Comment Re:the video was spectacular (Score 1) 180
This is so beautiful, it hurts.
Comment Re:Thanks for all the Fish Wrapper (Score 1) 1521
Yeah, I spent many a night in college reading Slashdot instead of doing coursework. At work instead of being productive, I read Slashdot and Fark, then Slashdot and Digg, now Slashdot and Reddit... well, you get the idea.
I keep coming back for the comments and the people, trolls and all. Who hasn't wanted to flamebait every now and then? So from this little karma-moderated corner of the Internet, thanks. I eventually got my own Beowulf cluster thanks to you slags.
-theGreater.
Comment Re:Explosion (Score 3, Informative) 752
Video of the explosion and ensuing steam cloud: http://youtu.be/DHfR_wybvw0
Comment Re:Workaround, yeah (Score 1) 326
Now, if I could get one with over 1TB of RAM installed too, then I'd be in business.
If you're serious about this and your time is worth enough money, try a Dell r910 with 48 threads, 1TB of RAM, and 16 SSDs. More than enough PCIe I/O to add in a bunch of GPU's.
Comment Re:Vertical Tabs (Score 1) 132
Prototype vertical tabs are enabled on Windows -- not sure about OSX or Linux. I'm on the dev schedule release, and I can just r-click and select "use side tabs". But as I said, prototype: no indentation, no tree collapse, and they open above instead of below your current tab.
Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies 456
Gary Phebus wants to donate his heart, lungs, and liver. The problem is he wants to donate them before he dies. Gary was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2008. Phebus says he'd like to be able to donate his organs before they deteriorate, and doesn't consider his request suicide because he's "dead anyway."
Comment Re:radiation and solar flares a serious problem (Score 1) 294
Orbital laser / microwave. Easy to drive on crude fused glass.
Comment Re:"Multi-breasted female figure" (Score 1) 114
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major#Mythology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis#Artemis_as_the_Lady_of_Ephesus
Short version -- Artemis as the Lady of Ephesus was depicted with "accessory breasts", and is related to the constellation Ursa via legend. AFAICT it's just decoration.
FWIW,
-theGreater.
Comment Re:I want to register... (Score 1) 223
You can, but first you'll have to find your way through a clever maze of forms while hallucinating.
Comment Re:'breaking the internet' (Score 1) 63
No, but there -has- been a mass breakout of 'hacked' Google Apps / Twitter accounts. What's that, social engineering and guessing of weak passwords? Well, that doesn't have the same cachet as poking fun at newsworthy companies, so we'll just sensationalize it and give it a misleading title instead.
-theGreater must be new here.
Comment Re:sure it is (Score 2, Insightful) 1079
This would be funny except it's scary instead
Also, sad. F'r instance, http://images.google.com/images?q=windows+powershell&imgcolor=black&imgsz=med
I will now translate "I hate what I fear, and I fear what I don't understand. Unfortunately I don't understand you, so now I'm going to take all your stuff and fish around with impunity until something is found with which to hang you."
Comment Re:Also watch out for Multi Level Marketing (Score 1) 346
People at the top earn more than people at the bottom.
There, fixed that for you.
Comment Somebody catch me... (Score 4, Funny) 187
Experience from our early tests show that if we're the best provider of our own content we also gain control of it.
... think I'm going to faint.
Comment Re:FOSS Humiliated By HP (Score 1) 261
Niggling.
Comment Re:Easier said than done (Score 1) 410
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
