Comment Re:Dump kernel to serial printer (Score 1) 175
Who cares, motherboards still come with expansion slots? PCI 2-Serial/1-Parallel Port Host Controller Card $3.67 If you want a serial card, put one in.
The "revised" estimates were generated by the NRC in conjunction with the DOE and (wait...wait for it...) the Electric Power Research Institute.
Yep, they're all a bunch of goddamed hippifreak tree-huggin energy extinguishers.
Not only that, they also have bad breath and gingivitis.
Use pot/weed marajuana, the reason the feds have a cry baby fit over moonshine and pot, they are also a Damn good fuel.
It might make people actually WANT a power plant in their neighborhood.
"Wood is great for building and heating homes..."
Wood is TERRIBLE for heating homes. It is the absolute most inefficient way to heat.
Moreover, it's illegal in the USA. http://news.slashdot.org/story...
Useful new technology has to replace or simplify some function, ideally; otherwise it has the challenge of persuading us that we need this entirely new thing.
These devices do replace older devices that do the exact same thing. Pedometers have been around for hundreds of years. What's new is that the things integrate with your cell phone and by extension the web. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The trouble with devices that claim to track your steps is they're so easily hoaxed by waving your arms around.
Several of my co-workers do the "fit bit" thing, and have a group. I've seen several of them attach the fitbit to a necklace and hang it from the rear view mirror in a car. They record lots of steps when you're driving around - especially when you've stopped at a red light and it's swinging like mad.
your statement sums up the tea party. The government is spending money on stuff I don't understand, therefore waste.
To a teabagger, "stuff I don't understand" is almost everything except huntin' and killin'.
You don't. Your field of vision through the back window is tiny compared to the field of vision of the camera.
I thought they were a stupid gimmick until I got a car with one. Now I curse every time I drive a car that doesn't have one, because backing up is a lot harder.
Agree completely. Backup cameras are awesome. The complainers here have most likely never used one. Fortunately for them, the DOT has their backs.
I once spun out during an autocross because I was driving a flappy-paddle automatic (instead of a manual like I'm used to) and it unexpectedly downshifted to first when I floored the gas.
Sounds to me like you require more practice (or maybe training) on how to drive an automatic. Just because you aren't able to use an automatic transmission properly doesn't mean they're fundamentally flawed.
A lot of the world's problems could be solved by banning busybodies.
Read "by banging" busybodies...and though, eh, that could work.
That would probably only serve to create more busybodies!
He was a Buddhists. So he's smiling from his position as a factory line worker in an iPhone plant.
I can't believe that got an +5 funny. As insightful a comment I've ever seen.
Because, you know, physical keyboards are such an advancing field.... I can't imagine how awful keyboards would be with out BlackBerry's patented technology.
Advancing? Hardly, there are patents and so no advancement is possible.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
