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Comment Re:Resolution (Score 1) 316

by NemoinSpace (#47053393) Attached to: Surface Pro 3 Has 12" Screen, Intel Inside
Yes, Yes I can. It is without question the only suitable prop for a starship yeoman. To think a girl would be dragging a crash cart on to the bridge is more crazy than thinking Verizon is going to give you service in the Orion Nebula.
I thought you guys knew this stuff.

Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 316

by NemoinSpace (#47053297) Attached to: Surface Pro 3 Has 12" Screen, Intel Inside
Oh you want an honest assessment? Linux is a steaming pile of shit for most use cases. For ANY use case that does not involve FREE there is a better (and more expensive) alternative. I still use Linux a lot because like most people I love the false economy of FREE SHIT. By the same token, i only fell for the false economy of overpaying for an Apple product once. That leaves me with Windows. A company that is too stupid to put a file manager on their phones. Now how the hell do you think that makes me feel?

Comment Re:Resolution (Score 2) 316

by NemoinSpace (#47053223) Attached to: Surface Pro 3 Has 12" Screen, Intel Inside

Incorrect. you don't know what ROI means.
You could buy a really nice 15" Macbook for $2600.00 or you could start with a refurbished Dell Latitude e6400 for $150.

If you invest the difference for a year, you could buy a better laptop every year for the rest of your life. In the end you would end up with several nice Macbooks and a house to put them in that isn't in your parents basement.
Learn how money works.

Submission + - Will UlltraDimms beat Flying Cars to market? (sandisk.com)

Submitted by NemoinSpace
NemoinSpace writes: It's coming up on a year since the product announcement, and 5 months since Lenovo said it would take over IBM's x86 server line. Hopefully these nifty little pieces of silicon will move faster than the speed of business. What would you do with a 400Gb flash drive that runs directly on the memory bus? No one else is talking.

Submission + - The shrinking Giant Red Spot of Jupiter (spacetelescope.org)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling storm feature larger than Earth — is shrinking. This downsizing, which is changing the shape of the spot from an oval into a circle, has been known about since the 1930s, but now these striking new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images capture the spot at a smaller size than ever before.

How soon until it's blamed on climate disruption or the sequester?

Comment How about reading your code? (Score 5, Insightful) 352

by NemoinSpace (#47004803) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read?
After a year i go back and realize what a horrible programmer i am. It happens every year. But i'm getting better. I also spend a lot of time reading other people's code. I've found that if you are writing "new" code you haven't already seen in action, you just might wind up killing somone someday.

Submission + - Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A team of researchers led by astronomer Ivan Ramirez of the University of Texas — Austin has identified the first 'sibling' of the sun, a star almost certainly born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our star. 'Astronomers had been observing the star for almost two decades without realizing it's the long-lost sister of the Sun. No doubt we have catalogued other solar siblings whose common heritage has yet to be discovered. Indeed, the UT team, lead by astronomer Ivan Ramirez, is confident that the identification of HD 162826 is just the beginning. “We want to know where we were born,” Ramirez said in a statement. “If we can figure out in what part of the galaxy the Sun formed, we can constrain conditions on the early solar system. That could help us understand why we are here.”'

Submission + - Master Counterfeiter Walks Free After Printing Millions of Fake $20 Bills

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Rhonda Schwartz reports that master counterfeiter Frank Bourassa has been allowed to walk free after turning over a huge quantity of fake US $20 bills that authorities say are “not detectable by the naked eye.” “I’m safe, absolutely,” says Bourassa after paying a $1,500 fine in Montreal, Canada, and spending only a month and a half in jail after Canadian authorities agreed that they would not extradite him to the United States for prosecution. “They can’t do nothing about that." Bourassa’s fake $20 first showed up in Troy, Michigan in 2010 and US and Canadian authorities spent almost four years tracking the source to Bourassa. “To detect the counterfeit on this one is very difficult,” says RCMP investigator Dan Michaud. Bourassa says he spent two years studying the details about currency security on the website of the US Secret Service to learn how to produce his fake money. Although special security features were added to US $100 bills in 2010, security features added to the $20 in 2003 have not been updated since then. US bills are “the easiest of them all” to counterfeit says Bourassa, because they are not printed on polymer. “Even third world countries in Africa have polymer bills already." The RCMP and the US Secret Service raided Bourassa’s home, but he still had a card to play because authorities did not know where the remainder of his special paper and fake twenties was hidden. In the end, Bourassa agreed to turn over the remaining fakes and paper in return for a deal his lawyer worked out with Canadian prosecutors that let him walk free. Bourassa regards his accomplishment as a complete victory over the United States government. "It was, like, screw you."

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