Comment Re:Needs a software update (Score 1) 1042
That is the idea. Bilk.
Submission + - Electrostatic Potential, Textiles, and I/M Ratios (tandfonline.com)
maxwells daemon writes: Careful with your underwear choices. For optimal rate of potent intromission (I) to mounts (M) (I/M ratio), stick with wool(?) or cotton underwear. Modern polyester and polyester blends can cause your girl to look elsewhere for male sexual activity.
Comment computer output to laser disc (Score 1) 121
is it cold in here or what?
Comment I'd pay (Score 1) 114
the BBC for their Olympics coverage (and other stuff). Proxying in works but is not kosher. On the BBC I feel I am watching sport, not entertainment. Not so with NBC, etc.
Comment I am afraid (Score 1) 136
Last night I dreamed that Frances McDormand was shoving my phone down a chipper.
Comment Re:Rails never had 'steam'. (Score 1) 291
But right now Rails as a FW is way to bloated --> But right now Rails as a FW is way _too_ bloated
my german is Hogan's Heroes based. "to" might be a simple typo, but just in case. "too", in this case, is to an excessive degree. As opposed to: me, too, I think RoR is excessively bloated. Like a fish too long on the shore (simile). In the sun.
Comment seth thomas inspired me (Score 1) 153
I took apart the mechanism one of my Dad's antique mantel clocks. My Mom saw me at the dining room table with brass gears and plates and screws scattered in front of me. "Your Dad is going to kill you when he gets home from work!" I put that sucker back together and it worked as well as before (not well).
Comment proximal impacts (Score 1) 293
Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History
Comment where are jesus's foot prints (Score 1) 120
This has so many problems. Number one. the photograph is undated, so who knows the reference point for the footprint dating? Number two. the lens cap is obviously intelligently designed. This foot print is 4000 years old. Max.
Comment Re:Headline...? (Score 1) 63
Candidate research subject
Comment everyone from India? cure for slashdoters? (Score 2, Interesting) 63
1. Aparna Suvrathan a,
2. Charles A. Hoeffer b,
3. Helen Wong b,
4. Eric Klann b, and
5. Sumantra Chattarji a,1
- Author Affiliations
a National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore 560065, India; and
b Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003
These are lab findings in cells of knock out mice and indicate that the process may be still amenable to pharmaceuticals. All you Asperger's at
OLED Film Could Provide Cheap Night Vision For Cars 120
thecarchik writes "Night vision systems are already available in the higher-end luxury sedans from companies like Toyota, Volvo, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. It's expensive technology that few drivers can afford, and at $4,000 for the system without a display, it's a pricey upgrade. That may all change soon, as DARPA-funded scientists have developed a cheap way to turn any infrared light into visible light with a thin film."
Comment Re:Summary is wrong ... (Score 4, Funny) 298
dammit. should have gotten the refundable plane tickets.
Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic 807
DJRumpy writes "The Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg won fame and fans by arguing that many of the alarms sounded by environmental activists and scientists — that species are going extinct at a dangerous rate, that forests are disappearing, that climate change could be catastrophic — are bogus. A big reason Lomborg was taken seriously is that both of his books, The Skeptical Environmentalist (in 2001) and Cool It (in 2007), have extensive references, giving a seemingly authoritative source for every one of his controversial assertions. So in a display of altruistic masochism that we should all be grateful for (just as we're grateful that some people are willing to be dairy farmers), author Howard Friel has checked every single citation in Cool It. The result is The Lomborg Deception, which is being published by Yale University Press next month. It reveals that Lomborg's work is 'a mirage,' writes biologist Thomas Lovejoy in the foreword. '[I]t is a house of cards. Friel has used real scholarship to reveal the flimsy nature' of Lomborg's work."
Comment Re:You don't. You find out what the software did (Score 1) 532
you are nearly absolutely right. If you can easily mod it, mod it. If not, go your route. Programmers and the software they create are a complex adaptive system. The newbie will eventually understand it better than those that left but because of the changes the newbies have made and the failure of memory of those that have left.
