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Comment Re:100 times faster than existing optical microsco (Score 1) 51

by dmearns on Monday July 09, 2012 @11:14AM (#40592053) Attached to: UCLA Develops World's Fastest Camera To Hunt Down Cancer In Real Time

Comparing the camera shutter speed to an optical microscope makes about as much sense as saying the camera "has a false-positive rate of just one in a million". Someone forgot to read the article before posting, again.

Comment Way to bury the link (Score 5, Informative) 32

by dmearns on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @11:44AM (#38954531) Attached to: KDE Publishes a Book For Beginner Developers

Nice how they include the link for the "dead tree" version but the online version is much harder to find. Here it is http://en.flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/

7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators 289

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 30, 2010 @08:36PM from the open-in-tabs dept.

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