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  1. Marble computer on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 0

    Make or buy them a mechanical marble computer. Wish I'd seen a digi comp when I was 10.

    https://youtu.be/_tZdE-3nR3w

  2. Layer it on The Best Ways To Simplify Your Code? (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    Write it in the newest language you can find and put it in the cloud. It will take 10 lines of code to make the next hot must-have startup. Then sell it before people realize your code looks pretty but performs 40x faster when properly written in ugly C.

  3. Too optimistic. on Ask Slashdot: What Will IT Look Like In 10 Years? · · Score: 0

    I see a lot of optimism out there. Nobody wants to hear the truth based on current trends:

    Ten years from now IT will spend 7 hours a day in bureaucratic meetings working on initiatives and teamwork building exercises and a half hour taking care of your actual problems. Dark days ahead, so it doesn't matter whether your stack is wireless, copper, or diamond.

  4. Future stab: on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 0

    Google says that Facebook has no profit.

  5. Re:Well, duh on Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed · · Score: 0

    Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

  6. What climate model isn't flawed? on Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed · · Score: 0

    If carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is such a good insulator, why don't they line my coffee mug with it? What do they use instead? Vacuum. Vacuum is the best insulator there is, and guess what surrounds the atmosphere? Vacuum, that's what. You won't see me worried about CO2 as much as the millions of BTUs put out by the power plant and the 500watt video card it powers so you use to play WoW. Damn the man.

  7. Re:Bottom left side of the page on OK Go Goes HTML5 · · Score: 0

    Yeah it's disappointing. What good is a Chrome experiment without a slow-mo spud gun?

  8. HTML 5 killed the Flash star. on OK Go Goes HTML5 · · Score: 0

    Oh wait scratch that - doesn't work. Server is overloaded and the Youtube version is done playing by the time the HTML 5 version has finished loading.

  9. Re:Awesome on Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn · · Score: 0

    That's what they said about Anthony Weiner. Then Larry Flynt swept in and offered him a place in the field of adult entertainment. Sounds promising for Powell.

  10. Aftershocks of the Facebook smear campaign. on WebGL Flaw Leaves GPU Exposed To Hackers · · Score: 0

    Mark Zuckerberg paid for a threepeat. I hear every time WebGL compiles a shader, Orkut emails a thousand SSNs to China.

  11. Echoes of MDK? on Review: Champions Online · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that sees the resemblance to MDK? No complaints here. A revisit of that series has been a long time coming.

  12. Totally! on Why Motivation Is Key For Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    I agree. Instead of accepting the impermanence of things and wallowing in the crapulence of our sun burning out, what if it second guesses our puny human assumption that every star will burn out? What if it proves that stars can accumulate enough space debris fuel to be self-sustaining and in fact, the human assumption was wrong once again? What if it disproves or adds to modern physics? What if 42 isn't the answer after all?

  13. Re:It's pretty much a given that they saved money on Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    F/A-18 Hornet! 1994
    Mac OS 7.1
    25 MHZ, 8MB RAM, 4 floppies.
    50 watt PSU

    Now that's what I call saving money.
    http://www.graphsim.com/games-fa18-oif.html

  14. Buy your burgers. on NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis · · Score: 3, Funny

    You'll see that money when the engineers who win the contest lay down an Abe Lincoln in front of you at McDonalds.

    Your employer will never see the money they spent on you while you were on slashdot either.

  15. US Cellular on David Pogue Wants to Take Back the Beep · · Score: 1

    I gets free incoming. No cost to my voice mail until I check it. And if I check it from a land line, no cost at all. Not to plug or anything.

  16. Competition good! Napster bad. on Google Releases Open Source NX Server · · Score: 1

    Funny I'm actually using NX right now. NoMachine hasn't released an update for their client in eons, and there are plenty of bugs that irk me. Maybe this competition will whip them into shape. Or maybe I'll switch...

  17. HP's G5 servers use 2.5 on Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD · · Score: 1

    The fun starts with HP's newer servers, which use the mini 2.5" SAS/SATA drives. Has anybody taken a DL-380 G5 and filled it with 8 SSDs in RAID 5?

    Would be fun to have some research play moneys.

  18. Re:Casting on Futurama Rumored To Return On Comedy Central · · Score: 0

    Correction - John Goodman wasn't available for the SECOND Xmas special.

  19. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 0

    Also of interest is the fact that Airbus's software is created by Honewell in the U.S. Not sure if any of their software is European.

    http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/03/17/323954/airbus-and-honeywell-work-to-reduce-a320-required-navigation-performance.html

  20. Re:Casting on Futurama Rumored To Return On Comedy Central · · Score: 1, Informative

    Careful! Remember John Goodman voiced the original Santa in their first Christmas special. He wasn't available so John di Maggio did it. It was seamless. You almost couldn't tell until the DVD commentary.

  21. When Sim City players grow up... on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 0

    If Will Wright doesn't get credit for this one, I don't know what to believe anymore.

  22. Re:Oh, for God's sake people... on Google Reveals "Secret" Server Designs · · Score: 0

    I have my doubts. Have you ever seen the original Google rack? Powerful similarity. It looks legit to me.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform

  23. Re:They use DeathStars! on Google Reveals "Secret" Server Designs · · Score: 0

    Relax. Before you know it, all those deathstars will be replaced with SSDs and each server will have a gerbil running in a cage to power it. The gerbil bio waste will be routed to the ground and that crane will pick up each shipping container to rotate it to a fresh spot of grass every week, while the freshly fertilized patch is used to grow organic vegetables for the googleplex.

  24. Re:obvious reaction on Companies Waste $2.8 Billion Per Year Powering Unused PCs · · Score: 0

    Luck. I'm a contractor and my site has my BIOS locked and set to start up every morning at 6:00 AM EVERY DAY - not even just weekdays. I am also unable to configure idle power management or hibernation.

  25. Re:HDR? Depth channel? Optical SVG? on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    No way! I just saw a commercial for The Colour of Magic which will be on TV this week. Sounds like I need to watch it. Or do I need to skip it and hit the book?