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  1. Quite Stunning on Snowflake Photos · · Score: 1

    Despite the comments from the more feeble-minded, I still have to say that these images are absolutely stunning.

    Even after reading through the pages of scientific explaination, I really cannot fathom that the physics actually worked to create something quite that beautifully symmetric, complex, etc... .

    Maybe it's all been faked by the government, like the Apollo moon landings...

  2. This is all new work -- no code to reuse :p on Use of Math Languages and Packages in Research? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, for simple changes to the kernel -- that takes very little time in either language. But for trying something completely different, it's nice to have something like MATLAB with huge routines built in that one can mess around with. Once it works, you can go about coding up the routines you actually decided to invent/use. ;-)

  3. For our research... on Use of Math Languages and Packages in Research? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find that each package is well suited for a particular use...

    MATLAB is great for off-the-cuff research. I can open it up, and program image processing routines in 30 minutes or less. This would take hours in C/C++. Additionally, I can take the M-file and dump it from my computer onto a workstation running MATLAB and get some decent speed and batch processing done.

    C/C++, however, gives you so much more control and execution speed, that often you either use the MATLAB --> C compiler, or end up writing a final routine in C directly. I believe for image processing, as an example, you can get over a 100x speed increase just by using the MATLAB --> C compiler.

    Just my $0.02.

  4. I see. on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then have the blackhawk control software crash, like the new 7-series BMW control software?

    That could be interesting... a "possessed" Blackhawk bombing random targets and crashing into buildings...

  5. Nice find! on Thin, Flat LEDs · · Score: 1

    I've never seen oLED technology so far along. I hope they can handle production problems -- I WANT ONE!!! :D

  6. oLEDs still have too many problems with area on Thin, Flat LEDs · · Score: 1

    They just can't fabricate them any larger than about 6 inches, I believe (cannot recall the exact figures right now).

    However, this particular technology is not a bridging technology -- it's for a completely different application: large, uniform, LED-based light sources.

    The only relationship would be that an oLED in the center of this device would allow for a *very* thin, flat surface.

  7. So let me get this straight... on Spammers Using Students as Relays · · Score: 1

    All you have to do is dance, look at porn of the spammer dancing on a cloud, and you recieve a gigantic dollar bill?