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  1. Re:Primary Source on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    That's funny, that you imagine some insult. GR equations are so very difficult even after 75 years many attempted derivations prove intractable and only a very few living humans can comprehend the mathematics of the work done thus far. Coupled hyperbolic-elliptic nonlinear partial diffy-q's are a bitch. The article was about the child genius making contribution to General Relativity, so ease of understanding concepts of Special Relativity are not germane, SR can be demonstrated with upper grade school arithmetic involving Pythagorean theorem and the axiom of lightspeed being independent of source and observer, you can get e=mc^2 and the Lorentz-Fitzgerald theorem and even special cases of Maxwell's equations to boot)

    this is slashdot, not civil human interaction realm (e.g. real world). trolling and mocking are the coin of the realm.

  2. Re:So it's a solar cell.... on Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Normal solar panels have albedo of 0.35, which is close to average of earth 0.30. We'd be far better off thermally using that than burning fossil fuel or fissioning atoms. However, comparing the energy input of the sun to what man generates, the fraction is so very tiny that the global direct thermal effects (not greenhouse gases which is another discussion) of our power generation in essentially zero.

  3. Re:So it's a solar cell.... on Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Deuterium is much more abundant than gold and far easier to extract from water (of any source, fresh or ocean doesn't matter). We've been producing and using deuterium for decades, for example as moderator in heavy water reactor. The energy cost is negligible even for fission reactor moderator, for fusion energy even smaller cost compared to yield.

  4. Re:So it's a solar cell.... on Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, the deuterium in the oceans would provide fusion energy sufficient for billions of years, the sun would scorch the earth to by expansion first before we ran out. And there is lithium and boron, and we can make tritium. Fusion really is the holy grail of power generation if we can't make solar power work. http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9079.aspx

  5. Re:Primary Source on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    An intuitive grasp of some of the concepts of Special Relativity by a child does not compare to working with the tensor calculus equations of General Relativity. By your description of your mathematical ability, such would be and is forever beyond your comprehension.

  6. Re:Stick this boy in a MRI on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    Some of us are hobbits in our irresponsible tweens, you insensitive clod!

  7. Fagot on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most people over 25 are Spanish bassoons? Even if I accept this magical transformation into a musical instrument by the underachievers and ungifted of the human race, I really doubt it would universally be into one with such specific ethnicity. And a doubt any musical instrument could either gain employment or procreate, without human intervention.

  8. Re:Bad idea - too many odd days on Mobile Phone May Rot Your Bones · · Score: 1

    not to mention those seven odd ends of month per year are followed by an odd (1) day. It could be the 2nd day of chronic exposure that gets you.

  9. Re:Just use the hardware you have on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Wives need to learn not to be stubborn willfully ignorant money-wasteful bitches demanding endless streams of toys and bling. END OF STORY

  10. Re:My theory on Radioactive Water Found In Two Reactor Buildings · · Score: 1

    that is leaking either from broken coolant/steam loop or containment vessel

  11. Re:I'm fine with nuclear power. on Radioactive Water Found In Two Reactor Buildings · · Score: 1

    Spent fuel has to be "left on site" in cooling pools for 10 to 20 years, depending on what type of cask storage to which it is going, and that's IF there is on-site cask storage. So "used elements" couldn't have been anywhere else but on site.

  12. Re:Just use the hardware you have on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    laptop batteries are cheap if bought the smart way, $40, don't walk into a computer store and buy them. 2.5 years?? laptops are good for over 5 years.

  13. Re:I feel fun hobby coming on on The First Plastic Computer Processor · · Score: 1

    just use her toaster oven for your CVD processing instead, I've found after you heavy-metal contaminate it by healing NVidia card's cold solder joints, and explain the situation, wife doesn't want it anymore.

  14. Re:Excellent play on India To Ban .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    yes there were, Indian Penal Code section 377, overturned in July 2009 http://trendsupdates.com/homosexuality-legalized-in-india/

  15. I feel fun hobby coming on on The First Plastic Computer Processor · · Score: 1

    long before we can "print" similar circuits at home? interesting non-digital apps come to mind also

  16. Re:Oracle Had a Lot of Itanium Software on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    That includes HP/UX on Itanium, but if you look after version 9.0 they throw Linux Itanium customers under the bus

  17. Re:Can't blame them on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension, which IBM is boasting can have x86 blades. Not all Z series models can integrate with the zEBCE

  18. Re:It's already sunk on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    I prefer them with a bit of soft silky hair myself, east asian chicks for the win!

  19. Re:Can't blame them on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    should have mentioned, in a Solaris / Sparc shop, if there is need to run on x86, then of course slap x86 Solaris onto a supported x86 box

  20. Re:Can't blame them on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    Not true, welcome to the 21st century.

    You can get x86 processor modules for the Unisys Dorado that run Window, Linux and x86 Java VM. And the midrange Dorado 4000 and Libre 4000 actually USE intel xenon. http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/news_a_events/05158777.htm
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    You can get x86 processor modules for the IBM Z series, same deal, run Windows and Linux and x86 Java VM.
    The IBM PowerVM Lx86 emulator lets one run x86 linux applicatoin on PowerPC

  21. Re:Sparc on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    Oracle/Sun has their own line(s) of x86-64 boxes, which they do own

  22. Re:The US comes out on top on Japanese Chip Shutdown Causing Shortages · · Score: 2

    so now you have me thinking about a tsunami giving D.C. an enema while the rest of the country blocks the highways to make sure no one escapes. win / win, no downside!

  23. Re:Ask Intel about Itanium Compilers on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    put down the crack pipe, in January Intel came out with C++ version 11.1 update 8 for Linux and Windows on Itanium

  24. Re:Commercial software for Itanium? on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 2

    I work for HP VAR, that's the main use of our clients HP/UX and Itanium LInux boxes, to run Oracle software. A few even ran Windows for Itanium for SQL server, some ran BEA Weblogic. If IBM throughs Websphere for Itanium HP/UX under the bus, then that's all she wrote.

  25. Re:Oracle Had a Lot of Itanium Software on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    IBM stopped DB2 support for Linux on Itanium with version 9, 9.5 doesn't support it....guess that leaves Websphere for HP/UX, that bloated piece of shit that is excuse for IBM to suck a client dry with consultants to attempt to make it useful