Comment Re:Crackpots ? (Score 1) 27
In order not to turn the place into a circus, like has happened in other radio observatories...
Comment Crackpots ? (Score 1) 27
So, how do they keep all the 'electrosensitive' crackpots from moving in ? Put random blinking LEDs in the area ?
Comment Re:Who? (Score 1) 574
Yeah. What music snobs don't understand is that not everyone listens to music in a soundproof room, with perfectly placed speakers. We listen to it in our cars, on our bike, in public transportation, at home with a screeching baby next to it, etc... Perfect quality is useless in all those cases. And even detrimental: I turn off the bass most times so as to keep said baby asleep. I'd rather have 100 low res mp3 I can squeeze on a car CD, than 5 completely oversampled raw files I can't actually play anywhere besides a PC.
Comment Re:Yes, yes it could. Did, in fact (Score 1) 238
The more I read about that crazy airplane, the crazier it gets...
Comment Re:Yes, yes it could. Did, in fact (Score 1) 238
It must have been close to stalling at this speed !
Comment Re:The obvious test case for ludicrous copyright (Score 4, Informative) 178
It's not like classical music doesn't have its own skeletons in its closets: Lick my ass, by Mozart nonetheless.
Comment Re:Celsius (Score 1) 65
Having lived it, I can assure you there is a great big difference between -40C (not that cold with good clothing), -60C (fucking cold even with good clothing) and -80C ("my lungs are freezing and I feel like I've just fallen in a pool of liquid nitrogen argh cough cough cough")...
Comment Re:Orbiting the moon (Score 1) 65
Yes, but not for long. Lunar orbits are inherently unstable because of the overwhelming influence of the mass of the Earth.
Comment Re:Despite The Need (Score 1) 194
17 ? More lige 1,271 different secret gov agencies. Why are there so fucking many ?!?
Comment Re:My favorite Frank Herbert book after Dune (Score 1) 234
I liked 'The White Plague', about an artificial disease that wipes out all women... and the crumbling society that remains.
Comment Not the first time (Score 1) 342
A colleague got crushed in a very similar accident a decade ago. As an electrician he was servicing a damaged robot in a factory (frozen food warehouse actually) when some suit decided to turn it back on without checking first. He got multiple fractures and almost lost a foot. And a nice settlement.
Comment Re:plastic is for junk (Score 1) 266
Spot on, but also in the US trucks are cheaper than the equivalent SUV. Different tax on purchase for 'utilitarian' vehicles.
Lenovo Could Remake the ThinkPad X300 With Current Technologies 219
MojoKid writes: The ThinkPad brand has been around for a long time; the first model was introduced by IBM way back in 1992. And although technological advances over the past two decades have lead to Lenovo ThinkPads that are lighter, much faster, and highly more cable than any model in the early 1990s could have ever imagined, there's still a clear visual link between yesteryear and today with regards to design cues. Well, apparently, Lenovo is seriously toying with the idea of making a "unique" model that would incorporate some of the strong ThinkPad language that has been erased in recent years. "Imagine a blue enter key, 7 row classic keyboard, 16:10 aspect ratio screen, multi-color ThinkPad logo, dedicated volume controls, rubberized paint, exposed screws, lots of status LEDs, and more. Think of it like stepping into a time machine and landing in 1992, but armed with today's technology." It might not be for everyone but some execs at Lenovo think there might be a market for it.
Comment Re:Desktop on Linux? (Score 1) 383
Half of the people at work (research lab) have been using Ubuntu for the last few years. The others are on Macs. The choice of OS is left open. Windows (XP) runs almost exclusively in a few virtual machines kept on tight leashes.
Comment Re:Laptops (Score 2) 383
Get a Dell. The Linux option is well hidden on their site, but I had no problem getting an M6700 with tons of funky options (keyboard different from the country I ordered it from). We order Linux laptops from them at work, but I also did as a private customer. Yeah, I know, Dell is not sexy, but all the Linux laptop companies (System76 and others) couldn't get me what I wanted (I'm not in the US).
