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Das_Bruce··on Proclaimed Dead, Web Is Showing New Life
Wired reports that something is dead? Surprise!
Das_Bruce··on Electric Car Drives 375 Miles on a 6 Minute Charge
That's a respectable amount of torque. My main concerns were power and range and they seem to have fixed a lot of these, I could see myself owning an electric car for my next.
Das_Bruce··on Ramen May Lead to Chronic Illness Study Says
I think the cancer bit was just in there for shock value, the main point is that there is zero nutritional value to these foods.
Das_Bruce··on Invisible Bike Helmet Inflates Before Impact
All the tests show low speed impacts/crashes, I'm curious as to how well it would work in a high speed impact where your head hits the ground going forward, is it attached firmly enough to stay in place?

Also, how does it know when to inflate? Can it be repacked?

It looks interesting, but I'll stick with my regular helmet for now, even if it isn't stylish.

Das_Bruce··on Canadian scientists protest gag order, go straight to public with own website
These people get more audacious at every turn, and as time goes by I find it harder and harder to believe they're doing this out of ignorance rather than malice or greed.
Das_Bruce··on The Business Of Burying Internet Search Results
Oh go on, tell.
Das_Bruce··on To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it
I think the problem is not spending the other 80% of their income, it's spending the income they never had, or spending all of it and not realising that there can be unexpected hiccups.
Das_Bruce··on Mexican Senate Unanimously Votes To Remove Mexico From ACTA Negotations
I always hear about these types of agreements and wonder what the opinion of the respective nations peoples are.
Das_Bruce··on Facebook allows Force Joining of Groups
A good first test to see whether something is possibly a bad idea is to give it to a 13 year old boy and see if he makes dick jokes with it. This feature seems ripe for the picking.
Das_Bruce··on BeagleBoard is nice, but the PandaBoard is better (dual Cortex-A9 at 1GHz)
I have a few boring projects I'd like to try with something like this, any idea what it is likely to retail for?
Das_Bruce··on Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels
Are you talking about overnight increase or gradual?
Das_Bruce··on The Technology-Driven Consumption Trap
Don't trust anyone to predict the future of technology 15 years ahead, especially when they use a cliche like VR.
Das_Bruce··on [dead]
This doesn't seem relevent.
Das_Bruce··on Tuning Canabalt (explaining all the basic systems)
It's not a rare thing for games to cheat in your favour, what was the last shooter where you had the same health as the hundreds of grunts and monsters you slew?
Das_Bruce··on Marvell's tri-core ARM chip has near-PS3-level graphics
I wouldn't even be that generous, it's an outright lie.
Das_Bruce··on Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers
Have you tried, I wouldn't recommend it, I think I had a stroke trying.
Das_Bruce··on AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam
I hope these won't be forced, I can't be the only person who has had to use older drivers due to bugs/etc.
Das_Bruce··on HRP-4 Humanoid robot unveiled-- will sell for $300k
What happened?
Das_Bruce··on 'How piracy works' according to Minecraft creator
Am I the only person who has bought a game after pirating and playing it through? Also I'd be more inclined to buy more games first if there was some way of getting my money back if I really don't like it. I'm looking at you, GTA4, you blurry, poo sandwich.
Das_Bruce··on Duke Nukem Forever is here.
'bout a month. Tops.
Das_Bruce··on Why C Is Not Assembly
I have only written a small amount of assembly code, but I cannot imagine how someone who has written even a tiny bit of either could make such a mistake.
Das_Bruce··on Duke Nukem Forever is here.
Looks like they have taken a lot of lessons from modern FPS games, limited weapon carrying, regenerating health etc. While this may be good or bad it definitely won't be what a lot of people are looking for, I've just replayed Duke3D and it's pure old school glory and I hope they retain as much of this as possible. If not then you can always count on the modding community to try.
Das_Bruce··on Books That Make You Dumb
This seems more graph like than infographic to me, at what point do we draw the line?
Das_Bruce··on The Man Who Makes Your iPhone
Excellent point.
Das_Bruce··on Django 1.2.3 released
Cool, I've just started using Django so it's good to see it's still being developed.
Das_Bruce··on Google Maps Instant (inspired by Youtube Instant)
Adding a quarter second gap between new searches would probably avoid this.
Das_Bruce··on The Man Who Makes Your iPhone
What is a 'postmodern industrial empire'?

I'm not sure it makes any sense, like the gradient of a cow.

Das_Bruce··on HDR video accomplished using dual 5D Mark IIs
How much post processing is needed to combine the two video streams? Is it parallelable?
Das_Bruce··on Microwave-Powered Rocket Ascends without Fuel
I don't know what you mean when you say adaptive optics sorry, but yes it could carry it's own air, I'm not sure of the practicalities but it's possible.

Also there are hard physical limits on how finely you can converge a point of light, MinimumDiameter = (2.44wavelengthfrequency)/LenseDiameter This is called the minimum spot size.

Das_Bruce··on Microwave-Powered Rocket Ascends without Fuel
Some would include that it super heats the air to gain thrust, as you get higher the air gets thinner meaning less thrust. Also there are limits to how narrow you can keep a laser beam through air and atmospheric absorption and diffusion.

All these things combine to make it more difficult to get energy to the craft as it get's further away.

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