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Comment: Re:Waiting for the nanny statists (Score 1) 514

by Dahan (#43784057) Attached to: Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer

Damn, I keep forgetting that slashdot removes anything that looks like an html tag.

Sure, if you use a posting mode that allows HTML tags. If you don't want your comment to be interpreted as HTML, click on the little gear icon and change your comment posting mode. Also, Preview button.

Comment: Re:HP Printer Driver Developers Take Note (Score 1) 143

by Dahan (#43735741) Attached to: Interactive Raycaster For the Commodore 64 Under 256 Bytes

Really? The Postscript printers I've used, network and local, have all required drivers. Maybe this is a stupid question, but how do you control duplex or not, color or B/W, which paper source, etc if you don't have a driver for the printer?

A PPD, a text file which describes the printer's capabilities, and the commands to send to change various options.

Comment: Re:RTFA-ing is the Key! (Score 1) 365

by Dahan (#42976533) Attached to: New Process Takes Energy From Coal Without Burning It

Syngas is not generally produced starting from coal, with is the topic of this story.

In what sense is it not generally produced from coal? Coal gasification is being done on a commercial scale right now (and has been done for decades). While it may not be the most common way to generate syngas, it's certainly not a new or unknown idea. I'm sure if there's more demand for syngas made from coal, more plants will be built. And no, generating syngas from coal is not the topic of this story.

Not sure where this process generates syngas.

Not sure why you think this process has anything to do with generating syngas. The point of this is to burn certain carbon-containing materials, e.g., coal or syngas, in a way that the generated CO2 can be almost completely captured. This research plant generates 25kW from coal. The upcoming one will generate 250kW from syngas.

Comment: Re:2nd story about how cell copmanies suck today. (Score 1) 317

by Dahan (#42971735) Attached to: White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures

Assuming the parent poster is French because of the reference to France, these pluralization mistakes aren't so far fetched for a Francophone. In French, verbs are conjugated to match whether or not the subject is plural.

How is that different from English? English has subject-verb agreement too.

So, he/she has the word "they" so naturally because this is a plural word, to him/her, "suck" should be pluralized to match.

The plural form of "suck" isn't "sucks"--you don't form the plural form of a verb by adding "s" to it, in either English or French.

Infinitive: "to suck". "He sucks": singular subject, verb ends in "s". "They suck": plural subject, no "s".

Infinitive: "sucer". "Il suce": singular subject, no "s". "Ils sucent": plural subject, no "s".

Comment: Re:Regardless go 16:10 (Score 1) 375

by Dahan (#42915175) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming?
I'm 37 and starting to develop presbyopia, and love high-dpi displays... using a 13" Retina Macbook Pro right now. While one way to use a high-dpi screen is to make everything smaller so you can fit more stuff on the screen, another way to use it is to keep everything the same size, but use more pixels to render it, which makes everything look sharper. I do the latter.

Comment: Re:His story is verified (Score 1) 841

by Dahan (#42898891) Attached to: Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged

but the 12V battery that powers the accessories and gets its juice from the high voltage battery shut down when Broder pulled into the service station.

What kind of crappy design is that? The high voltage battery should charge the 12V battery, but the 12V battery shouldn't arbitrarily "shut down". Especially when the HV battery still has juice in it (which it did, according to the logs). Also, not sure why an e-brake needs to be battery-powered in the first place.

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