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  1. I will wait for the second generation. on The X300 Could Usher in a New Generation of ThinkPads · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I will wait.

  2. Re:the difference on Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software · · Score: 4, Informative

    From David Hyatt's reply, it seems that the webkit team as a whole somehow doesn't like this practice too. David Hyatt was one of the original developers of Firefox and now he is working for Apple.

  3. Re:Ice? on Nanotechnology-Powered Wiper-Less Windshield · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Wasn't that the whole point on US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success · · Score: 1

    I actually understand all of this very well, I only don't know how to calculate. Assume the satellite has been blown up by the fuel tank from inside into small chunks of 5lbs. What's the speed and direction of those small chunks?

  5. Re:Wasn't that the whole point on US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success · · Score: 1

    But this idea has troubled me for pretty long time. You are actually saying that a big trunk of mass (several tons) exploded in space, and all the debris goes down to the earth. In my perception, at least half of the debris should go up. Some one correct me please.

  6. Re:Unfortunately, on China Plans to Surpass the U.S. in Nanotech Development · · Score: 1

    Cheaper labor, equipment, and so on and so forth has nothing to do with innovation.

  7. Re:15% efficiency on New Solar Cell Harvests Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Solar cells with 40% efficiency are for aerospace applications and prohibitive pricey. BTW, the grass in your backyard has an efficiency about 1%.

  8. Re:Why is it always China? on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    "It's a bit more difficult in our case, since we don't have tens of thousands of American engineers and students flooding Chinese companies and schools." Or do you mean it is easier when CIA sends some of those people back.

  9. Re:RTFA on NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    And a user who doesn't put the battery in the wrong way.

  10. Re:Lame? on MacBook Air's Battery is Actually Easy to Replace · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what's the chance that he thinks a Nomad is better?

  11. Re:Cheaper Batteries? on MacBook Air's Battery is Actually Easy to Replace · · Score: 1

    Actually charge/discharge cycles do have effect on the life the Li-ion batteries. The higher the charge/discharge speed the worse the effect. And even you don't use it, it degrades. I noticed that all Dell notebooks around me have their batteries dead after about 3 years with/without heavy battery use. The best way too keep a Li-ion battery is too keep it half charged at a cool place. And don't let it deeply discharged.

  12. Re:Forget exploding batteries, on New Dell Laptops Give Users a Literal Shock · · Score: 1

    I, a macbook pro owner, testify that it has been invented by Apple for pretty some time. The MBP's shock is subtle, but when I kiss my wife while holding my MBP, I do feel it.

  13. I believe in CowboyNeal on Intel Employee Caught Running OLPC News Site · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    CowboyNeal rocks!

    Put jokes aside, isn't this normal? One of my friend found some parameter of an IC he is using online, it turned out to be totally wrong, my the other friend searched density of a chemical online, and he ended up with a wrong compound. I found many mistakes on Wikipedia, like 99.99% charge-discharge efficiency of lithium ion battery. I think most people have learned the class someway.

  14. Re:I bet some devs are really pissed now on First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test · · Score: 2, Informative

    Opera 9.5Beta and Firefox Beta3pre failed too. Just FYI.

  15. Re:I bet some devs are really pissed now on First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just tested, Opera 9.5Beta and Firefox 3 Beta3pre are pretty impressive.

  16. Re:That is making a speaker inside things on Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Yes, OS X is hurting Linux Desktop Development on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I think you are actually saying "Linux is hurting Linux Desktop Development".

  18. Why everybody get so emotional on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I have been using Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, VMS and Windows of course for many years. I do a lot of programming on all flatforms. I always feel it is funny that some one claim one is better than others. They all have their pros and cons. Just make them do what they suppose to do.

    On the other thought, what a boring Friday afternoon, let's just...

  19. Re:Days gone by on AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development · · Score: 1

    I still remember finding my first html code snippet that crash the Netscape browser. (I found many of them, both netscape and IE of course.) Old days, some of them never got fixed, dark old days.

  20. Re:How many times? on Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security · · Score: 1

    Security = good IT staff * good system.

  21. How many languages have multithread support? on Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust · · Score: 1

    How many languages have multithread support already?

    Java, C#(?), Fortran(?)...

    I haven't been programming in those languages for some time, so just curious, and my current major language (Igor pro) will use all the cores automatically, and how many languages do multithread this way? Matlab(?), Octave(?).

  22. Re:reboot the web! on HTML V5 and XHTML V2 · · Score: 1

    I've just got a message from God this morning, he is working on reinventing the whole universe to plug those black holes now, and the request of a better web will be saved in a bugzilla database and be fulfilled several billion years later.

  23. Re:about time on Opera Tells EU That Microsoft's IE Hurts the Web · · Score: 1

    Never, IE got VML already. But to be honest, I like VML more than SVG.

  24. Re:We'll have scramjets in a couple years on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    Don't lemme start the Duke Nukem For...

  25. Some math on Toshiba To Launch "Super Charge" Batteries · · Score: 1

    Let's see, 150 Wh/mi * 175 miles = 26250Wh.

    26250Wh filled in 5 minutes, 26250Wh / (5 min /60 (min/hr)) = 315000W. This number is pretty impressive. It's at the scale of a Mini hydro.

    Assume 1% of energy become heat inside the battery during the charging, that will be a 3150W heater in your battery.

    Do you smell something smoking?