Posts by amlendu kumar

NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...

Titanic anyone

This is Titanic sized :)

Brittle steel

BOFH: Guys? Guys? We need blockchain... can you install blockchain?

Weight lifting

What is the weight lifting capacity of blockchain

Indian comms satellite gives boffins back home the silent treatment

Re: Wrong Priorities

ISRO is a business and launches satellites for many countries. Overall ISRO competes with other countries as its cheaper and has had a high success rate.

Drone smacks commercial passenger plane in Canada

Re: They seek him here...

Drone Pilot = Drodiot or drondiot depending on which rhymes better

Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

Snake Oil

The perpetual snake oil.

To contain semiconducting magnets which are cooled to near absolute 0.

To extract any usable heat no way to sustain leak and keep reactor ongoing.

Its always 20 years to success or anything near that since last few decades.

Facebook is abusive. It's time to divorce it

More like sharking

Not free sharing but free sharking

Robotic cargo spacecraft misses rendezvous with ISS

VAcuum Tube

And an odd jolt would not make the heating filament useless AKA the tube ?.

Thats why ICs and transistors are solid state init.

Microsoft's FUD goes mobile

But why?

They should diectly threat Google. Why beat the small fries ?

Ten free apps to install on every new PC

Itunes --> Foobar

I saw foobar missing and oh no Spotify is not free anymore but I am the lucky earlybirds.

Foobar = Low CPU , excellent support for most audio formats including Flac and can be customised till cows come home.

Google Chrome OS to route print jobs around planet

Reinventing ..

Well Postscript is Adobe owned/licenced. The free version is Ghostscript. Google must be using some version of Ghostscript.

Apple rumored to put beefy iPad on diet

Isnt it Obvious

iBinhad --> Universal name for apple devices

Large Hadron boffin hit with terrorism charges

Higgs Boson

And possible Hogs Bison as well !