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  1. Re:well on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1

    hardware failure also gives BSOD, would be premature to bill the Bill.

  2. Re:Remote controlled helicopter camera? on Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked · · Score: 1

    The UAV will be flying above the rain cloud, nothing worth filming at that altitude.

  3. Re:If they can fake a fireworks display, on Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked · · Score: 1

    1110 rounds of rain-inducing substance fired on Aug-8. It contains silver iodide to accelerate rain formation, the rain cloud will lose much of its water content before it was blown to the bird's nest. So the clear sky part was also fake. It should have been raining that night.

    http://2008.qq.com/a/20080811/002571.htm

  4. Re:Exporting the pollution on China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City · · Score: 1

    giant submarine turbine could generate a lot of electricity to product hydrogen.

  5. Re:Good Luck... on China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City · · Score: 1

    with zero emission vessels everywhere, the houses could be packed closer.

  6. Re:Haha on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1

    It is a 'communist' country with stock market, free trade, private ownership. In recent decade or two, the Chinese adopted the 'pre 1997 Hong Kong' model, where the Govt is the God Father, the general public are encouraged to make money and stay out of politics.

  7. Re:A Year's Effort Up In Smoke on Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There were 29 real 'big foot' fireworks firing at 2 seconds interval. The first firework began at the Wing Ding gate, spanning a distance of around 13500 meters. So for a helicopter to cover the filming of firework, it has to fly some where around 225 meters per second. A tough job for the helicopter pilot.

    I think, if the smog and cloud wasn't much a problem that night, there might be some crazy Chinese guy filming the process high above.

  8. Re:So what? on Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked · · Score: 1

    NBC should present the non-smog free sky blended with a fair amount of cloud high above.

  9. Re:not a real issue on Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony? · · Score: 1

    The ordering follows the number of strokes in the chinese calligraphy of the first word of the nation. The first country appeared was 'Kee' ... (could remember the whole name). It has 2 strokes. Then followed by 3, 4 strokes etc. The ordering was used in chinese phone books. So the ordering is not random. The network guys might have got freaked out when they got the list of ordering, which looks random in alphabetical order.

  10. Re:Multi-State... on Memristor Based RAM Could Be Out By 2009 · · Score: 1

    Just wonder why you need to put the analog signal in 8/16 bits.

  11. Re:I can only hope on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Or even worse, he should be sentenced live to maintain the RFS.

  12. Re:supply and demand - no real problem on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    From the wiki on Indium "...In 2002, the price was US$94 per kilogram. The recent changes in demand and supply have resulted in high and fluctuating prices of indium, which from 2005 to 2007 ranged from US$700/kg to US$1,000/kg...". It seems that the retirement fund has not increased by ten fold. So it is reasonable to stock some indium, galium or whatever resource. It is even a better investment than investing in gold.

  13. Re:Interersing trend... on Higher Oil Prices Are Starting To Bring Jobs Home · · Score: 1

    You don't have to eliminate the civilization, just remove Bush and Cheney. I am expecting $150+ when they are still in office to maintain the absurdity of high oil price. It comes in no surprise if Israel is bombing Iranian nuclear facilities and drive up the price even further.

  14. Re:Interersing trend... on Higher Oil Prices Are Starting To Bring Jobs Home · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If high fuel cost continues, it will only bring back the sail-boats, not the off-shore jobs.

  15. Re:Garage Nukes on Nuclear Warhead Blueprints On Smugglers' Computers · · Score: 1

    Making and using the bomb is the easiest part. The hardest part is to win the battle. With Nuke, there is no winner. Suffering and hatred simply perpetrate another thousand years.

  16. Re:Dupe! on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 2, Funny

    The article itself makes its appearance in slashdot every six months.
    The RepRap itself actually does not replicate anything useful.
    It would attract more audience if the inventor does not insist the
    self replication feature. By replacing the ugly clear glue with hot
    flowing chocolate, the machine will be 100 times more welcomed. Then
    of course, cold air jet is needed to set the hot molten candy.

  17. Re:Yeah, but... on Dell Shows Off Its Eee PC Rival · · Score: 1

    It crawls or walks, hardly runs.

  18. Pixels are tiny on Dell Shows Off Its Eee PC Rival · · Score: 1

    Any company producing magnifying glass for these mini-laptop? I mean there are so many eye-sore out there to make them rich.

  19. Re:A bug management knew about for 2 years.. on Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors · · Score: 2

    The question remains, does the 'CDO coding error' ends there? How faulty are the bonds and commodities ratings?

  20. Re:Yeah right, that's what it was... on Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors · · Score: 1

    An opulent coding error.

  21. Re:Err ... on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    "I'm storing info about Wi-Fi access points that I come across, maybe 8-9 fields per
    entry" Either the guy is accessing a very wide area, or he is a lazy bastard. An SQL system seems an overkill.
    But anyway. Two decades ago, I came across similar issue on my apple II, I put all data in a flat file stored on a 5.25 floppy. Then i wrote a simple program in BASIC to create a B-tree indexing the flat file. First 3 levels of the tree was cached for fast access.

    I think the basic DB tools that came with perl could solve most of his problems.

  22. Re:Whats the point? on Post-Quake, China Cuts Access to Entertainment Web Sites · · Score: 1

    The great-walls is for tourists, it could hardly stop the determined. The same is true the great firewall.

  23. Re:Can't fight demographics... on Japan "Running Out of Engineers" · · Score: 1

    The high housing cost have ruined sex life of those people. Similar trend also observed in Hong Kong where the rent matches Tokyo. The school authority has to cut down the number of primary school in Hong Kong due to low birth rate.

  24. Re:Springlike limb != springlike limb on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Springlike limb != springlike limb on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1

    I think you mean this :http://www.abyes.com/powerisers.htm

    If this guy outruns the others, other athletes will ask for a
    poweriser instead of a pair of running shoes.