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  1. math? on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    So you are going to sit there and claim that: ab/c==sqrt(a)*sqrt(b)/c?

  2. Re:sqrt(p)pi on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    So on a square inch of your monitor there are only 103 pixels? I pity you :) (mine has about 11000)

  3. Re:sqrt(p)pi on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    Did you really not learn any algebra at school? Or do you just think that it doesn't apply to the real world?

    If you have a number of pixels on a surface, then obviously you have a number of square roots of pixels on a distance.

    "My point was just that they aren't dots, they are pixels. DPI is slightly as it'd usually refer to a CRT or print material, where a dot is a single colour."

    I understood perfectly well what your point was, I was just correcting you on the unit.

  4. sqrt(p)pi on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    "Do the math, it works out to around 90dpi, or perhaps ppi (pixels per inch) is a better term."

    If we are going to go down that road, then the "best" term for it whould be "square root of pixels per inch" or sqrt(p)pi.

  5. Just read the name ocf section 1.2 on US Intensifies Fight Against Child Pornography · · Score: 1

    "The rape putic applications"...

  6. Simple... on Viruses May be the Precursors of All Life · · Score: 1

    Since chickens evolved from organisms that had eggs, then eggs must have come first.

  7. That's what the new space shuttle is for. on Nuna 3 wins World Solar Cup for the 3rd Time · · Score: 1

    He's going to send troops to the sun.

  8. Re:I'm on a 100% music CD boycott on RIAA Hands out more Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    " I occasionally download music though via popular P2P client :)"

    Dammit that hurts the cause, you can't bojcott something _and_ use the product. Stop the fuck doing that.

    You don't really need that music and by downloading you are just helping RIAA.

  9. Famous last words on New IrDA Spec Shoots for 100Mbit/s Data Rate · · Score: 1

    "and very short range..."

    IrDA sniper rifle anyone?

  10. It's not a VDG on Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns · · Score: 1

    It's a resonant transformer, aka a Tesla coil.

    (google for it)

  11. Re:Why don't we have hand cranks? on Urine Powered Battery Developed · · Score: 1

    While they're at it, why doesn't my car have an emergency gear/wheel/crank system that I can connect ot my battery on cold days when my Jolapy won't start?

    It doesn't have one because you havent built one! Sheesh what kind of geek are you? :)

  12. Well... on World's Largest Solar Array to use Stirling Engine · · Score: 1

    What kind of fuel does it use?

    It uses hydrogen in a fusion process.

  13. Re:Thermodynamics vs Photovoltaics on World's Largest Solar Array to use Stirling Engine · · Score: 1

    The important point here is that theoretical PV efficiency is 100%.

    For that you whould need a very large nuber of layers, one for each possible wavelenght of light. Otherwise, a dislodged electron is either going to overshoot(some energy that can't be utilized) or not go high enough(no energy that can be utilized).
    For the spektrum of the sun i think a single layer is limited to about 45%.

  14. Re:Just did a couple quick calculations... on World's Largest Solar Array to use Stirling Engine · · Score: 1

    On top of that, a steam turbine (and any heat engine) is limited by the Carnot efficiency, which, theoretically, can reach 50%

    Incorrect, the theoretical limit is 100%.
    Th->inf and/or Tc->0

  15. wow on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1

    I admire your great insight in seeing the parallels between the statistically completely differently motivated crimes of rape and terrorism. Why i couldn'e even imagine that large scale attacs where carried out to fulfill deep inner sexual desires, or that rape mostly was done to kill the white devil with pseudoreligius overtones.

  16. So many people just carry small parts of the bomb on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1
    And assemble them in/on the station/train. AQ(que the on/off suit jokes) tend to be well organized so it doesn't seem like a big problem for them.


    Imagine for example many ice cream cones with TNT in them(some with detonators) thrown into the same waste paper bin.

  17. Re:American Coffee on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 1

    You've obviusly never tried oiled silk sheets. It's lightyears ahead of any other ass wiping technology.

  18. Oh.. Oh... on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 1

    Getting to finish the joke on slashdot = Priceless.

  19. Re:Instantly hot! on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 1
    Wait, what are those?


    Think of them as real world 3D porn.

  20. Yeah it can be really bad... on AMD Subpoenas to Stop Document Destruction · · Score: 1

    If you are in the testing phase of a shredder development project.

  21. don't do that on DVD-Audio's CPPM Circumvented · · Score: 1
    I've downloaded lots of albums that I NEVER would have bought because I just wanted to see if I liked them.


    Now that's something i wish people whouldn't do. You are fueling the campaign for more ridicculus laws, as well as giving someone free advertizing. And for no reason to boot: You are not going to miss a song you have never heard.

  22. some lint on Project Gizmo Challenges Skype · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was'nt a gremlin, it was i belive, a "mogvai"(no i don't know how to spell it). It did'nt turn into a gremlin until you fed it after midnight.

  23. Re:Open doors on Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network · · Score: 1
    Put simply, it's fairly likely that most people with open access points don't realize that anyone can come along and use it, and probably don't want people using them.


    Could we compare this to someone who does'nt speak english yelling "Free dollars!" and having them on a table in front of him? Could he have people who try to take the money thrown in jail?("Free dollars" is the eq of the network protocol allowing access)

  24. Simple on Real Wood iPod · · Score: 1
    Like a real nerd he installed Linux on it and simply whistles in his command by morse code.


    *whistling* *actual morse code for "volume 11" removed by lameness filter goes here*

  25. Re:While we are at it! on AMD Launches Athlon 64 FX-57 · · Score: 1

    No, the k is not capitalized EXLAMATION POINT