User: jr-slash

Re:flawed

On: Modeling Supernovae With a Supercomputer

You are also testing the math formula with this, if the visualized model looks different to what can be seen in nature, the formula is flawed. If it looks similar to nature it probably is a good model.

Re:Where are the more efficient GPUs?

On: Asus Crams Three GPUs onto a Single Graphics Card

That's was integrated graphics is for. With a dedicated graphicscard you are probably wasting 5-10W on interconnect, outputs, and ram, while you haven't calculated a single triangle.

Re:2.5 minutes is *forever*

On: Film Studios Sue Samsung Over DVD players

and if it can be hacked to make it better, it must be done! :)
Maybe we should go one step further and hack the following menu into the DVD player:

- noskip setting-

(On) obey the MPAA
(Off) ignore the MPAA
(Reverse) automatically skip everything marked unskipable

Re:wake me when this matters to us 3d people

On: Evidence for String Theory?

Since we're limited to moving 3 spatial dimensions, and a unidirectional path through the time dimension, wake me when somehow these 'extra' dimensions matter to humanity

They matter if you are trying to find out why gravity is so weak when compared to the other 3 basic forces. If the other 3 are only "visible" in our 4 dimensions, but not in the other 6 (or 7), it would be logical for the gravity to be so weak.
An other thing to keep in mind is, that there are excacly 3 spatial dimensions! It has to be this way since the basic rules of our Universe (eg. gravity ~ 1/(r*r) ) would be different. So you cannot have any existence in the other dimensions, which is similar to ours.

Re:"stair climbing?" well, sort of

On: Stair-climbing Robot Built From R/C Car Parts

To really climb stairs you need legs since stairs are designed for people. If you are interested in such robots take a look here: http://www.walking-machines.org/ (btw. additions are are welcome.)