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Comment: How is this news? (Score 1) 196

by salesbot (#31391704) Attached to: Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game
people have been doing this for years via XNA... that crappy indiana jones games is the demo platformer that comes with XNA and compiling for XBOX, Windows, or Zune is just a series of #ifndef XBOX blahblah #endif... save/resume files that work on all platforms isn't impressive: text files have worked on lots of platforms for a while now ;)

Freescale's Cheap Chip Could Mean Sub-$99 E-Readers 158

Posted by timothy
from the readership-growth dept.

+ - Hulu to begin charging for content?->

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A Hulu spokeswoman declined to comment."

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Comment: Re:metamaterials are just periodic structures (Score 1) 113

by salesbot (#29157985) Attached to: Big Bang Could Be Recreated Inside a Metamaterial
calling metamaterials periodic structures is NOT tautological: a great many periodic structures (as in all most all of them) are not metamaterials, and metamaterials are created by repeating metalic small metalic structures close enough to each other that certain wavelengths of EM radiation see perfect magnetic conductors (which are the same as perfect electric conductors, but a quarter-wavelength away.) this required periodicity is inherently narrow-band, because only a select range of wavelengths will be subject to the quarter-wavelength condition. ...the long and short of it is that you don't get a cloak of invisibility, because metamaterials are just periodic structures and as such are very much narrow band.

Comment: metamaterials are exactly what they claim to be... (Score 1) 219

by salesbot (#27946555) Attached to: Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another
...vaporware! all the peer reviewed work is hilariously narrow band, to the point that the claims of this article (and most others) equate to 'we have this flashlight, so obviously we can build HD tv and put a picture of you as a baby on it that would fool your mother.' LAME.

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