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Comment Re:How many knew that it was a global release? (Score 1) 443

by thebudgie on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @07:25AM (#44550945) Attached to: Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated

Yep, this experiment has a sample size of 1 case, so you can't even make an average let alone perform useful analyses of it. Unfortunately, to joe public, a sample size of 1 (AKA an anecdote) is enough evidence to base their bias on. The media know this so they'll milk it for all it is worth.

Festo's Drone Dragonfly Takes To the Air 45

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:15PM from the little-flyer dept.

yyzmcleod writes "Building on the work of last year's bionic creation, the Smart Bird, Festo announced that it will literally launch its latest creation, the BionicOpter, at Hannover Messe in April. With a wingspan of 63 cm and weighing in at 175 grams, the robotic dragonfly mimics all forms of flight as its natural counterpart, including hover, glide and maneuvering in all directions. This is made possible, the company says, by the BionicOpter's ability to move each of its four wings independently, as well as control their amplitude, frequency and angle of attack. Including its actuated head and body, the robot exhibits 13 degrees of freedom, which allows it to rapidly accelerate, decelerate, turn and fly backwards."

Interstellar Ark 703

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 18, 2007 @10:17AM from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept.

xantox writes "There are three strategies to travel 10.5 light-years from Earth to Epsilon Eridani and bring humanity into a new stellar system : 1) Wait for future discovery of Star Trek physics and go there almost instantaneously, 2) Build a relativistic rocket powered by antimatter and go there in 22 years by accelerating constantly at 1g, provided that you master stellar amounts of energy (so, nothing realistic until now), but what about 3): go there by classical means, by building a gigantic Ark of several miles in radius, propulsed by nuclear fusion and featuring artificial gravity, oceans and cities, for a travel of seven centuries — where many generations of men and women would live ? This new speculation uses some actual physics and math to figure out how far are our fantasies of space travel from their actual implementation."

Comment Re:Win 98 FTW (Score 1) 194

by thebudgie on Saturday February 03, 2007 @10:52PM (#17878266) Attached to: Top 20 PC Games on Windows XP

There should be some Command and Conquer in your list of games. The C&C games have shaped the RTS genre for a long time- but then again you might not like that type of game. For the XP generation it should include some of the Total War series, more highly ranked than Rome was, and maybe the first warhammer game.

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