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Comment Re:Faraday Cage? (Score 1) 228

No problem! EMP induced forced epileptic fits as they pass through the exit gate, to wipe their short term memories!

In all seriousness: you got a real sense of the fun that was had on set by watching the Smeg Ups/Smeg Outs out-take videos. I'm sure studio audiences had things like mailing lists and cameras back in the 90s, but they also had respect enough not to spoil their fellow dwarfers constantly.

PS: Rimmer is Lister's father!!!!!11

Comment Re:SURVEY SAYS?? ...Meh. (Score 1) 327

That's because it's chat with a couple of features.

The principle of which is deleting what someone previously wrote and replacing their text with "I'M GAY!!!!"

Incidently the wave I used for one afternoon with some friends now takes hundreds of megs to load in a browser..

Comment Re:ENHANCE (Score 1) 874

While movies typically do this in a b.s. fashion, it is possible to create an "enhanced" still image using multiple frames of a video source. It is called Super-resolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution

Hurrah! I knew there was a point to recording all those Star Trek episodes onto VHS twice. I guessed that having two copies of it would mean I could use both sources to create a super-clean version one day in the future.. umm, not that I ever will.

Comment Re:Oh yuck. (Score 1) 147

My vote goes for: pump all the oil through a giant radiator which is cooled by a diverted river (or leave the cold tap on full and don't tell the water company!)

I was interested in how they dealt with the hard drives, which traditionally don't play well with submersion due to having breathing holes to equalise pressure inside and outside the drive.

Seems like they just wrapped them in a sleeve to block off the holes? I'm not sure that'll work too well.. all the modding projects I've seen do this either used SSDs, mounted the hard drives out of the oil, or provided pipes out of the oil attached to the breathing holes.

I seem to remember oil even got into a drive via the power/sata connectors too, which doesn't bode well. Good luck to them anyhow.

AMD

Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? 555

b4dc0d3r writes "How do you make sense of the various model numbers or naming schemes for CPUs, graphics cards, and the related chipsets? All I want is something that will run Oblivion and output full 1080 video to a TV. Last time I built my own computer I just went to Pricewatch, made a few easy choices, and everything came to my door. Do I really have to research the differences among Core i5, Core 2 Duo, Pentium 4, Pentium D, Sempron, Athlon, Phenom ...? And that's just the processor. Is there a reference somewhere? In short, how do you buy a computer these days?"
Moon

Submission + - SPAM: NASA spacecraft crash into the moon 3

coondoggie writes: NASA' Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellites (LCROSS) took dead aim and crashed into the moon at about 5,600mph at around 7:31 am ESD. Watching the results on NASA TV, scientists were pleased with the impact of the two satellites.

The impact of the $80 million LCROSS satellites into the moon was to create what the space agency hopes is an ice-filled a debris plume that can be analyzed for water content.
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