Professeur Shadoko - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Primary power source? (Score 1) 356

by Professeur Shadoko on Monday October 19, 2009 @11:36AM (#29794811) Attached to: VASIMR Ion Engine Could Cut Mars Trip To 39 Days

No, you cannot.

Do you know that the laser used to measure the distance between the earth and the moon has a radius of over 6km when it reaches the moon, and that only one photon every few seconds comes back to the detector on earth ?

Considering how far the spaceship will be from earth, it is not even remotely possible to focus a beam precisely enough to transfer energy.

Comment Oh no... (Score 2, Funny) 328

by Professeur Shadoko on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @05:13AM (#27500839) Attached to: US Electricity Grid Reportedly Penetrated By Spies

They must have the CIP module !

Comment Re:1.6M Processors, but only 1.6 TB memory? (Score 5, Informative) 248

by Professeur Shadoko on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @10:57AM (#26709393) Attached to: IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't

My bet is that this is a typo.
1.6 PB seems more reasonable.

Comment Re:Check out the size of the /. front page. (Score 2, Interesting) 241

by Professeur Shadoko on Monday April 28, 2008 @10:02AM (#23223518) Attached to: Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003

Hummmm...
I checked.
Around 75KB, down to 17KB with gzip compression.
Plus around 20KB in png/gifs.

Not that big.

Submission + - Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD (guardian.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

Mike

on Friday June 29, 2007 @08:05AM

Mike writes: "You might not like Prince but he's planning on giving away a free CD in a national Sunday newspaper, but music industry executives are practically going insane over the idea and threatening to retaliate. "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores. And I say that to all the other artists who may be tempted to dally with the Mail on Sunday," said Entertainment Retailers Association spokesman Paul Quirk, who also said it would be "an insult" to record stores. But wait a minute- can't Prince give away his own music if he wants to without fear of industry retaliation?"

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