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Comment: Missing from the summary. (Score 2) 144

by MasseKid (#39434675) Attached to: Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity
1) The object's mass
2) The object's theoretical weight difference at the different locations
3) The error bounds on the measurement.

Without any of this, I have no idea if this is shocking news, or merely expected. And I'm on slash dot, while it might be contained within the article, I don't come here to RTFA.

Comment: No, No, No (Score 1) 498

by MasseKid (#34884906) Attached to: Should Employees Buy Their Own Computers?
There is NOTHING hard about keeping up with technology in a workforce. At the low end are drafters who make around 35,000$ per year in salary alone. A brand power desktop every year would cost the company only 2,000$, thats less than 6% of the salary cost (probably under 3% of the actual total overhead cost) of the employee. If an average engineer makes 75,000$ that translates to 2.7% of his pay. These figures are absolutely inconsequential. The problem lies entirely with management that believes they are "saving" a little money by making a 75,000$ engineer work on a 15" screen on a computer that's 5 years old.

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