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Comment Re: IF true... (Score 2) 164

Exactly. I can teach you to do your job, but I can't teach your tats to go away. Until now?

If this works, you'll see employers requiring their employees to remove tats.

Unfortunately, you won't see employers doing this...

You'll see tatted people still not getting the job in the first place.

This just gives them a way to remove the ink; once they figure out they aren't getting any call backs.

Submission + - Physicist Builds Supercomputer From Old PlayStations (sciencealert.com) 1

drkim writes: A home-made PlayStation 3 supercomputer is 3,000 times more powerful than any desktop processor, and is being used to study black holes.

Guarav Khanna, a black hole physicist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the US, has managed to build a powerful and extremely cheap supercomputer using old PlayStation 3s (PS3s), and he’s used it to publish several papers on black holes.

His research focusses on finding gravitational waves, which are curvatures in space-time that ripple out from a violent astrophysical event, such as two black holes colliding. They were first predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but no one has been able to observe them.

Comment 'Lunchbox' style case (Score 1) 325

You may be looking for a 'Lunchbox' style case.

I've seen these in military applications, it's a portable case (like a laptop, but thicker) that will let you use full-size ATX mobos.

One model (below) actually lets you fold three displays out of it (The "FieldGo M3")

This would give you the performance and cooling of a desktop, and (almost) the portability of a laptop.

http://www.bsicomputer.com/pro...

Comment Re:When will this stupid crap-o-rama end? (Score 1) 73

Why does anyone need a self-driving car?

This is possibly the weirdest argument against self-driving cars - and yet it pops up time and again on this topic.

What if I told you I would pay for a chauffeur driven limousine for you? It would pick you up every morning and take you to and from work. You could shave, or sleep, or surf the net while he took you to work. He would drop you at the door, and you'd never again have to look for parking.

If you wanted to go to a club or party, you could get as toasted as you like and your chauffeur would drive you home safely.

Now, just replace "chauffeur driven limousine" with "self-driving car".

Comment Use single vision (Score 4, Informative) 464

Don't use progressives or bi-focals. Do this:

Take a tape measure and measure the exact distance to your monitors when working.

Go to an optometrist and get a written prescription for that exact distance (bring the tape measure with you*) including the "PD", pupillary distance, at that range. Do not buy the glasses from them.

Go to Zenni Optical
http://www.zennioptical.com/u6... ...and order some $6.95, single vision prescription glasses from them that fit your PD size.
Add the standard anti-reflective coating for $4.95

For about $12 you have custom computer glasses.

* Yes, I actually do this. And, yes; I'm a nerd.

Comment 800-Hoot-Owl (Score 2) 94

There was a 24 hour library information service (800-Hoot-Owl) where you could call in any question and a reference librarian would give you an answer.

If they couldn't find the answer right away, they would take your number and call you back once they found it.

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