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  1. Re:Software? on Modeling Software Showed BP Cement As Unstable · · Score: 1

    this is a test for anything.

    Yup!, never analysed it before. Right middle hits, say, i. Right index hits n and left middle hits g, but sometimes does it before the right index hits n. They are all moving too fast!

    /me slows down.

  2. Re:Software? on Modeling Software Showed BP Cement As Unstable · · Score: 1

    COMPLETELY off-topic, but...

    anythign

    I am CONTINUOUSLY making this typo these days and having to go back and correct it all the time. I wonder where it all went so wrong that the timing of my fingers in 'auto-mode' has become so off. I never learned to touch type, I have just developed my own fast enough 3-5 finger peck-typing over the years. I'm now able to type without looking at the keyboard sometimes for whole sentences. But even when looking down, this 'ng' keeps happening.

    I know, I know. Slow down and pay more attention. Maybe it's time to learn to touch type properly, though it feels a little late after ~20yrs

  3. Re:New tech but not new idea on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, but as far as this device is concerned, there only needs to be one hot and one uninsulated neutral/ground (which is to all intents & purposes, electrically the same in most installations).

    My point was that where this device is tapping electricity from, the live conductors are definitely insulated.

  4. Re:New tech but not new idea on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    Actually, you WILL need the spike. This is NOT designed for tapping in to the high voltage distribution lines, but the low voltage residential lines that feed individual buildings.

    If you didn't have insulation on these cables, then the live & ground would just short out at the source as they are twisted together.

  5. Re:Retrieval? on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    I hate it when my copper rusts away like that man.

  6. Re:And so another battle rages on Nevercookie Eats Evercookies · · Score: 5, Funny

    then SuperCantTouchThisCookie,

    Then Stop-HAMMERTIME!Cookie

  7. Re:SSD's are awesome, but the cost... on Toshiba Begins Selling MacBook Air SSD · · Score: 2, Funny

    Grammar fail. That's what comes from changing your sentence structure half way through without re-reading the whole thing again.

  8. Re:SSD's are awesome, but the cost... on Toshiba Begins Selling MacBook Air SSD · · Score: 1

    Since posting, I have not only learned that NTFS has Junctions, but that they have already been superceded by NTFS Symbolic Links. Good stuff.

  9. Re:SSD's are awesome, but the cost... on Toshiba Begins Selling MacBook Air SSD · · Score: 1

    Good, so what's the problem with moving the user root dir?

  10. Re:SSD's are awesome, but the cost... on Toshiba Begins Selling MacBook Air SSD · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about something like a symlink?

    Ah... yes... windows.

  11. Re:Just you wait... on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 1

    Maybe the entire universe was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

  12. Re:Science Journalism on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 1

    Well the big bang is one thing, but do you know... do you know how the Universe actually began for a kick off?
    Imagine this. Right.
    You get this bath. Right. A large round bath. And it's made of ebony.
    You get this bath, see? Imagine you've got this bath. And it's ebony. And it's conical.
    It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn't matter. Sugar's fine. And when it's full, you pull the plug out...
    You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole.
    I haven't got to the clever bit yet. You want to hear the clever bit?
    I'll tell you the clever bit.
    The clever bit, is this. You film it happening.
    That's not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector... backwards!
    Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?

  13. Re:Another Nail... on Scientists Turn Skin Into Blood · · Score: 3, Funny

    Never mind can it help... Will It Blend?

  14. Re:TOMMY CAN YOU SEE ME? on Chip Allows Blind People To See · · Score: 1

    No

  15. Re:Do you like our owl? on Harry Potter Blamed For India's Disappearing Owls · · Score: 1

    Must be expensive.

  16. Re:TOMMY CAN YOU SEE ME? on Chip Allows Blind People To See · · Score: 1

    What?

  17. Re:Sorry, I can't help it. on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1

    Thank you! I came in, hoping this was pointed out. It grates on me ears (or whatever it is it grates when you hear the words you are reading).

  18. Re:"Alice" one of the best learning languages toda on Land of Lisp · · Score: 1

    Ahh that takes me back to my Oktoberfest days :)

  19. Re:While I sorta agree with what the guy is saying on Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week · · Score: 1

    Nothing here is being 'unlocked' no key is needed. There is no encryption being used, it's all plain-text data.

  20. Re:opposing piston, opposing cylinder engine on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    In that metals are stronger under tension? Yeah I am getting that message across from all the others :)

    It still doesn't seem right to me, but I will certainly be looking into this more in the future :)

  21. Re:While I sorta agree with what the guy is saying on Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week · · Score: 1

    That would be more akin to breaking the wireless encryption and then doing the sniffing.

  22. Re:opposing piston, opposing cylinder engine on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Certainly explains the typical I-Beam structure of a conrod.

    Interesting stuff guys, thanks. I will be learning a lot more about metal engineering over the next couple of years too as I'm going to be partaking on a DIY car build (Lotus Se7en derivative) next year :) .

  23. Re:Connecting rod not pushrod. on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    God, what a dumbass. Conrods, i'm sorry :) I was too busy thinking of the pushing vs pulling aspect of the two. This is embarrassing (I used to build engines lol).

  24. Re:history downscaled on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    So you seem to talk confidently on the subject, can you tell me what the power/displacement advantage is? Or is it merely a packaging solution with no significant performance gain?

  25. Re:opposing piston, opposing cylinder engine on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    As I suspected. So that was just marketing bullshit, basically. He has reduced piston speed due to more pistons with reduced piston displacement.

    I'll take the V8 please :) 2.0l V8 might even be small enough to fit in a Locost :)