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  1. Re:Great... on Jan 2009 Deadline for HDTV Cutoff · · Score: 1

    How did they get their TV's in their first place? Were those subsidized by the government too?

  2. Re:To summarize... on Alex, The Brainy Parrot Who Knows About Zero · · Score: 1

    No, only smart parrots can do this trick, not stupid ones.

  3. Re:Bram is screwed on Bittorrent Creator A Digital Pirate? · · Score: 1

    How many trackers does he link to now? I'm guessing that the number isaround 0.

  4. Re:What's actually come out of the TRON project? on T-Engine Enables Ubiquitous Computing · · Score: 1

    From what I've heard, its easier to make a risc compiler than a cisc one. You don't have to look for all those weird, special cases and try to optimize them. You don't have to work really hard to understand that the code writer is inserting an element into a doubly-linked list and output the correct instruction for that; you can just output the logical, obvious, unconnected instructions.

  5. Re:A day that will live in infamy. on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the Bill of Rights enumerates the things the government cannot do. The original constitution does not apply to the states, whereas the Amendments do.

  6. Re:Photons have mass? on Physicists Clarify Exotic Force · · Score: 1

    Firstly, neutrinos have mass. Secondly, you're using Newtonian calculations for relativistic speeds, which doesn't always work.

  7. Re:Rails and Sails on Solar Sails And Space Propulsion · · Score: 1

    Orbital mechanics will do a lot of the work: to go to a higher orbit, aim the reflected light behind you; to go to a lower orbit, aim the reflected light in front off you. You can't really tack, but you can maneuver pretty well, given enough time.

  8. Re:Vaporware no more! on OpenSolaris Code Released · · Score: 1

    Did you notice that more than half of that source file is completely unparsed, ignored, because of the undef at the top (the one commentedy by the 'shit')
    No, I didn't. It looks to me like at most 5% of that file is ignored due to that command.

  9. Re:No grey goo... on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, let's just suppose that you are a green, unobtanium-plated robot from Wolf 359, who is on Earth solely to post on Slashdot.

  10. Re:Year? HDTV Info on FCC Speeds Up Digital TV Signal Deadlines · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's what I meant. Not real ghosting, although that's what it would be on an analog TV (although in this case it might merely be blurring, depending on the different lengths of the signal paths), but complete picture loss due to multipath. Sorry.

  11. Re:Year? HDTV Info on FCC Speeds Up Digital TV Signal Deadlines · · Score: 1

    I've heard about ghosting problems.
    That article does state that it's only a problem in big cities, and that better receivers are starting to help, though.

  12. Re:Faster on FCC Speeds Up Digital TV Signal Deadlines · · Score: 1

    My current analog television can do that too. It often says the wrong program name, but that's probably because the clock is set incorrectly (stupid power outages).

  13. Re:Formula for getting high-mod points: on The Formula for a Successful Sitcom · · Score: 1

    I believe that that's factored into "F."

  14. Re:Is this good? on O'Reilly on the Virtues of Rexx · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem is just how javascript defines dynamically allocated variable. Try to do the same thing in Python and it will work the way you want it to.

  15. Re:More Efficient Coastal Farming on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    This does require deep water near the shore, so it is more limiting than just having any body of water nearby. The continental shelf has to be pretty small where you are to do this very easily.

  16. Re:This really makes me on Voyager 1 Crosses The Termination Shock · · Score: 1

    Cassini and Galileo are pretty recent, aren't they? They're not sending things into interstellar space, because the basic survey of the planets has already been done, but they are studying in depth what we only had the chance to glimpse at before.

  17. Re:Explanation is bullshit on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    Not every egg implants in the cell wall and grows into a baby. Male eggs might implant more readily/have a smaller chance of miscarriage if the mother has more testosterone. Just a guess.

  18. Re:There still is a target on Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that the torrent will include the address of the person who's seeding the file. Once he goes offline it will be impossible to join in, but there are many more torrents/seeds than trackers, which makes it harder to shut the same fraction down as before.

  19. Re:Bugs... on Haiku's Window Manager · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the problem is that it lets every window move or be resized, whereas some want to disallow it. Those windows are a pretty small minority, though, so it isn't much of a problem. At least, that's the way I interpret it.

  20. Re:How long? on Excursions at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Would it?
    Imagine travelling from Earth to Alpha Centauri at .99c. It would take about 4 years, Earth time, and .57 years, your time. At .01c, it would take about 400 years Earth time and 400 years your time.
    In this second case you would be shading the Earth for 400 years, so you are absorbing the photons that the Earth would absorb for the next 400 (or so) years during the course of 400 of your years (assuming the photons coming parallel, but whatever).
    In the first case you would be shading the earth for 4 years, but your eyes must take in all the photons that would arrive during at the Earth during those 4 years in .57 of your years .
    The photon influx rate must be (4/.57) 7.1 times as great as for the longer trip. What you are looking at must be 7.1 times brighter.
    Why is this wrong?

  21. Re:Repeat on Monkeys Adapt Robot Arm as Their Own · · Score: 1

    I'm just waiting to see if they can get the monkey to use all three arms at once in a coordinated fashion. That would be pretty awesome.

  22. Re:/. Rendering on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    I think that they were too worried about the fix causing regressions in other pages to actually put it in the stabilizing Firefox. They wanted to make 1.0 as stable as possible for most websites.

  23. Re:not the first on Launch Date for First Solar Sail due Monday · · Score: 1

    But the test of the solar sail is getting it to move a spacecraft around.

  24. Re:Why is this so confusing? on From Carnivore to Herbivore · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Sharks are cartilaginous fishes. Maybe you're thinking of whales.

  25. Re:Right... on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 1

    It costs people time to make the software. It's not explicit, but the cost is there.