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  1. Very vague on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1

    What do you want to do in STEM?
    IF you just want to be around doing work for a space agency, they hire liberal arts majors to.

    I'm always a little leery of people who want to enter STEM, but with no specifics.

  2. Re:Racist experiment on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 2

    Black because that is the current big issue in America. OBVIOUSLY other races as well.
    A good step is getting people like you to stop injecting there knee jerk nonsense into the discussion..we ANY discussion, really.

  3. Re:One question on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should worry less about your dance skills and see if you can get some decent humor skills.

  4. Re:Easier method on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but your kid couldn't even play minecraft at age 7, so maybe there is a bigger issue with your child. Like, oh say, You.

    All the actual data shows you are wrong, so maybe think?

  5. Re:MMO old hat on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    well, you missed the most critical point. How does the person in VR feel and act when they are of a different color?
    Soming no avatar can do.
    Of course, MMOs are some of the worse places for any experiment where you want the result to be applicable outside an MMO.

  6. Re:Aluminium on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    No, it's a Big Bang powered car.

    That right, they are powered by the sheer idiocy of that show.

  7. Re:Aluminium on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    And that feasible and a couple where built.
    Sadly, radiation put an end on that! More precisely the humans lack of tolerance for radiation.

  8. Re:wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    Nope.
    Just for clarification, this is a flying car:
    http://imgur.com/oMwa9Yp

    Notice the car on the right. That's from a 1940 magazine writting about what 2011 would look like.
    AS opposed to an Aerocar.
    Also:
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9vdT...

  9. Re: wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    It is differently written. Written in a way that no one write anymore, and as such may be difficult for the reader. This goes fro most books written in the era.

  10. Re: wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    Kahn was like Ahab.

  11. Re: wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    He pitched is as a space western.
    He did start pitching it the same year, but earlier, as Voyage aired.

  12. Re:So No Space Elevator ??? on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 0

    "circumcised and so who already lost most of their ability to feel what sex is"
    this is a myth. Please stop looking for any stupid excuse to try and shoved your political crap into the discussion.

  13. Re:Now if only... on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    Depends.
    You can move through cities faster then walking, a lot faster.

    I would own one if they where a few hundred dollars.

    Doesn't matter though. That statement was said by 1 person, where as many scientific expert in material science already know what application graphene could do, if they could manufacture it in more volume.

  14. Re:Now if only... on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    With the subtle difference in that we know a many. many ways graphene, and will change the world. There are application waiting for it.
    Graphene isn't the issue, manufacturing it cheaply is.

    I have n doubt someone will figure out how to manufacture it cheaply.
    This is like conversation I had about the blue LED 25 years ago. We knew we could do a lot with it. We knew what would change. WHat wasn't known was how to do it cheaply.

  15. Re:Have Both on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Are you from 1998?

  16. Re: Have Both on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, ergonomics. The thing with little science dictated by someone in HR who barely made it past high school....

  17. Re:Permadeath? on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 1

    If you are going to cheat, why bother playing? just tell people you play, it's the same thing but with less effort.

  18. Re:There has been no real game innovation since th on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 1

    And Shakespeare did all the plots, therefore nothing good has been written since.

    That is what you sound like.

  19. Creativity? on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 1

    No, not really. Now it's just a geek point thing.
    I play nethack because obscure is cool., plus references.

  20. Re:C language on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 1

    Shadowstats is crap.

    http://azizonomics.com/2013/06...

  21. Re:C language on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 1

    Still does.
    There isn't as much work, but what needs to be done is critical.
    So there aren't a lot of candidate.
    A Sr. C programmer should be making 200K; which is down from 400K in '99

  22. Re:soo.... on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 1

    Except it depends on what power generation you are supplanting. You also won't be offsetting at 1 to 1.

    I like the plan, but lets keep in real.

  23. Re:soo.... on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 1

    It matters in that the power companies wont need to spin up there plants as much; that when the most CO2 is emitted.
    Assuming you use coal.

  24. Re:soo.... on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 1

    ".. put them in space where they belong."
    Thanks for letting everyone know you don't know what the hell you are talking about.

  25. Re:soo.... on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 1

    Yes, and in that area the early darkness moves peak generation; so yes, for maximum effect on CO2 generation, west is the direction they should face.