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  1. Whine whine on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 0

    Half my country is below sea level. Do you hear us whine about it? Ffs, get off your ass and build a dike already.

  2. The bar is low. on Daimler Tests a Self-Driving Truck On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    If it drives better than the average Eastern European drunk that is the typical 'driver' for these vehicles nowadays, it's a success.

  3. Whole organ? on Whole Organ Grown In Animal For First Time · · Score: 1

    Hope it was a Hammond B3. Love them.

  4. Re:mature response to a corporate stumble on Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Responding to feedback.... You mean as in their response to "We want to stick with XP!"

  5. ^^^ Somebody missed the 'free preview' offer :-) on National "Take Your Computer To Work" Day · · Score: 2

    ^^^ Somebody missed the 'free preview' offer :-)

  6. Gun + Foot = AAAAWWWW on HP Kills ARM-based Windows Tablet, Likely Thanks To Microsoft Surface · · Score: 1

    Gun + Foot = AAAAWWWW

  7. Crimes pays, so does inventing viruses. on Avian Flu Researcher Backs Down On Plan To Defy Publishing Ban · · Score: 1

    Ron is from the same "venture" that convinced the Dutch government to make the tax payers invest millions and millions in useless vaccines. And now somehow they still feel they don't need to be held accountable by the Dutch government. I trust him as far as I can throw him. And I promise I'll make a real good effort....

  8. Colleagues, customers, clients, whatever on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 0

    If the IT guys would refer to me as colleague, client, customer, whatever I would be quite happy.
    But no.... the IT guys always refer to me as a 'user'. I am your f***cking colleague, trying to help the company as a whole forward.
    As long as IT think of themselves as a separate company-within-the-company despite their ever poor performance, they have my contempt. H.

  9. Re:How about the inner diameter? on Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81 · · Score: 1

    Ok, how about this: I was personally present at the IEEE ceremony from the link and Joop Sinjou was telling stories about the early days of the CD development, which he was the project leader of. One of his anecdotes was how the engineers couldn't decide on a size for the hole and how he personally had picked the dime from his pocket and how that had settled the case. So I heard it from the man's own mouth, during an official IEEE event. It doesn't get much more reliable than that....

  10. Re:How about the inner diameter? on Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81 · · Score: 1
  11. How about the inner diameter? on Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81 · · Score: 2

    FYI, the inner diameter was chosen by Philips to match the Dutch 10 cent coin at the time.

  12. Not temperature, but power counts. on How Hot Would a Light Saber Really Be? · · Score: 1

    It's not the temperature that. The melting temp of any material can be looked up. It's how long you can *sustain* that temperature in your saver. The evaporation energy of the metal is drawn out of the saber and needs to be resupplied in enormous rates to be able to 'cut' fast. I do this for my work, metal sheet processing with lasers. We are very happy to be able to cut a centimeter thick metal sheet at several millimeters per second. We need a 1 kW laser for that, and the cut is only a hair thick. The laser light density is > 1 Giga Watt per square millimieter. If you want to cut wider and/or faster, no need more power. So with the light saver you'd need a small 1MW nuclear reactor strapped on your back for day-to-day use!