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  1. Re: Total Sense (was: Total Nonsense) on Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code · · Score: 1

    yeah, but im not a buying selling type either, but a researcher.
    And i value knowledge higher than redundant skills.

  2. Re:PO'ed photographers speak out. on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    forget it. i just read the fineprint...
    paying 80$ per year just to look at the postings?
    Photographers really must be overpayed...

  3. Re:PO'ed photographers speak out. on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    Btw: what nazis run this forum. Ok, i cant view the postings without being registered. That ok. All the porno and warez sited do that, so the professional photographers have to do it,too.

    But if i register, it still gives me a message:
    You are logged in as , BUT
    blablabla
    you cant view this posting....
    blablabla.

    can anyone cut and paste the whole discussion over there? Im really interested in what professional photographers have to say about this (well, call for mailbombing is a childish start)

  4. Re: Total Sense (was: Total Nonsense) on Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code · · Score: 1

    no, i understood you very very well. but making shoes is not more important than curing cancer, because you can build a machine to make shoes, but not one to cure cancer.

  5. Re: Total Sense (was: Total Nonsense) on Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code · · Score: 1

    i would rather talk to the man who buys everything. because he somehow earned money doing something interesting, rather than doing stupid manual work by himself.

  6. Re:Are you ready for lots of latency? on UIUC Creates World's Fastest Transistor Again · · Score: 1

    No, it isnt. Theere have been transitors with a transition frequency of >1 THz made by intel, IBM and AMD.

    This one seems to be usable.
    But, With IndiumPhosphit and its insanely high electron mobility it quite plausible. The only drawback is the relatively low hole mobility, so you can forget >100Ghz CMOS, and ECL combined with the "damn to high" thermal conductivity because of the narrow bandgap will make it not very useful outsite of a few special areas (high frequenzy amps, ect..)

  7. Re:Even if it does, will it be able to tell us? on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you cant launch a relay satellite. Remember, the falloff is r^2. Even the best engines would take about 10 years to place a satellite halfway between voyager and earth.
    that would be 2015 or so. Now the energy density at the point of the satellite would be 4 times as high as on earth, BUT there is no way you can stuff a reviever on a satellite who as 5% of the sensitivity of a earth based reciever. Remember, on earth you could use 300m at arichbo. For 4 times the signal power, you would still need a 150m dish to get the same signal strenght.
    And there is no way to get something like that in position.

  8. Re:to paraphrase on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    but there is. If you have a chance to hear a lecture about early universe cosmology, youll quickly realize that the existance of particles only interacting via gravitation and not by weak/strong/electromagnetic force is not only possible, but quite likely.

  9. Re:Just got back... on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    So true, so true....

    I REALLY liked the first matrix. it once the only film i left just to watch it again the next day.
    It was a great action film, and it had even a bit of philosophy in it. A BIT. Some nice stuff about what is real, ect, but nothing groundbreaking.
    And than all the idots start running around claiming it to be something like nietsche:the motion picture. bah.

    IMHO, those who claim they understand the "deepness" of the trilogy are those who never before thought about any of the big questions matrix touches, and now think because they got some insight that they are smarter than the rest.

    (and if you tell them: yes, when i was ten i ofter poundered about the fact if a dream could be so real that you think it's reality, and wheather reality may be just a dream, they say: that isnt the same, im still smarter :) )

    A good friend of mine is now watching it, and she is a REALLY big Matrix and esp, reeves fan. She likes reloaded, but even she would agree that the first was better. If she thinks this one is as good as the second, ill see it, if worse, i wont.

    (btw: in response to another post by an idiot: Any gramatical and/or spelling errors (i estimate about 5-10 in this post), are not the result of me being a member of the "unwashed masses", but of the fact that my english is a bit rusty and its already late at night)

  10. Re:Ok, slightly off-topic... on Radiofrequency Weapons · · Score: 1

    Well, it may be of the nuclear response team, but even these guys try not to be anywhere near a atomic blast. Actually, whenever its close enough to taste an emp, it would be blasted out of the sky by the shockwave. No need to harden it.

    Now, in this light the situation actually seems quite realitic: a few thousand feet distance on the surface would melt the helicopter in the air. But with a lot of earth between them, the blast/high energy radiation is blocked, but the emp (which is very low frequence compared to the gamma->infrared of the actual blast) can still reach and damage it.

  11. Re:Yay... on Radiofrequency Weapons · · Score: 5, Interesting

    actually, its 2 coils with antiparallel b-fields:
    /
    i wanted to include a ascii gfx but the lameness filter didnt let me.
    does he really think someone with karma=excellent does dumb spam posts?
    /

    And explosives in the middle. The middle has no bfield, becouse the 2 coils cancel each other. but between them, a lot of enery is stored in a b-field.
    Not the explosive is started at one end, burning towards the other end. It presses both coils against each other, squeezing the field into the rest of the gap. Once the deflegration hits the end of the coils, the field has nowhere to go and the whole stored energy is released in a single electromagnetic blast.

