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  1. Re:Fucking Great. How much did this cost? on Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up · · Score: 2

    Yes I do... we also consider the two donkeys carrying all the supplies when we start out as a part of the meal plan so we dont waste space.

  2. Re:Bear Grylls on Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up · · Score: 2

    He cant survive on Earth without a support team. Ask the real survivalist that does "survivorman" what he thinks of good ol; Bear.

  3. Re:Do you know.. on Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up · · Score: 1

    Hey, Buggalo is very tasty when cooked and processed properly.

  4. And not really useful.... on Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up · · Score: 1

    Honestly the cost of every ounce of weight to get it to mars and they had meat? Why? Protien powders and mash are a far better idea. The fact that Sausage, even when heavily cured does NOT have a very good shelf life is suspect. 4 month mission to mars, the FOOD needs to be packaged and ready 3 months before launch. so ALL The food in order to meat mission specification really need to be able to withstand a 12-18 month shelf life in case of a launch delay.

    This "study" is bogus as hell if they had frozen veggies and meat. Wasting precious weight for food refrigeration is insane. Mars mission will have advanced MRE's that require nothing but hot water that have a wider range of flavors and significantly boosted nutrition. I can not believe that NASA had anything at all to do with this PR stunt.

  5. Re:Boo Whoo! on Class-action Suit Filed Against Microsoft Over Surface Write Off · · Score: 0

    Like the hype of the iPad.... yesh, nobody every bought any of those things. God, I rarely see anyone with them.

    Microsoft took a working idea, the tablet, and then let ballmer use his inability to make any sane decision on it. EVERY ASPECT of the Surface was a failure before it left the gate. and all of the failure lies at the feet of ballmer.

  6. Yet none.... on Class-action Suit Filed Against Microsoft Over Surface Write Off · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Were clearance priced / firehouse sold. I'll buy one for $99.00 I need something new to hack on and try to get android/linux running on.

  7. Re:Solatube. on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    "The Solatube is pretty much identical in efficiency to a standard skylight."

    Which is horrible. Again, normal homes have a R-30 to R-45 insulation rating for the ceiling. the absolute best skylights on the market, 4 pane super duper space age ones are R-9 Most are R-3 to R-5 for the high end ones. And open hole is R-0

    So my point stands, they are barely more efficient than a hole in the ceiling.

  8. Re:Sooo.... on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 1

    Mathematics is all the citation I need.

    If you think you can have a permanent ring at 3650km up, then you need to research orbatal physics. just the sheer area needed to cover at a stable orbital point for a ring to stay up there on it's own for a short time, like a decade.. would require an immense amount of metal even in 1.78cm lengths. I actually think I am under estimating it, and they will need to launch every ounce of aluminum along with every ounce of copper on the planet into space to form this ring.

  9. Re:Solatube. on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    No worse than a skylight that is slightly better than a Hole in the ceiling. It still makes them horrible for any home that has to use HVAC and be efficient.

  10. Re:Good idea for third world countries, BUT on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    Actually you get light in the winter, It's a funky green light and very low intensity, but it's there.

  11. Re:Sooo.... on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Close. If we were to launch ALL of the copper found on the earth, every last scrap of it, we could do what they wanted, problem is there would be no copper left to make radios to transmit or receive with. This was the problem, Yes it "worked" but the scale needed would have required global strip mining and launching every ounce of copper that this planet has in it's crust.

  12. Re:Solatube. on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    solartubes are horrible heat leaks. they are the worst thing in the world to install in any home that has insulation. What I am waiting for is 3" diameter acrylic rod that will do this for me and not have the ungodly heat losses that the solatube junk does. I had all 3 taken out of my home because of the losses they have.

  13. Re:Good idea for third world countries, BUT on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    "First, where are they getting 14 hours a day of SUNLIGHT everyday,"

    Nome, Alaska

  14. Yearly Slashdot post on this... on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 2

    Honestly it seems that every year for the past 4 years slashdot herolds this.

    Then HAD will do it in about 2 days.

  15. Re:What would they store? on Memory Wars May Herald Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity · · Score: 1

    A very large dump of /dev/random named " Secret plans to over throw the government" and mail it to the NSA from a anonymous postal drop box.

    It will utterly break the Best NSA cytologists brains for the next 10 years.

  16. Re:No need for a terabyte on Memory Wars May Herald Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity · · Score: 2

    660 Exabytes wont even hold my midget porn collection.

  17. Not at all... on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    I have my bug out needs all in order, Looking forward to the collapse and the resulting thunderdome.
    Welcome to the new age!

  18. Re:interesting timing on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 1

    The problem is with your Wifi router firmware. Upgrade it and it goes away. a LOT of low end routers freak out when they get a wireless complex connection request packet and WPA2 is enabled.

  19. Re:Excellent! on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 1

    Only for people that dont do anything. I travel on the plane twice a month and I carry an 18" laptop. I want to know what these people think they are "getting done" on these tiny 13" ultrabooks and netbooks...

  20. Dear Acer.... on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 2

    At least dont be Dusche-Bags and LOCK the bootloader/Bios. Give us linux dweebs a way to blow out the Chrome OS and install linux on it easily without a 20 second "ZOMG UR BookIZ Compromised!" warning on the screen...

  21. Re:This will help the Occulus Rift A LOT!!! on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 1

    Only if you design it wrong and put the video processor OUTSIDE the unit.

  22. Re:Really? Who cares? on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 1

    Someone is pissy that they dont have $300 for an OR...

  23. Re:This will help the Occulus Rift A LOT!!! on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 1

    your inner ear doesn't feel foreward motion once you are at a set speed in a car. If it did most people would instantly puke once they turned their head to talk to the driver.

  24. Re:This will help the Occulus Rift A LOT!!! on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes it can, increased response and speeds will eliminate it. It's the lag that is making you a puke fountain
    Disclaimer, I worked on VR in college with some of the top professors in the day... . Lag from turning your head to having the view change, even as low as 20ms is enough to make people sick.

  25. Re:He wants to work at a startup again on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 1

    That is the fault of DLC... It is bullshit to buy a game for $60 and then extort more money from you for the rest of the game.