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Comment Just the boards, or components attached? (Score 1) 247

Are you talking about naked boards or actual motherboards with all the components? You're not specific, but your post makes it seem like you're really scared of the toxins, but a naked board is just fiberglass?
As a fellow artist and geek, if you're thinking of sawing up boards with the all the components attached, I would say that's probably a bad idea.

Comment Re:How about holding them to one qualifcations std (Score 2, Insightful) 763

Of course, that might mean that the qualifications get skewed to include language proficiencies and such things that US citizens obviously can't do.

Horseshit. ENGLISH is the DEFAULT language of international business. Everything else is a regional pretender that is marginal at best.

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TheSpaceGame — Design Your Route To Jupiter 76

An anonymous reader writes "The Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency is celebrating World Space Week (4-10 October 2010) with the release of 'The Space Game,' an online game for interplanetary trajectory design. The Space Game is an online crowdsourcing experiment where you are given the role of a mission designer to seek the best path to travel through space. The interactive game, coded in HTML5, challenges the players to devise fuel-efficient trajectories to various bodies of the Solar System via a user-friendly interface. The aim of the experiment is get people from all ages and backgrounds to come up with better strategies that can help improve the effectiveness of the current computer algorithms. As part of the events organized worldwide for Space Week, the first problem of the game is to reach Jupiter with the lowest amount of propellant. The best scores by 10 October will be displayed on the Advanced Concepts Team website and the three best designs will also receive some ESA prizes."

Comment Re:dont be a douche (Score 1) 842

As an artist, I've plenty of my own personal social issues. I'm horribly shy, it is actually painful at times to be in certain settings.It takes work to overcome Any issue of that nature. It isnt magic tho, its hard work. And I mean work. It doesnt just come, to anyone. All of us really work at our interpersonal relations. Make an effort to talk to strangers, put yourself out there. And try to be nice when people arent very logical. Thats about all it takes. Being nice to those you work around. They're not expecting you to do stand up, or regale everyone with hours of stories. Social skills at work are the easy ones! Schmoozing at parties is harder to do well until you've got the knack. And, see its this stuff: "Also note that careers that require a very high level of logical thinking tend to have more people with Aspergers than other careers (since, well, that's how our brains are wired, really)" Now that maybe true. It comes off as an excuse. I'm an artist, artists are straight up wired Wrong. But I dont use that defect as an excuse to behave like an asshat at work. Note: I'm not making any kind of judgement on you or your Aspergers or your social skills. I just feel like there are alot of people taking advantage of this real issue, as an excuse to be a dick.

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