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  1. Re:I can only imagine how bad the edit wars will b on Wikipedia Gears Up For Explosion In Digital Media · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Um... Why do we care? on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Same here, boot about every 3 weeks on Vista but that's because I'm out for a few days without the laptop. My last linux experience was Ubuntu 8.10 where I had to reboot pretty much every day. Reasons: not waking up from a screensaver (!), windows decorations messing up, losing wifi, losing sound, ...
    Spare me the command-line fixes, I've given up on that just before getting RSI from that.

  3. Re:Let me get this of my chest... on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is exactly why I left the Linux scene and consider it a failure.
    Filing bug reports isn't answered with a solution or bug fix, but with one of these:
    - bug report already exists
    - You're doing something wrong, it's not Ubuntu/Linux
    - It's your hardware, not Ubuntu/Linux
    - It's because of these evil hardware companies, not Ubuntu/Linux
    - You have the source code, fix it yourself

  4. Re:does this add up ? on Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane · · Score: 1

    it's holes drilled in the body of the compressor chamber

  5. Re:does this add up ? on Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane · · Score: 1

    Hey dude, you're welcome :)

  6. Re:Is the OO crowd demented ?!? on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1

    you're an idiot

  7. Re:does this add up ? on Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane · · Score: 1

    Thanks

  8. Re:Rather dramatic on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    Regarding the capture of the energy, I don't doubt for a second you're right. But the frequency of the voltage would be nice to know - just to fiddle with number on standing waves and reflections on power lines :)

  9. FOSS projects that won't survive 2009 on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 0

    Any idiot can make a list like that, allow me to demonstrate

    1. Open Office, or maybe we should call it Open Orifice
    2. Mozilla Firefox
    3. Ubuntu

  10. Re:Is the OO crowd demented ?!? on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1

    nice one :)

  11. Re:Rather dramatic on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    The lack of power in lightning is due to its short duration, does this compare to this effect of the change in the magnetic field? I'm eager to know what the frequency of the voltage would be, and how this relates to the length of the lines. Just a guess here: is the speed at which the magnetic field moves the same as the speed of the charged volume that displaces it ?

  12. Re:Rather dramatic on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    Is it achievable to harvest this scale of induced current ?

  13. Is the OO crowd demented ?!? on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1

    15 days ago, on this website:

    http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/28/0124230

    Yes, you can mark me as troll or flamebait but you know as well as I do that OO will not survive 2009.

  14. Re:File Compatibility, not Habit on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Next up: on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that, but don't wait for a fix

  16. does this add up ? on Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane · · Score: 3, Interesting

    from this presentation:
    - air intake in the order of hundreds of kg per second (400 kg/s to quote) ...
    - passes through thousands of small tubes (resistance at that speed ?!?) ...
    - in a few milliseconds ...
    - cooled from + 1000degreesC to -150degreesC

    Forgive me my ignorance, but are these materials physically possible ?

  17. compared to the alternative ... on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 1

    Exactly how many kettles of tea does it cost to put all the texts on the internet in print and distribute them across all the libraries ?

  18. Re:Prediction on Software Development Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 1

    don't - it gives people like me something to add

  19. Re:Prediction on Software Development Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 1

    all this talk of coffee makes me crave for a cup. Unfortunately I've already had my first dose of nicotine, so I'll poop funny again.

  20. Re:Prediction on Software Development Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By controlling the past, one means controlling education in history - omitting certain historic events and highlighting others.

  21. Re:huh? on Software Development Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 2, Funny

    2009 will be the year of Linux, enveloped in another decade of Microsoft.

  22. Re:Like with plants... on Why Not To Shout At Your Disk Array · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The plants publications never seems to die.

    Plants don't react to music, they react to the tiny shifts in air just above their stomata. The publication which reported this compared plants with music (read: vibrating air above the stomata) with plants in an enclosure without air vibrating (read:refreshing) above the stomata.
    The experiment shows a difference, even if there's air-movement simply because air "sticks" to the surface of plant's leaves in close proximity - behaving like a fluid. Normal air ventilation doesn't refresh this thin layer as optimal as vibrations caused by sound.

  23. let me correct that ... on Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    Evolutionary Research SlowerThan Once Thought

    there

  24. Re:Linearity in Complexity???!!! on Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    What, like in a Markov system ?

  25. Re:Wow, evolution on Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    Who's this "noone" you speak so highly off ?