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Comment: Re:This is against current food movements. (Score 1) 241

by blackpaw (#43789071) Attached to: 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA

This will sell to lazy people of the same breed who buy pod coffee machines for home use.

There is an ever growing movement of people who don't want to eat anything that has loose synthetic origin or contains any "chemicals".

Coffee pod machines use std ground coffee with no additives, they in fact operate just the same as an espresso at a coffee shop, just with prepackaged coffee grounds. They produce real espresso with considerably less additives than instant.

Do you make the same critiques against Tea Bags?

Comment: Re:Will be irrelevant someday (Score 1) 235

by blackpaw (#43771525) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture?

Some offices don't even bother with Ethernet cabling anymore; they just use WiFi. This was unheard of 15 years ago, when Slashdot users were no doubt grousing about their homebuilder's oversight for not incorporating Ethernet into their homes during construction.

I predict 15 years from now, the constant need to be tethered to A/C will be obviated, either through wireless recharging, through improved device charge capacity, or through increased energy efficiency.

Or the next GFC/Global Warning/Asteroid strike will have reduced us to scrabbling in the ruins for AA batteries to drive our Nintendos

Comment: Re:Thunderbird works (Score 2) 464

by blackpaw (#42228611) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients?

I wiped that an put in Thunderbird, which was judged as "just like the old computer". So now she spends nearly all her computer time using Thunderbird and Firefox, and a little bit of LibreOffice, so the obvious next step is step is, boot to KDE with an autologin

Did exactly that with my wife, Thunderbird, Firefox and LibreOffice. She is very happy with the result, two years running now. Never crashed, every now and then I run updates. No problems.

Comment: Kontact/KMail (Score 2) 464

by blackpaw (#42228331) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients?

Covers all the request features. However since the move to akonadi it does have a terrible reputation for bugginess, unrelalibility and resource hogging, unfortunately a not undeserved one.

However it has been improving steadly, even drastically since kde 4.7. I've been using it as my primary even despite the problems because when its working :) it is just so good. Fantastic integration with KDE, really good handling of multiple accounts and identities. PGP & SMIME, integration with Google calendar and contact, as well as other 3rd parties. An open plugin system for extending it. And it looks *really* good, the perfect blend of functionality and sexiness - when its working :)

I just upgraded to KDE 4.10 Beta 1 (via Kubuntu raring). There seems to be another qualitive improvement in reliabilty. Akonadi hogging the CPU seems to be fixed. Message searches are working - full text content and attributes.

There's still progress to be made, but its made huge steps and I finally feel confident in saying Kontact is back and will make it. The developers have the feature sets done and are just focusing on bug fixing now.

Comment: Re:On every single git project I've worked on (Score 3, Informative) 116

by blackpaw (#42104389) Attached to: Book Review: Version Control With Git, 2nd Edition

Thufir's a Harkonnen now.

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