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  1. Re:Would *I* use it? on Should Microsoft Put Office On the iPad? · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much what I did for school. I needed a laptop in class but preferred my desktop while at home. Using my iPad and BT keyboard along with an RDP app gave me the power and tools of a PC but without the file management hassles of using 2 PCs.

  2. Re:"...the end of the road for SSDs will be 2024.. on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    You still have the limits of the disk to deal with. That's why optical media like DVDs and CDs aren't getting any faster. The disks are already spinning as fast as they can.

  3. Re:Come back... on Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery · · Score: 1

    My old laptop's graphivs card emitted a high-pitched squeal when it was under load. It wan't very loud so it was only mildly annoying.

  4. Re:Cool on Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem is he is sometimes seeing violet where everywone else sees black. A black object is black because it is not reflecting the wavelengths you are trying to detect. If something is perceived to be black to everyone else and is referred to by its color, he may not know which object is being referred to because everyone else's black object is his violet object.

  5. Re:doh! on How Pre-Paid Energy Services Aid In Rural Electrification · · Score: 1

    There are already prepaid electric companies. They are often the most expensive, too.

  6. Re:What...how...? on Replacing the World's Largest IMAX Screen · · Score: 4, Informative

    The whole project took a year. They probably spent most of it researching the logistics and what they wanted in a new screen. After that, that screen had to be manufactured and delivered. It says in TFA that it only took about half and hour to lift and secure it.

  7. Re:Battery on US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags · · Score: 1

    iPads are actually pretty tough. I bought one because it met my needs and I didn't have to worry about the kids breaking it. It is aluminum and glass, pretty tough materials.

  8. Re:Is this experiment about gravity or electricity on Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station · · Score: 3, Informative

    Orbit is usually associated with gravity but it can happen with any attractive force.

  9. Re:Tool outlines on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Handymen don't work on Air Force jets in their garage. This is much more sophisticated work.

  10. Re:RFID on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    That is one method of detecting what tools are contained within. The toolbox has to have some method of determining what tools it contains and a tag on each tool and a single reader on the toolbox is about as simple as it can get.

  11. Re:Even cheaper on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 2

    That doesn't tell you what tool(s) is/are missing, only that the set is incomplete.

  12. Re:It ends up being a boon doggle on Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband · · Score: 1

    Try it in a more typical use case where you aren't just replacing a single small bulb and throwing it away after a year. Try the math on replacing 5 60 watt bulbs and keeping them for at least 2 years.

  13. Re:It ends up being a boon doggle on Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband · · Score: 0

    You don't have to replace every light in your house, just the ones that are on for hours a day. It won't save you pennies, just tens of dollars per year. What I've seen so far, though, is that CFLs use only slightly more electricity than LEDs but cost significantly less so I'm not convinced to switch to LED from CFL. The switch to CFL was a no-brainer for me because the advantages are significant.

  14. Re:SHOULD "Apps" Cost Something? on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    Not only are a coke or latte something that you expect to taste the same every time, if they don't taste right it generally isn't hard to walk back to the counter and let them fix it or give you a refund. There have been times when Starbucks gave me a crappy coffee but I didn't realize it until I was 10 miles away but their phone support was more than happy to refund me the next day.

  15. Re:I think this was the method on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Theses days flash drives aren't authorized and users are reminded with a popup every time they log in.

  16. Re:Transformer Rocks... on NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    I replaced my incredibly old laptop with an iPad 2 and keyboard for my last 2 months of college and just used remote desktop to access my computer at home. It wasn't quite as convenient but the battery easily lasted all day and didn't weigh 5 pounds.

  17. Re:How about an echolocation app :) on iOS App Acoustically Measures Distances Up To 25 Meters · · Score: 1

    Thanks for clearing that up.

  18. Re:It'd be nice if ... on The IOCCC Competition Is Back · · Score: 1

    I'm not very familiar with this competition but that seems to be the very point. The winning code should be almost impossible to understand unless you are very good. This isn't good code in the traditional sense but in an ironic sense.

  19. Re:How about an echolocation app :) on iOS App Acoustically Measures Distances Up To 25 Meters · · Score: 1

    As an iPhone owner, I'm curious how you claim it has 3 speakers and two microphones. Did you mean 2 speakers and 1 microphone? I see an earpiece speaker and a bottom speaker with a microphone on the other side of the dock connector.

  20. Re:Not too surprised... on Brits Rejecting Superfast Broadband · · Score: 1

    My options for AT&T DSL are 3Mb/s with a phone line or 768K without. My biggest problem with that is my last apartment didn't have that ludicrous limitation. I could get the same speeds without a phone line but only a few dollars more per month.

  21. Re:Only "troubled" if you're not Lockheed Martin on The F-35 Story · · Score: 2

    Yes. That's how it works. We build cool shit and less-cool shit and keep the cool shit and share the less-cool shit.

  22. Re:Only "troubled" if you're not Lockheed Martin on The F-35 Story · · Score: 1

    The A-10 was designed to get close to tanks and blow them up with a gun. It has to fly low and slow to accomplish the mission. Why do that when you can fly above an enemy's defenses and drop a bomb or fire a missile? We've already demonstrated that a bomb can hit a moving target and some bombs can be dropped from 15 miles away or more. There is no need for an A-10 these days when something else can kill tanks without risking itself in the process.

  23. Wacky iOS Google Maps results on Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It · · Score: 1

    Is this like how searching for Macaroni Grill in Abilene, TX brings up a single Macaroni Grill in Seatle, WA on my iPhone? I know there are at least 2 that are within 200 miles but it insists on showing me the one in Northern Seatle, 2000 miles away!

  24. Re:Asus Transformer TF101 on The (Mostly) Sad Fates of 32 First-Generation iPad Rivals · · Score: 1

    symbolset said that one of the problems of the iPad is having to purchase everything again, which is no longer true. It even applies to iTMS. I've redownloaded entire albums on my iPhone so the iPad should be no different.

  25. Re:Asus Transformer TF101 on The (Mostly) Sad Fates of 32 First-Generation iPad Rivals · · Score: 1

    Apple has improved on their purchase policy. You can download things you've purchased without having to buy them again now.