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  1. Re:And... on Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic · · Score: 1

    Hm. I dont care about odds or evens with distortion. Fact is that solid state amps have enough dynamic range to work without going into clipping range, while tube amps have a distortion all the time because of their tubes limited working voltages.

  2. Re:Analog Watches? on Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic · · Score: 1

    oviously its ticking, or it would move all the time, not just every second.

  3. Re:But.. on Tracking The (English) Words We Use · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Never even try to estimate the vocabulary of other people. Im not even a native speaker, but i really doubt that i would lose to a little asshole like you in that department.

  4. Re:I have looked up all the rude words: on Tracking The (English) Words We Use · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, if people could write fuck, cunt, bitch, motherfucker, ect in the web without being censored by "lets be nice" moderatores, irc-bots, php-bbses,ect, their rank would be quite a bit higher.
    I guess fuck should be at least in the top 1000.

  5. Re:Everything green... on Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon · · Score: 2

    You know what? I like that kind of "philanthrophic behabiour" much better than the normal "my SUV weights more than your truck" kind of expressing their coolness.

  6. Re:Press Release... funding on Antarctic Telescope? · · Score: 1

    another way often utilized is sending a pulsed laser beam up their line-of-sight (using a smaller telescope decrease divergence) and use it for calibrating. Because the ccds are just integrating, you can either discard those timeslots or the part of the spectrum the laser occupiers.... whatever is more suitable for the observation.

  7. Thank you on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1

    As a soon to be physicist, you restored my hope that there may be a FEW people on slashdot who know what they are talking about...

    Do you know some more detailed blueprints for this kind of bomb? Im interested how they managed to encase the core with >1000kg of U235 without creating local critical masses in the outer layer... (or was it one of those old big boys which were physically so large that that amount of U235 translates to only 1 or 2 cm of layer thickness?

  8. Re:disappointed in US government on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1

    your arguments are cool. IF you think about it, you just agreed to the parents general idea: that the terrorist need much less money to create much more havoc.

  9. Mod parent down... on Antarctic Telescope? · · Score: 1

    not only is it old and tired propaganda, its also a repost from:
    http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:KjFAHC Q2rK0J: www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/11/10/122655/89+The+cl ever+reader+by+now+has+already+figured+out+that+HS T+was+a+costly+publicity+stunt&hl=en&client=firefo x-a
    original poster was a guy called "k5 troll authorithy", which should be enough to explain why it was written...

  10. And how does that matter? on Irrlicht - Fast Realtime 3D Engine · · Score: 1

    You cant use those features with the available code.
    What you are saying is the typical vapourware talk.
    Maybe there is even code for realtime radiosity in the cvs, it just doesnt work... Would you then also claim that the engine supports realtime radiosity?

  11. Re:Single worst spam day by number of messages: Au on A Visual History of Spam · · Score: 1

    Yeah, spams/day seems to be an integral part of the common ePenis.
    My mail-account is online since 1998. I didnt keep it secret, just didnt do stupid things with it (like sign up adult sites or so).
    get 3-7 spams per day. annoying, but thunderbirds only lets 1 or 2 per week slip, so its ignorable.

    The only ways people get 500 per day must be in their own stupidity.
    (btw: this email-address is also in the whois database. IN fact i only started to get spam regularly after i registred my domain. coincidence?)

  12. Re:Old laptops... on Energy Efficient and Cheap Servers for Home Use? · · Score: 1

    Nearly all off them have only a little hole which contains a lid triggered by closing the top.
    Just heat a screwdriver with a candle, melt the lid away and you wont have to worry about closing the laptop anymore. Plus you dont need to open you notebook that way.

  13. Re:Lucas sucks. on George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes · · Score: 1

    Has anyone tried to mix the special editions and the old laserdisc ones?
    I would really like the old edition with the new AC3 soundtrack...

  14. Power consumption.... on Sony Begins OLED Mass Production · · Score: 5, Informative

    should be quite a bit lower than lcds. The diods are far less efficient than the lcd backlights, BUT:
    -You dont need polarizers and color filters (those absorb >2/3 of the light in a lcd)
    -Dark pixels are just not powered/lower powered (if the typical brightness level is low, this is another factor of 2-4).
    So the organic leds only need 10% of the effience of normal ones to break even, which should be very archiveable.

  15. Re:Back to the Future on Replace Your Windows With LCD Panels · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but for the needed money you could hire real live playmates to camp in your garden... plus a new house, too ...

  16. Full Motion Video at 3xxx*2xxx on Replace Your Windows With LCD Panels · · Score: 1

    Forget it. Wait another 5years of moores law and come again. Or buy a a SERIOUS sgi machine (the onyx 4 could do it, but only with 8+cpus) with a storage network that can deliver the needed 150MByte+ video datarate...

  17. Re:Finally... on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    The problem is that if you want to filter after rules (sorting out mailinglists, ect), you cant apply such a filter to the "end"-folder, but only to the different incoming- folders. Which leads to much "which rule is where" confusion....

  18. Mod Parent Down (the downmoding one) on Review of Yoper Linux v2.1 · · Score: 1

    Links to forum-posts are idiocy. Of course the article is no longer reachable, and wont be the next hours/days.

  19. Re:know your facts.... on Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements · · Score: 1

    This is true, yes. But I for my part have winrar installed on every computer i own/use (who cares about the "i want to be registered" nag). Winace can decode rar too. I dont have flac. Dont know where to get it without google. No idea what OS supports it. (ok. I can find out in 30 seconds, but this download is for the averge user who can just use NERO or Winoncd).

    I just didnt want to leave this "only flac can losslessly compress audio better than maybe 5 or 10%" uncorrected. Of course flac has much more speed and flexibility, and compresses better then an alrounder, but not THAT much.

  20. ARG URL here on Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements · · Score: 1

    http://members.optushome.com.au/dogg01/compresults wav.htm

    (never wondered what "multimedia compression" in the rar option menue was about? Every good compressor knows the major filetypes and parses them correctly (ok, winzip NOT)

  21. know your facts.... on Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements · · Score: 1

    or just look here:

    If you are lazy: winrar packs 1070MB wav songs to 680MB, quite a bit more than 5-10%.

  22. Re:How big is the effect? on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    The effect is VERY small. Like in 0.001% or so (+-3 orders of magnitude :) )
    In fact its small enough that similar effects could be archived by painting the probe black on one side and white on the other... the difference in blackbody radiation would have created similar errors over those 30 years...
    Because of that its important that the effect happens on 2 different spacecrafts, which makes simple construction glitches unlikely

  23. Re:Different directions on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    End the effect is EXTREMLY small. If you rotate a 1m diameter 10m long steel bar along its middle (the axes with the highest momentum) as fast as steels tensile strengt allows, the resulting gravitational waves have less then 10^-30W power.

  24. Re:my parents on 60 Years Later: The V2 And The Space Race · · Score: 4, Informative

    But it was ALSO supersonic even after burnout till impact because of its ballistics.
    Ever heard a mortar shell hitting something? It hasnt ANY kind of engine, but you can hear the whine of the projectile 10-20 seconds before impact

  25. Re:One word: Ebay-Pig in a blanket. on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1

    Near my hometown about 10 years ago there was a brand new porsche 911 for sale.... for only a few 1000$.
    THe reason: The owner gassed himself in it... and wasnt found for quite some days...
    And nobody wants a nice porsche whose leather and all smell like death people...