  12. Re:THIS IS NOT "DEFAULT"! on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    well, switzerland is about 4h away from here, if the streets are free. Dont know where you get aussiland...

  13. Re:THIS IS NOT "DEFAULT"! on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    Well, they can do what they want, i only drive there for snowboarding and they could shoot each other the rest of the year.

    But it seems like the typical swiss is much smarter and a much better human than the typical american and does neither shoot his neigbour nor bomb other contries.

  14. Re:That is the entire point on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    >You are just plain wrong on this. Most gun deaths are from illegally obtained guns and every study I have read (NCVS, etc.) shows that the more violently you resist a crime, the less your chances of being seriously hurt.

    A mindset leading to israelis dopping 1000pound bomds in residential areas and getting innocent bystanders in self defense shootouts killed, too.

    Yeah, maximum violence MUST ge good, why else should they build bigger guns?

  15. Re:THIS IS NOT "DEFAULT"! on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    1)how about not handling guns at all?
    2)how about not shooting animals dead for fun?
    3)how about keeping guns legal show the corrsponding country sucks?

  16. Re:Reminds me of a poem on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    but well, if the nazis had taken all weapons in germany away, the allieds could have wandered to berlin. Too bad every 2nd male in germany was under arms in the war.

  17. Re:Very interesting on Build Your Own Saturn V · · Score: 1

    thats true, but all those 200db cant kill you people were anoying.
    Hey, if you calculate how much energy you would need to keep a sound level of 160 db in 1km distance- it would be REALLY REALLY much

  18. Re:Very interesting on Build Your Own Saturn V · · Score: 1

    Are you **** reading what i am writing?
    I said the sound level at the POSITION OF THE EFFECTED PERSON counts.
    Else i could say: What, a rocket makes noise? I havent heard the sound here in germany, so it cant be loud....

    And there is a certain way to gauge the physical loudness of sound: db. 1bell=log(P/10^-12W/m^2), meaning at 10db, you have 10^-12 w/m^2, at 120db 1W/w^2 (cant effect your body).
    And if the air around your body has 200db, then it has 100MW/m^2 energy density. Thnink about what happens if even 1/1000 of this actually is absorbed in you body....

    And Sonic weapons: Its really damn hard to create 200dB. Its a fucking lot of power. You can get it with strong rockets, or really large laboratory equimpent. Like banging a multi ton steel plate against another with>100m/s to create a shockwave.

    So all of these are uneffective because they dont have enough power output. You would need a nuklear power plant to sustain the requirements, OR A FUCKING LARGE ROCKET

  19. Re:"16 trillion bytes of data"... Duhhhh. on IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux · · Score: 1

    NO IT WONT.

    Its just a unreasonable highjacking of the kilo, mega and giga extentions by computer users.

    Or why does your 1Ghz prozessor not have 1024 MHz,ect?

    If you use binary bases, you should say so. By just adding a litttle bi for binary to the unit. It just sucks to have different meaning of units regarding where they are used.
    What does the Mbit mean if you have a 100Mbit lan card? What about firewire? Usb? PCI? Which is using base10, which base2?

  20. Re:Very interesting on Build Your Own Saturn V · · Score: 4, Interesting

    200db is a energy density of about 100 MW/m^2.

    This will kill you in a few milliseconds.
    140db->deaf after a hour or so
    160db->deaf at once
    180db->danger of internal injurie, blood vessel ruptures, ect
    200db-> RIP
    This ofcource is only true if this noise level is reached where you are. If the 200db are 1meter below the thrusters, and you are 250m away, you may only get 150or so and still be alive and kicking.

  21. Re:"16 trillion bytes of data"... Duhhhh. on IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux · · Score: 1

    actually, its exactly 16 TB. But if you want to use this arcane "binary" units, then it would be around 15 TiB

  22. Re:Its too sad... on IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux · · Score: 1

    Actually, the alternative would be to stick your WMD in you ass and shut up. But to bad there arent enough around, at least for the us government

    (and developing mini-nukes has nothing to do with "we have to check if our old bombs are still working"-simulation)

  23. Its too sad... on IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux · · Score: 1

    First they say: We create blue GENE. It will be the fastest computer on the earth, and we need it to understand our dna, cure cancer, ect.

    And now its about to be build, they use it for nuclear weapon research :(

  24. Re:My figures on Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002 · · Score: 1

    if "simple compression", actually probably a burrow wheeler transformation with a huffman encoding afterwards, can compress your data only to a factor of 4, your have a totaly normal entropy for camera sensor data.

    Its just you fault for making pictures of uninteressting things.

  25. Nitpicking is cool, but on X17 Solar Flare Sends 2B Tons of Plasma at Earth · · Score: 1

    that was the moment the space-time cone of the event touched earth, so if you are a local observer, this expression isnt wrong per se.