FrostedWheat - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 561

by FrostedWheat on Monday December 31, 2012 @06:59AM (#42431571) Attached to: Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge

The newer MS keyboards are pretty awful, but their mice are not too bad still.

Comment Reverse the charges (Score 4, Insightful) 148

by FrostedWheat on Friday December 14, 2012 @12:59PM (#42288141) Attached to: No Charges In UK For Gary McKinnon

Right, so the real people responsible will be charged now? The ones who left seriously insecure military computers connected to the internet? </naive>

Comment Lunokhod? (Score 1) 32

by FrostedWheat on Friday November 16, 2012 @05:15AM (#41999717) Attached to: Google Lunar X Prize Teams Now In a Race With China As Well As Each Other

Hasn't this already happened?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme

Comment Re:Clouds (Score 1) 52

by FrostedWheat on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:02AM (#41978145) Attached to: Total Solar Eclipse Bedazzles Northern Australians

I was one of those people on the beach. Stupid cloud :)

Comment Re:Don't watch it (Score 5, Insightful) 515

by FrostedWheat on Monday October 15, 2012 @08:38AM (#41656411) Attached to: Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters

That won't work, most of them haven't watched it anyway.

Comment Re:Range of that Weather-Balloon's WiFi (Score 5, Informative) 141

by FrostedWheat on Sunday September 30, 2012 @07:13PM (#41509019) Attached to: LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE

You don't realise how cheap the sondes are. There are hundreds launched every day, and they don't get them back. They have to be incredibly cheap and there are no GSM technologies cheaper than a simple FM radio.
There are technical limitations too - GSM only works up to about 5km, above that they will likely fail. Sondes usually fly to about 30km.

Comment Hard to get? (Score 1) 155

by FrostedWheat on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:38PM (#41250595) Attached to: Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced

These are not difficult to get now, except if you order from RS. They're the only supplier that has failed to deliver one within a week. CPC and Farnell are pushing them out pretty quickly now. Not sure about Maplin.

Comment Re:Do they have a course on how to order one... (Score 1) 99

by FrostedWheat on Monday September 03, 2012 @02:50PM (#41215245) Attached to: University of Cambridge Offers Free Online Raspberry Pi Course

I've gotten one from a couple of different sellers now, the only one who so far hasn't delivered is RS. All the rest have been very quick.

Comment Re:Hogwash (Score 5, Funny) 625

by FrostedWheat on Sunday July 29, 2012 @01:45PM (#40809125) Attached to: Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious

What, he doesn't have a secret lab in his bedroom?

Comment Re:ARM has some advantages (Score 1) 406

by FrostedWheat on Friday June 15, 2012 @03:39AM (#40332613) Attached to: Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM

Intel is not an acronym, you don't need to type it in capitals. Looks really odd.

Comment Re:Funding schmunding (Score 1) 165

by FrostedWheat on Thursday May 24, 2012 @09:45AM (#40099115) Attached to: Google Funds Raspberry Pi And CS Teachers For UK Schools

I have one sitting on my desk right now. Although I ordered it on the morning of release, and it only arrive last week.

Comment GIR! (Score 1) 608

by FrostedWheat on Sunday April 29, 2012 @04:37PM (#39839309) Attached to: Who Is Your Favorite Fictional Robot or Android?

Nobody else could be the turkey. Nobody.

Comment Re:I wonder... (Score 2) 54

by FrostedWheat on Friday April 06, 2012 @08:20AM (#39596159) Attached to: Belfast Plots 1Gbps Ultra-Fast Broadband Network

What'll really bake his noodle later on is that the most northerly point in Ireland is in the south...

Comment I prefer to listen to recorded music ... (Score 1) 334

by FrostedWheat on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @06:16PM (#39566123) Attached to: I prefer to listen to recorded music ...

... live.

Comment !Near Space (Score 1) 54

by FrostedWheat on Thursday March 01, 2012 @03:41AM (#39206109) Attached to: Commercial Suborbital Balloon Flight Facility Takes Shape

No balloon has gotten higher than 53km. That's just half way there.

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