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  1. Thats the most logical way to answer. on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 1

    Think about it without the "topquoting if for losers and idiots" blocks...

    Most likely, those people know what you wrote them, so they only need to read your answer.
    But in case there is any uncertaincy, the original follows so one can queck is.
    OTOH, bottom quoting would require to check all references that are send with the email before even getting to the point...

    (and PLEASE dont while about "wasted bandwith". A single movie download will need more bandwith than i will ever use for writing emails...)

  2. Re:Tragically... on Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets · · Score: 1

    Use black iron oxide to get higher temperatures (i.e. Fe3O4)

  3. Re:Slashdot Slashdot. on Earth Departure Movie From MESSENGER Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Well, lets see slashdot take a try on hosting some videos, a few high res pics and 2 or 3 filedownloads on the frontpage....

  4. Re:Looks like that Orbiter simulator on Earth Departure Movie From MESSENGER Spacecraft · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Er, you do need to know about shit of programming to download nasa imagemaps and slap them on a sphere to make it look like earth... (and yeah, a specular map of the oceans).
    Orbiter was about the 214th program that did that....

  5. Re:The way they *are* depicted? on Evidence Dinosaurs Are Like Giant Chicks · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but jurassic parks dinos look NOTHING like birds. They look exactly like the illustrations in books of the 60s... (only the raptors move fast... big deal)

  6. Re:Invasion of privacy. on MSN Launches Pay-Per-Click Search Ads · · Score: 1

    Just like google reads your Gmail and knows what you search for...

  7. Re:Is that the Real Discovery? on Listening for Deuterium · · Score: 1

    Its :O Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now,
    So you are missing some of the darker, colder stars :D (R & M, although i know that the classification was changed since that meme was created)

  8. Re:How is this possible? on Dead Star Set to Escape the Milky Way · · Score: 1


    I know, i know. Had to calculate such a slingshot in lagrange coordinates years ago, its a bitch...
    But for neutron stars:

    Calculate the odds for such a slingshot, and the needed trajectories....

    1000km/s is FAST, the other partner would need to be a black hole to get speeds like that ( a normal star wouldnt survive, but merge with the neutron star).
    The crossection is SO small, the needed target so rare, the needed deltaV so large, thats there not much chance of something like this happening in a galaxy ever...

    (just as a reminder: you would need the TOTAL kinetic energy of a OB star on its orbit around the galactic core to boost that neutron star to that speed)

  9. Re:How is this possible? on Dead Star Set to Escape the Milky Way · · Score: 5, Informative

    The main point is: the core isnt EXPLODING, its COLLAPSING to a neutron star. The "explosion" is just a rebounce off the core (_slightly_ simplified :) ).

    After the collapse, the kinetic energy of the quasi free falling neutron matter will overcompress the neutron star core, and then it will oscillate.

    As the collapse istn something perfectly symetrical, there will be significant amplitude of the first harmonic of the oscillation. Thus (for example) the matter hitting the star on one hemisphere will have the core expanding in their direction with quite some speed, while the other side will see it receeding). As the impact isnt very long, there wont be time to average out. In the moment the hull impacts, the core will "push" itself away from that quasi-spherical shell thats hitting it.

    (you have to remember: there is significant mass in that shell. Only a small part of the star actually ends of in the neutron star, so there IS enough mass in the hull for conservation of momentum)

  10. Thats nothing unususal on Dead Star Set to Escape the Milky Way · · Score: 4, Informative

    Those neutron stars are the product of stellar cores collapsing into a neutron star (and then sheding the outer hull thats impacting on the core rebounce shockwave in a class II supernova).

    Now if such a collapse isnt absolutly symetrical, there will be higher spherical hermonics in the neutron core oszillation, and thus the impact of the hull on the core will give it a random impuls vector (the first harmonic being the 2 hemispheres oszilating with 180degree phase difference).

    The observation of those fast moving neutron stars helped the understanding of this processes, as there isnt much that can accelerate them after their creation to this speeds.

