Comment Re:Monkey Business (Score 1) 187
And some corporations.
Oh, hang on, there's legal precedent the other way.
Comment Re:Stone Age diet ? he wants to live all 20 years? (Score 2) 441
Based on my exposure to his ilk it's about 20 years more than they deserve.
Comment Re:I don't even... (Score 1) 323
Ummmm...so what do I do when my 2 year old hits the cat? Most of the time he's loving and playful with the cat. But then sometimes for no reason he throws a toy truck at the poor cat.
Film it & post it on youtube?
Comment 0.075 (Score 1) 73
0.075 what?
I'm assuming it's not just a dimensionless ratio, because then your blood would be like Chimay.
Comment Re:pallets + ice (Score 1) 83
Shipping containers of ice full of pallets of ice!
You wouldn't need to bother about sending the empties back, just leave 'em to melt.
Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity 48
An anonymous reader writes Researchers say that the different colors of the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park are caused by human contamination. From the article: "Researchers at Montana State University and Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany have created a simple mathematical model based on optical measurements that explains the stunning colors of Yellowstone National Park's hot springs and can visually recreate how they appeared years ago, before decades of tourists contaminated the pools with make-a-wish coins and other detritus. If Yellowstone National Park is a geothermal wonderland, Grand Prismatic Spring and its neighbors are the ebullient envoys, steaming in front of the camera and gracing the Internet with their ethereal beauty. While the basic physical phenomena that render these colorful delights have long been scientifically understood—they arise because of a complicated interplay of underwater vents and lawns of bacteria—no mathematical model existed that showed empirically how the physical and chemical variables of a pool relate to their optical factors and coalesce in the unique, stunning fashion that they do."
Comment Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep (Score 2) 292
I thought, they preferred, commas, that have, no logical reason, to be, there.
Comment Re:This is So old... (Score 1) 123
Seconded. We had them at college. With those old curved monitors the beams were about 17 yards from the screen in the corners, which meant it was easy to hit them by accident, plus it exaggerated parallax errors. Not that the resolution was so brilliant anyway...
Comment Re:Multi touch while driving? (Score 2) 123
People want consistent UI.
Maybe they do. But what they need is an appropriate one.
Having to have a muli-touch smartphone GPS and a button and dial tactile GPS in the car seems stupider than you assert touchscreen in a car is.
It's not stupid because they're used in different situations.
Comment Re:God this place has gone downhill (Score 1) 75
Both of them?
Comment Re:Like many inventions ... (Score 1, Insightful) 250
Even without them, it's easier to shift palettes than individual boxes.
Comment Internet says... (Score 1) 115
Internet says Cuba Whoba?
Submission + - Librarians: The Google Before Google
An anonymous reader writes: NPR has an article about the questions people ask librarians. Before the internet, the librarian was your best bet for a quick answer to anything on your mind. "We were Google before Google existed," NYPL spokesperson Angela Montefinise explains. "If you wanted to know if a poisonous snake dies if it bites itself, you'd call or visit us." The New York Public Library in Manhattan recently discovered a box of old reference questions asked by patrons and plans to release some in its Instagram account. Here are a few of the best:
- I just saw a mouse in the kitchen. Is DDT OK to use? (1946)
- What does it mean when you dream of being chased by an elephant? (1947)
- Can you tell me the thickness of a U.S. Postage stamp with the glue on it? Answer: We couldn't tell you that answer quickly. Why don't you try the Post Office? Response: This is the Post Office. (1963)
- Where can I rent a beagle for hunting? (1963)
Submission + - What You Should Know About College (jigsy.com)
conseilvdi95z writes: A million different decisions go along with going to college, and you will face them all. These are choices that can impact not just your college years but your entire future. Review the tips that ...
Comment Re:of course it wasn't NK (Score 1) 236
Where to start? More like where to stop.
I think I'm becoming cynical about cynicism.
