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  1. Re:It's not the noise on Towards Silent Supersonic Planes · · Score: 1

    Its not NOISE. If a plane of the size of a passerger airliner breaks the barrier of sound, its a SHOCKWAVE.
    Do it in 3000ft over new york and youll have more glass on the street than at 9/11

  2. Funny thing is... on Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests · · Score: 1

    i may have bought them if i had not downloaded them first ...

    ---
    hypotetically, of course. shoo shoo NSA...

  3. Re:Analog Signal Buffering on Lip Sync Problems with New Digital Displays? · · Score: 1

    There are special coaxial cables for signal delay, but their wave resistance has to be carefully tuned and you still need a big drum to get significant delays...

  4. Re:170 dpi? on Sony Launches First Commercial Electronic Paper Display Reader · · Score: 1

    whoa. Your palm seems to be laptop-sized.
    because mine has 320x320 pixel, meaning with 40dpi it would have a 8x8" screen. Quite large.

    In fact all newer palms have over 100dpi, thats why the text is perfectly readable. And a bit more resolution doesnt hurt.

  5. Re:From the Guardian article on Sony Launches First Commercial Electronic Paper Display Reader · · Score: 1

    err, in harry potter there are books and newspapers that feature moving images, although due to magic, not epaper...

  6. Re:prequel? on Berman Confirms Star Trek Prequel Film Project · · Score: 1

    But its true.
    We went already back to the first ship with warp(ST8) and the first enterprise (the ugly new series).
    Any PREquel to that would have to be about sublight travel in our solar system, which would be kinda boring. Except someone pulls some borg that are frozen in polar mars ice because of some strange quantum blablalba... out of his ass (they seem to be everywhere, recently)

  7. Re:Old formats require old machines on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom · · Score: 1

    Why the hassle?
    If its something important, you dont want to forget it for 30 years.
    Your computer in 30 years doesnt NEED to be able a ata33 disc, because its a matter of 30 minutes to copy the exquivalent of truckload of media over to the next medium every 2 or 5 years. This may be a hard drive, blue ray disc, data crystal, whatever.

    Digital storage doesnt mean you dont have to care about your data, but that IF you care about it, you can do so perfectly, meaning without loss.

  8. Re:Sky high rates? on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, thats easy.
    After the initial handshake the sending power is reduced to a minimum needed to keep contact to the corresponding cell, and in most situations thats 1/10th or so of the peak transmission power.
    So while the initial handshake will cause interferences (most likely short bursts of noice, in 1 second periods), later the power is to little.

  9. Re:For low res, general computing power is too che on Nvidia Releases Hardware-Accelerated Film Renderer · · Score: -1, Troll

    Come back if you aquired basic knowledge about what RENDERING in this context means. (i would call you a stupid divx kid if there werent your userid, you should know better)

  10. actually, its you who is wrong. on 600 PowerMacs Make One DVD · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lines per inch refers to lines that can be seperated, for example black lines with a white space between them.

    So to get 4000 lines per inch, you need a lot more dpi, most likely 8000.

  11. Re:Now... on Another Fan-Made TRON Costume · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wouldnt laught at him if he werent so dumb.
    Lets face it. He did following:
    -bought premade armour pices on ebay. (yeah, how CREATIVE)
    -poorly painted a beige catsuite. (looks craps)
    -made doutzens of pictures, most of them having his balls STICK in your face in a way that COULDNT have passed unnoticed.

    Bottom line: He has either no taste or is an exhibitionist.

  12. Re:*sigh* on Making Science and Math Kid Friendly? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that actual SCIENCE is taught much to late.
    Children between 1-5 explore the world and have a nearly unlimited learning capacity (at least compared to us adults). And just in that age they are put in front of the tv, ect or just told some bullshit from ignorant parent if they happen to have interesting questions.

    Until they are 10 or 12 or so and get physics, chemistry, ect, they dont care anymore about how stuff works...

  13. Re:Remove tinfoil hat: real issues on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    make your distances times 10. 10 seconds at 100km/h is 280m.
    And every dangersituation is solved one way or another. There is no thing as having 2-3 seconds time to brake and then accelerate again.

  14. You know far cry? on First Person Shooter - Under 100KBs of Code · · Score: 1, Insightful

    nt

  15. sad fact: on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra · · Score: 1

    RAMDACS are SOOO CRT. Its really bad (especially for Matrox) that even the cheapest taiwan card with a DVI-D out will look as good on my LCD than a 2000$ quatro xxx (ok, there are dual and quad link issues for ultrahigh-res, but that doesnt matter that much).

  16. Re:Any "standard" which you need a licence for... on Interview With The MPEG Committee's Founder · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. The point of a patent is to allow companies to disclose information to the public which they would else keep secret.
    At least that was the initial intent. Just browse the patent databases and look how much knowledge there is for everyone to see.

  17. not really on Iomega Ships 35GB 'Son of Jaz' · · Score: 1

    Tapes and zip disc have one thing in commong:
    They seem to die after a few 100 read/write cycles. Of course this limit seems to be reached much faster by zip discs, due to differend usage patterns...

    But i would NEVER trust important data to and dds4, dlt, exabyte or whatever tape that has been through 500 or so cycles...

  18. dont laugh... on Implant a Chip in Your Head · · Score: 1

    but there was a story about a surgeon wanting to test an orgasm-chip for women, searching test subjects.
    He make the basic discovery for that technique while accidently stimulation wrong parts of the spline of a women that had a punction....

  19. WinOSI on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: 1

    winosi (winosi.onlinehome.de)
    does all the submitters program does and more.
    Its a "raytracer that works by shooting photons from lightsources and looking where they hit the scene. Its slow, but accurate and allows the mergins of multiple runs from different computers, too.

  20. Re:Yeah right... on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1

    Currently there is no algorithm on quantum-computers to kill symetrical encryptions.
    You can Log() the time of asymetrical ones, but only sqrt() the symetricals. So just double to 256 bit and your 200000 cpu quantum computer will still need a billion years

  21. Re:Next layoffs? on IBM Snags Leading Indian Outsourcing Firm · · Score: 1

    consultants getting less money?
    AHHH.
    The only better thing to hear would be lawyers being shot...

  22. Re:Yeah right... on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but DES for example( which still is quite secure with tripple DES) has been out for nearly 30 years.

    And dont forget that NSA has no monopoly on military grade encryption countermesures. There is Russia, CHina, ect. They all employ great mathematicans, too, and i would think if they found a fault they would guess that nsa knows it too and make it public just to spit at NSAs feet....

  23. Re:Passive E-Mail monitoring... on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1

    The problem is: Even if they cant decrypt encoded messages, if they do a simple packet scan and only trace encrypted packets, as long as only a small percentages of mails/traffic is encrypted, they can easily create a network of contacts "that have something to hide" without the need to touch most of the traffic...

  24. Re:Yeah right... on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 2, Informative

    Make it a few billion years and you are right on the spot.
    Remember: Rc64 needed over 2 YEARS on 200k+ pcs.
    128 bit needs 2^64 as much time. Even with asics, future technology and a billion$ budget you cant brute force it.

    Algorithm weaknes is another matter, but the general algorithms are open, and hundreds of mathmematicans have scanned them for years and havend found any (of course those with errors are no longer in use).

  25. Re:Whee on Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Well, with geoge lucas writing dialog, less IS better....