I doubt we'll get a good answer on this. But Sanger's involvement was my number one question when I first heard about efforts to make a T7G3. I was really bummed to hear it wasn't going to work out. The replacement guy is obviously very talented, but still...The music isn't just a character of its own in those games, it is practically a lead role...

I think GP misspoke, but it doesn't mean that it wouldn't be interesting to see how homosexuals compare with heterosexuals of the same sex in this quality, in addition to looking at transgendered.

17 years from now, someone will write a listicle mentioning that graduating high school seniors have never seen a Blockbuster Video Store.

Yes. For the low investment cost of, say, $250,000, you can own a machine that laser-sinters metal into something that will allow you to make most parts of a gun with the possible exception of the springs. Or, you could ya know, buy a gun on the black market for a couple hundred.

Color me shocked!

My fingers were crossed hoping for this. I've always sorta figured that /. always had collapsible comments, I just wasn't clever enough to figure out what I needed to click to collapse them, and was too lazy to look into it...

This is one of the filthiest subject lines I've ever read on /.

You could. Sorta. And no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_switching

Walk away. Just walk away.

It pleases me that this is the first comment.

As a software engineer, I hope/intend to age well, but I don't think I would age well at all if I was working at the DMV counter. But I believe that's a digression.

Fine, a heuristic then.

You cannot disprove a generalization by way of counterexample. Certainly, lots of old programmers are wonderful. They read the latest developments and new paradigms, and work to understand whether they are appropriate or not, and they have lots of experience that lets the quickly detect problems or avoid paths that will become future problems...But lots of them also just get burnt out. They haven't learned a thing since college, and/or they just want to put in their hours and go home until they are able to retire. Until someone does a survey that compares age and software development apptitude (which would be a really hard thing to do well), it's a valid archetype to watch out for. I fully expect I'll have to prove I'm one of those exceptions to the "rule" when I get to be an old coder.

I used to be a big fan of india ink, until I spilt a jar...boy does it ever make a mess.

Traditional india ink was often just lamp-black (carbon) mixed into gelatine and water. It behaves fairly similar to blood, with problems of globs, dry tip; you just learn how to work with this until it's second nature. Sorta like how gel-ink pens refuse to write unless the pen is held at just the right angle (which, I think partly because of my weird lefty grip, I've yet to figure out). Blood seems to flow a bit better using natural quills as opposed to metal nibs. So long as you dip the pen in alcohol or diluted acetone and blot it dry, on ocassion, it's really not too bad to write in. If you really wanted non-coagulating ink, you could always add coumadin. Just don't eat it or you might, ya know, die.

The problem with blood is that over time, it deteriorates until only the tiny traces of iron from the hemoglobin remain visible. This can be pretty difficult to read.

Oak gall ink is lots of fun. It's neat to see it change color as it cures.

Also too bad that, like all the "battery breakthrough" articles, this one has no real content beyond a bunch of unsubstantiated claims and the name of a startup company with nothing but a placeholder website.

I'm not quite as quick to call bullshit on this claim as I am with the articles claiming to solve the energy crisis. I spent four years writing code for modules that interacted directly with bastations, but without even a taste of a technical explaination why there is something wrong with the amplifier, it's a coinflip.

I wish this sort of journalism came with citations, so I could no for certain whether the author is dumbing things down to avoid scaring away the non-technical audience, or because they are lazy bastards who copy-pasted a press release without bothering to investigate if there was any validity to the claims.