SteveyP66 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Figure out where he is located (Score 1) 884

by SteveyP66 on Friday February 22, 2013 @05:51AM (#42977431) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech?

Unbelievable that in all these discussions the life of another human being is so cheap that the only thing you express concern for is whether or not you stay within the law when you kill them...

Comment Why would you want that old thing in your home? (Score 1) 281

by SteveyP66 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:42AM (#42894165) Attached to: Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server

We've gone through an extensive consolidation project that threw out V880s/V440s and other older Sun equipment, in preference to M5000, M4000, and M3000. The power draw difference is huge - especially when you compare the fact you can run several V880 apps on a single M5000! They are also noisy. So unless you intend switching off your central heating in summer and wearing earplugs, why would you want one of these in your home? Run a VM on your PC instead.

Comment Re:It sort-of is Atari (Score 1) 127

by SteveyP66 on Thursday January 24, 2013 @11:57AM (#42680587) Attached to: Atari Files For Bankruptcy

What everyone seems to forget is that Atari was dominant in the MIDI market - just about everyone was programming their hit records using them in the late 80's (Alison Moyet, Erasure, Bronski Beat, etc), and the music software available for it was second to none!

Comment Re:Nothing related to guns can be considered "smar (Score 1) 1388

by SteveyP66 on Friday January 11, 2013 @12:04PM (#42558371) Attached to: Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings

Oh dear - using correlation to prove causation is fraught with difficulties. Yet you have dived straight in and repeated the biggest lie that the NRA promulgate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics

Comment Re:I call bullshit. (Score 1) 255

by SteveyP66 on Friday August 03, 2012 @05:10AM (#40865803) Attached to: Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics

People are measured in imperial. Except newborns who are metric.

No new parent I know tells anyone what their baby weighs in metric. It's well understood that if your baby weighs more than 10 pounds at birth, you'll never be able to sit down without a rubber ring again.

Comment Re:Expect networks to run to Congress (Score 1) 373

by SteveyP66 on Friday August 03, 2012 @04:54AM (#40865735) Attached to: US Viewers Using Proxies To Watch BBC Olympic Coverage

not that Americans would get the ironing.

IRONY! Ironing is removing creases....sigh...

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 209

by SteveyP66 on Thursday March 13, 2008 @05:04AM (#22737020) Attached to: The Children of Hurin

I finished it the day after I got it. Silmarillion IS a difficult read, but the description of the battles and the engagement with the reader within them is far superior to any of Tolkien's other works. I only got bored with all the God stuff, regarding the Creation etc. But it's all useful stuff when trying to put the tales into perspective.

Feed The Register: Steve McClaren secures 2007 Foot in Mouth award (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @06:52AM

The only trophy he's ever likely to lift

Lenny Henry will tonight present the Plain English Campaign's 28th annual awards (pdf) for obfuscation or clarity in our beloved mother tongue.

Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever 584

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @06:36AM from the or-maybe-we're-just-getting-more-intelligently-designed dept.

John Hawks writes "A new genomics study in PNAS shows that humans have been evolving new adaptive genes during the past 10,000 years much faster than ever before. The study says that evolution has sped up because of population growth, making people adapt faster to new diseases, new diets, and social changes like cities. Oh, and I'm the lead author. I've been reading Slashdot for a long time, and let me just say that our study doesn't necessarily apply to trolls."

Feed Engadget: Sony's Stringer: OLED TV in US "next year" (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @06:32AM

Filed under: Displays

So we had a bit of bad, OLED-related news this morning. Now for the good. Sir Howard Stringer just announced plans to launch their 3-mm OLED TV into the US market. While it's not coming this year as we had hoped beyond hope, it will be offered for "limited sales" in the US (Sony's second launch market) sometime "next year." Just as soon as Sony ramps up their mass production capabilities. Stringer admits that the expensive, tiny TV is a "symbolic device" for Sony -- fine by us. After years of corporate stoicism we're perfectly happy to see Sony take some risk. Now please resurrect AIBO, Howie, and your innovation hat-trick will be complete.

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