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  1. Re:capable for 3 week missions on NASA Rejoins Space Race With Manned Deep Space Craft · · Score: 1

    Yep, the Space Shuttle existed only for the cold war. It was to let the Soviets know that we could put a nuke delivery system into space. The Soviets even made one of their own, complete with a launch system. The USSR collapsed before that program was ever completed but they did send it on one unmanned space flight.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6WHjQ3Y3Uo

  2. Re:New news? Don't think so on TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors · · Score: 1

    Nothing is going directly into the atmosphere, why do you think the fuel is surrounded by containment vessels? This is not the same design as Chernobyl.

  3. Re:Corporate sales? on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1

    ExpressCard already provides a direct PCI-E connection for external devices on laptops. In fact it is already used for attaching regular video cards to laptops (ViDock is one such product). Again, there is no compelling reason for thunderbolt.

  4. Re:Same with 1080p on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    The Samsung 2443 I was talking about retails for $300+. Why you might ask? Simply because it does 1920x1200. It is currently easy to find 24" monitors for under $200, however they are 1920x1080 vs 1920x1200. This is the 2x markup we have all been talking about.

  5. Re:Corporate sales? on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1

    It'll die an obscure death, just like firewire. USB won this war a long time ago and there really is no compelling reason to go with thunderbolt over USB 3.0.

  6. Re:mine bitcoins then grow pot? on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 1

    LED and CFL bulbs make for very poor grow lights. Growers who know what they are doing use high-pressure sodium and metal halide bulbs.

  7. Re:Ohio is in the US [Re:One more nail] on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 2

    And if you knew anything about the way police raid homes you would know that they use those electricity bills as justification for a search warrant, absent any other evidence.

  8. Re:New news? Don't think so on TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors · · Score: 2

    Are you claiming that there is 600 tons of fuel in each of these reactors?

  9. Re:Corporate sales? on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1

    And it requires that the computer you connect to it be a Thunderbolt equipped Mac.

  10. Carbon Offsets on Google Founders' Jets Caught On WSJ's Radar · · Score: 1

    I cannot believe people still buy into this scam.

  11. Re:Corporate sales? on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1

    Just how did they manage to install Windows on a PowerBook?

  12. Re:Corporate sales? on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1

    A 1TB WD Caviar Black will run you closer to $100.

  13. Re:Corporate sales? on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1

    As for the monitor, well, there's always display mode via the Thunderbolt port...

    Which absolutely nobody uses.

  14. Re:Not surprising on PLA Develops First Person Shooter With US Troops as Targets · · Score: 1

    China would not collapse if they lost 30% of their export revenue.

    Top Countries China Exports To

            United States = $162.9 (+30%)
            Hong Kong = $124.5 (+23%)
            Japan = $84 (+14%)
            South Korea = $35.1 (+26%)
            Germany = $32.5 (+37%)
            Netherlands = $25.9 (+40%)
            United Kingdom = $19 (+27%)
            Singapore = $16.6 (+31%)
            Taiwan = $16.6 (+22%)
            Russia = $13.2 (+45%)

    Read more at Suite101: China's Top Trading Partners: Chinese Exports & Imports Soar | Suite101.com http://www.suite101.com/content/chinas-top-trading-partners-a3413#ixzz1NGeCLk7X

  15. Re:Same with 1080p on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    Sadly, ThinkPads are now 16:9.

  16. Re:Same with 1080p on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    At that price I would go with IPS instead, there is no way I am paying $400 for a 24" TN panel.

  17. Re:As another thread on a recent Sony article indi on Poor Picture At Your Local Cinema? · · Score: 1

    Or you could just stop going to the movies in bad parts of town.

  18. Re:Desperation on Microsoft Promo: a PC and Xbox In Every Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    What a pointless rant, you can buy laptops with good video cards in them. However, you have to be an idiot to think you're going to buy a laptop that doubles as a gaming rig.

  19. Re:Desperation on Microsoft Promo: a PC and Xbox In Every Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    How many people actually BUY music on iTunes?

  20. Re:It *is* Desperation on Microsoft Promo: a PC and Xbox In Every Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    They're been making a profit on the 360 for several years now.

  21. Re:OSX on Apple Support Forums Suggest Malware Explosion · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 all have been proven to have much better built in security than OSX, which happens to be based on the Mach kernel, not BSD. Having some BSD code in your OS does not make it BSD, if that were the case Windows would be considered BSD.

  22. Re:Strange on When AIM Was Our Facebook · · Score: 1

    While I agree with what you say, I would like to point out that at its prime, AOL had almost 30 million subscribers in the US when our country's entire population was 270m (give or take a few).

    And those subscribers were almost all old, technologically ignorant people, who thought that AOL was the internet.

  23. Re:I wonder if he really said that... on The Cost of US Security · · Score: 1

    Nope, in fact the Federal Reserve is a privately owned, for profit, financial institution. The only thing federal about them is the name. Sure they print money when we tell them to, however, they charge us interest on that fiat currency.

  24. Re:I wonder if he really said that... on The Cost of US Security · · Score: 2

    I guess you have never heard of Senator Ron Paul.

  25. Re:In other news on NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government · · Score: 1

    The coroner said it was the worst case of suicide he had ever seen.