User: ttown

Re:Recommendation, or condemnation?

On: Over-50s Invade the Social Networking Scene

A recent study showed that nearly one third of Facebook users are aged between 35 and 54 Statistics abuse time - That also means that a third of facebook users have ages between 35 and 84! Quick, re-write the FP title, the Octogenarian Invasion has begun! ...at least a third, as there might be users with an age between 54 and 84. I totally agree with the stats abuse, irritating to see this type of abuse to bend a story...

very unlikely

On: The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s

With 11M units sold you will need to have a failure rate of 25% to have the probability of 1 guy having 11 failures. So it looks that the failures at this guys house are correlated.

I'd use Raid

On: The State of Solid State Storage

Having disk in parallel will speed up your storage much cheaper. 6x faster is not significant.

just the tip

On: Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier

Since the tip that's moving a zero speed, the other parts of blade (towards the rotor) will move 'backwards' relative to the air, causing a negative lift. However, I don't see the use of all this. Why not increase the rotor speed?

doesn't hold the world record

On: A Savant Explains His Abilities

I always hate when people spice things up... Here is the list...

Re:In-game screenshots from a lucky SOB

On: DOOM 3 Final Video Trailer Released

Why is there a picture of the box together with a newspaper dated 30 juli?