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  1. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! on Apple Is Working On a Dedicated Chip To Power AI On Devices (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You could call it the Apple Neural United Server

  2. Re:Odds are it would not be a global collapse on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    If most of the world went to Hell, the US would be near the front of the line.

  3. Re:sane units - FYI on Graphene May Top Kevlar As a Bullet-Stopping Material · · Score: 0

    Foot-pounds are not exactly sane. I can look at MJ/kg and know that it means megajoules per kilogram. Foot-pounds? How many stomps does it take? Oh, you have to multiply by some weird decimal. That makes total sense.

  4. Ambien! on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 1

    Try giving her Ambien. It has been very successful with vegetative-state stroke victims (I know she's not vegetative). It's pretty amazing how well it works.

  5. Re:Obligatory South Park on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 1

    My point was that dolphins can drown.

  6. Re:Obligatory South Park on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 1

    A fishing net is not harmful to dolphins until humans pull it out of the water.

    Except that dolphins need to surface to breathe.

  7. Re:Too slow. on Japanese Robot Picks Only the Ripest Strawberries · · Score: 1

    Agreed - way too slow. I worked picking raspberries and boysenberries a few years ago, and if I'd taken 9 seconds per berry I'd have been fired within hours. I'd have been averaging about 50 berries per minute. I'm not sure how many cars per library of congress that is...

  8. Re:Trading is competitive on How To Profit From Planetary-Scale Computing · · Score: 1

    I could do it once I've conquered the world...

  9. Re:Hmm on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1

    The games weren't easy... From what I remember most of them involved torturous pseudodeath if you lost...

  10. Re:Hmm on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1

    Fear? Why? You don't want to play games for the rest of your life?

  11. Re:Size means little if the nutritional value is l on Huge ISS Science Report Released · · Score: 1

    Um, no. Size is a factor, but it's not the only factor by any means, nor even the main one. Sun exposure, proximity to the trunk/main stem, number of other fruit on the same plant, and water available also have major effects on the the amount of sugar in each individual fruit.

  12. Re:warning! on Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious" · · Score: 1

    *Right-wing hat* Yes! And society should also not waste any money on people with incurable/terminal illnesses, or people with physical or mental impairments. */Right-wing hat*

  13. Re:warning! on Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious" · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  14. Re:Better Idea on Lightning Strikes Delay Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded Funny instead of Informative?

  15. Re:Electrical Memristors Don't Exist Yet on Memristor Minds, the Future of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up, +Insightful!

  16. Re:Antiquated References in Neuromancer on The Technology of Neuromancer After 25 Years · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember something about his deck running at 64 terahertz...

  17. Re:The decrease in violence is the real key on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    America's Army made you 'train' with some weapons before you could play. This included things like pulling the firing handle and clearing jams. Basically it was a pain in the ass. I am all for realism in games - one of the reasons I don't play MMOs like WoW is because the combat and movement/collision are so unrealistic - but things like simulating the annoying parts of firearm use just aren't fun.

  18. Re:I've done battle with them and retreated... on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the Posleen. What you needed were engineers and ACS :P

  19. Re:Mulberry Trees on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    The country next to Korea is Japan. Home of such things as kamikaze and even, bonsai.

  20. Cool. on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    We in NZ get to watch Space Katrina tear apart Space Louisiana from a safe distance.

  21. Re:Critical on Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? · · Score: 1

    Maya [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(artist)] is the Earth Goddess? This explains everything!

  22. Re:Total BS. on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 1

    I was walking home from Christmas in the Park in a large group of people on Park Rd when I saw it, between 22:00 and 22:20. It was in line with the road. It was heading towards Ponsonby - away from the Domain. If you extend the line made by Park Rd, you arrive at the corner of Mackelvie St (which is the real spelling; poor editing in the 'article') and Ponsonby Rd. Fricken awesome!

  23. Re:that's not quite right on On Luck and Randomness In Games · · Score: 1

    I played UT2K4 for a long time. The minigun in that game is a LOT more accurate than similar weapons in other games I've played. If your tracking is good, you can continuously hit an enemy from instant-of-sight at 80-100 meters, say (which is when you start shooting at them) to instant-of-kill.

  24. Re:That's easy. . . on Artist Wants to Replace Lost Eyeball With Webcam · · Score: 1

    Somebody mod parent up. That was the most interesting and insightful post I've read in a long time.

  25. Re:the future of gaming is almost here on "Minority Report"-Like Control For PC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or the geeks will adapt and be smarter and fitter. Or at least, we can hope.