    A common speed of a class2 supernova product is in the 100-1000 km/s range (about 2 orders of magnitures lower than the speed of the the ejected hull, thus the visible SNR still seemingly have the neutron star in the center), which is way enough for most to leave our galaxy (300 or so is needed)

  11. Re:The Anwser is the ACLU on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    Has it ever come across your mind that a post couldnt be worth reading without being flamebait or troll?

    As long as there isnt a -1: Wrong or -1: Stupid, overrated is the most appropiate way to moderate a post (no matter what score it has) you think shouldnt b that high scored.

  12. Re:About time on Blizzard/Vivendi 2, bnetd 0 · · Score: 1

    >> Shit, some of us even have legit copies, we just hate dealing with assclowns on Battlenet.

    Thanks for proofing the point.
    As one who has actually PAID for those games, i am really happy that you fucktards (or at least MOST of you and your fucktard friends) cant play online.

  13. Re:Boycott is the greatest power on Blizzard/Vivendi 2, bnetd 0 · · Score: 0

    The majority of people affected by this verdics hasnt ever _bought_ a blizzard game before, so its not really much difference...

  14. Re:No, we don't. on Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate? · · Score: 1

    actually, the hands over the ears part is what you and the gp-post are doing quite fine yourself....

  15. Re:What does this say about evolution? on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1

    Maybe regenerating adults will lead to more inbreeding and genetic instabilities?

    And for most animals, it wont help: when they die, they normally die because of being eaten or starvation, none of it can be countered.

  16. Re:Quick Notes... on Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    And i _really_ think that anyone complaining a dialog is not powerful enough to enter time and date (oh what complex data) is just a "cli and emacs for teh win!!11" troll...

  17. Re:Who stole the BE-condensate? on Technology Behind Plasma Displays · · Score: 1

    From "a deepness in the sky" by vernor vinge
    Worth reading if one has even a slight interest in science fiction

  18. Re:What is it about carbon? on New Material Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 1

    leartn to read please.
    He never claimed it to be the most electronegative one... only those with 2s2p valence electon configuration

  19. This is not a sound buisness plan. on Apple Hedges Its Bet on New Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    Its clearly missing the "?????????" point....

  20. Re:Who stole the BE-condensate? on Technology Behind Plasma Displays · · Score: 1

    I dont think the writers of that article have ever heard that word before.
    And im quite sure they didnt know was plasma is until a few weeks ago...

  21. Re:Anti-satellite? on Laser Cannons Coming to an F-16 Near You · · Score: 5, Informative

    Very doubtful.
    The f 16 will be above of >90% of the athmosphere at the ceiling hight, so absorbtion in the atmosphere isnt that big of a problem. But divergence is.
    No matter what movies will make you believe, lasers arent perfectly parallel beams of light.
    Not to go too much into the details, a laser needs to have a large diameter to have a low divergence (hence the used large telecopes for the moon reflection experiments: a 5m laser diameter here will be a few km on the moon, wile a few mm here will be 100s of km there ...)

    I cant see how a jet-fighter mounted version would fullfill the requirements. The lens crossection has to be small enough not to fuck up the aerodynamics of the supersonic plane, and you cant just put a streamlines glasshood in front of hit because of the high pulse energies...

    So you could get some light onto a satellite, but not enough to knock it out...
    Otoh, I think it could be strong enough to permanently blind the CCDs of enemy spy-sats...

  22. Re:Missile defense on Laser Cannons Coming to an F-16 Near You · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a "one way mirror".
    If the sensor can "see" the outside, it means photons (and thus lasers) can come int....

  23. Re:Start the timers... on PSP 2.0 Update Finally Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    They didnt crack the last release, so i doubt they crack this one.

  24. Re:The sad thing is... on Videogames: In the Beginning · · Score: 1

    Oh cut the crap, windbag.

    Research would for example picking one platform and one release year, and compare the game releases and the total number and the ratio of games deemed "good" by your criteria.

    Just whining about how bad everything is _just_ reminds me of my pearent. Rock and Punk?! horrible! and the movies? They have people getting killed!!!11 what will be next?! games becoming a perversion where you fight monsters in dungeons?
    (you really sound like a granny, you know?)

  25. Re:The sad thing is... on Videogames: In the Beginning · · Score: 2, Funny

    After giving up playing WoW, i can say that im quite sure he isnt the only 5year old playing it :D