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  1. Re:Expensive on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 1

    When I build a Dell Zino HD with comparable specs to the baseline Mini, it's ~650 USD. Usually it's the case that a comparable Dell or HP system is about the same price as the Apple equivalent.

  2. Stare really hard and squint on Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student? · · Score: 1

    and the Physics will reveal itself to you. But really, an excellent place to start would be a math text for physics students, e.g., http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematical-Methods-Physics-Engineering-Comprehensive/dp/0521679710

  3. Re:Tutorial on Using apt-p2p to Upgrade on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    I always change my all of the country codes in sources.list to de or uk while I'm dist-upgrading. Seems to speed things up considerably.

  4. Re:So let's geek this out on IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    That article claims Opera 9 passes the test, perhaps this is just for Windows versions of Opera? Opera 9 in Ubuntu messes up in the same place that Mozilla does.

  5. bug or feature? on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, they were still concerned about targets wearing metal jewelery. A metal ring on a finger will absorb quite a bit of this energy (think fork in microwave), and even after the ray is turned off, the ring is still very hot - potentially causing lasting damage to the skin in contact.

  6. Re:Climate Models? on Mathematician Predicts Yankees To Dominate · · Score: 1

    I would think climatologists have a bit more data to work with than a handful of baseball players' stats and past trends. Also climate models are based on physical laws as well as statistics, whereas baseball is pretty much purely statistics.

  7. Re:Whatever happened to version numbers? on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Drawing Near · · Score: 1

    Dapper Drake = 6.06
    Edgy Eft = 6.10
    Fiesty Fawn = 7.04

  8. numerical analysis on What Math Courses Should We Teach CS Students? · · Score: 1

    I think numerical analysis would be an excellent goal for a CS major. It combines math skills from linear algebra, calc 1-3, and some PDEs. Plus, you talk about computer arithmetic and actually get to implement many numerical algorithms. It's been my favorite class, math or otherwise, so far and i feel it has helped me to better understand some of what happens behind the code.

  9. Re:What utube should have done on Utube Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    Or maybe utube should have bought some ads from youtube. Have a front page with the youtube ad and a link to the real utube site. Talk about click-throughs!

  10. worked fine for me on Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft a "Nightmare" · · Score: 1

    I upgraded using the update manager, and it went fine for me. gksudo "update-manager -c" (found on the other ubuntu thread on /.) During my first attempt, i lost network connectivity, and it rolled back the changes. I simply tried it again after reseting my modem and it worked just fine.

  11. Javascript (not JScript) support on Quiz Microsoft's IE Team Leader · · Score: 1

    Any plans to support JavaScript so we can stop writing browser dependent code?

    e.g. addEventListener vs attachEvent, XMLHttpRequest vs ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"), et al. ad nauseum.

  12. Faraday Wallet on Top Ten Geek Wallets · · Score: 1

    The RFID blocker is my favorite. Here's how it works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage Seeing as how one day licenses, bank cards, and (already) passports will have this little buggers in them, i could see a need for something like this.

  13. 0db indeed on Ionic Cooling For Your Computer · · Score: 1

    With no hard drive or cd-drive, my computer would be perfectly silent as well. ;p

  14. Re:A bit early for a book? on Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax · · Score: 1

    My copy of Google Map Hacks is already outdated and it was published this year.

  15. Silly Engineer... on Irish Company Claims Free Energy · · Score: 1
    former energy company engineer
    That's when i stopped reading.
  16. Good for US! on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    I expected the "False" response percentage to be must higher.

  17. Finally, this can be settled on New Google Services Announced · · Score: 1

    After endless debate, a resolution to the endless debate: Jedi vs Ninja. Clearly, the Ninja wins outright - except for the rare occasion where he may be distracted by cutting some kid's head off or wailing on his guitar.

  18. Opera on the release date: on Opera on the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1
    Hi David, Right now Nintendo plans on launching Opera for the DS in Japan this June. Nintendo is still deciding on its prospective global launch. That is all we know. But yes, this is very exciting, so stay tuned! Best, Michelle
    So i'll be looking for the rom up on BitTorrent in about 4 months.
  19. I'm sorry but... on Advanced Requests and Responses in Ajax · · Score: 1

    Didn't i read all of that when i first learn about XmlHttpRequests from http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xml httpreq.html The stuff talked about in that article is stuff we've been doing with AJAX here at my office for well over a year. I wonder who's sleeping with the /. mods to get this sort of dated material up here. -David

  20. Re:oh let's not talk standards on IE7 To Support XMLHTTP Requests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And IE6 doesn't fully support CSS1. I imagine there are few browsers that fully support any web compliance. Just sayin

  21. Re:weight& speed are the big issue here on The Physics Behind Car Crashes · · Score: 1

    But isn't the point of having a hugely massive car guaranteeing that you'll win in a collision? Sad thing is, i've actually heard people say this (on radio/tv news interviews) - "I want to make sure my family is safe if we're in a wreck." Nevermind the other car.

  22. x-googlers on google blogspot on Xooglers - Google Discussed by Ex-Googlers · · Score: 2, Funny

    It seems to be teeming with irony.

  23. SVG editor? on Adobe Acquiring Macromedia on December 3, 2005 · · Score: 1

    I know Illustrator has an SVG export function, but i wouldn't be suprised to see Flash MX style SVG editor/creator come out of that workshop

  24. perhaps it's time for an upgrade... on The Mother of All CPU Charts · · Score: 1

    when your newest cpu isn't on any of the lists.

  25. Re:Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? on Breakthrough for Quantum Measurement · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that the more precisly you measure momentum, the less precisly you can measure position. This is a specific case of a more general uncertainty principle that states if two observables (momentum, position, speed, energy) do not commute, then they cannot be measured to close percision.

    The reason that x (position) and p (momentum) do not commute comes from their operators. In x-space (what you're used to), the operator for x is just x, the operator for p is -i*hbar*d/dt. Long story short, x and p do not commute because of the time derivative in the p operator. This physically means that these two particular observables cannot both be measured with high precision, and as i turns out the product of the uncertainty in x with the uncertainty in p must be less than or equal to hbar/2 (which is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle). Not sure how relavent all of this is.