mightyscotchpine - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Fanboy attack (Score 1) 387

by mightyscotchpine on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @12:23PM (#43338439) Attached to: Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision

Wow. So, what made you think of penises? Do you think of them a lot, or was it the first thing that popped up?

Comment Re: Fanboy attack (Score 1) 387

by mightyscotchpine on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @11:50AM (#43337985) Attached to: Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision

I don't possess the powers of deduction and logic that you do. Could you explain to the rest of us how you arrived at that authoritative conclusion?

Comment I remember now why I don't read the comments (Score 1) 416

by mightyscotchpine on Thursday July 22, 2010 @08:16PM (#32998260) Attached to: Forced iAds Coming To OS X?

hum

Astronomers Discover 33 Pairs of Waltzing Black Holes 101

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 04, 2010 @04:59PM from the teach-them-to-foxtrot dept.

Astronomers from UC Berkeley have identified 33 pairs of waltzing black holes, closing the gap somewhat between the observed population of super-massive black hole pairs and what had been predicted by theory. "Astronomical observations have shown that 1) nearly every galaxy has a central super-massive black hole (with a mass of a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun), and 2) galaxies commonly collide and merge to form new, more massive galaxies. As a consequence of these two observations, a merger between two galaxies should bring two super-massive black holes to the new, more massive galaxy formed from the merger. The two black holes gradually in-spiral toward the center of this galaxy, engaging in a gravitational tug-of-war with the surrounding stars. The result is a black hole dance, choreographed by Newton himself. Such a dance is expected to occur in our own Milky Way Galaxy in about 3 billion years, when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy."

Comment Re:So it's a fnacy nmae (Score 1) 1345

by mightyscotchpine on Friday September 04, 2009 @03:10PM (#29315413) Attached to: Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling"

I think that in many ways, the child who also learned that he can't go outside and play anytime he feels like it will go a hell of a lot farther as an engineer.

Comment Another selfish response... (Score 1) 592

by mightyscotchpine on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @12:46AM (#28617935) Attached to: Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39?

Other's have already said it, but I'm adding another vote to the pile: go into management so we techies can have *one more* manager who knows his ___ from a hole in the ground. (My boss can't keep the concept of bits and bytes separate in his head. He's always asking me how many Terabits of space we have available on our SAN. I've politely corrected him maybe a dozen times.) Sorry for the selfish response. :-)

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