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  1. Re:Nothing like discrimination... on Are Vertical Mice The Next Ergonomic Trend? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Do you want some cheese to that whine?

    If you get the left/right handed ratio to 50:50, so that both items are produced and shipped in the same quantities, you can expect them to cost the same.

  2. Re:Am I the only one? on Google Adds Chat To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Do you think this will make a difference?

    To google, who store every email you ever get, no matter if you delete it or not, for advertising and profiling reasons?

  3. Re:The AOL Factor on A History of Firefox · · Score: 1

    Hm
    Maybe i remember stuff wrong...
    But...
    Didnt AOL use a netscape 3.0 based webbrowser back in the time?

    And... the normal AOL (or even EVERY non-geek) user wouldnt be able to tell apart browsers anyway... if you take themes into the picture, just imagine how you could find out which browser somebody uses without resorting to the help/info menue?

  4. Re:No lasers mentioned. on Holograms Help Protect Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    I really wonder if a holographic display would be possible with todays technology...
    We have 65nm structures producable, 45nm in prototypes... thats not far from the needed resolution to create somewhat usable holograms, if one would build some kind of LCOS display with coherent illumination.

    But of course the yields shouldnt allow it...

  5. But still... on Holograms Help Protect Super Bowl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this isnt a hologram.
    (i know hologram sounds cool, but you cannot call any crap that has some stereoscopic view that way)

  6. Re:And at my college... on Physics Students Build Drivable Couch · · Score: 1

    Well, i wont bother to refute your statement, as i dont deal with morons.

    But i couldnt stop laughing when i went to the homepage your profile links to...
    Christian counterstrike server, but with no evil swearing... just killing people by pumping them full of lead (which isnt bad at all)...
    Dont you feel at least a _bit_ stupid doing somethimg like that?

  7. Re:huh? on Physics Students Build Drivable Couch · · Score: 1

    I just checked my amazon buying history and noticed that i found the time to read more than 150 SciFi/fantasy books during my undergrad time.

    I guess there IS more than enough time left to waste for one thing or another...

  8. Re:fluoride is toxic waste on Fight Tooth Decay with Electricity · · Score: 1

    Thats the typical "industrial waste" strawman argument...
    Guess what, chemical substances are created as byproducts and used otherwise all the time.

    Just giving it bad names isnt an argument by itself, and most stuff the body needs can kill him in too high dosage, so the "isnt healthy" can also be streched FAAAAAAR into the real of propaganda.

  9. And that matters how? on Imagining the Google Future · · Score: 1

    There are tons of companies around the world that could spend a billion to build a datacenter and buy 100k 1u servers. Could be done in a few months, and where will the computing power advantage be then?

    The "xx k servers" thing is a _very_ slim advantage to have, as having them now without needing them makes them worthless (as in buying them later would have resulted in less operative cost and better machines for the same price laster), and _if_ the need them now for running operation, they are in no way assets you can use to power future fields of operation...

  10. There is one place where the whining is biggest: on Boing Boing Threatened By Software Creator · · Score: 1

    And thats, so i have noticed, www.nforce.nl
    Because all the leechers whine that they cannot get the iso of the 3vil starforce games, and that the cracks arive, if at all, in form of large fake isos and other unhandy stuff.

    Tells me that starforce is working just fine, as intended.
    Keep up the good work, guys!

  11. Re:Whats up with that shit anyway? on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 1

    A restriction that hasnt affected any of the douzens of site that offer image and video hosting?

  12. Whats up with that shit anyway? on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It seems google video doesnt like germany.
    People from all over the world i spoke to had it working without problems, no matter if they are in australia, japan, uk or poland...
    But in germany "blabla isnt supported".
    Fuck you google. (and no, i wont bother using a proxy, i dont really want stuff from this dumb "dont be evil" company that much)

  13. Re:Times have changed. on Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Microsoft didnt need monopolistic tactics to defeat netscape.
    with the later 3.x versions, and especially with the evil 4.x ones, Netscape Navigator managed to evolve into a PIG of browser.

    He used to have netscape installed on 64Mbyte machines in the university datacenter, and people BEGGED the admins to allow the use of IE5, just because netscape 4.73 was slow, and when it wasnt slow, it was buggy, or crashed, or swapped around like crazy.

    It took the mozilla developers 2+years plus a complete change of the rendering engine to somehow salvage the trainwreck netscape navigator had become.

