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  1. Re:Concise article summary on Robot for India's Moon Mission by IIT Kanpur · · Score: 1

    $50,000 is barely enough buy lubricant that can endure high vacuum, both low and high temperature and strong radiation for such a robot.

  2. Re:I don't want features; I ONLY want speed on Firefox 3.0 Makes Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    I don't need to scroll at all on this page. Wait, you don't have Adblock, do you?

  3. Re:I don't want features; I ONLY want speed on Firefox 3.0 Makes Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    Can you give a link of the site that shows slow scroll please? People can test if this has been fixed in 3.0.

  4. Re:Haha on First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild · · Score: 1

    If "it is TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a Mac, or Linux machine to malfunction in any way, from any cause", then what's wrong with your keyboard?

  5. Re:Benefits to MS on Microsoft Announces OOXML-UOF Project with China · · Score: 1

    If they want to stay in the Chinese office software market, the have to adopt Chinese standard. There are already three software providers making UOF compatible software, kingsoft's WPS, EIOffice and Open office based RedOffice (Chinese). Some of them are very good.

  6. Re:But can those features be incorporated? on Microsoft Announces OOXML-UOF Project with China · · Score: 2, Informative
  7. Re:Revolutionary! on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 1

    They can also split the screen! Bravo!

  8. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1

    Money is not the issue. People is the problem. Each of their SEM costs at least half million dollars. They have ten of them but the have only 3 operators, why they put 7 of their half million dollar babies away? Because they simply couldn't find a SEM operator who knows semiconductor. They definitely would like to pay $100k for a good SEM operator but they simply couldn't find one. They found one recently but there was no more god damn fucking H1B quota.

  9. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1

    Are you sure this not fucking rocket science? Did you bother to read the wikipedia page on TEM?

  10. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the place my friend works should be Santa Clara, California.

  11. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1

    I don't know why, I only see a few American TEM operators, I known many Ph. D. can operate TEM, but those companies can't afford to pay 80k per year for a TEM operator, the salary of a TEM operator is about 40k to 50k per year, never goes up. Also, there aren't enough training facilities. And those learning TEM in Universities are mostly F1 visa holders too. Reality is far from your theory.

    The same situation happens in the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) area, I have a friend working at a company at Sunnyvale, California, you guess which one, the company pays him 100k per year, but he spend one third of the time smoking outside and enjoy the sunshine. Why? Because they have to measure their products in SEM to know if they are good. There are more than 10 SEMs in their facilities but there are only 3 operators, so my friend has to wait. They simply can't find any SEM operator!

    Don't let me mention the reliability engineers.

  12. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1

    There are 5000+ Transmission Electron Microsopy operator positions in US while there are only 3000+ operators. I don't see how the industry can fill the gap without hiring foreign people.

  13. I Say Prop Software Violates More than 235 Patents on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    I Say Proprietary Softwares Violate More than 235 Patents, so it is dangerous to use any proprietary software, the proprietary software may lead to potential lawsuits and monetary losses.

    Can some one show that I am wrong?

  14. Those people lived before the first house... on Ceiling Height May Affect Problem-Solving Skills · · Score: 1

    They must be damn smart, because their ceilings were infinite high, right, they were so smart that they even could create ceiling. Now that all make sense.

  15. What will they do to /.ers using the thing as sig? on AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Let's wait and see...:-)

  16. I would like to see some data of this new LowK on IBM's Snowflake Microchips · · Score: 1

    Like the Young's modulus, etching properties, copper diffusion and reliability data. Any one has a real paper? Is it dendrimer based porous MSQ?

  17. This is not only happening to Apple on Apple iBook G4 Design Flaw Proven · · Score: 1

    With the lead free solder and halogen free IC packaging materials, this kind of faults are happening everywhere, in all brand. Welcome to a brave new not so well tested electronic world.

    BTW, anyone knows any regulation of lead for the fishing weight or the bullet? they are everywhere.

  18. Re:So what does this mean for Mono? on Microsoft Common Language Runtime To Be Cross-Platform · · Score: 1

    Not much, Mono is much bigger than a CLR.

  19. Re:But what is the channel made of? on Thin Water Acts Like a Solid · · Score: 3, Informative

    OK, I read the paper, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.115415.

    They did experiment with a Molecular Iamge PicoPlus AFM with the funny sound proof box and rubber bands, if you saw such a system you will know what I mean. The tip they used had a stiff cantilever and was "likely to be oxidized". They carefully controlled the sample surface and make it perpendicular to the tip. And they did the experiment on three surface, mica, soda lime untreated glass and highly oriented hydrophobic graphite.

    And the result is hydrophilic surfaces showed increased viscosity and the hydrophobic surface showed no change.

  20. But what is the channel made of? on Thin Water Acts Like a Solid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it is hydrophobic, what we see may actually be the effect of lost entropy due to rearrangement of water molecules, rather than compression.

  21. popup menu problem with multiple screens on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have two screen attached to my mac, and if I put a firefox window in the second screen and type things in address bar or search bar, the popup menu appears in the first screen. Safari doesn't have this problem.

  22. Re:It's not just piracy on Only 244 Genuine Windows Vista's Sold in China · · Score: 1

    If you read the whole website of newlaunches.com, you won't bother to type that many words.

  23. Re:melamine on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there are many plastic parts that give you no chance of swallowing, inhaling, absorbing or chronic exposuring to the melamine inside them. Also, the melamine has been used to make dinnerware together with formaldehyde. Or in laminate flooring and Mr. Clean's magic eraser, with formaldehyde too. It also has small environment impact as itself.

    BTW, I don't get it why US, one of the biggest wheat exporter, imports wheat gluten from China, one of the biggest wheat importer?

  24. Re:But if the children on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 1

    Yes, I still don't understand how melamine in food can lead to kidney failure in feline, but I believe the future of melamine as flame retardant is dimming after this bad publicity.

  25. Re:Washington State, Don't come crying back.... on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    China, Europe and Japan have banned PBDE, plus California, I think Washington is going to be OK.