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Comment Re:The GUI is so monumentally fucked up (Score 0) 466

As always, I'm sure it's one guy trying to justify being on the payroll (I'm presuming he doesn't do it for free) by constantly making changes to the HTML, "See what I did today!" Yeah, I see what you didn't do today, which was put the changes on a test server first and try it out with multiple browsers. "Oh look at me, I can make buttons that don't look like buttons until your mouse goes over them!" I see he didn't try it out with Android/IOS either. Hooray for Stupid CSS Tricks. And stop with that fixed width garbage, some of us want a larger font size.

On the other hand, Beta was a manager trying to justify being on the payroll by forcing a major site re-design.

Comment Re:file transfer (Score 1) 466

This might be tricky if the hard drive is pre-LBA. The easy way to check is to go into BIOS and see how the hard drives are defined. If there are cylinders/heads/sectors numbers, a USB adapter is probably not going to work. 160MB should be big enough to support LBA.

And don't forget to get the adapter from standard 40-pin IDE to the 44-pin laptop IDE connector. (or get an IDE external laptop drive case, I know there's still a few on the shelf at Fry's)

Comment Re:New patent strategy (Score 1) 101

I'd like to see a video of a 3D printer working on a truck while the truck is moving. Especially up north where they have a lot of potholes. Especially a day with extreme weather. It should be worth the price of the popcorn.

And if they say "Well, uhhhhh, we'll print it in the truck before driving out there!", then I'd like to know why they think it's more efficient to have the truck and driver sitting around for a couple of hours while a 3D printer runs, rather than just leave the printer in a non-vibrating environmentally-controlled building and deliver the objects after they finish printing.

Comment Re:All fair and good, except... (Score 1) 186

Yes, I remember Apple and Carl Sagan. And it had nothing to do with patents or other IP laws, but instead about implied endorsement. They used "Carl Sagan" as an internal codename for a particular model of Power Mac. So they renamed it BHA, which stood for Butt-Head Astronomer.

Sosume was completely unrelated to Carl Sagan, being instead about Apple Records, which was due to a settlement about a trademark issue. Part of the agreement was that they wouldn't produce "music".

Comment Re:We Survived (Score 1) 207

And for that matter, neither is a standard 2x4 ABS Lego brick worth making on a 3D printer, even on a super high resolution SLS printer. Injection molding gives a much more accurate and faster way to make thousands or millions of the same part. Just because a 3D printer can make something doesn't mean you should (or should want to) use it as a substitute for existing mass-production methods.

Where 3D printers are useful is in making customized parts, such as obsolete designs or new designs. Make a custom Lego-compatible brick of exactly the shape you need, make a 2x4 Lego brick out of metal, or make a part that is no longer manufactured.

I'm disappointed that the headline wasn't written as a question, because then we could invoke Betteridge.

Comment Re:Article bad web page design (Score 1) 237

I call it the "85/85" fad. It started about 10 years or so ago, where normal body text was set via CSS to 85% gray and 85% of your configured font size. Presumably it was to make headlines look bigger instead of, you know, just increasing the size of headline text? I'm sure it must even be a default in new Wordpress configurations. And suddenly everybody is doing that crap. But I took a quick look at the linked site, and it's more like 75/75. And it even has a tag cloud, something that I hear was first invented as a joke.

And a quick protip: your browser probably has a way to turn off CSS rendering. In Mozilla Seamonkey it's View -> Use Style -> None. Of course excessive formatting and hidden fields and pop-up menus and facebutt logins turn into a jumble all over the page, and this one seems to be worse than others. The most interesting is how every word in headline text is in there twice. "The The Ten Ten Lies Lies..."

Comment Re:just 10 differences? (Score 1) 95

The good news is, having a throat designed for speaking is a different gene. They'd still be going ook-ook, but they might be a lot more social (the problem with adult chips around humans is that they STAY at that 2-3yo level of socialization) and better at using tools. But we know they can learn sign language, so lack of speech won't be enough to stop them from having a revolution and taking over the planet.

Comment Re:Get digging. (Score 1) 88

Not only is it less likely for earth rocks to end up on the moon than the reverse (higher escape velocity), but the question wasn't if earth rocks ended up on the moon, it was fossils. Would the energy it took to get fossil-bearing rocks past escape velocity be so much that the fossils are likely to get damaged? That would further reduce the chance of find earth fossils on the moon.

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