cybrpnk2 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Perhaps the Key Difference (Score 1) 143

by cybrpnk2 on Friday August 14, 2009 @09:24PM (#29073067) Attached to: Army Asks Its Personnel to Wikify Field Manuals

Actually, the edits are not limted to just soldiers. There are lots of civilian contractors (like me) who have CACs. Guess I need to go over to Army Knowledge Online and check this out - they've been hassling me to change my password there anyway....

Comment Re:Fun with units... (Score 1) 110

by cybrpnk2 on Friday August 07, 2009 @09:30PM (#28992911) Attached to: LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power

You flick a TON of subatomic particles around every time you flick your PINKY FINGER? Are you ... GOD?

Comment My Experience With HD-DVD (Score 1) 685

by cybrpnk2 on Monday June 22, 2009 @11:57AM (#28423453) Attached to: Blu-ray Adoption Soft, More Still Own HD DVD

I got a closeout HD-DVD player off of EBay for $40 delivered and bought it primarily to play standard DVDs on my HDTV. The HD-DVD unit reads the standard DVD at 480p just fine but outputs a 1080p signal to the HDTV via the HDMI inputs - so I'm effectively using it as a cheap scanline upconverter staying digital all the way. The result looks BEAUTIFUL, much better than letting the HDTV having to convert an analog signal from a standard cheap DVD player. Plus there are around 300 movies out there in HD-DVD format that are going for under $5 - MUCH cheaper than your average Blu-Ray disk. I am a very happy HD-DVD owner with no Blu-Ray and with the expense of the latter and free DVDs from the library, I'm going to stay that way for a long time to come.

Comment JG Is Now A Voice Of Time (Score 5, Interesting) 162

by cybrpnk2 on Sunday April 19, 2009 @07:37PM (#27640463) Attached to: J.G. Ballard Dies at Age 78

Among his other works, JG Ballard's short story The Voices Of Time had a huge impact on me as a teenager and has haunted me thru this very day. IMHO the VERY BEST SF story depicting man's place in an uncaring universe. Farewell, JGB, and thanks for your works.

Comment Try ExpressPCB (Score 1) 1

by cybrpnk2 on Friday March 27, 2009 @08:30AM (#27355689) Attached to: Circuit board design advice for small startup

The place you need to go is ExpressPCB. They have free downloadable software for PCB board layout that is a joy to use, and they have a standard size board they will make 3 copies of for only $51. They are the best, period.

Comment Blue Brain Actually Modeled A Neocortical Column (Score 1) 521

by cybrpnk2 on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @12:31PM (#27331067) Attached to: Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons

Read the great SEED article closely. The IBM Blue Brain project was trying to map the physical layout of the neocortical column, a standardized blob of nerve cells about a millimeter long and a fraction of a millimeter in diameter. If the brain is a machine made of modular parts, then the neocortical column is the starndard Lego used, over and over and over.

Comment Hagelstein Is A Heavyweight (Score 2, Informative) 373

by cybrpnk2 on Monday March 23, 2009 @03:36PM (#27302521) Attached to: 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success

Peter Hagelstein has an interesting background in hi-visibility technology. In the 1980s he was at the heart of trying to create an X-ray laser pumped by nukes that was to be a key component of the original Reagan Star Wars missile shield. See the writeup in the book Star Warriors.

Submission + - NASA Faces International Space Station Crisis

Submitted by cybrpnk2 on Thursday November 01, 2007 @11:28AM

cybrpnk2 writes: NASA is currently (if you'll pardon the pun) faced with a major crisis on the STS-120 flight to the International Space Station. At ISS, one new solar array has metal shavings from an unknown source jamming up the 10-foot diameter rotary gear that enables solar tracking. Meanwhile, a seperate older solar array that was partially re-extended in a new location has ripped and lacks the structural integrity for solar tracking either. An upcoming emergency spacewalk will have an astronaut at the end of a shaky boom applying a metal brace to the fully charged ripped array which he dares not touch directly at risk of electrocution to him or destruction to it. Failure threatens a scheduling trainwreck on upcoming flights to deliver power-hungry European and Japanese laboratory modules before President Bush's mandated 2010 Shuttle retirement.

Submission + - NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info 1

Submitted by cybrpnk2 on Sunday July 29, 2007 @06:02PM

cybrpnk2 writes: Get ready to surrender your data sheets, study reports and blueprints of the Saturn V to stay in compliance with ITAR. Armed guards are reportedly enforcing a takedown and shredding of old Saturn V posters from KSC office walls that show rough internal layouts of the vehicle, and a website that is a source for various digitized blueprints has been put on notice it may well be next. No word yet if the assignment of a Karl Rove protege to oversee NASA has any connection...

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