Comment Re:Hmm ... CaCO3 + Heat - CaO + CO2 ... (Score 2) 114

by davew666 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @07:51AM (#63107070) Attached to: Microsoft-Backed Start-Up Heirloom Uses Limestone To Capture CO2

Read the summary...? "Heirloom removes that CO2 by heating the limestone into a powder and stores the extracted CO2 underground ."

Comment Anal (Score 1) 63

by davew666 on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:46AM (#54012621) Attached to: Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada

Sorry to be pedantic, but doesn't it look much more like a ravioli than an empanada or a gyoza?

Comment Re:Render (Score 1) 63

by davew666 on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:03AM (#54011561) Attached to: Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada

OK, but the detail still looks undefined - was it taken from a long way away, and this is a crop on the file?

Comment Render (Score 1) 63

by davew666 on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:33AM (#54011515) Attached to: Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada

Why does this picture look like a very basic computer simulation of a lump of rock, and nothing at all like a photo. How was the picture actually taken?

Comment Re:So let me get this straight... (Score 1) 109

by davew666 on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:45PM (#51562219) Attached to: MasterCard Rolls Out 'Selfie' Verification For Mobile Payments

You have to blink whilst doing the selfie, to make sure it isn't a photo http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

Comment Re:Phasers (Score 1) 158

by davew666 on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @05:05AM (#36163494) Attached to: Celebrating the Sci-fi Ray Gun

unlimited ammo, no jamming, perfect accuracy, adjustable power

still, you raise an interesting point

Comment Re:Very close to my personal gripe (Score 0, Troll) 255

by davew666 on Monday August 02, 2010 @05:18PM (#33115966) Attached to: Why Bad 3D, Not 3D Glasses, Gives You Headaches

how's that different to 2D movies where the background is out of focus?

Comment Re:Mitch Hedberg called this one (Score 1) 479

by davew666 on Sunday June 06, 2010 @05:12AM (#32473976) Attached to: Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot

i think he meant $0055 million

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:02AM from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."

Comment ReadyNas NV+ (Score 1) 517

by davew666 on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @07:26PM (#26139305) Attached to: SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput?

I have one of these with 4x750GB seagate drives. I get 35mb/sec read and about 15-20 write. I'm using OSX on AFS and SMB shares