EdA - Slashdot User

Comment Supercharger (Score 1) 226

by EdA on Thursday March 26, 2015 @09:32AM (#49344099) Attached to: Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC

Hopefully it will have Tesla superchargers along the route :-)

Comment Re:Shitty arcade (Score 1) 283

by EdA on Monday November 18, 2013 @04:53PM (#45457581) Attached to: In an arcade with only the following games ...

I selected pinball, because there was no ZAXXON.

I recently went to an arcade with 75+ pinball machines and played only pinball except for Zaxxon.

Comment Danny Deckchair (Score 1) 92

by EdA on Friday September 13, 2013 @09:45AM (#44840051) Attached to: Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons

Sounds like Danny Deckchair! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337960/

Comment Compliance vehical (Score 1) 164

by EdA on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @09:32AM (#44422349) Attached to: BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber

There's really nothing to see here, it is just a compliance vehicle. Move on.

Happy Tesla Model S owner.

Comment Try a few of them (Score 1) 350

by EdA on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @09:59PM (#39937055) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos?

When I got my first digital camera I sent about $10 worth of the same images to two vendors (Snapfish and Kodak) then I compared the results.
Kodak won hands down. I could have tried a larger set of services. Kodak had a scenario where you could pick up the prints at CVS or Walgreens with no shipping charges, but that ended I think. So you may want to take into account how to avoid shipping. /Ed

Comment Re:One word (Score 1) 336

by EdA on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @11:57AM (#33575196) Attached to: Why Broadband Prices Haven't Decreased

slashdotted

Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat 210

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @05:21PM from the visit-the-chiba-clinic-for-an-upgrade dept.

ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."

Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game 196

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 07, 2010 @01:24PM from the pick-up-and-play dept.

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget: "Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox gamepad. Interestingly, not only is the development cross-platform friendly, but the game itself (a simple Indiana Jones platformer was demoed) saves its place and lets you resume from that spot on whichever platform you happen to pick up."

Comment Unheated warehouse (Score 1) 1127

by EdA on Monday April 13, 2009 @03:38PM (#27561611) Attached to: Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In?

On my first business trip I went to Australia, left 90F weather for 45F. After 26 hours of travel I went right from the airport to the unheated warehouse where we were staging for a trade show.
Half of my equipment didn't show up so I had to recode my demo with the equipment that had arrived. The software package was buggy and if you did certain operations you'd lose your work.

The warehouse had 2 refrigerators, one with all beer. The other was all chocolate. /Ed

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