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  1. Re:It ain't expensive to build a stealth plane... on China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is Slashdot.

    We don't steal technology and knowledge.

    Also how could they? Do they have direct access to the planes? Inspired by I suppose. But don't all?

    Anyway, what I wanted to say is that if you want to look at it that way everyone has stolen the technology from Germany.

  2. Re:Can we arrest the vendor? on Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    Yeah. The problem is the video, not the bombs? :D

    Priorities.

  3. I actually read it a little on Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? · · Score: 2

    and I wanted to write a comment that maybe they was technically, scientifically and religiously retarded but I couldn't comment without signing up so I do so here instead.

    Also they wouldn't have to use touch screens. Though any switch can fail of course.

  4. Re:What I like on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's even the extra broad or whatever it was called, 1.6:
    http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-BPS-GP-Extra-Broad-Ballpoint/dp/B000JTMVK4/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1351745191&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=bps-gp

    It got a huge ball at least, is black and write smoothly. I have no need to thin lines and don't do any school or work stuff.

  5. What I like on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    Pilot G2 is rather popular but maybe it's not exclusive enough? There are other contestants to. Their Dr Grip may be more comfortable.

    Personally I prefer their one with a fatter ball. But I don't know where I have it atm so I don't know what it's called.

    BPS-GP medium? May that be it? I think it says 1.0 and it write smoothly which is what I like with it.

    http://www.gulakatten.se/bilder/artiklar/zoom/6804306_1.jpg ? Like so.

    Nothing special. Price in that store is about 2.5 dollars so you can probably get it from 2 or so.

  6. Re:Seriously?! on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    Maybe not. Guess it depends what you read into it.

    It's surely tiles of information which update their information separately.

    What a great idea!

    Too bad Xerox already invented it in 1973 (?) and released the first product in 1981.

  7. Re:Seriously?! on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 2

    Once I ran Winamp and Firefox in these things we call windows.

  8. Re:no more donuts for Gabe... on Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming · · Score: 1

    Just shows that with enough monkeys you CAN write an operating systems.

  9. Re:Still no microSD? on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 1

    .. but you can always run a NAS at your home.

  10. Re:Still no microSD? on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Well. The bigger issue is movie content.

    Beyond audio books I could see myself watch YouTube content but possible also series on the move, for instance as something to do if going for a walk.

    And if we throw series and movies into the mix, possibly blu-ray rips to make use of that resolution then 8 GB for sure won't last long.

    How much space do a HD rip of Battlestar Galactica use?

    Those more than 32 GB by itself?

    I should buy and stream it from a service provider? Yeah right. Should. :D

  11. Re:Still no microSD? on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Do I get infinite storage for free there?

    Does it work in Sweden?

    I don't own an Android device. Yet.

  12. Re:Still no microSD? on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 2

    I don't know but I can only guess that having all VNV Nation albums alone would be 2+ GB, possibly 2.5.

    Sure you could argue that once you have all VNV Nation albums you don't need any other music.

    But I think that's wrong.

    You at least need Complex - Dope, Skaven - War in the middle earth, Captain - Space debris & Beyond music, Jester - Stardust memories (Tip & Firefox - Enigma)

    It's hard to argue your life could ever be complete without them.

    Complex - Dope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJ5M3BY2Ts
    Skaven - War in the middle earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJQYYYTICU
    Captain - Space debris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thnXzUFJnfQ
    Captain - Beyond music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlOxf9a2Eik
    Jester - Stardust memories: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMhBE99byM (Fasttracker version and decent sound card make it sound too harsh - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9p1oiE1_Y)

    Enjoy. Those five tracks contain more creativity, total ownage, scenery, awesomeness, geek life and last longer than any of the current tablets has brought to the table together.

    R.I.P.

  13. Re:fdsfds on Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar · · Score: 1

    No that was the priest.

  14. Thank you, interesting stuff on Iran's High Tech Copycat War Against the West: Drones and Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    Always seem like at least the katest mess in the arab world is done by the US.

    But then they have to "fix it" again when things doesn't match their interests any longer.

    But it's people on a ship going with help for Gaza who are claimed to be "terrorists."

  15. "The risk: what if the plan backfires?" on Iran's High Tech Copycat War Against the West: Drones and Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    The risk: what if the plan backfires and goes beyond its intended scope?

    Then the US kill a whole bunch of people, pollute their backyard, waste a trillion+ in some meaningless war and make the rest of the arab world / oil holding countries richer by increasing the oil price. Oh, and kill the little economic recovery there is.

    War inc.

  16. Re:First!! on HTC Losing Ground Faster Than RIM or Nokia · · Score: 1

    Also, I want a Nokia with Android.

    Would it be faster?

  17. Isn't factor on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-definition_television

    8k is four times as many pixels as 4k and twice as many columns :)

    NHK demonstrated their system in September 2003 so maybe the high-resolution display at CeBit wasn't 4k. It was higher than I was used to at least :D.

  18. Or k could mean "factor" or "resolution of 1080p" on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 1

    Since 3840x2160 is 4 times as much as 1920x1080.

    I don't know why the name was picked and I don't even know which one came first. I'm quite sure there was a 4k display at CeBit '99.

  19. Re:Confused WTF!! on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not 4 megapixels and no, 4k doesn't mean 4 mega for whatever reason you think that made sense.

    It of course mean ~4000 but the difference is that it's columns rather than lines, so it would be 2160p so to speak to go with that name.

    So it's neither of 4000 lines or 4 million pixels, it's 3840 columns. And 2160 lines.

    How does one go from 4 megapixels to 4000 lines?

    You tell us. Noone has made that claim. You just misunderstood it.

    p isn't k and you never got the point for the explaination. As said, it's not 4 megapixels. It's 4k and it make sense to interpret that as 4 kilo and people are used to counting lines from 720p and 1080p.

    And correct, no one say 1080p displays should have 2000 lines. Because the spec call for 1080 lines...

  20. Re:The only way... on EC Sends Statement of Objections To Microsoft For Violating Anti-Trust Agreement · · Score: 1

    It's not about the desktop OS as such. It's about using that to gain a lead in Internet browsers to.

    Apple doesn't have the only music or video store but so far I assume you could call the appstore equally dominating as IE at least. Because it's the store Apples products use and that's where the money is.

    Or something such.

    I think it's a lame argument in the first place.

  21. Re:Source on Huawei Offers 'Complete and Unrestricted' Source Code Access · · Score: 1

    Just buy Ericsson gear instead (or even Nokia-Siemens), I won't mind. :D

  22. Re:The only way... on EC Sends Statement of Objections To Microsoft For Violating Anti-Trust Agreement · · Score: 2

    What about the AppStore? Or whatever it's called now.

  23. Re:Am I the only one... on Bill Gates Talks Windows Future, Touch Interfaces · · Score: 1

    You can buy separe touchpads and it would surprise me if they didn't worked with Windows 8 (or if not - that noone would make them for Windows 8.)

  24. Re:Could be a decent spare machine. on At $250, New Chromebook Means Competition For Tablets, Netbooks, Ultrabooks · · Score: 1

    What? It cost money.

  25. Re:Cyberdyne created HAL. on New HAL Exoskeleton: A Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit To Be Used In Fukushima · · Score: 1

    No I commented on Slashdot first.

    Prioritize.