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  1. Re:Definately not the first on First 3D Simulations of Complete Nuclear Detonations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NO this is a first. Maybe simulations into the effects of a nuke were done but never and actual simulation of one going off.

    Just think about how much physics is needed for this. Hudge temperature gradients, wavefronts the list is endless. This all has to be simulated.

    We can't even simulate weather properly yet becasue of lack of computing power.

  2. Re:garbage collection on Java RMI · · Score: 1

    You can either let RMI do this or do it yourself. By extending the java.rmi.server.Unreferenced class you can run cleanup when the reference to the remote object has disapeared.

    You should post these questions on the java developer forum on sun.

  3. Reviewing games on Magazines Faking Game Reviews? · · Score: 1

    My friend used to be a journalist for a gaming magazine in Aust. The stories he used to tell made me lose all faith in game reviews from magazines.

    Anyone who remebers BattleCruiser will remember it as a game which could have been good except you can't play for longer than 10 mins becasue of the bugs. Rightfully my friend reviewed it and gave it around 60%. The publishers heard about this and threatened to pull their advertising...so now this gets raised to 80% and some of the bad points are glossed over. Publishing companies throw hudge parties for press to coerce them for a good review, I mean really nice parties (models in swimsuits etc.)

    For the magazine its pretty hard they need the advertising dollars to stay in business.

    C'est la vie

  4. All happiness on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 1

    Congrats and wish you both all the best. I know you'll both be very happy.

  5. Underwater on Limited-Use DVD Technology · · Score: 1

    If its got an anerobic layer that evaportes after playing then play it underwater or in an oxygen starved enviroment...my toilet should suffice for this

  6. Re:Physics on The 11 Greatest Unanswered Questions of Physics · · Score: 1

    I doubt you would be able to answer the 11 questions. But it is a fun class.

  7. Re:hilbert's 10 questions on The 11 Greatest Unanswered Questions of Physics · · Score: 1

    The list of 23 is related to maths not specifiaclly to Physics. Anyway I think there are much more than 23 unanswered questions in maths

  8. Some truth on Microsoft Caught Rigging ZD Net Poll · · Score: 1

    It may not be as fraudulent as many ppl think. I'm sure most of those ppl are either learning .NET or developing on it. SO yes they are planning on making applications with .NET.

  9. PreSchoolers on Greenspun On ArsDigita · · Score: 1

    In the article it says:

    I related my response to a member of the Harvard faculty who asked me what it was like to watch venture capitalists and professional managers run ArsDigita (I replied "like watching a group of nursery school children who've stolen a Boeing 747 and are now flipping all the switches trying to get it to take off").


    Of course this is true! All professional managers and VCs are like this. You need someone up top who has some expretise to say "Don't flip that switch".

    And like preschoolers they'll blame everyone else
    but themselves when things go wrong!

    The icing on the cake is that its Arsdigita money thats financing the lawyers to sue the shareholders.

  10. Bad predictions on ArsDigita CEO & VCs Sue Philip Greenspun · · Score: 2

    I love these two paragraphs on an article when they hired Allen Shaheen, "ArsDigita is positioned to become the world leader in open-source community-based solutions," Shaheen said. "This potential is underscored by its growth in the last year by going from $1 million to $20 million in revenue while remaining profitable. I look forward to working with Philip and the ArsDigita organization to scale the business rapidly." Greenspun said, "Allen brings tremendous experience at managing and accelerating the growth of a company like ours. His early work in open systems, his redefining and restructuring the professional services industry over the past 15 years, and his recent Internet startup experience all make him the perfect person to hand over the CEO responsibilities and allow me to spend more time on engineering and education." Here is the article

  11. No oil on Window(s) on the World · · Score: 1

    I like the comment of how they lost an airconditioner becasue it ran out of oil. He asks Moscow where all the oil is going and they say we've known for some time. Its good to know the astronauts are up to date. Lets hope this one hits the taco sign

  12. Vector processors on Top 500 Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    So how do they compare these scalar arch. to the vector ones like the NEC VPP series and so on.

  13. IBM memory on Single Molecule Memory · · Score: 1

    I know IBM has been working for along time on atom switches. I'm sure they can adapt this technology for memory as well. I wonder what types of moelcules they can use to store memory.....donunt molecule...mmmmmmmmmm..donuts!

  14. Hopefully less "advertising" and more information on Iowa to test forms of Internet voting · · Score: 1

    Iowa isn't the first to think of this. Louisiana is also thinking about internet voting. Hopefully this means campaigns/issues will be more available on the net rather than having your favourite TV show blasted with election ads (eugh!). Heres the link to the Louisiana internet voting story: http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf279.htm

  15. Where do I put it? on Mashed Potatoes Directly Enhance Memory · · Score: 1

    OK I've tried putting mashed potatoe into my floppy drive....nope still only got 128mgs. I'll find some barely and feed it into my floppy drive

  16. Population trends on Global Population Implosion? · · Score: 1

    I was looking at the UN projections into 2050 and its amzing how linear the population increase is. OK only after 1950. If you include all the figures from 1000AD it looks very exponential. My 0.02c

  17. Quantum computers and Quantum encryption on Quantum Encryption Explained · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about Quantum encryption is that it will come in a lot sooner than Quantum computers and also qunatum computers can't 'crack' quantum encryption. Anyway the idea of a working quantum computer is still a long way away