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  1. Re:Scuba tank's burst disc ... on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    Mostly it was a visual representation of what the poster above me described, as well as a fun moment of mythbuster video.

  2. Re:Class Difference on The Rise and Rise of the Cognitive Elite · · Score: 1

    I think i was in relation to the goods and services bought. So that as you have a single person, with a finite amount of time and attention available, your not going to spend all that money into the economy anyways. And i sure wish i had bookmarked the source of the argument.

  3. Re:Class Difference on The Rise and Rise of the Cognitive Elite · · Score: 1

    Sadly i misplaced the source of it, but supposedly, once basic food, clothing and shelter needs are covered, a person with 10000 in his pocket have as much effect on the economy as one with 1000000.

  4. Re:Class Difference on The Rise and Rise of the Cognitive Elite · · Score: 1

    And in the end one have credential inflation, where now corporations look for doctorates...

  5. Re:Pointlessly small amount of storage. on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    I guess diesels are seen as less "fun". Also, i think the regulations, or lack of such, in USA makes them less clean then elsewhere.

  6. Re:Scuba tank's burst disc ... on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Which is a more dangerous battery? on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    Unless you somehow managed to make the whole tank content to go aerosol at moment of impact. But then you would be looking at something like a FAE: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon

  8. Re:But I like volatility! on 'Universal' Memory Aims To Replace Flash/DRAM · · Score: 1

    So they have crammed two sets of "hardware" onto the same physical chip, and transfer data between them depending on the state wanted. Why no just sell flash in DIMM modules and do the same at the chipset level?

  9. Re:Except it'd be stupid to use a phone per se on Testing Mobile Phones For Controlling Space Missions · · Score: 1

    When are they not?

  10. Re:Smaller and cheaper electronics... on Testing Mobile Phones For Controlling Space Missions · · Score: 1

    This would be somewhat similar to a nuclear plant setup, where multiple computers do the same calculations and the majority result is what gets considered the right one?

  11. Re:so who's already figured out.. on Domestic Use of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    And maybe even hackable...

  12. Re:Texas Budget shortfall for 2011 on Domestic Use of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps put up something of a permanent booth where a uniformed can sit 24/7?

  13. Re:All according to the guiding principles of Ings on UK Authorities Accused of Inciting Illegal Protest · · Score: 1

    All hail the Emperor!

  14. Re:In English on Euler's Partition Function Theory Finished · · Score: 1

    And this hunt for practical uses asap is what basically killed blue sky research in our post cold war world.

    If it can not be packaged and sold for a profit 24 hours after it is discovered, it is ignored as worthless.

    Oh, and was not the laser considered a usless exercise in physics once? The net of today would be very different without it...

  15. Re:Well done, Gearbox on Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed · · Score: 1

    Not a difficult comparison, as Quake was a incoherent mess of a game. Great tech demo for the engine, but a mess of a game.

  16. Re:Well done, Gearbox on Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed · · Score: 1

    I suspect quake also aged better thanks to quake-c.

    No game before had seen such a diverse set of mods, iirc.

  17. Re:Real Old School on Sony Planning Serial Keys For PS3 Games? · · Score: 1

    Odd, i do not recall seeing a simcity version that required a code.

  18. Re:Rogue servers on Espionage In Icelandic Parliament · · Score: 1

    heh, time for a fsck-brain i guess.

  19. Re:Man up! on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    Well unless you have some way to get around the laws of thermodynamics, there will always be a net loss. The question is, how much of one...

  20. Re:Rogue servers on Espionage In Icelandic Parliament · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite is the opposite. It was a unix server at a university that none knew where was physically, but that was happily doing its thing for the network. Eventually they found it by following the network cabling and knocking down a drywall.

  21. Re:Um... on No More Version Numbers For HTML · · Score: 1

    Or as time moves on, various tags, or sub-features of a tag, gets defined as deprecated.

    As long as the basic definition of a tag, and its layout have some kind of default (hello, xml) then this can be done.

  22. Re:Hmm... on Facebook Images To Get Expiration Date · · Score: 2

    If the employer is that anal about off hours activities, it may well be better to not work there in the first place.

  23. Re:Wait, carbon trading wasn't a scam to BEGIN wit on Carbon Trading Halted After EU Exchange Is Hacked · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Consider that people buy and sell goods and services in WoW for actual money.

    Also, these kinds of markets is the "cure-all" of classical economist orthodoxy.

    And as long as there is a chance to make a profit on it, someone will put money into it.

    In the end, it is no different from the recent CDOs and such. It is all numbers being traded via computers...

  24. Re:A Few Logical Problems on The Fall of Wintel and the Rise of Armdroid · · Score: 1

    No clue, easier for the company that built them to work with perhaps? Tho i did not touch one myself, the understanding of its internals that i have is that it was a Atom running Linux. So basically a fairly typical x86 PC scaled down to something not much bigger then a couple of 3.5 bays and power.

  25. Re:Why? on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 1

    Penguins, dude, penguins.