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Comment Re:"These observations should dispel..." (Score 1, Insightful) 458

No, there really is a consensus among climatologists. 0ver 97% of climatologists who are actively publishing on climate change and over 85% of climatologists in general agree that human influences are responsible for most of the global warming we are seeing

And the 3% that don't agree, don't get funding, tenure or publishing. Quite the incentive to toe the Religious line. Also, 97% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Comment Re:A linear induction motor is not a railgun. (Score 1) 314

I did it in English units, but my answers match yours. Assuming constant acceleration with zero velocity at start. 240 mph terminal velocity over 300 feet. Time = 1.7045455 seconds, and acceleration is 206.50667 feet/sec^2 which works out to a gforce of 6.4533333

This was a nice opportunity to use the Scilab 5.3 that I just installed this morning.

Comment Re:To compute what? (Score 1) 238

Here is what you can do with the second fastest super computer.

turbulent flow, shocks, complex fluids, plasmas, particle transport, seismic modeling, radiation hydrodynamics, astrophysics, nuclear data, fission, radchem, radiation detector design, nuclear forensics, thermonuclear burn, nuclear energy, nuclear reactor fuels, plasticity, ejecta, friction, the equation of state (from SciDAC)

Here is what you can do with the third fastest supercomputer.

turbulent flow, shocks, complex fluids, plasmas, particle transport, seismic modeling, radiation hydrodynamics, astrophysics, nuclear data, fission, radchem, radiation detector design, nuclear forensics, thermonuclear burn, nuclear energy, nuclear reactor fuels, plasticity, ejecta, friction, the equation of state (from SciDAC)

Do you sense a pattern here?

Comment Re:Communism (Score 2, Informative) 400

Why don't you scroll up to your own post and actually read what you yourself quoted in your post. Then try to draft a response that refutes the link that I provided.

I can add more links to the House Un-American Activities Committee, the hollywood blacklist and the Japanese internment camps if you like. That's just a small listing.

Comment Re:The best (Score 1) 376

I am quite happily using a Dlink DIR-655 with the stock 1.21 firmware. It is shown as fifth on the above charts for speed. I only have 6MB/768K cable, so I am not stressing it out. I had to make a few minor tweaks in the web interface to get this router to play nice with my work Cisco VLAN agent. It was disconnecting me every 5 minutes. Once that was done, it has been rock solid. It has QOS features and it's DHCP server allows you to set static ip's for known MAC addresses which I really like.

It also does the standard port forwarding/triggering. It is not as configurable as DDWRT/Tomatoe but does everything that I want or need it to do. It includes a 4 port Gigabit switch and is Wireless N and supports WPA/WPA2 tkip/AES encryption. Costs ~$100.00 but has been worth every penny.

Comment Re:Lenovo (Score 1) 583

Compare the performance of something like FoxIt PDF Reader ( http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/ ) against Adobe Reader, and then tell me with a straight face that Adobe's version is better.

Open a pdf file in Adobe Reader and then open the same pdf in foxit reader and compare the text quality side by side and then tell me with a straight face that foxit is better. Bonus points if you have astigmatism and presbiopia.

Comment Re:Lenovo (Score 1) 583

I have really wanted to find a viable alternative for Adobe Reader, but everyone that I have tried has failed one simple test. I open a pdf file in Adobe and in the other reader and put the windows side by side, and the text always looks worse on the competitor.

Adobe does some kind of font smoothing or anti aliasing and always looks better. My eyes are not what they used to be and I need text to be as clear and smooth as possible, so I am kind of stuck with using Adobe until I can find something that renders text better.

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