Comment And I want proof (Score 1) 393
that Oracle won't come to a grinding halt on a simple query.
Oh, and people in hell want ice water.
Comment Firearms (Score 1, Interesting) 1142
Real gun control. Even for the sissies.
Comment Re:wellll. (Score 3, Funny) 538
LOOK! ALIENS!!!
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."
Comment Re:Personally I'd rather you were honest with me (Score 1) 344
Problem is most people in HR are those pretty girls who do an hours worth of work a day between their manicures, phone calls and facebook browsing. I've seen it too many times for it to be anecdotal. They latch onto a few key phrases to get themselves by. Ask any citing 6 Sigma or 5S what those letters really mean? All that jargon and alphabet soup can be spewed out by any idiot, and usually is.
Comment I like this better the first time (Score 4, Interesting) 241
when it was called AOL.
Comment If you need the hardware actually inventoried... (Score 1) 251
I need a job. Inventory is my background.
Comment We now read from the Book of Halford (Score 1) 708
Halford 2.1 - Forged out of flame from chaos to destiny.
Comment Depends on if I'm wrong about god. (Score 1) 575
If god is real, I'll suffer to my 80-100s.
If he's not, 60ish. Probably around 65.
Comment His hat looks stupid. (Score 0) 329
Sucks to be the king.
A Real Bill Gates Rant 293
lou ibmix XI submitted an
email written by Bill Gates a few years ago and turned over to the feds as part of the government's antitrust case. Great quotes like 'Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?' and 'The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind.' We like to think of him as an abstract, but I think this is interesting stuff. Also, this might seem familiar. Oops.
Comment I write in about a 6-8 point font size. (Score 1) 613
Drove my teachers mad and blind. It was beautifully written, but too damned small to read.
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 1475
You forgot trolling and fishing.
Comment Some say the end is near (Score 1) 873
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
Submission + - Reflectivity Reaches a New Low
sporkme writes: "A new nanocoating material developed by a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has the lowest level of reflectivity ever seen, or not seen in this case. The amount of light reflected by the composite of silica nanorods and aluminum nitride is almost the same amount reflected by air. From the article:
Suggested applications include increased efficiency in solar cells, more energy-efficient lighting and advances in quantum mechanics. No word yet on invisibility cloaks."Schubert and his coworkers have created a material with a refractive index of 1.05, which is extremely close to the refractive index of air and the lowest ever reported. Window glass, for comparison, has a refractive index of about 1.45.
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Using a technique called oblique angle deposition, the researchers deposited silica nanorods at an angle of precisely 45 degrees on top of a thin film of aluminum nitride, which is a semiconducting material used in advanced light-emitting diodes (LEDs). From the side, the films look much like the cross section of a piece of lawn turf with the blades slightly flattened.
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