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  1. Re:Heat Sinks / Spreaders? on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 1

    Consider, also, that the first project will be the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. Ther's a reason that those moons are icy, and that reason is lack of sunlight.

  2. Re:Recycled Comment on Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets · · Score: 1

    The client also includes a license, so Tridge couldn't run that, either. He could, however, sniff the network.

  3. Re:Recycled Comment on Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought the points made by some posters about just how Tridgell was sniffing packets to see the metadata protocols is extremely insightful. To have BK protocols running on his network would require that he be operating a client and server somewhere where he could see it, no? What network was he sniffing if he didn't have a license?

    He could have asked someone to operate Bitkeeper on his network, or gone to a network where someone was using Bitkeeper. I bet at least one kernel developer would be willing to let him do that.

  4. Re:Orion Project on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    unless you happen to be one of the people on that continent...

  5. Re:Picture This on Intel Ships Dual-Core Chips · · Score: 1

    Of course ASICs beat general-purpose processors. GPUs beat CPUs at pushing polygons. They're hand-tuned to a task, useful for only one purpose.

  6. Re:"Moore's Law" a Misnomer on Intel Seeking Moore's Law Original Publication · · Score: 1

    18 months is a number seemingly drawn from a hat.
    It is also, conveniently, halfway between 12 and 24. A compromise, if you will.

  7. Re:Yes, but what about the GUI - speed no problem on Python Moving into the Enterprise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wouldn't recommend taking modules out of the standard library, but merely marking them as deprecated and possibly removing their documentation from the new versions of python. That way, we won't break old programs, but we could prevent people from starting to use them.

  8. Re:Well, for one thing on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has an Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    has a *very* tenative
    Tenuous?

  9. Re:It is good we still have competition on AMD Plans Simultaneous Desktop and Mobile Chip Releases · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As far as I am aware, there's a patent minefield around these types of chips. The reason we have chips as advanced as they are is cross-licensing between Intel, Cyrix, and AMD, because all three (or AMD and Intel, at least) have important patents.

  10. Re:Costs? on Music Labels May Seek Higher Download Prices · · Score: 1

    Because Target has a horrible selection?

  11. Re:2005 is the year and the goverment might help on The State of the Open Source Union, 2004 · · Score: 1

    If you mean the UCITA, then yes.

  12. Re:I don't think so. They have the same goal. on Yahoo, Apache, Ebay, Amazon, Netscape Celebrate 10 Year Anniversaries · · Score: 1

    My guess is that is that it's 6/10ths of an hour per month on google, i.e. .6 hours per month.

  13. Re:What else do you want? on Using Air to Recharge Your Cell Phone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What if the cat merely lands on its feet? The buttered toast will never land, and so the complex won't need to hover. That's the advantage of strapping the toast to the cat's feet, if you believe that the toast has not landed when you do so. If it lands, either the unbuttered side of the toast must touch the ground, or the cat's feet must not be down. There is no middle ground where one can land and the other does not, as there was with the previous model.

  14. Re:Time flies like an arrow... on Translation Software That Learns by Reading · · Score: 1

    I just babelfished it into German. The answer seems to be correct.

  15. Re:If Micrisoft was smart on IE7 Announced for Longhorn and WinXP · · Score: 1

    I doubt that Microsoft could buy the rights to Firefox for nearly any amount of money. They'd have to secure the copyright from every single person who ever contributed to it, and I imagine that a least one of those people would be rather unwilling to give his copyrights to Microsoft.

  16. Re:blindPod? on Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack · · Score: 1

    Well, he said that he had code for sounding the piezo, but not for doing anything else. I guess he thought that it was easier (and more fun, probably) to use that than to try to figure out how to use the other i/o hardware.

  17. Re:How much disinfo is out there? on The Evolution of Space Suit Design · · Score: 1

    What perfect insulator? Space doesn't insulate very well at all against radiative heat loss. Why do you think that it gets colder at night than during the day?

  18. Re:Different question on Kahle v Ashcroft Appeal Filed · · Score: 1

    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

    I notice that both authors and inventors, writings and discoveries, are placed in the same category. Why should we treat each of them differently, viewing copyrights as inalienable property rights, while viewing patents as merely temporary protections of an idea? It seems inconsistent to me.

  19. Re:only 2200? on Survey Says Internet Users Confuse Search Results, Ads · · Score: 1

    How can you call and determine if someone can distinguish between ads and real results?

  20. Re:What does a "British accent" sound like? on Through The Steve Ballmer Looking Glass · · Score: 0

    Scottish, Welsh, and (Northern) Irish are completely different.
    To whom, exactly? People from those places, but not the people at the meeting, I'm guessing.

  21. Re:Getting up is only the first part on Paypal Founder's Merlin Rocket Engine Fires Up · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes. High on the list is economics... And tossing your heatshield after each flight is not economical at all.
    That depends upon what your heatshield is made of. If it's made from the same tiles that make up the space shuttle, it would be expensive. If it's made from carbon phenolic, or a similar material, it would most likely cost less to replace it every time than to boost a more durable material into orbit. That's not to mention the fact that a tile system or similar would still have to be inspectedand partially replaced after every flight, reducing any gains in cost.

    Remember that for every pound you put in orbit, you just spent thousands of dollars. Those thousands of dollars could provide for a lot of work making a heat shield on the ground.

  22. Re:yawn on IERS Announces No Leap Second in June 2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    To the authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time:
    Could you distribute a few more hours this night while I'm sleeping? I'm feeling a bit tired right now, and I think the extra hours might help.
    Thanks.

  23. Re:Is Google moving out of their strength? on Google Announces 'Mini' Search Appliance · · Score: 1

    I just tested it, and GDS does take filenames into account. I think the reason that the search didn't work is that GDS doesn't take plurals into account: "networks" is not the same word as "network."

  24. Re:Corporate Crack on Toyota to Employ Advanced Robots · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that using the correct method to try to find the result gives you an invalid answer? That using the cohort component method, a valid statistical method, invalidates the paper?
    I find that first google link on the method a simple read. Why can't you understand it?

  25. Re:Corporate Crack on Toyota to Employ Advanced Robots · · Score: 1

    That happens to be the first link the Google returns, which means that you're a moron.