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  1. Re:At our park.. on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    Wait. Since when is touching violent?

  2. Re:Learning on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    And why is that? Sounds like discrimination - why should guys shoulder all the work in building a relationship, or even a one night stand? Sometimes I wish I was asexual - much less headaches.

  3. Re:Learning on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    That's hypocritical.

  4. Re:This "safety net problem" on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    God I wish there were more fathers like you. Mod parent up +1 Competent.

  5. Re:Alcoholism on Researchers Say Dark Winters Led To Bigger Human Brains · · Score: 1

    It's not the alcohol - it's the rest of the beer.

  6. Re:Best Way to Learn Git? on The Rise of Git · · Score: 1

    The website has a killer cheat sheet.

  7. Re:How many... on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Actually, some Li-Ion chemistries get within an order of magnitude, and considering efficiency corrections, it would be quite feasible for a car to carry them, though you would have to take care of the handling (i.e. design as if a sports car so that it will be driveable as a normal car).

  8. Re:greenhouse gasses will be affected on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    When you burn gas you get mostly carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, with smaller amounts of volatile organic compounds, ozone, particulate matter, etc.

    When you burn hydrogen in air you get water and a small amount of nitrogen oxides.

    Realistically, however, hydrogen is not really a fuel. It's more of a crappy replacement for a battery.

    FTFY.

  9. Re:How many... on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Know what's more efficient? Electricity. Batteries suck - fuel cells more so. Case closed.

  10. Re:How many... on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen storage is not there yet, and won't be until we approach the singularity. With all the headaches H2 makes, you might as well use ethanol fuel cells, or some sort of hydrocarbon fuel cells - much easier infrastructure integration. Screw temperature, and fuel cells suck at specific power anyway - bigger battery is where it is. Oh, and forget the fuel cells and the blackjack.

  11. Re:Duh. on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    ABS? 100 kg? Who the hell designed that?

  12. Re:Duh. on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Titanium?

  13. Re:Best Distro to try this new KDE with? on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Side question: I installed 32 bit fedora by mistake - should I bother fixing it (3 GB RAM), and are there any easy methods?

  14. Re:Gnome on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Do you have tips on decreasing load times?

  15. Re:Gnome on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Bwahahahahaha! Windows? Please - up until NT 6.1 I had all the power of a basic wm from '85. Even then I wouldn't say that it's actually power user. OS X? Nice and consistent, with some really nice tricks, but still, no cigar. Your environment should fit you like a glove - and hence, be configurable - now, I think we share an opinion about conf dialogues. And I'll pretend I didn't see anything about GNOME managing anything except being obnoxious.

  16. Re:Oh I'm sorry on Girls Go Geek Again · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the knuckle draggers are giving us sensitive and sensible male a bad name. For the record - I think I suck at coding anything beyond high school level code, though I wouldn't recommend trying me on anything else related to computers - from development methology to computer science. What can I say - reading interesting shit is the cheapest hobby I could find.

  17. Re:Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Preach it brother - I'm sick and tired of sissy designed for the dump el cheapo trash - what happened to making real products?

  18. Re:Brilliant, but... on Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux · · Score: 1

    Licensing?

  19. Re:Wrong Solution on Do Two-Screen Laptops Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    Would work well with standalone modular screens, and standard mount point on the base (commodore 64 form factor laptop?). Package in one box for the sheep.

  20. Re:Linux fanboys, all of you. on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    May I remind you not just IBM has a vested interest in linux. Microsoft is big, but not that big.

  21. Re:If this is decent at all... on Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry I was so aggressive - it's just that the wording struck a nerve - it's not your fault - as you said, it's a prediction.
    Let me reiterate more clearly - I think we are pushing form factors down faster than we can fill them up with power/ability. Examples: cell phone cameras - unneededly crappy, just to shave of some millimeters in thickness, without meaningfully affecting weight or mobility, laptop batteries - considering how small and longlived netbooks are on a single charge, why is it that larger form factor laptops always competing on weight and horsepower, where both are long inside the useful range, yet no one seems to get the idea to put a netbook mobo in desktop replacement class shell, and cram it full of batteries?

  22. Re:If this is decent at all... on Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% · · Score: 1

    SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
    I'm sick of all this "thinner, lighter, smaller" crap. We went passed the practical barrier on those constraints in almost all technologies. But marketing has tuned it into a dick size replacement and are wasting the engineers time making make marginally useful and really small crap instead of solid technological powerhouses which I think each of us has the right to expect to see in their pockets and laptop bags.
    Down with small!

  23. Re:what, no.... on Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% · · Score: 1

    He said cheap - so he placed a reasonable constraint on size. Unlike what marketing places on laptop batteries...

  24. Re:Who Else read that as "aluminum-cement"? on Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% · · Score: 1

    Me.

  25. Re:Oxymoron on Anonymous Creates Its Own Social Network · · Score: 1

    NNTP with per server swarm distributed Bittorent mirroring of content, and multiple servers. Add some basic cluster quorum techniques, and your done. 50 LoC Perl, and lots of libs, I bet.