drfishy - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:X-Men (Score 1) 171

by drfishy on Friday February 03, @01:03PM (#38917795) Attached to: Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision

X-Men? Try Dune.

Comment: Ubi Forum Migration (Score 1) 332

by drfishy on Friday February 03, @12:41PM (#38917351) Attached to: Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week

Not that they're worth anything but if the forum migration that the did recently is any indication this could last for weeks...

Comment: Redstone? (Score 1) 125

by drfishy on Wednesday November 02, @06:22AM (#37918060) Attached to: HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line

Make a Minecraft themed one and I will find a reason to need it.

Comment: Re:Time to invest in tulip bulbs... (Score 1) 709

by drfishy on Wednesday October 19, @12:27PM (#37764344) Attached to: Value of Bitcoin "Crashes"

Well it serves me right to get called out for "wooshing" something so obscure anyway. ;) I'm mostly Dutch, live in Holland, MI - that's an unfair advantage...

Comment: Re:Time to invest in tulip bulbs... (Score 2) 709

by drfishy on Wednesday October 19, @09:03AM (#37761764) Attached to: Value of Bitcoin "Crashes"

Woosh! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Comment: Re:Next up: tiered pricing (Score 1) 314

by drfishy on Friday September 02, @07:58AM (#37284982) Attached to: Starz To Pull Content From Netflix

Dude, don't be knocking FoodTV... Alton Brown has a lot of fans on Slashdot...

Comment: Re:Huh, wut? WTF it's raining anyway.... (Score 1) 290

by drfishy on Monday October 11 2010, @07:44AM (#33858264) Attached to: Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water

I've heard of standard modal containers outfitted with plastic insets - sounds reasonable as the infrastructure to move them is well developed - but I've yet to see one.

They are called Flexitanks and they most certainly exist. My company makes them: http://www.eptpac.com/

Comment: Re:The Poor Guy! (Score 2, Insightful) 413

by drfishy on Monday September 27 2010, @02:25PM (#33715350) Attached to: Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff

I can't help but think about my Roomba's "cliff sensors" to keep it from falling down the stairs - tough to incorporate into a transportation device I guess, especially an off-road one but still...