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  1. Re: lobbyists on Researchers Develop Biofuel Alternative To Ethanol · · Score: 1

    Got sources?

  2. Re:Peoples still seem not to get it on Researchers Develop Biofuel Alternative To Ethanol · · Score: 1

    Efficiency only goes so far. We need more energy. If this won't scale and soler and wind don't scale, we are pretty much left with nuclear power. It will scale to the population's needs.

  3. Re:Does not Affect Prior Art Doctrine on Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill · · Score: 1

    "Misconception 1: This destroys the prior art system."

    The system does not really work in the way you describe.

    Prior art will be destroyed because the open source project will not have money to defend its self in court. Instead they will have to decide between losing their job and abandoning their family to spend years defending their little OSS project or quitting and going on with their life.

  4. Re:The eureka paradox. on 'Most Earth-Like' Exoplanet Gets Major Demotion · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia is always right. But when you get cut is takes afew seconds for the bleading to start. Unless you chop an artery or somthing. It's a terrible analogy.

  5. Re:The eureka paradox. on 'Most Earth-Like' Exoplanet Gets Major Demotion · · Score: 0

    Bleeding edge means new but not too new.

    One might say... Bob is going to try that cutting edge new router. But I'm going with the bleeding edge one from that other company that has been out for a few mounths and has some firmware updates.

    In this case the theory is becombing bleeding edge where it was cutting edge. So you should say "At ' the cutting' edge of knowledge/measurement the margin of error is often larger than the margin of excitement"

  6. Re:Another obligitory 1984 "Big brother" joke... on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    Yes, fish space.
    Is it closed under multiplication by a scaler?

  7. Re:Worthless on Contemplating Financial Trading At Picosecond Resolution · · Score: 1

    Money that was in the system is removed by these pirates and taken home in milliseconds. This means less liquidity and it turns the market into a money harvesting ponzi scheme.

  8. Re:"Seeing a cell directly without dying" on World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope · · Score: 1

    Still not quite right "Seeing inside a cell directly without [it] dying ..."

    It needs to be "Seeing inside a cell directly without dying [[it]]..."

  9. Re:Glass spheres on World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope · · Score: 4, Informative
  10. Glass spheres on World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope · · Score: 1

    The microscopic glass spheres are dropped onto the sample. Then look at the glass spheres with the microscope. A glass sphere acts as a lens and you can focus on the image in it.

    Like little magnifying lenses
    --
    Like putting too much air in a balloon

  11. Re:A nice call from a FSF lawyer perhaps? on Sony's War On Makers, Hackers, and Innovators · · Score: 1

    It's hard to say if it's better. But with respect to Model sim and Mentor, there is
    "gnu electric" and "ghdl" to paly with. Let us know if these are good.

  12. Who uses paypal? on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    Does anyone still use this service? There must be some alternative.

  13. Re:Neat on Nautilus-X: the Space Station With Rockets · · Score: 1

    Rare earth magnets... Why would you spend electrical power to generate a DC magnetic field?
    Permanent magnets are always on and draw no power.

  14. Open source? what about Qt? on Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android · · Score: 1

    Does this mean Qt will be band from nokia's wince phones?

  15. Re:It's your own fault for purchasing Sony on Sony's Official Statement Regarding PS3 Hacking · · Score: 1

    Of course the new games come loaded with the new firmware and try to force an install if you ever put the disk in the console. But the cracked and pirated ones won't do that, making them a superior product to the legitimate versions.

  16. Re:Camera Mount - Not A Camera on Professor Rejects Camera Implanted In His Head · · Score: 1

    Is hanging on clips really implanted. I think implanted would be unremovable like an eye. I sounds like he can just detatch it. At any rate it dosn't send signals directly in to his brain or anything like that. If I were doing this project I would forgo the whole implantation mumbojumbo and just put it on a strap. Also it would have a heads up diaplay and wireless uplink. Maybe throw in some haptics for good measure.

  17. Re:Great...what if you're without your phone? on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 2

    Just memorize the code and type it in when you log on.

  18. Re:Doesn't this kill prior art defense? on Senate Panel Backs Patent Overhaul Bill · · Score: 1

    Does this mean, if I have a business and I make some product of do some process but never bothered to patent it. I assumed it was obvious. Someone could patent it and then sue me and put my company out of business.

  19. Re:Wacky Friends on Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science · · Score: 1

    People who can't hear the music appear to be crazy by people who dance.

  20. Re:Stars fusion stopps at Iron on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    Whoops Nickle has 30 or 32 neutrons. point still valid.

  21. Stars fusion stopps at Iron on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    I had the impression that stars stop fusing elements at Iron. After that fusion was an energy loss. All of the heavyer elements we see today are the result of the supernova expolsion after a star dies.

    Also. Nickle has two stable isotopes. One with 30 neutrons the other with 36 neutrons. Copper has two stable isotopes one with 34 neutrons and the other with 36 neutrons. if they fused Ni with H there would be no additional neutons from the hydrogen which is just a single proton. If the fusion occured the resulting copper with 30 or 32 neutrons would quickly decay. Copper would not be the by product noticed from the reaction.

    This is just another electro chemical reaction or some kind of hocus pocus scam.

  22. Re:Multi-processor Extensions on An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    std::async neat thanks man.

  23. Re:Multi-processor Extensions on An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    In the generic sense, arbitrary desktop systems, 1 core through 8 cores. A problem where there are more processor units available and I have a set of operations that require minimal dependency from one another. Divide the work up arbitrarily among the processors. Maybe there's already a good way to do this but I don't see that it is in common use. Everything tends to be very serial. Let’s say I want to sum an array of n values as fast as possible.

  24. Re:Multi-processor Extensions on An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    Threading and mutex gets messy. Do you have some good examples? Perhaps something where we can parallelize loops and deal with data dependency issues. Also distribute the work among the processors all while not being locked to a specific hardware set. I may just be out of the loop.

  25. Multi-processor Extensions on An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 0

    I want some efficient use of multiprocessor systems. When can expect to see this implemented in G++ or similar?