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Comment Additional Robots (Score 5, Funny) 177

by natebarney on Sunday October 18, 2009 @06:54PM (#29787777) Attached to: iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot

Now, if they can make D12, D10, D8, D6, and D4 robots, I'll never fail another critical roll again!

Comment Re:Vim (Score 1) 1055

by natebarney on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @01:14PM (#28111885) Attached to: What Free IDE Do You Use?

make: *** No rule to make target `it'. Stop.

Comment Re:Why is "friend" in quotes? (Score 1) 727

by natebarney on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:02PM (#28041803) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User

I parsed it as "He's not really my friend, he's me, but I'm too embarrassed to own up to it." But, I agree with you, it probably shouldn't have been there.

Comment Re:What about Geocaching!? (Score 1) 210

by natebarney on Thursday May 21, 2009 @11:48AM (#28040633) Attached to: GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping In 2010

Er, Geohashing ?

Comment Re:Myth turns out to come from a kernal of reality (Score 1) 269

by natebarney on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @11:39AM (#27759943) Attached to: Some Large Dinosaurs Survived the K-T Extinction

Myth turns out to come from a kernal of reality

Apparently posted from a Commodore 64 :-)

Comment Re:Screenshot (Score 1) 376

by natebarney on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @10:43AM (#27745561) Attached to: Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research

Did anyone notice that the "web browser" windows in the screenshots said xv in the title bar?

Comment Re:The bit sites are much smaller (Score 1) 724

by natebarney on Monday March 30, 2009 @10:24AM (#27387915) Attached to: Reliability of Computer Memory?

Travelling 1 um through paper doesn't get you to the other side. It will get you through several bit sites in modern RAM.

Well, obviously then the solution is to wrap your RAM in paper at least 2 microns thick.

Comment Re:If this is illigal (Score 1) 683

by natebarney on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @01:21PM (#26815031) Attached to: Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal

Then it's another one of those laws "everyone breaks". I hope that such laws are not enforceable otherwise you'd have a law system where "everyone" can be convicted for something. [emphasis added]

Call me cynical, but I believe that's the whole point of laws like this.

Comment Re:Flatland (Score 1) 630

by natebarney on Monday February 09, 2009 @11:18AM (#26783575) Attached to: Mathematics Reading List For High School Students?

I just picked up "The Code Book" recently and really enjoyed it. Another one I think would be pretty cool for high school math students is "Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities", by Ian Stewart. It's written in a very light style, and would probably make learning about math seem like more fun to those that have an aversion.

Comment Re:Who reads those things anyway? (Score 1) 207

by natebarney on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @03:08PM (#26728315) Attached to: Malware Spreading Via ... Windshield Fliers?

although one hosted in the Czech Republic would :)

.ch is Switzerland's TLD.
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Comment Re:Technically yerself (Score 1) 325

by natebarney on Thursday January 29, 2009 @06:41PM (#26659801) Attached to: Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script

Its current most common usage is as an uncountable quantity just like "water".

I wondered for a long time if there was a term for this sort of noun. I don't remember how I discovered it, but the type of noun you're describing is called a mass noun. Its opposite is called a count noun. I'm not correcting you or anything, just passing along some info.

Comment Re:Oh YEAH? (Score 5, Informative) 654

by natebarney on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @06:18PM (#26456593) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds

Maybe my math is wrong, but wouldn't that be 1 / (50 Hz) = 20ms?

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