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Artist Photoshops Scenes From WWII Into Present Day 150

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @11:42AM from the then-and-now dept.

Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov has taken old World War II photos and photoshopped them over the locations in present day. The scenes from places like Prague, Vienna, and Moscow are incredibly well done and a neat way to appreciate history.

Comment Re:Screenshare (Score 3, Insightful) 403

by ckthorp on Friday July 02, 2010 @11:40AM (#32774126) Attached to: Tunneling Under the Great Firewall?

I vote for this strategy because then no contraband will ever be present on your computer in China. Nothing on the computer, nothing for authorities to find in your cache or via deleted file recovery.

Comment Re:Hobbling Along (Score 2) 300

by ckthorp on Friday June 11, 2010 @04:06PM (#32540934) Attached to: Volume Shadow Copy For Linux?

Or use rsnapshot and be lazy...

Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed 140

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 07, 2010 @11:22AM from the want-to-see-it-again dept.

eldavojohn writes "Recent betas of Google's Chrome browser are getting seriously fast. Couple that with better hardware, on average, and it's getting down to speeds that are difficult to demonstrate in a way users can appreciate. Which is why Google felt that some Rube Goldberg-ish demonstrations with slo-mo are in order. Gone are the days of boring millisecond response time metrics."

Comment Re:Safety Critical (Score 1) 913

by ckthorp on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @12:17PM (#30996672) Attached to: Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics

Fail. Lower gears actually have less power because the gear train is less efficient at greater reduction factors. The lower gears, however, have higher torque and acceleration.

Comment Re:Modify the phase variance (Score 1) 332

by ckthorp on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @01:26PM (#29733991) Attached to: High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids

Yes, RTFA.

Comment Re:Does Moore's Law end when things get too tiny? (Score 1) 77

by noundi on Monday September 21, 2009 @11:38AM (#29492029) Attached to: MIT's Hybrid Microchip To Overcome Silicon Size Ba

Unless the figure out a way to make plastic stronger, I think cellphones shouldn't get much thinner or smaller.

Two words: carbon nanotubes.

Comment Re:nothing special... (Score 1) 347

by ckthorp on Thursday July 23, 2009 @03:25PM (#28798923) Attached to: People Emit Visible Light

Photons only come in quantum energy levels when they are generated from a quantum process. Conversely, blackbody radiation is a probability distribution of energy levels.

Comment Re:TFA is so numerically challenged (Score 1) 151

by ckthorp on Friday July 17, 2009 @11:56AM (#28730863) Attached to: OLED Breakthrough Yields 75% More Efficient Lights

Well said -- wish I had points.

Comment Re:It's just twice the light output (Score 2, Insightful) 151

by ckthorp on Friday July 17, 2009 @11:55AM (#28730839) Attached to: OLED Breakthrough Yields 75% More Efficient Lights

Isn't "75% more efficient" only 75% more output? Efficiency is usually listed as lm/W which clearly would indicate 75% more efficient is 75% more lumens. On the other hand, "75% less energy" is 4 times the efficiency.

Comment Re:not really a ban (Score 3, Informative) 631

by ckthorp on Thursday July 02, 2009 @01:05PM (#28559885) Attached to: FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers

Except the article clearly states that Vicodin is actual hydrocodone+acetaminophen...

Comment Re:power consumption (Score 2, Informative) 184

by ckthorp on Monday June 22, 2009 @03:29PM (#28427061) Attached to: Intel Demos Wireless "Resonant" Recharging

That's a floppy. The magnetic materials are very different. Floppys are about 700 oersteds -- http://www.fujifilmusa.com/shared/bin/Degauss_Data_Tape.pdf Perpendicular HDs are much more (several thousand) -- https://www.mediaduplicationsystems.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=REM-1400NSA%20DEGAUSSER

Comment Re:power consumption (Score 1) 184

by ckthorp on Monday June 22, 2009 @02:57PM (#28426521) Attached to: Intel Demos Wireless "Resonant" Recharging

The magnetic coercion of a hard drive is so high that I doubt that these coils could cause the media to be damaged. However, the extra EMI might just make the logic circuits fail.

Comment Re:Well (Score 4, Funny) 413

by ckthorp on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @10:57AM (#28265817) Attached to: Security Flaw Hits VAserv; Head of LxLabs Found Hanged

Yah, but once you're in the ground, how do you dodge the bugs then?

Comment Re:24 hour charge?? (Score 3, Informative) 196

by ckthorp on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @05:25PM (#28101099) Attached to: Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled

Audi took almost a 1 hour stop for maintenance and still took 3rd.

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