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  1. Re:Matrix Musings on Pushing the Envelope For Matrix Reloaded SFX · · Score: 1

    Well, such a scan takes its time.
    I guess it would take at least a hour or so.
    the actor wouldnt be able to hold still long enough

  2. Re:Thermal and Electrical Conductivity on Diamonds As Room-Temperature Superconductors · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the thermal conductivity of diamond is a result of phonon conduction. If you dope the diamond, the loss of phonon conductivity will be far greater then the gain through electron conduction.

  3. Re:blindsided on Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble · · Score: 1

    Problem is that a telescope is very expensive and heavy. 1-I dont believe we currently have any rocket being able to lift a whole (assambled) space telescope into geo, let alone even farther out. 2-Also you are not able to send a shuttle there to repair/maintain it. 3-you have tons of data to transmit which isnt going to be easier if you have 100m km between earth and the telescope. and it is even funnier if the telescope is 6 month behind, because then the sun is in the way....

  4. Re:More that one factor on Still More on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Show this to a strange attractor und look whats happening. We had ice ages with ocean levels so low people could walk to lands now islands. We had tropical ages where it is clamed that no claciers at all excisted (late perm/ealy jura) This is NOW a sign of "stable equilibrium". Sure, there are TONS of factors in there, but it is irresponsible to continue doing things we KNOW that they can't be good, only because we dispude HOW bad they are. And please don't argue a SUV feeds the trees with co2 they long for or such crap

  5. Re:a hypernova! on Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, if they had started with kilonova after the normal nova, meganova would be ok. But they choose supernova. And hyper>super.

  6. Re:Why? on New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    well, it is true that these new moons arent very large, but saturns rings are 99% little more then dust (the roche-threshold is a bitch). There are a few very large "rocks" in the rings, but they are reckognized as moons.

  7. Re:WM9 *is* MPEG-4 on Windows Media 9 in Digital Theaters · · Score: 1

    Well, i-frames and p frames are in every codec since the dawn of time. WM9 IS DIFFERENT from mpeg4. Sure, the diffrences aren't great, but you have to considere that the differences between mpeg 2 and 4 or mpeg4 and h264 arent great either.

  8. Re:Advantages? on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1

    Well, the light is highly coherent. If anyone can see it with his googles, then they will probably fry his eyes. One problem could be air ionisation. it would be really nasty to have glowing lines inthe air pointing at the sniper :)

  9. Re:Failure? on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    Well, the "core developers" were mainly netscape (now sun?, dont know who bought them) developers beeing paid for their job.

  10. Re:30%? on Military Grade Laptops · · Score: 5, Funny

    54 is such a strange number.
    I guess after the 55th drop it was dead :)

  11. Re:30%? on Major Strike on Iraq Underway · · Score: 1

    >> Whatever reasons the war started what is important to me is that the Iraqi people will probably be better off once all this is over. Sadaam was killing more Iraqi's every year than were killed by Amercans during the Gulf war.

    ASSHOLE!
    If saddam killed 150000 people per year there would not be much left.
    Yes, CNN only showed NICE SURGICAL weapons, but never mentioned that the USA bombed 3 times as much people to hell then amarical soldiers died in vietnam....

  12. Re:30%? on WETA Digital Operations Mgr. Talks Special Effects · · Score: 1

    Its one thing if you use a network to run a potential hostile programm connected to the internet.
    Practicing your animating/modelling skill by making fun sequences not used in the movie is quite another.

  13. Re:OLED? on Kodak Releases Digital Camera With OLED Display · · Score: 1

    They ARE diodes. Only they use layers of organic molecules instead n and p doped SI as hole and e- conductors Result: You can create a display matrix of them because the different organic molecules can be vaporated/printed an a surface without destroying each other

  14. Re:30%? on Enterprise-class ATA Drives · · Score: 0

    Hey, you can only have 14 Scsi an a ultra 360 chain. Thats slow.
    But if you have 14 Serial ata drives connected to a raid-board, you get 14*150=2100 MB/s peap performance.
    Also beeing point to point, one drive failure has no way to take other drives on the same string because there are no others.

    And reliability:
    imho these things have 5 year warranty,too. And if you don't trust them anyway and use raid with hot spare drives, even if you need one drive more per year(or 2) it would still be much cheaper

  15. Right! on New Starcraft: Ghost Trailers · · Score: 1

    I mean, a Linux user cant play any recent games on his computer, so he is more likely to own a console for gaming ... ;)

  16. Eugenia.... on Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional · · Score: 1

    wasnt that the woman wo "reviewed" SuSE's new install manager from a few screenshots and told everybody it sucks?
    Because it had to much options?
    And because it could color newer versions in the package list?

  17. Re:Details on First Kramnik vs DeepFritz, In Progress · · Score: 1

    Yes, they do. Deep Fritz is 100% X86 Asm. Thats the reason why they used an 8*Xeon 900 and not a sun E12000 or anything like that. I would give you a link but your attitude is anoying. Try google yourself.

  18. HAH! on The Last Days at 3dfx · · Score: 1

    Well.
    All the "first" things are correct.
    Voodoo1 was great. Really really great.

    Then voodoo2. Die shrink. more memory. third chip. Faster clocked. SLI possible. But no real innovation

    Then banshee. 2D graphics. slower then voodoo2 sli. no new features.

    then voodoo 3. faster clocked. Only innovation was enabling the voodoo2 multitexturing banshee lacked.

    then
    long time nothing.
    ---
    now voodoo3 remained their main product until all was lost (the vsa-100 was to little to late). While everybody else innovated , 3dfx told people that speed, not quality is important.
    The voodoo3 had the great "22 bit coloring" they advertised because EVERYBODY else supported 32 bit
    The same 256*256 pixel limit for textures voodoo1 already featured ("nobody will ever want more then 640K ram, ähhh more then 65K pixels in a texture...).

    They were only able to continue that long because customers and "review" sites liked them.
    when 3dfx announced the voodoo3 and the stats said it still had only 16 bit rendering, limited texture sizes and so on - their fanboys cheered. Because they were told they get "22bit" colour. And quake 2 at 1024*786 in 60 frames...

    You really got the impression the whole managment was stoned by this "we created the fastest biggest best thing in computer history" shit and forgot to do theis job...

    Even the vsa-100 architecture couldnt save them. They simply DIDNT innovate for at least 2 years.
    To long.

  19. VP3 background on Xiph.org Releases Theora Alpha One · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The vp3 video codec was released to open source by on2 technology mainly because its image quality was noticable worse then (divx 5.0, Xvid ,wmv8).
    They tried to get some publicity while selling the succesor.,vp4 (or 5), which isnt open sourced.

    Any improvement to bring it on the same level as xvid or divx would just retrace on2's steps of progress.
    How can OGG be sure that they wont violate patents in this process?

  20. Everytime on MIT Scientists Demo 150 Ton Magnet For Plasma Research · · Score: 1

    they talk about strong magnets being thousends of times stronger than the field of the earth, they forget to mention that earths magnetic field is really damn weak...
    At 0.6 gauss, this would mean this baby just surpasses 15 Tesla. Quite strong, but nothing uncommon.

    But really, a 150 ton magnet isnt very big if you look at the stuff they use at cern and other partical accelerator sites.

  21. The real Problem.... on Bero Quits Red Hat Over Treatment of KDE · · Score: 1

    how does it help a new user if his linux distro has 2 different, but identical looking desktops?

    Why not using kde OR genome and modify it to make it more user friendly. This kind of mimicry does only confuse people.
    KDE and Gnome are still 2 different things, even if they look identical.