Posts by Bill Neal

Re: well as other serious cross-border crimes....

Sorry, I can't take that bet. it would be a crime for me.

Re: "But we STILL don't know who'll play Ballmer"

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, & maybe he could throw some chairs around

Re: "Ordered"?

can't be any worse than what the TSA does at most US airports

Re: Aliens

While we're on the subject, it may be worth mentioning Prometheus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MhQe8V8IXc

We are never going to find a decent monster out there if we don't start looking, right?

Re: Do no evil?

If SnOracle had so many great ideas stolen by Google, where is a comparable product? where is the mobile OS? If anything Google is guilty of making a remix, and Micro$oft has done that a few times. No problem, right? I know that is oversimplifying a bit, but at least Apple actually has some working hardware & software to compare to. Should it be a crime to copy a style? (such as Samsung did) This whole debate seems largely philosophical now.

Re: Shuttle speeds in similar position?

a quick check of wikipedia says this about reentry: "The vehicle started encountering more significant air density in the lower thermosphere at about 400,000 ft (120 km), at around Mach 25..." But that was while drastically slowing down, unlike the DARPA thing which continued to haul ass for a while.

Re: IBM was (is?) hugely unsuccessful at software - while MS software was hugely successful

really? just downvote me and don't bother to tell what is so great about it

Re: Impressive, if...

unclean? that makes you sound like a fanboi. But seriously, is it even legal to "jailbreak" your Lego? This must violate several patents somewhere.

Re: I LIKE IT

Where did this screaming troll come from? Did I take a wrong turn and end up at 4chan?

Re: So it's business as usual

Don't plants thrive in CO2 as we do with O2? They should as long as they get enough water, of which there should be plenty with the polar ice melting. Right? How can you have drought & floods at the same time. Am I missing something?

@winkypop

What does the Flying Spaghetti Monster have to do with this?

Re: Oh right DDT resistance

"DDT can still be effective against resistant mosquitoes,[98] and the avoidance of DDT-sprayed walls by mosquitoes is an additional benefit of the chemical.[96] For example, a 2007 study reported that resistant mosquitoes avoided treated huts." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Mosquito_resistance

@Matthew17

can't see any benefit for trying to have as many people as possible on this planet? Easy; colonization of those nearby 100 earth-like planets without a serious genetic bottleneck. We're going to need alot of people to throw at that challenge someday. Especially if we are to overpopulate the natives, assuming there are any.

@Shakje

I'm sure 'the 1%' would like to think that poverty & lack of education are genetic traits and not societal.

Re: You mean.. 1080p at last

Wipeout 1080p @ 60FPS

debate all you want about how it happens, but it happens.

Developers are lazy as possible when it comes to porting too and figure most people can't tell the difference anyway. They're right. most people don't bother to look on the back of the box to read the resolution spec.

@LinkO'Hyrule

Why would they want to protect a financial institution, the very object of their oppression?

Wouldn't that be like hiring Taliban to protect US military bases?

Re: More LulzSec members to do the perp walk

you know it won't stop anything. Kids/young adults will go on thinking they are indestructible no matter how many serve time. If anything that will only stir up moar activists. The US is all too happy to hand out death sentences to murderers, but that hasn't put a stop to murder.

Re: surely

would you really want to leave a condom in the sun for a while then reuse it?

Re: Well....

and a treadmill for quadriplegics? shooting range for the blind? MP3 player for the deaf? how about a division of amputees in the "special" forces?

I'm not discriminating, I'm empowering them right?

How about Samsung make a gesture recognizing TV that recognizes black people. Start small, right?

How do they come up with this stuff?

@boltar

What about the HFC refrigerants' warming properties? or the various aerosol cooling properties? or solar weather? Saying it is ONLY the carbon is like saying ONLY the nicotine in tobacco kills, not the other chemicals at all.

Re: Seriously

CFC's were phased out & replaced by HCFC's, which still deplete ozone (just not near as much). Now we are phasing those out for HFC's which have no reaction with ozone, but they are greenhouse gasses. All of these are heavier than air, which begs the question: how do they effect the upper atmosphere? BTW CFC's are much more efficient refrigerants, which would save electricity and material consumption if they were used again in modern equipment.

Re: Well... duh

"being told something 'just works' when it doesn't" ...but they just keep on buying it, don't they?

Re: Quality Control?

I have a little laser 1020 in the office, and while it may not compare to 2 million pages, the thing gets plenty of use daily and still keeps going. I can't imagine what else I could replace it with for the $50 price.

Re: The bamboo curtain...

...sounds risky with the great fire wall.