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  1. Re:Juicero to announce JuiceCoin Initial coin offe on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and in Juicero's case, you could do that squeezing with your own hands.

  2. Re:Windows 7 on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    There's ReactOS targetting Windows NT, though. But it's been proceeding incredibly slowly.

  3. The eventual result... on Bitcoin Is Forking. Again. (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The eventual result will be the will be a separate forked bitcoin for every potential user and then their true value will be seen.

  4. Node.js & Chromium on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fide Wikipedia:

    Slack: Written in Electron

    [Electron] allows for the development of desktop GUI applications using front and back end components originally developed for web applications: Node.js runtime for the backend and Chromium for the frontend

    The beginning does promise lots of memory usage already...

  5. Re: Windows on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    The real killer OS will be born when systemd is ported to Windows 10.

  6. MS Office and template crashes on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    At work, we have templates for Word and Excel. That's great, but...

    • first, there's always an error message when opening the program
    • Word slows down because of the template stuff
    • a certain way to crash Word: open two documents that use the template and save another with a new name
    • Word or Excel tries the recovery. Okay, but it takes a couple of minutes.
    • one of the recovered document is always the template .dotm
  7. No, you need Beau4K to get a clearer picture. You may need to update your hardware, though.

  8. Our corporate software center allows all users to install Filezilla with just two clicks! I think it might be there because some employees use it to transmit big files to clients. Ok, honestly, I don't know why it's there.

  9. Re:LGBTQIA on 'Science Must Clean Up Its Act' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually it will get to [:upper:].

  10. OOh, I forgot Logo! I actually used PowerLogo on Amiga for a while.

  11. It was in 1984 using Commodore 64's fabulous BASIC. Then I got my hands on Simons' BASIC. The highlights of those days were:

    1) I did a quiz program that drew a flag and asked what country it belonged to. I measured the dimensions of the flags from a 18-part encyclopedia with a ruler. I also created, with trial and error, subroutines to draw stars (eg. pentagon, 15-gon). The colours were approximations, of course.

    2) I figured out how to create an equal temperament tuning, and created arrays of the relevant C=64 POKE addresses so I could enter notes like index,duration,index,duration in DATA and READ it in and so make three-voice tunes.

    Afterwards I got acquainted with Amiga BASIC, AMOS, Pascal (only very little), Perl and Bash, and then VBA...

    I'm not a professional programmer.

  12. Re:WhipslashPleaseGetRidOfSubjectsInComments on Linux Mint Hack Is an Indicator of a Larger Problem (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Cinnamon (2.6.13) is available in Ubuntu universe repositories. For me, apt-get wants to install 88 additional packages when installing that meta package.

    http://packages.ubuntu.com/wil...

    I haven't tried to use it so I have no idea if works well.

  13. Re:Distance? on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 1

    Green light from Hanny's Voorwerp is quite far away, so they could aim for that.

  14. I studied chemistry in a non-English-speaking country and in situ was a known term. It means that a specific compound needed in a reaction is made in the same vessel as the synthesis continues, not separated and transferred to another flask. Example: reacting sodium with ethanol to produce sodium ethoxide followed by transesterification.

    On site would in deed mean that something was prepared in the same laboratory or even the same fume cupboard.

  15. Re:Sounds unlikely to me on Rosetta Results: Comets "Did Not Bring Water To Earth" · · Score: 2

    Re "heaviness of water": Water molecule (molecular mass 18) is lighter than eg. oxygen gas (molecular mass 32) or nitrogen gas (molecular mass 28). The reason water stays liquid is that it forms hydrogen bonds with the neighbouring water molecules, thus raising the boiling point.

  16. Farmers will be delighted... on The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction · · Score: 1

    If this happens, farmers will be delighted when a ten-million bird flock descends on the fields.

  17. Openstreetmap, Nominatim, OSRM on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do With Half a Rack of Server Space? · · Score: 1

    You could consider donating server space and bandwidth to Openstreetmap projects. There's a wiki for OSM but it's quite confusing at times. Then there's Nominatim, the name search; it requires lots of computer resources. Open source routing from OSM data can be done with OSRM, which is quite fast.

    Perhaps extracts of OSM data for downloading would be nice, eg. just roads, waters; see what's already available.

  18. Re: Not Just Phones on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the space requirements grow after the upgrade so you'll need to invest to a bigger drive.

  19. Re:First pass on Comet To Make Close Call With Mars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The theory is that there's a big (really big) store of comets in Oort's cloud on the far outskirts of the solar system. They have never been near to the Sun having been formed far from the centre. Once their movements are perturbed they may go towards the Sun.

    It really may be the first pass ever.

  20. You can change the default but keep the option on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't have a problem if /. made the to-be-default interface, you know, default, as long as you can change it in your preferences to the old interface.

    Fuck beta interface.

  21. Above Cloud Storage on New Asteroid Mining Company Emerges · · Score: 1

    I guess this has the potential to go over cloud storage.

  22. Re:HP DVD Drives on Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? · · Score: 1

    I gave up on torrents when I stumbled upon songs like Brown Eyes Girl by Jim Van Morrison or Red Red Wine by Neil Young.

    That's why you use Musicbrainz Picard to boldly tag the files where no metadata has been before. Picard can usually recognise the songs (or better, albums) if they are at least somewhat popular.

  23. Re:theory != fact on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 2
    Don't be silly, evolution is both a theory and a fact!

    ...distinguish between the fact that evolution occurs and the theory of the mechanism of evolution...

  24. Re:Thinness on iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you'd have to buy those MacBook Airs to fill the space.

  25. Re:mind-job, anyone? on Kepler Spots "Perfectly Aligned" Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    Moreover, it can be shown that the rational numbers (eg. 1/2, 5/9, 314/999) have precisely the same number of members as natural numbers.