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  1. Re:Those onion belts are going bad on Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools · · Score: 1

    what it is the accountant wants in terms of inputs, outputs, retention, and quality assurance. Then the code cutting can be done by specialists

    So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?

  2. Re:pros and cons on Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools · · Score: 1

    There's a reason assembly wasn't written in Java. (:

  3. Re:Wow! on Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the Army, this is called "back when it was hard".

    In this context:

    How many developers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

    2: one screws it in, the other one talks about how hard it used to be.

  4. Re:What happens when the laser is turned off? on Tapering Waveguide Captures a Rainbow · · Score: 1

    it is all lost to heat.

    wouldn't this imply we could create 100% effecient solar cells ?

    No, just very very black objects that get hot in the sun. If you could make them NOT get hot, get heavier, or vibrate then YES, you would be rich.

  5. Re:The best on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 1

    What crack have you been smoking?

    I believe the phrase you are looking for is:

    What the fuck kinda glass dick YOU been smoking?

    HTH.

  6. Re:that accounts for distance... on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    Err....I meant 1000 meters:

    If you go 1000 meters and are off by 1 degree, you deviate by about 17 meters. circle/360
    If you are off by 1 angular mil, you are off by 1 meter. circle/6400

  7. Re:that accounts for distance... on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    I guess it depends on what they mean by "general direction".

    I take it to mean something less than degrees or angular mils...as in cardinal and ordinal direction.

    The magnetic field, if it can be read accurately (like a compass), giving the ant fine-grained azimuths..that would work great.

    If you go 100 meters and are off by 1 degree, you deviate by about 17 meters. circle/360
    If you are off by 1 angular mil, you are off by 1 meter. circle/6400

    But circle/8 as in cardinal and ordinal direction...each ordinal has a variation of 45 degrees.

  8. Re:that accounts for distance... on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    I read TFA...but have you ever tried to navigate in the desert using "general direction"?

  9. Re:that accounts for distance... on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to navigate in the desert using "general direction"?

  10. that accounts for distance... on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but not direction. Like doing "dead reckoning" with pace but no azimuth.

  11. Yes, but.... on Modded UX490 UMPC Shows Off Years of Community Development · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...does it run 3 versions of windows for no reason?

  12. yep... on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...why have a watch on your wrist when you can fish it out of your pocket.

    At least pocket watches kept the time even if you were out of cell service.

  13. Re:At least they don't pollute the city directly on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey! Don't put me off-topic until you read the link about the guy that died.

  14. Re:At least they don't pollute the city directly on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You forgot to mention that he was Hispanic.

  15. Re:Zero Emissions are worse?? on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 1

    Please limit ALL pollution discussions to "carbon footprints" in the future. Particulate emissions, nox and sox, acid rain, and smog have all been replaced by CO2.

    Thanks!

  16. Re:Zero Emissions are worse?? on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 1

    >>penis pumps...

    It's okay. I bought a carbon credit!

  17. Re:I don't blame them on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    >>Otherwise stop being a dick... jeez. Would you say that in person to someone you just randomly struck up a conversation with?

    Not if he wanted to keep his teeth.

  18. I have some datums. on Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I do tech for a school district.

    I just installed 75 Acer Aspire Anecdotes, and I have about 10 Anecdotes that failed in the first month. I continue to have at least another anecdote fail every month.

    Of course, someone will tell me that anecdote is not 15% of data or something bullshitty like that.

  19. Re:Idle? on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or just wrap the wrecking ball in this stuff, for safety purposes.

  20. Re:what does it say... on Drupal 6 Social Networking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually no.

    There are something like 10x the modules for CMSing wordpress as there are drupal.

    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=wordpress+as+a+cms&aq=0&aqi=g10&oq=wordpress+as+a&fp=94f5bc3d92523f1a

    This motherfucker here is in wordpress...seems to be working pretty well. Although I think Kenpo is a waste of time.

  21. Re:Cool Book! on Drupal 6 Social Networking · · Score: 1

    don't forget to make a video for youtube of you talking about it. your vlog will get you all teh rankings!

  22. what does it say... on Drupal 6 Social Networking · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...when you people prefer WORDPRESS over your shitty CMS about 10 to 1?

  23. Re:Pitch on Engineered Bacteria Glows To Reveal Land Mines · · Score: 1

    Yes! That's the beauty of it! Now you know you have a minefield! (:

  24. Re:fuck on Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments · · Score: 1

    Well...the armed forces part are not paid for by sales tax. and most public schools are funded thru property tax, with massive funding from the federal level. I'd venture a guess that a good portion of roads are NOT paid for by sales tax.

    You get taxed on your income, what you own, AND what you sell? You don't think that's a little excessive?

  25. Re:we'll see on Obama Talks Internet Freedom, China Censors · · Score: 1

    What if George Washington had declared that the writers of the Federalist Papers were a bunch of "lying asshats"?

    Well, assuming the constitution had still been ratified, we would have a much more strict interpretation of it. The government couldn't so easily have expanded it's own power as it does today. A more Jeffersonian interpretation would prevent all of todays liberty usurpations.

    When Franklin said "A republic, if you can keep it"...he was talking about man's tendancy to vote for the easiest, most provided for life. Freedom is hard, and never more than a generation away from loss. But we vote for the government to expand into housing (HUD, Frannie, et al), retirement (SS), health (medicare, medicaid, socialized med)...we vote for bigger governments at every juncture. This...for a couple hundred years, and you have lost your liberty. You can't "keep it".

    "Oh...but I want the gov't to give me stuff"...." I don't lose anything"...."I still have freedom"...no you don't. If you were free, what you owned would be yours. Instead, the government can decided some of your money is theirs...so it can be used to help your neighbor buy a house, go to the doctor, get solar cells, buy a new car...the list goes on and on. Every time the government expands, it took people's property away to do it. And every area it expanded to was once someone else's property. What if Obamao decides "every American deserves free access to quality computer repair"...or web dev, or networking, or lawn care, or cabinetry....sucks if you worked in one of the nationalized fields.

    Hamilton might not have been an asshat...but his federalist view of loose interpretation sealed our fate as being incapable of "keeping it".