  14. Reality distortion field.... on Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy · · Score: 1

    Netscape were the KINGS of the internet in the middle 90s.
    Tons of webpages used their propritary tags, and those stupid "use netscape 2.x" tags were more common than any IE-only bias that followed later. As long as netscape had 95%+ market share, they werent nice guys in any way (or why would they have invented the blink tag, and the frame creep?)

  15. Re:Neutrino Detector at the South Pole? on Evidence for String Theory? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The really cool thing about the very thick ice on the south pole is that beneath the few douzend meters of surface layer, its incredibly pure and transparent.

    Now if a neutrino causes a shower of cherenkow radiations, it can be detected many many meters away.
    So instead of building huge watertanks in deep mines, one can use the deeper ice layers as a large detector.

    You just melt holes into it and put photodetectors in a grid pattern, and get billions of tons of detector mass (which you need because low chance of neutrino interaction with matter)

  16. Re:How does it work? on Pixar Eaten by Mickey Mouse · · Score: 1

    Well, a good rule of thump is to assume the name amount in dvd/vhs sale/rent, too.
    Then add merchendizing and tv rights, and you should get 10Billion + easily

  17. Re:So where's the .torrent? on IE7 Leaked · · Score: 1

    You should know that there is a torrent for just about EVERYTHING thats not older than a year or so (and even for a lot that is...)

  18. Re:New data on Pioneer anomaly? on Pluto Probe Launches · · Score: 1

    unlikely to impossible, as it will enter plutos orbit...

    And IIrC, there is a dedicated gravity probe mission in the planning stages.

  19. It seems on Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream · · Score: 1

    You cant really tell apart if you are reading science and pseudoscience (talking about the "parallel existence" stuff). And i seriously dont know why you think that the graviton is dark matter... or are you mixing this part up and mean the higgs boson?

    About this "web of dark matter": The WMAP data of the galactic background STRONGLY supports this hypothesis. The anisoropy is just too large, and too soon to be explained by non-external (i.e. non-photon interacting) gravitational influences.

  20. Not so dumb. on New Ion Engine Being Tested · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well... on earth, nothing would happen, as this kind of engine only works in vaccuum... The mean free travel lenght of those ions in air would be meassured in mircrometers...

    In vaccuum, you would die rather violently, due to shortage of air....

    So i dont think this is a practical concern...

    Of course, if you were in a spacesuit, there would be an issue...

    The process (hitting an object with high energy noble gas ions) is also used on earth, where to precess is used to alter surfaces of materials. Its called "sputtering", or "plasma etching". So i guess you can get a general idea of what it does... It cant penetrate your spacesuit, but will happily kick layer by layer of atoms from its surface.

    If you waited long enough, it would open holes/ect, but it you be very damaging to sensor equipment/solar cells even with short exposures.

    Think of a very low power slaver desintegrator from the ringworld novels :D

  21. Re:Here's a Question for you: on U of Michigan creates first Quantum Microchip · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, qbits arent bits.
    Since reading a "register" destroys the coherent stats and leads to one (of the many possible) readings, you cannot use most algorithms with quantum chips.
    There are only a handful algorithms yet that work theoretically at all (like the famous shore-algorithm to factorize numbers). As a easy guideline, the "you can calculate all possible combinations at once" idea of quantum computing is destroyed for most stuff because of the reading limitations.
    So the way to go is trying to find algorithms in which the end result of the quantum register will give a bias in the readout that will give you a hint for the properties of a large manyfold of input factors.

  22. Re:i say good day sir on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 1

    Its called "elitism", or in other words "desperate search for boggus reasons why i am better than the unwashed masses".

    Have fun...

  23. Are you serious with those links? on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 1

    that "more detail" is from 2001, talks about "current high end 1-3 Megapixel cameras" and how physical limits wont allow the chips to get higher resolutions.

    Considering the kindergarden-layout, too, this is nothing but uninformed bullshit.

  24. Re:Low Resolution on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Considering Macs are targeted at non-geeks and those people even bitch that 17" tfts with 1280x1024 "have such tiny letters", i guess its decent.

  25. Re:On the Feasibility of Coal-Driven Power Station on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    a) maybe you are smart enough to read the text, but you arent to click the frist link...
    b) Its called irony. In this point contrasting the overexposure of risks of one think to the underexposure of risks of something else is archived by reversing the point of view.