Slashdot Mirror


User: geekoid

geekoid's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
44,008
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 44,008

  1. Re:Arizona... on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 2

    Theya rent a dick. I'm sorry you don't like being confronted with the truth, but that doesn't make the poster a dick.

    It means that you need to stop being so intellectually lazy and take 2 minutes to see if your view holds any factual water, so to speak.

    "That's normal here"
    So? They are still disasters.

    "benign"
    no, people die, infrastructure gets damaged and so on. Those disaster have a minimal impact becasue, ready for it?...they have a disaster plan. duh duh duuuuuuh!

  2. I want a smart watch on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    but only if it replaces my smartphone.

  3. Re:The same should apply to chromecast dongle on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    I love my Chromecast.

  4. Re:Why is anyone surprised? on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    It's a pocket watch.

  5. when comparing on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    please use common population density, and not 'the whole US'.

  6. One Thing Computers Will Never Be Able To Do: Descend From Apes.
    interestingly, it's one thing man didn't do either. we do share a common ancestor.

    Of course, if we are talking about biological computers, then all bets are off.

  7. Re:Super Keen on putting Trees on Mars on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    Protip: Plants are Carbon neutral.

  8. Re:Probably Obama. Or the Tea Party. on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 2

    "inefficient"
    actual, its because it isn't practical and it create a heavy burden on the citizen.
    So it's a good way to gt infrastructure they requires long distances built, but doesn't many everyone gets the street torn apart of each competitor.

    You should study the initial roll outs and expansion of electricity where a lot of people where running lines. It's pretty horrible.
    The regulation exists becasue of a reason. You should look at why any regulation exists.

  9. Re:Probably Obama. Or the Tea Party. on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    yeah, but how many people can build a power generation plant where ever they want?

  10. Re:Not really news... on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    How many cable companies are you going to put up with digging you your street and year becasue each on has to lay it's own infrastructure?

  11. Re:Not really news... on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 2

    Yes, the government does infrastructure really, really well.
    Anything where the service can't be created by anyone.

    Infrastructure is pretty much always cheaper for the consumer when the government does it becasue they aren't using it as a monopoly to boost profits. It's run a 0 +/-2% or so.

  12. Re:The Real Story on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 2

    Someone paid nearly 10 million dollar for a really old painting!
    mind == blown.

  13. Re:Digital? on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    It's a digital disk, read by a LASER.

    LD had many feature that weren't brought over to DVD/Blu-Ray disks.

    I miss the seamless changing between directors cut, standard release, and Edited for TV versions of movies.
    I don't miss the low quality or Disk Changing.

  14. Re:JarJar on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    The problem with JarJar is the same problem with every single character in the prequels. The writing was horrid.
    The films is pretty much the worst work of any of the main actors. Imagine judging Natalie Portman by that work alone?

  15. Re:footage on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    I don't remember him yelling that line, but it would be hilarious if he had.

  16. Re:Some more star wars footage? on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    It's a collectors piece, Some people are collectors.
    Do you say the same things about people who collect paintings?
    If you bought it for 7000, it will probably be worth 20K in 10 years, if not sooner.

  17. Re:Some more star wars footage? on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 0

    I have found the the 2nd and 3rd generation views more about it then those of us who were in the theater when it first ran.,

    OTOH, their are movie far older that get quoted all the time.

  18. Re:Obligatory on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    Is that the number 1 answer from David Letterman's Top Ten list: How to get humans to Europa?

  19. well the clmiches it on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    NASA first priority needs to be a gravity repulse engine.

  20. Re:Why? on Book Review: The App Generation · · Score: 0

    "The way I interpret it is that we are becoming more and more shallow."
    factually incorrect.

    "They're time delayed, no body or facial language and just little blips of conversation."
    but that doesn't mean there is no connection. People don't really need much to make a connection.

    "I mean, there are folks who I have flamed here that if in person, I would have treated with respect and maybe even agreed with them on several points of the argument "
    stop projecting you asshatery onto others.

    " They have no character. No morality."
    Why should that make money?

    "Why don't people of character become more famous?"
    becasue the media doesn't give them attention and they won't debase themselves simply for he sake of debasing themselves.

    "I hate ending with a preposition! Nuns coming to hit me "
    but not so much you would restructure your sentence?

    " from issues that we really should prepare for"
    from issue we should acknowledge.
    from issues in which we should be prepared to handle.
    from issues with long term consequences.
    from preparedness of other issues,

    And I'm not even good at this.

  21. Re:Just students? on Book Review: The App Generation · · Score: 1

    "socialist 'I should have everything for free without working for it' political philosophies."

    That's not socialism, and there is no political philosophy like that.

  22. SO you take data on Book Review: The App Generation · · Score: 1

    from an area where narcissist will congregate and apply that to the whole generation?
    Bad, try again.
    Also, don't apply the exact verbiage used by kids today to that of 20 years ago, they may not mean the same thing.

    My anecdotal(worthless) observation form my kids and their peers show no such thing. They are no more or less empathetic or narcissistic then my generation in the 70's.

  23. Re:But NASA doesn't like the approach that worked. on Dream Chaser Damaged In Landing Accident At Edwards AFB · · Score: 1

    FYI:New Objectivity is not Bauhaus.

  24. the pilot would ahve walked away.. on Dream Chaser Damaged In Landing Accident At Edwards AFB · · Score: 1

    on brand new Bionic Legs!

  25. Re:it must be slashdot. on Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? · · Score: 1

    No one says that, however you can not deny their in action had it's impact.

    However you keep making up shit, i'm sure its't he only way you dick can get hard.