Noodlenose - Slashdot User

Submission + - Everything2 hits 2 million nodes (popisms.com) 5

Submitted by in10se on Friday November 06, 2009 @01:52PM

in10se writes: Just days shy of its 10 year anniversary ("decaversary"), the site Everything2 has reached its 2 millionth node. With their servers once colocated together, Everything2 and Slashdot share a long history together. Congratulations E2!

Comment Re:really? (Score 1) 229

by Noodlenose on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @12:50PM (#29428087) Attached to: Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet

what I want to know is how Heisenberg's uncertainty principle applies to photography.

NN

Comment Safety? (Score 2, Interesting) 215

by Noodlenose on Sunday September 13, 2009 @02:53PM (#29406615) Attached to: Students Take Pictures From Space On $150 Budget

While I love the low-cost aspect of this project, I am worried about the safety aspects: No air traffic control registering, and how did they prevent the bloody thing from hitting another human on the way down?

NN

Comment Settlers III (Score 1) 538

by Noodlenose on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @06:49AM (#28540327) Attached to: One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong

You can pry Windows XP from my cold, dead hands, as nothing else runs Settlers III.

NN

Comment Wind Event? (Score 3, Insightful) 157

by Noodlenose on Monday June 29, 2009 @09:54AM (#28513425) Attached to: Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations

Is that what we mere mortals call a 'storm'?

Comment It's been done by Kiwis (Score 1) 259

by Noodlenose on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @11:03AM (#28095363) Attached to: Best Way To Build A DIY UAV?

link here

Comment Experia X1 (Score 1) 426

by Noodlenose on Monday March 09, 2009 @09:15AM (#27120193) Attached to: Best Wi-Fi Portable Browsing Device?

I have the Experia X1. Nice keyboard, more functions than you can shake a stick at, Bluetooth, wifi, quadband, IR, Windows Mobile 6.1.

I would have never thought I'd be happy with a Windows Mobile device, but the X1 is stylish, rock solid and syncs well with my Linux work stations.

NN

Comment Re:Enact the assault sword ban! (Score -1, Flamebait) 579

by Noodlenose on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:24AM (#26725199) Attached to: Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon "Batleth"

Have you taken your Ritalin today?

Comment OLPC vs AspireOne (Score 1) 123

by Noodlenose on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @07:44AM (#26636869) Attached to: End of the Road For AMD's Geode Chip

I have a OLPC XO (Geode) running Sugar and an Aspire One (Atom) running Intrepid. While the Aspire is far more powerful and runs rings around the XO, I still mainly use the the XO.

Why?

Well, for one I can take it into any meeting without annoying my colleagues with the constant fan noise. It doesn't get warm. It's completely silent. It looks cute, women tend to be drawn to it, and it's a doddle to use.

The Acer excels in multimedia applications and to watch movies on, but for day to day work, I schlep my XO around with me.

Comment Re:Time to move... (Score 1) 314

by Noodlenose on Friday November 21, 2008 @04:48AM (#25843005) Attached to: Massive Martian Glaciers Found

So Kim Stanley Robinson was pretty much spot on with his predictions.

Plenty of glaciers to turn Mars into a blue world?

NN

Submission + - Acer CEO disses Vista (i4u.com)

Submitted by

Noodlenose

on Sunday July 22, 2007 @07:40PM

Noodlenose writes: "I4U reports Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci has come down hard on Microsoft for releasing an operating system that didn't give the customer any incentives to switch. In a Financial Times Deutschland interview, Mr. Lanci says that the whole industry is disappointed of Windows Vista. Microsoft made mistakes and that never before a new Microsoft OS did so little for PC and notebook sales.

Have you swapped and regretted it?"

Submission + - 2007 Pricelessware CD

Submitted by

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @12:00AM

An anonymous reader writes: Pricelessware is "The best of the best in Freeware as selected by alt.comp.freeware participants"

Instructions for obtaining the 2007 Pricelessware CD are here:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/2007PL-CD-ab out.php

It's free (of course).

The contents of the CD are here (everything but the program files):
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ftp/Archives/2007 PL-CD

Questions and comments may be posted in the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup

Feed Wal-Mart and Studios in Film Deal (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:12AM

Wal-Mart will introduce a partnership with all of the six major Hollywood studios — to sell digital movies and television shows on its Web site.

Submission + - Astronauts Gone Wild

Submitted by timeOday on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:04AM

timeOday writes: Looks like somebody just blew a chance to inaugurate the 200-mile-high club. Lisa Nowak, a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery in July, was arrested Monday on charges of battery and attempted kidnapping after allegedly trying to subdue a romantic rival with pepper spray and abduct her from a parking lot at Orlando International Airport. It seems both women were chasing astronaut Bill Oefelein, a Navy commander. Police have recommended Nowak be held without bond.

Submission + - Kiwi's build sand castle on Santa Monica beach

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:44AM

An anonymous reader writes: Native American tribes have welcomed a group of New Zealanders onto Santa Monica Beach for a special project to celebrate the New Zealand National Day known as Waitangi Day. A group called Made From New Zealand have created a huge 100 foot silver fern sand castle on the Los Angeles hot spot. The group from "down under" descended on the Santa Monica beach yesterday, and with the help of volunteers created the beach sculpture ahead of schedule. A previous effort can be seen here on YouTube. Under the terms the approval to create the sand sculpture, it has to be removed by tomorrow.

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