath the desk is stupid. Hide an oversized up-down-left-right keypad on the upper size of your soft running shoes is a way. Which is operated by the toe on the other foot.

    But of course, in real life, the toughest exams are usually open-book exams.

  17. Re:130TW in perspective... on Lunar Power · · Score: 1
    130TW being generated. But what percentage of it could be received from the earth?

    Ok, take a blind guess 10%, so 13TW of microwave is beaming from the sky. With such a high energy beam above our head would cause millions people insomnia.

    Even if all the technical issues ironed out. Where will you build the plant? Ok, just look at the photo of the moon, it's all covered with those tiny circles... umm...I mean craters. Some of them may be as big as the size of texas, so big you can even see them at night with you little telescope. So put your $135billion among those craters.

    Well if its hit by a meteroid, you'll always have your money back.

  18. Re:Oh for the love of God! on Spark Gaps and Ultra Wide Band Data Transmission · · Score: 1
    ..does anyone know what a UWB pulse looks like...

    Try look into the textbook, look under the Fourier series of a step function.

  19. Pigeons? on FCC Reinstates CALEA Surveillance Capabilities · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No coverage on pigeons? Surprise!

  20. Re:What's the fuel? on Hydrogen Micro Turbine Only 4mm In Diameter · · Score: 1

    so basically this is a one-gram turbine that runs on flow of air. So next time when you run out of hydrogen, you might ask the lady next door to lend you a basket ball. You need a needle and rubber hose to make the connections.

  21. Re:Europe -- Rivals? on European Space Agency Developing GPS Rival · · Score: 1
    There could be thousands of reasons why the military has to pull the plug on GPS.

    Suppose one fine day, thousands of un-manned GPS controlled aircraft, carrying whatever-shit-payload, flying across the sky. You bet the military will shoot them down one by one or just switch off the GPS system??

  22. Re:Correcting some misunderstandings on New Semiconductor Coolers · · Score: 1

    To my understanding, the thickness issue is important. The material used in the electrothermal heat pump is the silicon waffer, and silicon is not a good conductor of heat.

  23. Fire fighting with JET engine on Pulse Jet Go-kart · · Score: 2

    Fire fighting is another use of the jet engine, try this GAG

  24. Re:Role Playing Games on Study: Playing Computer Games Makes Kids Smarter · · Score: 1
    In real life mode: velocity = distance / time.
    so time span = distance / velocity.

    But to the game designer the time span = attention span. Which is usually short for gamers.

  25. Re:Read the friggin' article - It's not about DVD' on U.S., Japan Ask Sony To Not Outsource PS2 To Taiwan · · Score: 1

    Latest Athlon sold in Hong Kong were overclock at 1.8G.