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  1. Re:Getting stuck? on Space Elevator Update · · Score: 1

    I don't think you need a heat shield if you don't have all the angular velocity to get rid of. Those 17,000+ mph you mentioned, that's what ends up as heat. Not the altitude.

  2. Re:Shotgun... on Computer Program Makes Essay Grading Easier · · Score: 1

    I have seen a lot of students take the same approach in programming classes. It's not nearly as convincing as in the social sciences.

  3. Re:Wow on Should Nanotech Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    And regulating nanotechnology helps this? What's with the $1/day, I know it is a conveninently scary number to keep repeating, but it doesn't have any meaning.

  4. Re:Sir Humphrey Appleby on Rosenzweig Now Chairman of DHS Privacy Board · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that is assuming the meaning of 'known' is known.

  5. Re:1.7 Billion? on Forty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    Man that's a lot of transistors to anti-alias fonts. But they sure look pretty these days.

  6. Re:Mental imaging on Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design Bionic Eye · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Probably it's like seeing a science fiction movie after you have read the book.

  7. Re:Mexico, Eh? on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 1

    Yes, I hear the border between California and the USA is not very well defended.

  8. Re:Legitimate question: what's the opposing argume on CherryOS On Hold · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surely he didn't think that he could get away with a clear violation of the GPL, claim all ownership and intellectual property of CherryOS, sell it, make millions, and not get anyone suspicious. Why would he not be thinking that? If it's a legitimate fork, he would not be claiming that he wrote it.
    Why do authors plagiarize literature, or painters copy Van Gogh? Because they think they will find customers who don't know the difference, or who don't care.

  9. Re:MSOSS on Microsoft Accepts Most EU Demands, But Not Over Source · · Score: 1

    They cannot open Solitaire, because if you multiply the time spent in the application by the lines of code, this forms the majority of MS software.

  10. We have to check on Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist · · Score: 1

    Obviously, someone has to go look. I can think of a number of highly qualified people whose absense here could be, well let's say, tolerated.

  11. Re:What's a blog? on San Francisco Attempts to Regulate Blogging · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's San Francisco, they like to regulate things.

  12. Re:I use Google at work on Behind the Scenes At Google · · Score: 1

    Well, you are searching public information, using a service you are not paying for. So who has a responsibility to keep that secret?

  13. Different orbit on Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit · · Score: 2, Informative

    The difference between Hubble and ISS is the inclination (angle towards the equator, roughly), not the height.

  14. Re:this is stupid on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 1

    They probably don't count gallons that their mother in law pays for either.

  15. Well yes, but on Pentagon to Significantly Cut CS Research · · Score: 1

    You are saying correctly, among other things, "...assuming that population and income projections hold true." That's a significant assumption over 30 years, as it includes the economic behaviour of people who are not even born yet. It's too early to panic about it, and certainly better to spend money on general, "blue sky" research in the (realistic) expectation that some of it will pay off so we can afford to fee all the old folk then. People like me. Assuming those yet-to-be-born can be convinced it's a good idea.

  16. Re:But what about non-IT projects? on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 1

    You would think the brick-an-mortar people would have more reliable schedules now, but apparently 10,000 years experience for that industry isn't enough. Could it have anything to do with nature of people? But the business practices people will fix it, real soon now.

  17. Re:Damn communists! on South Korean Gov't. Advocates Linux · · Score: 1

    Every country that has attempted communism has ended up, very quickly, with a totalitarian society. No thank you.

  18. Re:An easier way? on The Next Net · · Score: 1

    Probably. You go first, we'll tell you later how it worked, ok ?

  19. An excellent point on English To Code Converter · · Score: 1

    You make a very good point. By using a specialized subset of english, the system could be excluding many more people than an ordinary programming language. This kind of thing could end up as tricky as legalese.

  20. Re:Internal communication is a problem as well on Palm Founders Form AI Company · · Score: 1

    how is this trolling ? this is a purely technical point. someone doesn't like me personally and won't admit it?

  21. maybe they are right on Open Source As Legal Time Bomb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A long time ago, the Spanish empire was worried about the Dutch independence movement. It could threaten the whole concept of how countries were run by their rightful, heavenly appointed rulers.

  22. Re:Small representations. on Digital Future of the Library of Congress · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, but you are missing the $100 bill I left in the printed copy in the library :)

  23. Re:Interesting Quote on Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format · · Score: 1

    ... the primary purpose of an electronic document is to store something for printing. I think that is not quite correct. The purpose of any document is to store something for reading at a later time. This doesn't mean printing it on paper.

  24. Oh man on Japanese Localization Help? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This does look grim. Maybe while you are there, learn some Japanese, and find a new job in a better company there. Best thing would be to defect to the competition.

  25. Internal communication is a problem as well on Palm Founders Form AI Company · · Score: 0, Troll

    We can pack large numbers of CPUs on a chip today, considering you can make a simple 16-bit processor in less than 1mm^2. The problem with neural networks is the massive fan-out and fan-in of communication. There are thousands of connections for each neuron, we can't manage that many wires even on-chip. So this ends up being time-multiplexed, meaning you slow things down by a factor of 10,000 or more.

    Aside from other problems, e.g. we have trouble modeling a slug with 9 neurons. But i'm not up to speed on that one.