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Comment Re:Finaly. (Score 2) 225

The problem really isn't and hasn't ever been animation sites. The problem is that Flash has often been used where it doesn't belong; forms on business sites, ENTIRE web sites built using flash so you cannot bookmark a page, and stuff like that, and Flash doesn't work particularly well on touch screens. Like BLINK, Flash has been used and abused to the point where it is an abomination.

Comment Re:This is fine in theory (Score 2) 126

I don't think it's an interferometer. It's a standard diffraction lens, just like the Canon one you linked, that produces a real image, not an interference pattern. You could stand at the focal point and see an image.

It would be an interferometer if you put a ring of telescopes on the rim instead of at the focus.

Comment Re:copper lines going away like analog TV (Score 4, Interesting) 94

"Grandpa, what are those things called, again?"

Suck it youngsters!

I live in Virginia Beach and still have a copper POTS line with Verizon -- my TV and internet are via coax from Cox. Having copper has it's advantages, like (1) still working in an extended power outage, (2) not having to pay for the replacement battery in the eMTA modem and (3) being able to get phone service from third-party provider. Once you switch to FiOS or simply phone over fiber, you're stuck having to use Verizon over that media and they will *not* ever switch you back to copper.

During one of the last bad hurricanes that caused an extended power outage of a few days, copper landlines were of the few working phones (land or wireless) in my neighborhood / area. I've only been w/o phone service *once* here since 1985, when the power when out across the city for over a week after a hurricane, when the Verizon generators finally ran out of fuel.

Comment Re:I have an idea.. (Score 0) 468

No, you're missing the point... In Texas, you fool me twice... you won't be fooling anyone ever again... that is the idea...

Over 50 million guns are in Texas... it is estimated that 20% of all the guns in the US are in Texas...

And the irony? We actually have one of the lowest murder rates via gun of any state in the country.

http://texaslesstraveled.com/g...

http://nation.time.com/2013/09...

Comment Re:Money *needs* to be removed from Politics ... (Score 3, Informative) 181

When companies can "effectively" just "buy laws" (and/or Politicians) corruption knows no bounds for price gouging.

Not just companies. The political network overseen by the Koch brothers is getting ready to spend $900 Million on the 2016 elections.

Now the Kochs’ network will embark on its largest drive ever to influence legislation and campaigns across the country, leveraging Republican control of Congress and the party’s dominance of state Capitols to push for deregulation, tax cuts and smaller government.

Comment You say tomato ... (Score 1) 181

The documents revealed today show just how deeply Comcast is involved with certain politicians, and how they were able to get them on board.

"on board" ... "in bed" - whatever. Wear a condom Congress-critters and feel lucky. Most of "we the people" have to wear two when taking it from - I mean "dealing with" - Comcast.

Comment Re:Let's hope ... (Score 1) 38

For commercial airliners built for multiple customers, the company designing/building the aircraft usually has at least a few test articles that they have full ownership of. These get tested with their own pilots.

^ This..

Boeing has test pilots on full time salary who do nothing but fly for Boeing...

Boeing also owns the planes and builds them...

But keep in mind that Virgin Galactic is the airline here, with a spaceplane being built for them. So VG shouldn't really be involved in tested, it should be 100% within Scaled, unless VG actually owns this thing, in which case it should be 100% within VG.

Comment Re:Modula-3 FTW! (Score 1) 492

Nope, Beta was not far, far superior. You're totally forgetting that Betas could only store 1 hour of video. (They later fixed this, but by then it was far too late.) Who wants to change tapes in the middle of a movie? VHS tapes could store a whole 2-hour movie, so they easily took over. Not having Sony's stupid licensing costs helped too. And by the time Beta was on the way out, VHS had caught up to it video-quality-wise too.

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