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Comment Re:Embarrasment (Score 3, Insightful) 198

The principle reason to put 2560x1440 pixels on a phone is to further the embarrassment of monitor manufacturers who can only manage to get 1/4 of the pixels into a 19" screen.

We will soon be better off buying a smart phone and a Fresnel lens instead of desktop monitor and our computers will begin to look a lot like the ones in the movie Brazil.

Comment Re:The real question in my mind (Score 5, Funny) 119

How could they not know?

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: If they knew for a fact their claims were fraudulent, they would not know what their claims were. Since they in fact know that they are claiming to have a quantum computer, they cannot know whether the claim is fraudulent or not.

Comment Why not use the mosquitoes as the delivery vector? (Score 1) 84

Hum, I wonder why they don't just have the mosquitoes with the weakened parasites bite people. Seems like a lot of work to dissect mosquitoes, concentrate the vaccine, deliver it to doctors, put it in a syringe and inject it. Just ship the mosquitoes to where they are needed, put them in a box, and have people who need immunity stick their arms in the box.

Comment Rewriting textbooks (Score 4, Funny) 264

That specifically covers the stylized "pi mathematical symbol followed by a period."

Oh dear. I guess we'll have to fix all textbooks to remove infringing uses of pi at the end of a sentence..

Example of infringing use:

The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is .

Non-infringing alternatives:

The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is !
The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is :)
, what the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is.

 

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