User: phrostie

Consumer offerings?

On: Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels

i was reading their webpage the other day and they only seemed to sell to large corporations or utilitiy companies. when will they start offering a consumer version.

Rovers?

On: Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars

what will the effect be on the mars rovers i wonder.

ka-boom

On: Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor

aren't these the same guys that make the batteries that keep blowing up?

cool read

On: Riding the Failure Cascade

kind of applies to a lot of groups.

Re:Antarctica has moved around

On: More Antarctic Dinosaurs

it was never a troll, just my sense of humor.

thanks though :-D

Global Warming

On: More Antarctic Dinosaurs

so there were herbivores in the Antarctic.

did Al Gore predict this?

out of touch

On: Leaked MediaDefender Emails Show Student P2P Traffic Down

so the bottom line is that an industry whose sales are dropping are not only out of touch with their market, they are out of touch with reality as well.

someone wake me from this dream.

Timing with other OLPC stories

On: Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco'

did anyone else notice the interesting timing of this with other OLPC stories?

say for example Microsoft's criticism that olpc won't run Windows?

Re:Something has to be done to fix the system

On: A Discussion of SCO's Fate With Groklaw's Pamela Jones

yeah, it was like Enron, only everyone was watching the train go off the cliff this time.

old news but still

On: BSA Software Piracy Fight Smacks of RIAA Crackdown

on one hand the story of Ernie Ball is old news, on the other it's one that needs to not be forgotten.

private firm

On: Houston Police Test Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft

as long as the private firm isn't Blackwater, we're safe for the moment.

Re:hosts file

On: Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC

i knew they would come up with something eventually.

thanks for the tip.

hosts file

On: Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC

all the more reason to set up a host file

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Topcow Aphrodite IX ripoff

On: Joss Whedon Back on TV

this is a rip off of Topcow's Aphrodite IX

transmitter

On: Single Nanotube Becomes World's Smallest Radio

so how big is the transmitter?

Enders Game

On: Today's Gamers, Tomorrow's Leaders?

didn't they write a book about this?

2.0?

On: Google Begins "Gmail 2.0" Rollout

how can they be on 2.0 when mine still shows Beta.

when did we hit 1.0?

Great Feature

On: Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation

I think this is one of the best features MS has put into it's software yet!
i can't think of anything they might do that could top this.

say it isn't so!

On: Greenpeace Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines

Green Peace alarmist!!!!!

no, it just can't be!!

they are like anyone else, they spin shit for their own agenda.

Re:advertisements

On: Long-lived Mars Rovers to Keep on Roving

i suspected this, but what if they could trade the costs for the right to advertise.

it would reduce the expense of space exploration.

advertisements

On: Long-lived Mars Rovers to Keep on Roving

i'm really surprised we haven't seen advertisements on TV for the companies and subcontractors that helped make all the components.

talk about some serious bragging rights!

they seem a bit stressed

On: Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source

i think they just need to get laid REALLY bad.

already done

On: Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable

someone predicted this, i'm sure of it

call me a troll, but,,

On: Linux on the Desktop Doubles in 2007

i know more people that LIKE linux than LIKE vista

true in part

On: Nokia responds to iPhone by Promoting 'Open'

in part i agree with this, but even then, if BSD wasn't a solid base to begin with(and this is from a linux user) the marketing wouldn't have been enough.

they used it because it worked.