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  1. Re:Build it on IEEE Seeks Data On Ethernet Bandwidth Needs · · Score: 1

    150 is not 120 in reality. not even theoretically.

  2. Re:Not bad. on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 1

    Lol. You really crack me up.

    So you support gaming only on the free linux, but avoid the bad non-free windows gaming by going to totally propritary route of consoles, where not only the hardware is propritary, but people have to pay to microsoft and sony to be allowed to make games...

  3. Re:Problematic data on Crowdsourcing Radiation Monitoring In Japan · · Score: 1

    >If the radiation detector is built with the proper non-removable shield then they will only be able to measure useful types of radiation. But more seriously, they need to clean the probe, they need to take into account standing radiation sources.

    You dont know shit, surprising as this might seem considering that you are talking out of your ass.

  4. Re:45k in lines on The World's Smallest Video Camera · · Score: 1

    Has been doen for years.
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124161613.htm

    But does not work as nice, as there is no way to stear it (and its one-way street down).

  5. Re:Cathode Ray Tube: Alive and Well on Tech That Failed To Fail · · Score: 2

    Dont agree. 2007 was loong ago.
    Take a look at the development hence: http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/19721_large_fpsales.jpg

    10 years ago it sales were basically 100% CRT. Now, its 15%, worldwide.

    Alive and well? More like sick and dying

  6. Re:45k in lines on The World's Smallest Video Camera · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thats what they are doing right now. Guess what. 45k individual fibres, even bundled, need a lot more space than a 1mm^3 camera...

  7. Re:First in the pool on What Developers Want From the Wii's Successor · · Score: 1

    No, its not.

    They are basically announcing a current generation console.
    I doubt it will contain hardware significantly better than the Xbox360 or the PS3.

  8. Re:OK, I'll Say It on Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC · · Score: 1

    Er... Any procress that is reasonable recent will cost a lot more for a single lithography mask...

  9. Re:OK, I'll Say It on Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC · · Score: 1

    I am using cyclon FPGA. They have something like 20k gates available. This has nothing to do with next generation anything, but with the fact that their cpu will be less complex than a 386...

  10. Re:It is not impossible on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    You realize how hilariously wrong you are right?

    No?

    Then just imagine you have a 100Gbyte Truecrypt volume mounted on your drive. You open a text file on it, change a word and than save it. Does it take about 10 minutes, or does it take a few millisecond? That should tell you that no, a change in a truecrypt volume will NOT change the whole file.

    To be a bit more serious:
    No whole disc encryption scheme can work without being block based. They are quite tiny, like in Hard Drive Sector Size small.

  11. Re:FPGA for shipping products? on Cheaper, More Powerful Alternative To FPGAs · · Score: 2

    Many IO cards use FPGAs.

    I have seen them in interferometer controllers, motor servo boards, fast multi-io cards, etc. Most of the stuff is low quantity, expensive stuff ($5000+ per item), so it seems like its easier to put in an FPGA than creating a new chip for a few 100/1000 copies...

  12. Re:Just sail over the horizon _then_ fire your gun on US Navy Close To On-Ship Laser Cannons · · Score: 2

    Yawn.

    First, if you see your enema, better go to a better doctor.

    Second, its not a replacement for artillery (thats going to be the job of railguns), but of phalanx systems. Operational range would only be a few km, so plenty in line of sight.

  13. Re:Change for change sake on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you select more than 20 items, size does no longer appear.

    Its apperantly for performance reasons. The same reason why it does no longer show the size of the curren directly in the status bar.

    That is for me the only thing i hate on W7. And its so useless a restriction, too.

  14. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 0

    Than your computer is defective.

    Check your memory or hardrive. Else, update hardware drivers.

    NO modern OS "just crashes".

  15. Re:CLI is no longer essential on The Case Against GUIs, Revisited · · Score: 1

    Never used LabView?

  16. Re:How much savings by launching from 20 miles up? on NASA's Orion Moon Craft Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Depends on the concept used.

    Speaking in terms of gravity, you dont gain much. But you are putting the vast majority of the atmosphere below you. This makes, for example, hydrogen engines more efficient for 1st stages (they need huge tanks for the light nitrogen, which create tons of drag in the lower atmosphere.)

  17. Re:Baby puke green? on NASA's Orion Moon Craft Unveiled · · Score: 2

    Look up the old liverys of american airlines. Thats not silver paint, thats polished aluminium.
    for example: http://s3.amazonaws.com/collectapedia_prod/images/62178/American_Airlines_990_Astrojet.jpg

    Nowadays that does not fly anymore, as more and more composites are used, which are
    a) not as sexy unpainted
    and
    b) non-conductive, so need a conductive paint layer to prevent damage in thunderstorms

  18. Re:Processor use on Julia Meets HTML5 · · Score: 1

    First hit when googling "Flash Fractal Viewer"

    http://www.felinesoft.com/blog/index.php/2010/10/mandelbrot-fractal-viewer-in-flash-actionscript-3/
    for me faster by about a factor of 3, plus MUCH smoother even when only using a single core.

  19. Re:Why is this surprising? on Julia Meets HTML5 · · Score: 1

    HTML5, Now only 100 times slower than real applications!

    Seriously, 20MFlops in something like a julia/mandelbrot set is 486-level performance.

  20. Re:Tourists vs residents on Golden Gate Bridge To Eliminate Tollbooths · · Score: 1

    I was in SF as a tourist, and did never go near the toll booths on the Golden Gate bridge... because i walked over it.

    The toll across the bay bridge when doing the SFO - Berkeley tour was annoying enough.

  21. Re:Eh no. on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Real world isnt really like RPS style RPGs anymore.

    Assymetrical warefare means that your stealth fighters never face enemies stealth fighters, your nuclear submarines never face their nuclear submarines, your tomahowks never face theirs, and their sucide bombers never face yours.

  22. Re:Helluva long distance call on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You might be too young to know, but modems are good for more than connecting to ISPs. You can create data connections to other persons, forming a shadow network.

    Something like Fidonet with its node/point structure could be made pretty much unkillable even in such a situation unless the state would kill ALL communications.

  23. Re:Bullshit and Snakeoil on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you are right. Was a knee-jerk reaction. There is the possibility of a slightly exothermic fusion of iron with hydrogen. Some other comment posted it.
    But the result would be a highly radioactive copper isotobe, emitting beta and gamma radiation, with the majority of the net energy gain of the reaction yielding from the radioactive decay.

    And significant amount of energy produced would result in tons of radiation to be detected ( not only background +50%)

  24. Re:Nickel and Hydrogen? on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 2

    Cu-59, IIRC, produces about 5MeV per decay. Thats MORE then the energy of fusion you calculated. And at 81S half-life, with enough power the boil a significant amount of water, the reactor would be a complete hot-zone, radioactively speaking.
    You should see the Cerenkov radiation of all those gammas in the watertank...

  25. Re:Produces copper? on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 2

    Fully open system, they did even let the steam escape.
    So if they really HAD done fusion, they would have radioactively contaminated their whole building.