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  1. Re:So, no current needed? on Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel Using Sunlight · · Score: 1

    According to Fahrenheit's 1724 article,[8][9] he determined his scale by reference to three fixed points of temperature. The lowest temperature was achieved by preparing a frigorific mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride (a salt), and waiting for it to reach equilibrium. The thermometer then was placed into the mixture and the liquid in the thermometer allowed to descend to its lowest point. The thermometer's reading there was taken as 0 F. The second reference point was selected as the reading of the thermometer when it was placed in still water when ice was just forming on the surface.[10] This was assigned as 32 F. The third calibration point, taken as 96 F, was selected as the thermometer's reading when the instrument was placed under the arm or in the mouth.

    How about trying to set a linear scale to 3 points? What grade mentality does that indicate?As for the negative question, believe it or not fahrenheit goes negative too! Maybe you live somewhere warm or struggle to use fancy negative numbers?

  2. Re:But no preordres or email notification. on One Final Manufacturing Run of Touchpads · · Score: 1

    Argos had a clearout at £100 each, I missed it too...

  3. Re:The Black Death might be BROUGHT back on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, who's Linus in the analogy, the FSM?

  4. Re:A little late on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    Are you still questioning the flatness of the earth and the rotation of the celestial spheres too? Well done, someone has to!

  5. Re:Thanks for the trailer, when is the movie due? on New Video Brings Portal To Life · · Score: 1

    Reminded me of Sarah Connor in T2.

  6. Re:Worthless study on The Least Amount of Exercise Needed To Extend Life · · Score: 1

    As a fitness professional who has worked with a countless number of people

    Thanks Surferx0, I'll trust your personal opinion coming from the standpoint of having exercised with people sometimes over science anyday!

  7. Re:Tomorrow is another day on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    THEY got it right, first time, out of the box.

    While I agree with you to some extent, you'd have to agree that were a fair few problems with all of these things out of the box, but Apple stuck with them, releasing proper updates, adding new functions until they were great. Meanwhile your shitty WinMo 6.5 is getting security updates every now and again and your Symbian hasn't changed one iota since unboxing.

  8. Re:To Quote Obi-Wan on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    Made my day.

  9. Re:This is a sad day for the tech world on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    Nobody outside of America has heard of or cares about Berkshire Hathaway (with the possible exception of people in the financial services) and the very fact you had to append "(in the 90s)" says it all. BG never drove the company like Jobs did.

  10. Re:All those in favor of the "weird" GIMP UI... on The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the new version of Office has integrated this, I can't find the buttons anywhere now.

  11. Re:Tragic... on Former Wikileaks Spokesman Destroyed Documents · · Score: 1

    Why nonsense Sir! It's widely known they spawn from the ether! Damn you and that Frenchman Pasteur.

  12. Re:ReactOS Anyone? on Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for Hurd, I hear it's going to be ready for production use slightly sooner.

  13. Re:Dear Game Developers on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    if ( num_deaths > 10 ) { transient_difficulty_level = RETARDED_NOOB_LEVEL_LOL; }

    That's fine if it's an option, some people would rather not get past a section solely because the game let them, as they enjoy a challenge...

  14. Re:Red Dead Redemption as the example ? on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    You could save anywhere outside of town as I recall. It took about 30 seconds of riding away from a town in any direction to find a save point...

  15. Re:I don't get it on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    What I miss is being the same room, the old days of everyone at his PC, passing food around, being to look someone in the eye after you fragged them was much better than everyone at home alone trying to talk over the stupid uncomfortable headset...

  16. Re:A solution to the wrong problem on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    Because some people like to listen while charging, in a car for example?

  17. Re:Why not cut slightly less than 1/2? on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    Because any pressure would break edge off?

  18. Re:Then why not a netbook? on Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation · · Score: 1

    If it's anything like the Vaio with Vista I'm struggling with at the moment then at least sleep mode would work... I'm fairly ambivalent about the whole thing to be honest, I don't like typing on a touchscreen for more than 10 minutes, But I do otherwise like the tablet form factor. I just wanted to correct the SSH misapprehension. I had looked for one before to log into my Linux TV computer at home to start and stop torrents, access files etc but in the end couldn't be bothered messing around with WoWLAN.

  19. Re:G+'s biggest strength may be its biggest weakne on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 1

    They're probably saying your grammar is poor.

  20. Re:KDE on Interview With GNOME 3 Designer Jon McCann · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu before you were married but Gentoo after? I'm sure there's got to be a joke in there somewhere...

    "Before we were married everything was stable, now he spends all his time fiddling with his kernel." (OK that was terrible...)

  21. Re:Please... on Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation · · Score: 1

    What amuses me is that I always associate sunk cost with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_the_sunk_cost_fallacy

  22. Re:So badly misinformed.... on Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation · · Score: 1

    There are at least half a dozen ssh apps.

  23. Re:I read the article on Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation · · Score: 1

    Neither should the string be too tight, or too loose, it is at it's most harmonious somewhere in between.

  24. Re:Ice may be melting 100 TIMES AS FAST as predict on UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, some idiot on the internet told me it's all nonsense and everything's fine! Keep the walrus lube though, it's good for all manner of unwanted sexual congress with marine mammals.

  25. Re:supposedly obsolete tech on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 1

    Anyone with functionong ears can tell. Valve amplifier distortion is harmonic by nature which is vastly preferable to listen to. Generations of electronic engineers have tried to make a solid state amp at any price point that can emulate the sound and have failed. Some metal heads like solid state amps, they are preferred there because of their more "abrasive" sound.