Comment Re:life cycle of a cloud (Score 4, Informative) 218
Funny, but no, OP is correct. Clouds are condensed water droplets: liquid. Gaseous water is invisible.
Comment Re:You don't have to be non-random for fixed winne (Score 1) 374
The problem is that he reverse engineered their deterministic process for generating winners and losers and then was able to pick out the winning cards based on the partial information they revealed.
The problem is that the lottery people didn't hire the right statistician.
Comment Four zero-day attack vectors and maybe more seeds? (Score 1) 406
I'm sure they wish they had a refuge from this deluge of centrifuge subterfuge.
Comment Re:Two billion sounds about right (Score 0) 72
You have to be careful. One time I bought a bunch of spectrum at 730MHz in Tallahassee, Florida , and the guy said it was supposed to be good for the microcells.
But I think I got ripped off, because the bandwidth is swamping me.
Comment Re:Skynet (Score 3, Funny) 289
And now you didn't get to steel his joke.
Comment Re:have we see the death of RPN? (Score 1) 313
Let me guess... you had a TI, and you never figured out how to use HPs?
RPN is just faster. Fewer keystrokes, and you work the way you think in your head, not "kindergarten" style brackets.
The "unnecessary work" you talk about is you learning RPN. This has nothing to do with "making life easier on a computer."
Comment Re:Cpt Obvious Observation (Score 1) 154
You know, satellites have day and night too. Even if they were far from Earth, and lit up by the Sun, it would still make sense to aim the satellites AWAY from the sun.
Comment Re:Haha (Score 1) 624
But xkcd is not a funny comic strip.
It's the funniest comic strip.
Comment Re:Institutional Traders Don't Enter Trades Like T (Score 1) 643
I am, obviously, doubtful of this explanation.
Yes, it seems strange that something like this could be allowed to happen.
If you knew exactly when this was going to happen, you could stand to make a lot of money.
Comment Re:could someone translate from australian for me? (Score 1) 174
Data is described in LOC.
Please turn in your card at the door.
Yes. And we have recently seen that you get about 2000 LOCs into a Catholic Church of data.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/28/1814221/Vatican-Chooses-Open-FITS-Image-Format
Comment Re:Petabytes (Score 1) 223
If you have to post a redundant obvious reply, that's also not funny. I don't even know why I'm typing this.
Comment Re:He's paying for it? (Score 1) 139
You have an extra colon and a misplaced closing parenthesis.
Comment Re:One guys twitter... (Score 1) 98
If only there was some sort of computerized networked look-up thing of known information, where you could type in something, and then it would tell you about it, before you made a post.... Hmmmm....
Comment Re:There going to run out of musical notes soon... (Score 1) 267
It's funny 'cause it's true.
For GUIs, Just the Right Degree of Realism 256
mr crypto writes "User interfaces make copious use of pictures and symbols, but how abstract should images be? Lukas Mathis has an interesting blog entry on where to draw the line."
