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  1. Re:Simple answer on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to stockpile gold first before appointing Ron Paul.

  2. Re:Who said Hubble was a waste of money? on Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Given that they are only vastly different scales, it is important - there is still uncertainty as to how gravity acts on extremely large galactic scales.

  3. Re:Awesome! on Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful · · Score: 1

    Given that each colour channel often represents a different frequency overlay, it is important to have colour rather than just B&W. For example, red might be molecular hydrogen, blue oxygen, and green sulphur.

  4. Re:Owned by... on EA/BioWare Deal Finalized, Nets EA Ten Franchises · · Score: 1

    Valve, id, Epic?

  5. Re:One Word: Lyx on Goodbye Cruel Word · · Score: 1

    That's how LaTeX places figures - at the top of the page, or on a separate new page - if you don't specify that it should be placed inline, imitating how figures are placed in actual books/articles.

  6. Re:NEWSFLASH! MP3's suck. Use a lossless CODEC. on The Death of High Fidelity · · Score: 1

    Well, within the frequency range of human hearing, Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem says that it is possible.

  7. Re:The More Important Discovery on Cause of Aurora Borealis Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I'd say that problem is that it's approached as a single model, whereas if you in fact look at normal cosmology, all these things are already taken into account. The explanation of the Aurora has been known for years, this is just some small fine detail confirmation. Also, it's hard to talk about terms in electrical engineering when cosmological currents are often relativistic and over vast differences, making the speed of light even more important - so it's better in some ways to discuss exactly what the particles are doing rather than trying to simplify it to small-scale electronics terms.

  8. Re:Global calamity on New Wave Power Research Rising Off Oregon Coast · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy to proclaim my lunacy in support of such objects as the moon.

  9. Re:Warnings? on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: 1

    Indeed, a large number of people in my college have been fined £40-50 for going significantly over bandwidth limits, 20gig uploads etc..

  10. Re:WHAT?!?! on FBI Doesn't Tell Courts About Bogus Evidence · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure this method of composition analysis was accused of being totally inaccurate in New Scientist years ago. Surely it's a failure of expert witnesses if they don't even know their own science?

  11. Re:Problem with Ebooks on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 1

    I see this as being pretty good for reading PDFs and it would be great if combined with a touchscreen for note-taking over the top. My department publishes PDF lecture notes for all my courses, so I could just download them before attending the lecture and note over the top.

  12. Re:France's iPhone on Fans Cheer as Apple's iPhone Finally Hits Europe · · Score: 1

    180% road tax? So if I buy a 10,000 car, I pay 18,000 to drive it?

  13. Re:Clone facebook on Google's Plans for a Social API · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not the code, it's the actual hosting, servicing, maintenance. Anyone can clone the code of facebook fairly easily, some people have, but actually running it as a viable website is a totally different thing.

  14. Re:I remembery trying to pay for this album on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I was willing to pay £5 for it, except I couldn't work out how the fuck to buy it from their site. So I just got it off the local DC++ instead. Oh well.

  15. Re:But what does that mean? on Time Dimension To Become Space-like · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Physics as we experience it will go to shit, since much of the base derivations are a consequence of a non-spacelike time.

  16. Re:Yes, but... on Working Around Patents with Evolutionary Design · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that make the patented device obvious?

  17. Re:Good luck with that on iPhone Likely Set to Launch in the UK Next Week · · Score: 1

    From wikipedia "Text messages are presented chronologically in a mailbox format similar to Mail, which places all text from recipients together with replies. Text messages are displayed in speech bubbles (similar to iChat) under each recipient's name." It seems capable, though I've seen a comment that it's incapable of sending a message to multiple recipients, which is a bit shit. Also, speed texting on an iphone, http://youtube.com/watch?v=dU33DfFAV9w&v2

  18. Re:An idea on Solar Craft Flies Through Two Nights · · Score: 1

    It'd have to be flying at supersonic speeds to follow the sun, and that thing certainly isn't flying at supersonic speeds. As you go faster, you're wasting more energy on air resistance, at which point it'd be even less feasible to use solar power.

  19. Re:Gabe Newell is poisoning his own well on Valve's Orange Box For PS3 Delayed, Not Console Related · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except OGL is pretty inferior to D3D these days?

  20. Re:Possible Explanation on Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments · · Score: 1

    Maybe the IT group shouldn't be running the exterior services? Or should at least be segmented to give one group the remit of doing so. Interior IT can occupy itself with running servers and keeping the internal network going, the external web group can work with them and provide these projects.

  21. Re:Take That on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, it's notable that they've kept the "iPod Classic", as well as this new model, which seems to be aiming for a market between the iPod and WiFi tablets like the Nokia 770. Also the new iPod Nano looks a bit... retarded.

  22. Re:I smell something... on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 1

    Presumably it's slashdot doing a proxy check. Still dodgy...

  23. Re:isn't this normal? on Internal Microsoft Email about Life at Google · · Score: 1

    Maybe by pressing for ridiculous detail they were expecting you to admit that you don't know something (evidently you did, though), but explain that details like that can be looked up easily? It's reason behind the concept of layering, so that one person can make something without having to understand every detail below, and so layers can be swapped out when they're not appropriate, and so absurd to expect one person to know the intricate detail for each layer, well outside the scope of what they're doing and just wasting a good mind on irrelevant detail.

    If I'm a web application developer, I don't care how ethernet works, it's on the wrong layer. If I need it for some reason, I can look it up.

  24. Re:we are not having issues.. on Facebook Apps Facing Delays and Uncertainties · · Score: 1

    Well done on Graffiti :) I'm behind X Me and you lot have overtaken us and shot off over the horizon. We got most of our growth before we even made it into the directory, and it just continued using invites after that. And yes, there's plenty of support, especially in the IRC channel, which has plenty of experienced (for how long its been out) people with successful apps. Directory delays are simply because there are thousands (literally, I believe, having heard from a source) of apps waiting in the queue, and they're trying to test each one individually.

  25. Re:Game resolution on StarCraft, Nothing But StarCraft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Absolutely, after I played Supreme Commander I can't stand RTSs that don't allow zooming out.