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  1. Re:Calling Pons and Fleischmann... on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    The researchers who claim that the emails were 'cherry picked' have the option to release ALL of their emails.
    I bet you this doesn't happen.

  2. There definitly is a 'hardness scale' on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    Mathematics-->physics-->physical chemistry-- >inorganic chemistry-->organic chemistry --> biochemistry--> biology-->........

    My thinking is that climatology is deep into the soft side and it isn't fair to throw all the other disciplines under the same blanket.

  3. Re:To be expected? on Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense · · Score: 1

    The headline is more obvious than anything. Why would the opposite happen?

  4. Re:Not new, and not too useful on Building a 32-Bit, One-Instruction Computer · · Score: 1

    Let Chuck Norris create 'the instruction'

  5. Re:1 second = 9mm ? on The Jet Fighter Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    Yes, and they are now adopting a new measurement of laser power, "9mm seconds".

  6. Re:over one second? on The Jet Fighter Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    There has been huge gains made in efficiency and maximum power of lasers in the last decade.
    Look up 'fiber lasers'

  7. Re:How to turn your skilled employees into cogs on Becoming Agile · · Score: 1

    What does your what your manager does in his office have to do with you?

    Sick.

  8. Re:How to turn your skilled employees into cogs on Becoming Agile · · Score: 1

    Yes, coders who like to sit on their hands for weeks or months and play fantasy football instead of work don't last very long in an agile environment.

  9. strawman strawman on Becoming Agile · · Score: 1

    We are a CMMI level 3 certified shop and use agile development.

  10. Re:Not mutually exclusive on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock - Thomas Jefferson

    I don't think this dichotomy ever really existed- better minds have discovered that the most successful people are educated AND social. People fall into stereotypes as an excuse to under-achieve.

  11. Re:Disney sells product that solves Disney's probl on Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer" · · Score: 1

    I stick it to the man- I take the kids to the dollar movies and it is six dollars for the three of us. We always get to see new movies and it costs less than a dvd.

  12. Re:No quite yet. on VASIMR Ion Engine Could Cut Mars Trip To 39 Days · · Score: 1

    Electricity also lends itself to a modular design- you can just plug it into a thruster module. There is no reason you couldn't get all of the components into orbit and put the spaceship together. If your module goes bad just replace it with a new one.

  13. Re:Tag as SLASHVERTISEMENT on VASIMR Ion Engine Could Cut Mars Trip To 39 Days · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The logical thing to do would be to get the return vehicle in orbit around mars, ready to go before an astronaut leaves earth. This would be make reduce the number of errors that would put an astronaut into a life threatening situation (return failure).

    A relatively small rocket could be used to get the astronaut off of Mars' surface. It won't take much with its lower gravity and thin atmosphere. We could even test all these scenarios remotely.

  14. Not a ring-- on NASA Discovers Giant Ring Around Saturn · · Score: 1

    Just looking at the dimensions of this thing doesn't bring to mind the image of a 'ring' especially with what it is understood in context to Saturn. Maybe call it a region or belt?

  15. Re:Wait, what? on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 1

    It was only a little more than 10 years ago that if you could write a perl script to display some database info on a webpage, you were treated like a f'n god. A couple years later if you could put together a java app to render a website you would get paid ridiculous amounts of money.

    That's when IT was prestigious and those were the glory days.

  16. Re:True that - NOT on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 1

    I recently had to deal with the worst of both worlds- a guy who coded like sht yet wanted to use EVERY new gewgaw released by MS for .NET.
    The code was only followable by using the debugger- and he was a debugger pro (I hardly ever use it)

  17. Re:True that - NOT - RTFA on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay I will give you that- not unit testing is pretty stupid. I guess there is a happy medium between the astronaut and the duct tape guy.

  18. Re:True that - NOT on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 1

    My idea is that a good duct tape coder does mostly procedural code that is well named, strongly typed and designed by contract. I don't think that is what you are describing here.

  19. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bottom line is that I hate having tools move around when I use them

    In fact when I develop applications now I disable contextually useless items but not hide them so the user does not waste time looking for a tool they shouldn't be using.

  20. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not to mention that once you have learned menus in one app you can apply much of that to the next.

    Computers are complicated because they are complicated.

  21. Re:On the Horizon? Really on Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells On the Horizon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The important thing though is that with the linear response to photons light can be focused on the cells- even if they are expensive they could possibly be cost competitive with Si cells.

  22. Re:EMP? Impending poverty? on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    Really you can get these same skills learning to play an instrument.
    Which would you rather do?

  23. Re:From TFA on Planck Satellite Releases First Images · · Score: 1

    From what distance could you detect a burning library of congress-

  24. Re:Methodology on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 1

    "Of the more than 180 attendees, an overwhelming number â" 90 persons â" felt the tone of the fungally treated violin "Opus 58" to be the best. Truslerâ(TM)s stradivarius reached second place with 39 votes, but amazingly enough 113 members of the audience thought that "Opus 58" was actually the strad! "Opus 58" is made from wood which had been treated with fungus for the longest time, nine months."

    It appears that two 'fungus violins' were used and that the longest treated one was picked out (Opus 58)

  25. Re:I'm not convinced on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 1

    If this response to the 'fungus violin' was consistent, they would still be better than the strad, no matter what the reason.