Comment Re:StreetScooter (Score 2) 151
The US market needs a deadly-sounding, weaponish name to play properly to the customers insecurities.
The Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust?
Comment Re:noun noun libre release noun (Score 1) 207
Aljaeguhn Tyabha with Florn.
Now with 75% more Styhanb.
Actually, if you kill the Splorg manager and replace it with Optimized Achylia, you can run Florn directly through Styhanb, enabling 100% EnOL-isation.
Comment Re:Great! (Score 3, Funny) 226
It certainly brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "wee dram".
Comment Re:It's their business model... not the cost of in (Score 1) 651
My non-canonical refills come with a small plastic chip-holder doodad and instructions on how to remove the chip from the Canon originals.
Comment Re:Siren Noise (Score 1) 553
The doppler effect is inadequate at city speeds, whereas European sirens are distinctly different going towards and away.
Demonstrated by the great Bill Bailey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnrUGsf0rY
Submission + - Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie
saudadelinux writes: Last year, the Tolkien Trust which administers JRR's estate, bellowed stentoriously, "Youuuu shall not make The Hobbit!" and sued New Line Cinema for "a reported $220m (£133m) in compensation, based on breach of contract and fraud." New Line, chastened, has settled for an undisclosed sum of money. The Trust has given its blessing to New Line for Guillermo del Toro to film "The Hobbit" and for New Line to make other films based on Tolkien's work. Much rejoycing!
Comment Re:I have a few questions... (Score 1) 198
No, Robert Duvall.
Or the Leningrad Cowboys.
Comment Re:Poor Aussies (Score 5, Funny) 247
A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
Ah, yes. Also known as "Cole's Law".
Comment Encode it into DNA (Score 1) 495
One AT/TA pair for 0, CG/GC for 1.
Chop into suitably sized chains with primers indicating directory structure.
Advantages - Can be easily read and replicated and stored either in vitro (cryo) on in vivo via inserts.
Disadvantages - Time consuming to run searches, writing new data involves multiple single-point mutations.
Comment Re:Excuse me, (Score 1) 169
It's actually quite a geeky activity. Although being unfit makes decompression sickness more likely, it's not an activity that requires much in the way of physical prowess. There's maths in those dive tables, or if you prefer gadgets there's dive computers. Not that there's not plenty of gadgetry involved in the breathing apparatus side of things.
Then you have such fun things like Open Source dive computers, deco planning software such as V-planner and some maths & physics involved in gas mix calculations, partial pressures and surface-air-consumption rates.
The technology side of diving is amazing. OLED touch-screen computers, integrated HUD masks, wireless gauges, closed-circuit rebreathers, underwater electric vehicles and all sorts of cool gadgetry. If you still want more, there's also underwater photography and video gear.
It's really an ideal sport for geeks. There's not much physical activity needed, a massive amount of shiny tech toys to play with and you don't need to bother with pointless small-talk underwater.
Comment Re:Too deep... (Score 5, Informative) 169
The recreational limit is 130 feet. So you won't be able to look at the very bottom of the hull.
Unless you're trained by an agency that includes deeper and more adventurous diving. BSAC, for example, will certify experienced divers down to 55m on air. Decompression stops are introduced (although briefly) to entry-level divers and deco planning is an essential part of training.
To put the depth in context, one of most popular wrecks, the SS President Coolidge sits at about 70m but there are dives available for all abilities. 45m seems about right for a wreck of this size and I look forward to diving it in a few years time.
Comment Re:Ethanol is just stupid (Score 4, Funny) 894
Dunno.. But you might do better to extract and burn the grease. Porcine liposuction will be the next big thing.
There is a massive environmental downside to this. The exhaust fumes will smell of frying bacon and as a result, city centers will be awash with drool.
Comment Re:All Your Base Belong To Us (Score 1) 554
Mon aeroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.
Comment Re:Now... (Score 1) 128
Rims are for posers... Get the spokes.
http://www.hokeyspokes.com/
Submission + - RIAA Hearing Next Week To Be Televised (blogspot.com)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "One commentator labels it 'another fly in the RIAA's ointment'. In SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the Boston, Massachusetts, RIAA case in which the defendant is represented by Harvard law professor Charles Nesson and a group of his students, the Judge has ruled that the hearing scheduled for January 22nd will be televised over the internet. The hearing will relate to Mr. Tenenbaum's counterclaims against the record companies and against the RIAA. In her 11-page opinion (PDF), District Judge Nancy Gertner labeled as 'curious' the record companies' opposition to televising the proceedings, since their professed reason for bringing the cases is deterrence, 'a strategy [which] effectively relies on the publicity arising from this litigation'."
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