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Comment NICE! (Score 2) 156

by potscott on Monday June 14, 2010 @10:17AM (#32564682) Attached to: Teaching Fifth Graders Engineering

I remember the egg drop. We also built bridges out of popsicle sticks, and tested them to see which could hold the most weight. That was the most engineering related hands on project I think I had in all of elementary school.

Comment Does it need to be free? (Score 2, Insightful) 170

by potscott on Thursday January 21, 2010 @06:15PM (#30852668) Attached to: Affordable and Usable Video Conferencing?

Cisco WebEx seems to fit the bill, although I'm not sure if it'll run on *nix.

Comment Too soon. (Score 2, Interesting) 536

by potscott on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @12:03PM (#30738122) Attached to: <em>Spider-Man 4</em> Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned

They should probably leave well enough alone at this point. I personally don't want to go see *another* Spider Man movie, reboot or sequel, for a while. By while I mean years.

Comment Re:What generation of Iphone is being compared her (Score 3, Insightful) 198

by potscott on Monday January 11, 2010 @10:51AM (#30723064) Attached to: Droid Touchscreen Less Accurate Than iPhone's

It is when the new products are positioned to be direct competitors of the third gen product.

Comment Nice try Slashdot... (Score 2, Funny) 315

by potscott on Thursday December 17, 2009 @02:02PM (#30476010) Attached to: $300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal

...I'm not going to get Rick rolled...

Comment Re:Blackberry? (Score 4, Funny) 249

by potscott on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:42PM (#30450330) Attached to: Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki

There was, but Apple pulled it after complaints. It was called Shaken Baby or something similar...

Comment Really? (Score 1, Insightful) 583

by potscott on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @01:01PM (#30298872) Attached to: Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault

Maybe if Windows was a little more impervious to malware, they wouldn't have this problem.

Comment Boo. (Score 1) 327

by potscott on Thursday September 10, 2009 @11:08AM (#29378867) Attached to: Lichtblick and Volkswagen To Build 'Swarm' Power Plants

1.8t > natural gas.

Comment They didn't cancel the Raptor program... (Score 3, Informative) 829

by potscott on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @02:32PM (#28785291) Attached to: F-22 Raptor Cancelled

They've already got 187 of them. All they did was cancel an order for an additional 12 that were budgetted last year. The summary would lead you to believe they're moth-balling all of them or something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor

Comment That's zero to 100 mph in 10 seconds... (Score 1) 422

by potscott on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @10:11AM (#27240723) Attached to: Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery?

Pffft. My car is faster then that. Seriously.

Comment Defcon 4! (Score 1) 345

by potscott on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @11:39AM (#27135439) Attached to: China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon

This reminds me of a cheap 80's movie called Defcon 4. Manned military platform loaded with nukes. Next thing you know, a comet will pass and turn everyone to dust...

Comment That smells like pure gasoline... (Score 1) 169

by potscott on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @02:37PM (#27067419) Attached to: Star Trek Fragrances

I'm waiting for Sex Panther. 60% of the time, it works all the time!

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