Comment Re:Original Source and Actual Paper (Score 1) 462
Hmm, I stand, err, sit, corrected!
Comment Re:Original Source and Actual Paper (Score 1) 462
Yes but Solaris handles 100's of CPU's without any problem today. Linux and Windows, not so much.
Comment OK, There... (Score 1) 162
That ought to do it. I just plugged my toaster into the network, now just let me turn it o.........
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 251
Not sure about the link to intelligence but I think you could replace 'rodents' with just about anything in this quote,
"Sexually active rodents also seemed less anxious than virgins, Princeton scientists discovered."
And I don't think it takes a Princeton educated scientist to figure that one out!
Comment Re:Where's a gear-head when you need him . . . (Score 1) 423
I believe newer cars don't really use much gas to start up. The question might be more about wear and tear as starting your car is fairly hard on the engine. Maybe not so much once it's warmed up but still a consideration.
Australian Women Fight Over "Geekgirl" Trademark 187
bennyboy64 writes "Two prominent women in the Australian IT industry are in a bitter dispute over the ownership of the trademark 'geekgirl.' A woman attempting to use 'geekgirl' on Twitter told ZDNet that women had been advised by the trademark owner to stop doing so since she owned the trademark for the word. 'She noted her trademark and asked me to stop calling myself a "geekgirl" in general conversation and to cease using the hashtag "#geekgirl" on Twitter,' IT consultant Kate Carruthers said."
"Argonaut" Octopus Sucks Air Into Shell As Ballast 72
audiovideodisco writes "Even among octopuses, the Argonaut must be one of the coolest. It gets its nickname — 'paper nautilus' — from the fragile shell the female assembles around herself after mating with the tiny male (whose tentacle/penis breaks off and remains in the female). For millennia, people have wondered what the shell was for; Aristotle thought the octopus used it as a boat and its tentacles as oars and sails. Now scientists who managed to study Argonauts in the wild confirm a different hypothesis: that the octopus sucks air into its shell and uses it for ballast as it weaves its way through the ocean like a tiny submarine. The researchers' beautiful video and photographs show just how the Argonaut pulls off this trick. The regular (non-paper) nautilus also uses its shell for ballast, but the distant relationship between it and all octopuses suggests this is a case of convergent evolution."
Comment Re:It's like bicycles... (Score 1) 349
Funny I think you'd have a hard time finding a more expensive bike than the ones they use in the Tour De France and I seem to recall a few hills in that race. Track bikes on the other hand have one gear and are not nearly as expensive. Granted, weight or the goal of reducing it is the basis for cost, your comment about lack of gears and being intended for flat ground is quite wrong. Modern road bikes have 20-30 gears to chooses from.
Comment Re:ITT: Show your apps (Score 1) 842
Thunderbird, Firefox, Word, VMware VI Client, nLite and I'm guessing Windows Update jumps in here and there.
Comment Push us towards Google apps (Score 1) 842
Sounds fine if all my apps run in a single browser. Just another reason not to buy MS apps.
Comment Re:It's her day so... (Score 2, Interesting) 755
I went for a titanium wedding band. I first read about a bike frame builder who made one from offcuts. A good titanium bike frame might be $2000. The ring cost us $300 for about 1000th as much material.
When we were looking for rings the jeweler showed me his and he had it made out of Tungsten. He mentioned that it was one of the hardest materials next to diamonds. It was heavy too! I was thinking Titanium as well but he said it would scratch fairly easily and couldn't be polished like Gold or Silver. Is this the case as you have found it to be? I would dig a Ti band as I'm a serious mnt. bike racer. P.S. a nice Ti frame can run as much as $5000.00 or more!
