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Comment Re:August (Score 1) 1146

DOCUMENT HINTS!

Really, make a txt file or scribble it on your hand or something. You will be a mega hero when you pull out the set of Red Dwarf on Valentines Day that she mentioned in September. Gifts with an inside joke or personal meaning mean a lot more to everyone but especially women in particular so while a lot of people might think you're a fool for getting her Death with Big Pointy Teeth, she'll remember that she mentioned that she loved Monty Python on your first date six months ago.

It might sound a bit cold or mechanical but I think that it's simply a difference of the male mind that we don't put emotional events like that into long term memory and need to augment it a bit.

Comment Re:Buttload of data (Score 1) 101

Working with Illumina in a busy lab turns into a battle of platters faster than most people want to believe.

The next thing to hit is supposed to be 3D DNA modeling where the interactions within the genome is mapped. Meaning; if x and y is present b will be produced but will only be active if x is at position #100 or position #105 if it's at another position c will be created, etc. It differs from normal mapping because the code AND position within the code is taken into account so there are conditions added to almost every code sequence. Won't cause much more disk overhead but will kill processor time and I'm too young to retire before then...
Transportation

Submission + - Pilot errors down despite looming troubles (networkworld.com)

coondoggie writes: "Perhaps it is better onboard technology, or maybe it's better trained personnel but pilot error is much less of a factor in US airliner crashes now than it was in the early 1980s, a new study says. While the overall rate of airline mishaps remained stable, the proportion of mishaps involving pilot error decreased 40%. The report was issued before NASA yesterday released partial results of a massive air-safety survey of airline pilots who repeatedly complained about fatigue, problems with air-traffic controllers, airport security, and the layouts of runways and taxiways. The NASA database, which included more than 10,000 pages of information, was based on extensive telephone polling of airline and general aviation pilots about incidents ranging from engine failures and bird strikes to fires onboard planes and encounters with severe turbulence. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23428"
It's funny.  Laugh.

Submission + - Happy 13/3/7-day

kers writes: "I want to all slashdot users and contributors a happy 13/3/7-day! Enjoy it with that special computer or OS of yours. This is the only 13/3/7-day you will ever experience!"

Feed Boy Gets Schooled on Biodiesel (wired.com)

A 12-year-old Portland, Oregon, boy named Forest is betting on biodiesel to stoke his college fund. He's modifying old Land Cruisers to run green and hoping to sell them. In Autopia.


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