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  1. Re:Not as low energy as you think on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Color temperature is (for the most part) a subset of actual black body temperature:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien's_displacement_law
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy
    http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=095393D5B42B2266&page=2

    Anyhow, these new lights are a major breakthrough... If they can get them into the hands of the general public relatively quickly.

  2. Re:Obligatory on Mozilla CEO Objects To Safari Auto Install · · Score: 1

    That's because companies X, Y, and Z are typically the underdogs... Additionally, people buy the iPod because they want it... The same cannot be said for Windows.

  3. Aluminum can store hydrogen too on Buckyballs Can Store Concentrated Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen is soluble in aluminum. Its solubility varies directly with temperature and the square root of pressure. During the cooling and solidification of molten aluminum, dissolved hydrogen in excess of the extremely low solid solubility may precipitate in molecular form, resulting in the formation of primary and/or secondary voids.

    Moisture in the atmosphere dissociates at the molten metal surface, offering a concentration of atomic hydrogen capable of diffusing into the melt. The barrier oxide of aluminum resists hydrogen solution by this mechanism, but disturbances of the melt surface that break the oxide barrier result in rapid hydrogen dissolution.

    Two types or forms of hydrogen porosity may occur in aluminum. Inter-dendritic porosity, which is encountered when hydrogen contents are sufficiently high that hydrogen rejected at the solidification front results in solution pressures above atmospheric. Secondary (micron-size) porosity occurs when dissolved hydrogen contents are low, and void formation is characteristically subcritical.

    The disposition of hydrogen in a solidified structure depends on the dissolved hydrogen level and the conditions under which solidification occurs. Because the presence of hydrogen porosity is a result of diffusion-controlled nucleation and growth, decreasing the hydrogen concentration and increasing the rate of solidification act to suppress void formation and growth.

    Source: http://www.key-to-metals.com/Article83.htm

  4. Re:Finally! on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 1

    OOo Aqua is a bit faster then NeoOffice on my system. Still very slow... But hopefully it's just debug code slowing OOo Aqua down.

  5. Re:One Terabyte on How To Use a Terabyte of RAM · · Score: 1

    640^2.0727394482 bytes ought to be enough for anybody.

  6. Tables? on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Now that Impress has table support does that mean Draw has them too? IIRC they both use the same engine underneath.

  7. Re:Finally! on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can download the 3.0 (DEV300_m2) Aqua snapshot here: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-Intel.html

  8. Re:Real turing test on AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test · · Score: 1

    It can't be that hard to fool a bunch of bible toting monkeys.

  9. Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? on AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test · · Score: 1

    You say reflex, I say natural selection.

  10. Re:Y2k300! on Stored Data to Exceed 1.8 Zettabytes by 2011 · · Score: 1
  11. Re:If only we were treated as well as utilities on The Disconnect Between Management and the Value of IT · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should demonstrate why your there by turning the equipment off.

  12. Re:Premature Congratulations on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 1

    "Yet after literally hundreds of millions in financing, there isn't yet any real curative treatment."

    Drug companies don't get paid to find cures! They also don't get paid if your dead. So the goal is to make you dependent on them, with a pill.

  13. Re:This is great news! on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    So no three strikes to deal with.

  14. Re:death certificate on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    Just commit some crimes, the police can't jail a dead person.

  15. Re:because they've been conditioned on Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    It's probability. Say you have 10 hops and each hop is working 99% of the time. The probability calculation is 0.99^10, which comes out to 90.4% uptime.

  16. Re:Quite revealing... on Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista · · Score: 1

    No

  17. Re:And what did nuclear have to do with it? on Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida · · Score: 1

    You have a link to the video? youtube?

  18. Re:Reactors shut down because nowhere to send powe on Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida · · Score: 3, Informative

    The backup generators have backups. All critical systems have at least double redundancy, that's why nuke plants are so darn expensive to build.

  19. Re:I really like the addition of ZFS in FressBSD 7 on What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but does ZFS RAID-Z2 work yet? The last time I tried it (FreeBSD 7-RC1) I got a kernel panic right off the bat. The test system was a 16 disk array using two Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards (Marvell Hercules-2 PCI-X chipset). This same system worked perfectly fine using Solaris Express 10/07.

  20. No Xen Support? on What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    * Does FreeBSD support Xen Dom0 yet?
    * Did they fix ZFS RAID-Z2 (double parity) support yet?
    * Is KDE 4 is ports yet?
    * What version of X.Org are they using, did they fix the dri/drm problems with ATI cards yet?

  21. Re:The wrong med from the wrong dr. on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    A general psychiatrist has about as much clue as a general practitioner... see a neurologist or neuro-psychiatrist if you need medication.

  22. Re:Further evidence... on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    Anti-depressants have some really nasty side effects, like homicidal ideation. If it's true they have no beneficial effect they should be pulled ASAP.

  23. No Password on Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I'd set the computer up for auto login. and Internet access would be whitelist only.

  24. World peace is not on the list? on The Century's Top Engineering Challenges · · Score: 1

    "What? World peace is not on the list?"

    World peace was already solved. The solution is more Prozac and less religion.

  25. Re:YES!!! on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 1

    "Do you have more of an inclination to find people to bandage after doing it in game? Probably not"

    You get lots of points for being a, good, medic in the game, so yes.