alanthenerd - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Yikes! (Score 1) 280

by alanthenerd on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @05:39PM (#34634532) Attached to: How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle

I bet he gets lots of readings at about 2 meg-ohms. Reminds me of this guy I know who when he got his first multimeter thought the thing was faulty when he got sparks trying to test the voltage of a battery "with it on the A setting."

Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 507

by alanthenerd on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:25PM (#34479768) Attached to: Annual power consumption at your residence?

The great Wikipedia makes mention of both pronunciations of giga. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga#Pronunciation

Comment Re:Growth? What? (Score 1) 551

by alanthenerd on Friday October 01, 2010 @12:29PM (#33760706) Attached to: Animal Farms Are Pumping Up Superbugs

Because otherwise they would be slaughtered which tends to impede further growth?

Comment Re:And in other news... (Score 1) 453

by alanthenerd on Friday July 02, 2010 @09:23AM (#32772136) Attached to: MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want

Indeed. I looked at the pictures in TFA (read it, you're kidding right?) and found myself thinking, "What was that thing I had when I was a kid that had contacts that looked like that?"

Comment Re:Something else (Score 1) 534

by alanthenerd on Friday January 16, 2009 @01:00PM (#26483409) Attached to: I'd rather measure my days by means of ...

This year hopefully!

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