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  1. Re:Buy more ram on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 1

    Oh I see the miss understanding here, you are under the mistaken belief that the computer was working fine when new, when most of us get computers that are runing bare minimum specs for windows, let alone any program added on top of that.

  2. Re:Not so bad to have different systems. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Why is when ever Metric Vs Imperial comes up someone always converts directly? Do all Imperial supporters somehow think we get the news something like this.

    "Today the temp. is 26.67C(80F), wind speed is 273589(17mph) Decimeters per hour, and damn my kids growing up, he is now 1752.6mm(5'9") tall"

    We would say 26C, 27Kph and 175cm.
    If you really measure your high to 1/5" (5mm),
    your temperature to less then 1/4 degree F(0.5C) and your speed to 0.6mpg (1KPH) fine, but the rest of the world deals with it quite fine driving there 4.9M long cars at 100KPH on a nice sunny 28C day and you sir can travel in your 16' 54/60" long cars at 62.14MPH on a nice sunny 82.4F

  3. Re:Not so bad to have different systems. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    I believe you are confusing points, 'The stranded' is the block that weighs bloody close to 1kg on the dot. After all it is relay hard to keep 1KG of water in a useful state at the same weight for a long time.

  4. Re:Jerry Pournelle's *rational* view of Fukushima on Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building · · Score: 1

    I would suggest you go and re-read this one idea novel, its is a lot more then that, and they do not save civilization, *spoiler* alert shouldn't be needed here, as you 'claim' to have read it, they may have the last working nuclear plant that they know of, but someone somewhere is still flying Jet plains! In the end they just saved them selves. Civilization is fine else where.

  5. Read about it here and first! on Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building · · Score: 2

    I predict the rates of deaths from Cancer in Japan will not increase but rather drop off, as ppl will now be more aware of a risk, and more likely to follow though on it!

    Treatments will be made cheaper and more widely available, and thus a much lower death rate the other parts of the 1st world!

  6. Dur! on New Spin On Graphene Makes It Magnetic · · Score: 1

    Why silicon based you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:It won't help on The Hobbit Filming at 48fps · · Score: 1

    And that in its self is an odd statement, due to the fact that each single eye doesn't see in 3D, they resolve to a 2D image, and it is brain magic that turns it into 3d by comparing the differences between the two images.

    Brain magic drives the whole thing, and it is more depended on how well you as the viewer use that system(with what ever philological differences that may come into play), I still know lots of ppl who think those 3d pictures are fake due to the fact they cant see them.

    It took me about 6 hours to truly get them working for me, now I can just switch them on and off.

  8. WTF? on Twitter Tax Controversy Explained In Cartoon Form · · Score: 1

    WTF?
    Lets see, google "Tax free haven" and "Tax free heaven", just over 8million for the former and just under 3 million for the latter. Maybe someone needs lay off the pills.

  9. Re:Obligatory Niven on Star Falls Into Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Indeed, much more relevant then the post about Scrith

  10. Re:Dissapointed on Star Falls Into Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Ever think *some* Slashdotters don't spend all day refreshing and trying to get 'first post' ?

  11. Re:Silly question: on Star Falls Into Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Crossing and Reaching are not the same.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes

  12. Re:Wow! on Minecraft To Officially Launch 11/11/11 · · Score: 2

    Or you know, you could try to create cool things in the game, makes it quite interesting when you want a 2 cubic diamond block and you need to find, mine and keep all those resources. Then think 'may I should cover that in gold, and that in Iron.

    Then try building mega structures when you have to mine out below and around them. You can do a lot of that cool stuff you see, its just harder, and more rewarding.

  13. Re:It's spelled Fiber on Telco CEO Asks For "Baby Bell Solution" For Australia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You Sir, can keep your 15 Rods to the Hogshead.

  14. Re:start worrying? on Sun Produces First Cycle 24 X-Class Solar Flare · · Score: 1

    I believe the answer to the previous post, was not to worry, and I would hazard a guess that this flair is a result of the ''hole'' and is covered by the same answer.

  15. Re:Bad things COULD happen. on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    Thats about all he told me, back when I first started reading Scifi, he told me about it, as a sign of how things change. I do remember him talking about how maned powered flight was new, and how things where just changing so fast.

  16. Re:Bad things COULD happen. on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    reminds me of this, best youtube video!

    Buzz Aldrin Punches Bart Sibrel
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI36tPKDg4

  17. Re:Bad things COULD happen. on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My thoughts on how far we have come is this, my Grandfather was beaten by his dad for suggesting that man would go to the moon after reading some books, and those books where of course thrown out.

  18. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    I think the implication is an accident lead to the OP being home schooled for part of a year.

  19. Re:Destruction of evidence on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    Thats 20um, not mil. 20mil is about 4/5ths of an inch.

  20. wtf on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    No I haven't read the article, but from the summery it's sounds more like shitty engineering and design killed that Android tables.

  21. Re:It sounds like on Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or this could all be counted as interference that neurons though out all species have been fighting to over come, and hence make the job of coding AI easier relative to how the brains works.

  22. Re:anime may be a bad sample subject on Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Says Japanese Government Study · · Score: 1

    I really like watching the English sub titles with English dubs, its amazing where they differ.

  23. Re:Has anyone ever seen a decent study on this? on Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Says Japanese Government Study · · Score: 1

    Black Cat also seems to have a better English dub then the original Japanese audio, but maybe its because the Japanese audio casting just makes me laugh...

  24. Re:Dinosaurs? on Supernova 2011b Gradually Fading · · Score: 0

    And 0 is how anyone describes yours, go troll else where ac.

  25. Re:Questions? on 19-Year-Old Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    doubt it, as the point source of the light when it is produced is smaller then the focal point, and all the loss and non-directed light.