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  1. Re:Fake screen? on Apple Loses Another 4th-Gen iPhone · · Score: 1

    It's real, it's just (if rumours are to believed) got an absurd pixel density and (my own speculation) a pretty stonking viewing angle thanks to an IPS panel.

  2. Re:Just a thought on Apple Loses Another 4th-Gen iPhone · · Score: 1

    This presents an obvious solution for the next one. Apple just have to make sure that one of those handsets leaks, and then no further leaks can happen.

  3. Re:um What? on Why Google Needs To Pull the Plug On Chrome OS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To continue your thought, if discomfort with the interface was the issue with Linux netbooks, then it's actually an argument in favour of Chrome OS. If it's web-based, then the "apps" and interface are already second nature to the user.

  4. Re:"Independent .Net developer"? on Why Google Needs To Pull the Plug On Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    I think the "fail" part may be redundant.

    *ducks*

  5. Re:liberal? on Hollywood Nervous About Kagan's Fair Use Views · · Score: 1

    It is however the most accurate terminology for non-American speakers, and is unambiguous from context. There is no clear "Liberal" stance on fair use as in many other issues, just a "liberal" one. There's plenty that's liberal about fair use.

  6. Re:Opinionated Article is Confusing on Why Google Needs To Pull the Plug On Chrome OS · · Score: 2, Informative

    And the DSi has a full-sized SD card slot. However my understanding is that it only supports AAC, not MP3, due to licencing.

  7. Re:liberal? on Hollywood Nervous About Kagan's Fair Use Views · · Score: 1

    Liberal. Noun.
    4.
    favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible,
    5.
    favoring or permitting freedom of action
    11.
    not strict or rigorous; free; not literal

    Mind you, the meaning of the word isn't as politicised out here.

  8. Re:Sounds like speed holes on Mozilla Reveals Firefox 4 Plans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A qualitatively "faster-feeling" browser and a quantitatively "faster-running" browser are not mutually exclusive. They are more likely to be utterly orthogonal.

  9. If you think that's bad, wait until you see... on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Looking at it the other way on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 1

    You'd think I'd have learned not to assume from context in the summary.

  11. Looking at it the other way on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I imagine that those brands don't look at it as "the iPad doesn't have us and needs to support our sites", as much as "we're not reaching iPad users and our sites need to support the iPad".

  12. Re:More Like it? on Voyager 2 Speaking In Tongues · · Score: 1

    If they can make ion drives cheap, you might be onto something. Thing is that to get out of the solar system, you've got to pull some orbital mechanics that involve you paying the outer planets a visit, so you might as well make exploration of that part of the solar system part of the main mission.

  13. Re:I Recall That Acquisition Ceremony on Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31 · · Score: 2

    I wish there was a way to metamoderate funny.

  14. Re:PowerPoint makes us stupid on PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote that.

  15. Re:To Give The Devil His Due... on PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy · · Score: 1

    In fewer words, PowerPoint is being used as a purely genericised term here.

  16. Re:PowerPoint makes us stupid on PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, PowerPoint allows us to conceal our stupidity by making half-baked semi-interconnected diagrams that other people can't understand. When people find they can't understand a presentation, my experience is that they conclude presentation is above their intelligence level, meaning that the presenter must be very smart indeed. Too few people realise that actually, if you can't understand the presentation, there's a good chance the presenter doesn't understand it either.

  17. Re:Space is cold on Change In Experiment Will Delay Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    Any significant rate

  18. Re:Space is cold on Change In Experiment Will Delay Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    No. Your model is of an object in an infinite, unbounded void, a void which would indeed have no temperature to speak of. However that is not the universe. Any subset of the universe exchanges heat with the remainder, and would do so even if radiation was the only mechanism of heat transfer. Therefore thermodynamics allows that we can - and must - talk about the temperature of space in a sensible way.

    If you take an object and you place it in the universe in a cavity which (for the sake of discussion) is large enough that the universe appears reasonably homogeneous, it will cool until net heat transfer stops at a finite temperature of around 3.5K. By the thermodynamic definition, the object and the universe are now at the same temperature. Ergo, the universe has a temperature of about 3.5K. Ergo, space is cold.

    This isn't to dispute that an object which needs to lose heat at any significant space cannot do so to space. That's an entirely seperate issue.

  19. Re:Oh please on Change In Experiment Will Delay Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    Ten Hubbles that wouldn't have worked properly because of the optical defect. Having a temporary repair platform shouldn't be necessary, but it sure was handy in this instance.

  20. Re:Space is cold on Change In Experiment Will Delay Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    Let's not swap one absurdity for another. Space is extremely cold, at about 3K. Poor heat transfer is an orthogonal issue, which prevents you using space as a heat sink. If a device is generating its own heat or picking it up from (solar) radiation, it will heat up. If it's inert and in the shade, it will get cold and stay cold.

  21. "Primarily for readers in the UK"? on Review of HTC Desire As Alternative To iPhone · · Score: 0

    The submitter has it backwards. The Verizon Incredible is a US-only handset, this is a review of the near-identical device the rest of the world is getting. At any rate they're so similar that the review should be completely applicable, whatever the Verizon rep tries to tell you to excuse the laughable price.

  22. Re:WLAN location triangulation on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    I also have a suspicion that compatible Google software does its own wardriving automatically. Maps can tell my laptop that it's in my flat ever since I ran a recent version of Google Maps on my GPS-and-wifi phone.

  23. Re:Tell Your Wireless ... on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or in other words, "if you have something to hide, hide it". Privacy through obscurity is not an option on an indexed resource like t'internet.

  24. WLAN location triangulation on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google Maps provides WLAN-based location triangulation, on both phones and wi-fi capable computers. To do that, they look up the MAC addresses of visible wi-fi hotspots in a location database. Google is not the only company that does this via wardriving, and they at last have the sense to keep it secure enough that nobody can just look up your MAC address and get your geographic location. Unlike certain other wi-fi positioning systems.

  25. Re:Might have Asteroid Samples on It on Japanese Spacecraft Bringing Back Space Rock · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tenacity is right. Space probe engineers are the sort of individuals who could coax a car into starting with no gasoline. Or engine.