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Comment Re:When is something well-known enough to not cite (Score 1) 81

by ichthyoboy on Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:58AM (#48268387) Attached to: The Most Highly Cited Scientific Papers of All Time

Except for basically every journal in biology...LaTeX is very rare there, and most journals require submission in Word/RTF

Comment Re:Here we go again (Score 1) 517

by ichthyoboy on Monday September 29, 2014 @09:27AM (#48018685) Attached to: Utilities Should Worry; Rooftop Solar Could Soon Cut Their Profit

Why would you need to worry about directional shifting? Pump water up in one pipe, release water down in another pipe that contains a turbine. No directional shifting necessary. There was a nice article on NPR the other day about a Spanish island doing exactly this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/paral...

Comment Re:Can we regrow the source plant? (Score 2) 21

by ichthyoboy on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:54AM (#47108699) Attached to: The Earliest Bird To Sip a Flower

Nope. Pollen = plant sperm. There would not be enough genetic material to successfully recreate the plant without the female gametes (notwithstanding the fact that after 47 million years the likelihood of enough surviving DNA is very small)

Comment Re:OOXML or Excelception (Score 0) 422

by ichthyoboy on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:58PM (#47104313) Attached to: Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work

Last time I tried saving to CSV in Excel, it saved the value to which the formula evaluates, not the formula itself.

Perhaps there's a reason that a formula wasn't saved in a Comma Separated Value file?

Comment Re:just like homeopathy (Score 1) 332

by ichthyoboy on Monday April 21, 2014 @09:22AM (#46804715) Attached to: Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All

And poecilids (i.e., mollies, swordtails, and mosquitofishes), embiotocids (i.e., surfperches), and a few other groups...

Comment Re: they see me trollin... they hatin' (Score 3, Insightful) 205

by ichthyoboy on Friday March 07, 2014 @06:14PM (#46431349) Attached to: Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat

sudo apt-get install woosh

Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 769

by ichthyoboy on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @10:16AM (#46395845) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"

That, or they're from Vermont...but probably a little of both

Comment Re:Fiber optic cables are direct analogs to roads (Score 1) 430

by ichthyoboy on Friday January 31, 2014 @10:00AM (#46119203) Attached to: Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband

Depends on which side you're on...

Submission + - Dart Co-Creator And Mozilla JavaScript Expert Talk Google Dart and ECMAScript 6

Submitted by rjmarvin on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:35AM

rjmarvin writes: Google's Dart programming language looks to rewrite the rules of web development http://sdt.bz/67591. Dart co-creator Lars Bak explains how exactly Dart is designed to improve on JavaScript, particularly in writing larger, more complex web applications. On the other side of the web development space, Mozilla research fellow and ECMAScript project editor Allen Wirfs-Brock talks about the current state of JavaScript and how ECMAScript 6, targeted for implementation this December, addresses many of Google's criticisms with the first major enhancement to the language since 1999.

Submission + - Kanye West Sues Everybody Over "Coinye" Cryptocurrency (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:36AM

jfruh writes: The people behind the digital "coinye" currency, named after Kanye West, meant it to be partly a cryptocurrency in the mold of bitcoin and partly a spoof. But they didn't ask West in advance, and now he's mad. Really mad. He's suing anyone even vaguely related to coinye, including Amazon, since coinyewest.com was hosted by Amazon Web Services. Also included in the legal dragnet for some reason is the even sillier "dogecoin" currency.

Comment Re:Government Involvement (Score 1) 499

by ichthyoboy on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:52AM (#45401251) Attached to: How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov

Name one administration in the last 50 years that hasn't.

Comment Re:An important distinction (Score 1) 947

by ichthyoboy on Friday October 25, 2013 @08:58AM (#45232939) Attached to: How Safe Is Cycling?

The system won't lock them up for that, since it's not a violent crime.

Neither is smoking a joint....but how many people have been put in jail through the "War on Drugs"?

Comment Re:What would they store? (Score 1) 147

by ichthyoboy on Friday August 09, 2013 @01:49PM (#44522903) Attached to: Memory Wars May Herald Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity

Except that the trend in most mobile phones is to remove MicroSD slots...

Comment Re:Armageddon (Score 2) 311

by ichthyoboy on Thursday May 30, 2013 @08:47AM (#43859413) Attached to: New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid

You say that like it's a bad thing....

Comment Re:Advice from you, troll? No thanks. (Score 1) 332

by ichthyoboy on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @08:41PM (#43417959) Attached to: IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant

Some people take up shuffleboard in their old age, others take up trolling at /.

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