russia was actually first to successfully develop, launch, and recover an unmanned spaceplane 20 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

Really dude?
I'm honestly curious what kind of convoluted alt-history scenario you've concocted that leads to this.

Would you have any source for that? Shuttle main engines at 104% were not running beyond their spec. The final design of the SSME was capable of somewhat more thrust than originally specced, but for the sake of convenience "100%" throttle was calibrated to be the same amount of thrust as 100% of the original intended spec. IIRC the true maximum was 109%, which was indeed beyond normal safe limits and only used for emergencies.

I'm very curious as to how they've managed to display information on conventional-looking glasses that the wearer is actually capable of focusing on. Every time a story like this has come up of some group that developed normal-appearing glasses with a display, it's turned out to be vapor or a useless concept mockup. Existing head-mounted displays all involve bulky prisms/mirrors that push the effective focal length of the image far enough out that the viewer can actually see it. If you simply make a transparent display on the lens itself or attempt to project onto it, a human normally can't focus anywhere near close enough for it to be visible, and this has been the most serious problem with any sort of device like this.

It helps about as much as any of the "freedoms" we have over here in the US.

BS. Apple has always equally prioritized design and engineering; that's the primary thing that's always differentiated their products. But even disregarding that, you're ignoring that these buffoon artists and designers are the ones that actually USE software like FCP, and are in fact the ones most vehemently complaining about this new release.

glad to see that slashdot is 100% on board with the media's general nuclear hysteria
[I don't think I need to explain why "nearing chernobyl levels" is a ridiculous description...]

oh man.
if they used this thing to take a potshot at Kadafi, I can't really express how ridiculously awesome it'd be.

if nothing else, I'd finially feel like this is really the far-flung futuristic year of AD 2011.

are you serious? are you even remotely familiar with the current state of the industry (or even the past 10 years)

the windows/mac versions of adobe cs have been at parity as long as the cs branding has even been in use (2003). photoshop was available for windows starting with version 2.5. in its current iteration, it's actually slightly ahead of the mac version with some of its less-obvious features (memory management with large files comes to mind), rumored to be due to the delays in development from when the mac version was transitioned to intel.

it's also rather ridiculous that you refer to it as "crap" -- photoshop is unquestionably far beyond any competition, and the rest of the suite is at least as good as anything else.

I thought we'd already agreed that the only way to be really sure that your data is gone is to physically destroy the drive. If you've got data that's really so sensitive that someone's going to spend serious resources to extract it, the actual price of a drive is nothing. Smash it and call it good.

My understanding is that currently there's something of an enforced equilibrium between Intel and AMD, wherein Intel needs AMD to exist in a somewhat healthy state in order to avoid being considered a monopoly. If Dell bought AMD, what would happen to that? Would Dell then sell AMD chips to other (competing) manufacturers?

There might be something similar going on with ATI vs nvidia as well. =/

Seriously, HP tends to get a lot of crap, but this is pretty awesome. I hope they can keep this up.

do we really need to tell you that "realise" is the proper spelling most places outside of the US?

implying he didn't screw up the parabola geometry by adding the thickness of the mirror glass and end up with a worse setup than aluminum foil
implying solar power plants don't use massive arrays in a fresnel type arrangement for the sake of manufacturing/setup convenience