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Comment Re:This reminds me of... (Score 1) 1191

that "flat", pastel, square look. Like, Windows 8. Or new iOS.

There needs to be a word for this: eliminating functionality in the name of creating a "new" way of doing things.

"GNOMEing" something I propose. Kind of like I use "Borging" something up whenever some significant other rearranges the decor for no good reason like the Borg on Star Trek.

Comment Re:Probably a prank gone wrong. (Score 1) 413

Holy shit! From the article:

Witnesses told police that the car, a late-1990s or early 2000s model, slowed quickly and swerved before hitting Vidal and continuing north on Hillandale Road.

It certainly sounds like a sad "prank" as you said. WTF? I've never heard of this but I know Americans (as I am one) hate bicyclists with a passion, but this phenomenon (if generally true like you suggest) is fucking crazy...

Comment Re:tone it down slashdot. (Score 1) 33

Oh god, mod this up please. /. has really gone down the tubes since CmdrTaco left and DICE bought them. I really don't understand why I still come here (or even still have /. as my homepage anymore). A few more articles like this and I'm gone for good... Sad really, because /. has been my homepage since about '98-'99... Let's see if this gets deleted like some of my other posts criticizing them...

Comment Re:Zotero is good (Score 3, Informative) 87

I believe all the features you mentioned are included in Zotero, and it can do indexing across pdfs it stores. You should check it out as they are rather responsive to updates and it is open source (and free!) Also, since it is a Firefox plugin, it can detect that you need to be behind a proxy automagically when appropriate, and so it makes adding new citations quite easy. I'm not a developer on it, but just a rather happy user! The only thing I miss from EndNote is an easy way to search Pubmed and pull citations that way, but I suspect they are working on it (or may have added it?) because I've seen other people request this feature in the forums.

Comment Re:Zotero is good (Score 1) 87

Another happy Zotero user. The fact that it can typically strip citation info directly (and save/store!) pdfs is a killer feature that EndNote doesn't even have I think (at least my old version about 10). And it makes it easy to distribute whole libraries (including pdf docs) to colleagues to boot.

Comment Re:batteries are not rechargable (Score 1) 247

If the batteries are easy to swap out, it would make "recharging" much faster compared to the Tesla's current approach that requires long waits. I don't think this is a major downside if the process can be optimized; it will just be different than the current way we think about refueling a vehicle.

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