User: paradoxSpirit

Britannica?

On: Linux Turns 17 Today

"The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica"

Britannica is overrated, wake me when it make the first page of wikipedia ;-)

Re:It's all big massive circle.

On: Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories

"Do you honestly think that everyone generally looked as good as the painting/statues?"

I'm sure Avogadro could have made a good use of Photoshop

Re:Excel can't handle real scientific data sets

On: Programming As a Part of a Science Education?

If I had mod points ...

I cannot agree more. After a master in high energy physics where I learned C++/matlab(or octave)/gnuplot/latex/... I decided to continue my career in medical physics.

I was shocked by the omnipresence of Word and Excel. I am sorry, but there should be corporeal punishment for people publishing scientific papers with figures made by Excel.

Now, with a good undergrad training in programmation we would avoid such abberations

Re:e-book

On: Review of HTC's X7510 Advantage Smartphone

"If it didn't cost your soul"

So a soul is worth $1000? That market went same way as the real estate

What about Lotus Note?

On: The Most Annoying Software Out There

How could they have forgotten Lotus Note?

Re:X-Ray or MRI?

On: New Super Scanner Can Scan Body in Under a Minute

A CT Scanner can also be used to acquired "movies", its called 4D-CT (fourth dimension being the time dimension). With a 256 slice scaner such as the one presented in TFA, this can be done fast enough to get great images of the hearth at work