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  1. Re:It's all about the form factor. on Sony Announces PSP Launch Date · · Score: 1


    I differ here. I have a lynx and have played a PSP. The PSP is 1/4 the size volumetrically as the lynx.
    Don't take my word for it, hold one. Make sure you have some cash in your pocket because you will want it, it really is that simple.

    Hedley

  2. 100Mbps in Japan for $52/month + VoIP on 8Mbit Broadband to Become Available in the UK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was just there. Now *that* is what I am
    expecting for broadband. Its fibre to the home.
    (This was in Kyoto). VoD applications (movies, pay for shows, pr0n, its all possible).

    In the good old US of A we can get 1.5 or 3mbps WooHoo!

    Hedley

  3. Stratego (Dover patrol, L'attaque etc) on Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have yet to find suitable AI for that game. To me that type of AI (dealing with imperfect information) is the holy grail of game AI. This includes a vast family of such games (poker comes to mind), where over time, information about the game state is disclosed. I once found a small Stratego game on the net that played an unbelievably good game. After saving and restoring a game a few times and losing (whereup it shows you its pieces) it had actually cheated real-time and would move its pieces to match yours. Thus the small executable! :)

    Hedley

  4. Early memory on Volatility of Human Memory · · Score: 1

    I had a eye operation(s) (4 of them before age 4).
    I was given a matchbox car which had a trunk. Years later I recalled that I put the wrapper for a straw in the trunk. I found the car, opened it and there it was. Funny since I have limited memory from that period of time. I do remember the eye dr's office too from the visits there. There was a good show on TV for the Annenberg CPB education series. This one was on Psychology with Dr Zimbardo (Stanford), it was on memory, he covered the famous cases when someone paints pictures of their home village. Surprisingly, some of those artists captured their town pretty much exactly (plus minus some details). Very interesting. Also the statistic of we can remember 7 unrelated items in a list on average came up. Use of mnemonic devices was shown etc. Good program.

  5. repair money went to Iraq no-bit contracts on No Money For Hubble Service Mission · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and to the war machine.

    Screw science, the govt wants a ton of dumb serfs anyway, the rich will count their monies and outsource the hard work overseas leaving the burger flippers here.

    Hedley

  6. Re:555 not 840 on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1

    Virgin "upper class" has a bar. Champagne is served, massages in flight, clothes pressed at the destination. My friend got a flight on them and said it was fantastic. A $12000 ticket mind you if you were to buy it yourself.

    http://www.thetravelinsider.info/2003/0425.htm/
    Hedley

  7. Japan on Getting Broadband To The Bayou · · Score: 1

    I just got back from Kyoto Japan where 100Mbit fibre
    to the home is deployed and availble to Joe consumer.

    Sure probably only in certain areas but they have it now and I would imagine you improve coverage from there.

    How many in the US here are stuck with 1-3mps? (considered very good here for home).

    100mbit to the home and you need never rent or buy any entertainment media again. All could be streamed for a modest fee and copyright holders would be happy.

    Hedley

  8. Re:Laser ring measurement on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 1
  9. Laser ring measurement on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 1

    The 'wobble' known as Chandlers wobble can be measured using a Laser Ring Inferometer.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=35042 68

    It's pretty cool tech actually, a rediculously precise table with a laser split at a corner travelling around the corners via mirrors reflecting back to the source. The slight phase difference in the beams is measurable. This phase difference is actually how your 777 flies from A to B with 3 laser ring gyros one for each axis.

    Hedley

  10. Squeegee guys on 'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    The migrated from Houston/W. Broadway and are now working the crater for the holidays.

  11. Nine lives? on Re-Pet a Reality · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this destroy the nine lives notion? Now you get as many lives as your bank account can afford.

    I still think a hammock is cheaper. (The Simsons - Treehouse of Horror XIII). Also all those wonderful mutations that would come from it!

  12. That daaawg don't hunt on Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2004 · · Score: 1


    Anyway, it was one of dem foreign daaawgs.

  13. Peace on Earth. Purity of Essence on Possible uses for Power over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Other uses for PoE.

  14. Death to all humans! on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 2, Funny


    *zzzzzt*

    Free sex for all humans!

  15. TechTV on Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As you have co-hosted the show and been a guest numerous times, are you as disappointed in the quality of that show as I? Two events, Leo's departure, the move to LA. Listening to the new hosts (I know one is not exactly new) they are high on the dB scale and low on the payload/filler ratio.

    Hedley

  16. Combine police + masks on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    What's the deal with the cops and those sinister masks (perhaps that is the answer, it's sinister). I don't see regular townsfolk needing them so there is not a gas threat. Are these guys ready for gas riots at *all* times? Even indoors?

    Cool look though.

    Hedley

  17. Re:Extremely impressive indeed on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    I am a big fan of dystopias. I had not heard of the book cited but I am reminded of 1984 and also
    Fahrenheit 451 (the movie) the somber passionless people, a resistance movemnt, loudspeakers beckoning townsfolk to turn in someone etc.

    Great stuff, great game!

    Hedley

  18. cheap harddrive on How Cheap Can A PC Be? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Watch out, we bought some "Great Quality" GQ computer systems (~$150) and two of them had early HD failure. Somthing will give as these prices crater.

    How valuable is your data and your time to keep good timely backups?

    Hedley

  19. WPA WPA2? on Wardriving Worries Residents · · Score: 1

    Why worry, deploy.

    Using tkip and AES these new key exchange and data encryption protocols seem pretty robust to me. Wardrive away and feast on my stream of pseudo random numbers.

  20. kinda old news on BMW Shows Off World's Fastest Hydrogen Car · · Score: 1

    Saw this on Yahoo some days ago. Cool tech of course, the acceleration seemed a bit on the lowside as I recall but the top end was supercar perf. Could make a Pinto look like a pop-rock though.

    Yahoo news --->[2 day holding pipe] ---> /. article.

  21. Bring 'em On! on Asteroid 4179 Toutatis Will Miss Earth, This Time · · Score: 1

    I will take a page out of contemporary "leadership" and show those space rocks who the boss is!

    Now look whose winning! 1million miles! Ha try harder next time.

  22. Re:RA and WMA? on New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use Streambox (google it). Comes with a transcoder.
    Drag drop ra onto it and you can get mp3 out.

    Streambox can also pull down any ra content as long as you drill down to the rtsp: tag that the stream uses. Thus I have already saved this weeks HHTG I did not require the Beeb link.

    Enjoy!

    Hedley

  23. Packet8 has E911 today on VoIP 911 Emergency Service: Problems and Fixes · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you pay the E911 $3/mon fee. It will send
    your address to the operator. On broadbandreports people have tried it and indicte it works properly. pay, play.

    Hedley

  24. Airtunes on Ask RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Dr Mr Glaser,

    Do you plan to support streaming via Airtunes's protocol to adapters such as the Airport Express?

    Thanks!

    Hedley

  25. Bunch of bloody Muppets on Muppets Named Top Scientists · · Score: 2, Funny

    As we used to say in Old Europe.