frenchgates - Slashdot User

Comment Re:2012.. mayans... OH NO YO (Score 1) 877

by frenchgates on Thursday January 01, 2009 @07:13PM (#26294307) Attached to: Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?

Not to mention the spelling of rift, subduction, Aleutian, and cataclysmic.

Comment Re:2012.. mayans... OH NO YO (Score 1) 877

by frenchgates on Thursday January 01, 2009 @07:11PM (#26294291) Attached to: Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?

Yes, geologists in real life spell "tectonic" as "techtonic" all the time. I'm a geologistist, so I know.

Comment Re:Suddenly... (Score 1) 877

by frenchgates on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:46AM (#26290931) Attached to: Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?

So I'm guessing from your posts that you are a gun owner. Is running a food slave plantation your plan, then?

Comment Re:iPod, iPhone, then what? (Score 1) 371

by frenchgates on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @10:53AM (#26145125) Attached to: Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote

the only revolution apple has ever pulled off is a marketing revolution. the ipod, macbook and iphone do nothing other gadgets haven't before. indeed on many technical levels they are inferior, especially the ipod.

You couldn't be more wrong. The Lisa/Mac GUI was a total, earth-shaking, you don't even get it until you suddenly do, mass lightbulb going off revolution. The Apple II a bit less so.

More recently the "revolutionary" qualities of iPhone and iPod are a little blurrier. The revolutions were perhaps more ones of mass adoption than of innovation, but it goes quite a bit beyond mere marketing.

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