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  1. It's Portrait Oriented!!! on Shapeshifting: Proposal For a New Periodic Table of the Elements · · Score: 1

    I kept telling ThinkGeek, "I only have a shower stall, you insensitive clods!!!" and that their landscape oriented periodic table shower curtain doesn't fit correctly.

    Now I can get a new style periodic table that fits a shower stall that's taller than it is wide!

  2. Cruise ship garbage on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 1

    What?

    They couldn't find a single golf ball (out of hundreds of thousands) that were probably pitched off of a cruise ship or yacht?

  3. Re:TRS 80 Model I on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    Sorry if I threw you for a loop on this one... I remember hardcards going into expansion slots, of which the Tandy 1000 series had (early ISA bus). My uncle had me put a 40MB hardcard in his Tandy 1000 back in the day. I thought they were the greatest thing to be invented because the entire hard drive system resided on a single card and not spread around the innards of the computer in a mass of cabling.

    The Model IV didn't have conventional expansion slots. Nearly everything data I/O related, other than floppies, was done externally. Starting with page 23 of this online copy of a TRS-80 catalog, you'll see what was made for Model IVs

    http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs_extra/1985_rsc-12/

  4. Re:TRS 80 Model I on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    The only HD solution I was aware of for the Model IV were external units, like this: http://vintagevolts.com/?p=265

  5. Re:C64 on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    My parents bought me one of those new VIC-20 computing machines back when they were newly released.

    Having never really been exposed to BASIC programming, except for many long sessions in front of TRS-80's, much to the chagrin of Radio Shack managers, I found the VIC-20 user manual rather... "light"... in its content.

    Later, I bought the Programmer's Reference Guide, which was an explosion of useful details and information about the VIC-20!!! There was an entire section on memory maps and detailed 6502 assembler codes. Using just that book, I started learning to write and hand compile machine language routines. I would enter the programs via PEEK commands and DATA statements.

  6. Re:Timex Sinclair 1000 on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    you could use the inbuilt PI value to express 0 as PI - PI or 1 as PI / PI which only took 3 bytes.

    Awesome trick!!! I never even realized that until now and I had access to a TS1000 when they first came out. However, I would think it's only a speed for space tradeoff. At 1MHz, I wouldn't have relied on that too much for repeated use in loops!

    Then again, I used a VIC-20. At least I had 75%-250% more RAM to work with, depending on the stock Sinclair variant.

  7. Wrong Title on Massachusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Tax-achusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud"

    There... fixed that for you!

  8. Re:Curious on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? · · Score: 1

    All I can tell you is that it's half common sense, half case law, and half luck.

    Sorry... people simply cannot make sound decisions about their companies without being able to consider at least "four halves" of options.

  9. Make it look (sort of) like a standard issue plate on DMVs Across the Country Learning Textspeak · · Score: 1

    NE1 469

  10. This is at least a 30 year old practice... on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    Commodore did the same thing with the Commodore 64

    64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE

    ...and the VIC-20's 5K RAM (3583 BYTES FREE)

  11. That's just the cover story... on TSA Terminates Its Contract With Maker of Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 2

    The real reason is that the agents have a deep rooted "touching fetish" that they need to keep satisfied.

  12. Re:Goal was accomplished alright. on Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games · · Score: 2

    Westboro wanted attention, too. And just like them, SouthingtonSOS ended up getting all the WRONG attention in their distorted sense of activism.

  13. So... give them something they WANT! on Texas High School Student Loses Lawsuit Challenging RFID Tracking Requirement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll bet if they gave each student a free cell phone (which "may or may not" contain tracking technology) that they can keep with themselves during school, they'd be ALL over that!

  14. Re:What the what what? on Worldwide Shortage of Barium · · Score: 2

    It's basically one continuous external surface inside the body.

    You make us sound like living, breathing Klein Bottles...

  15. Re:"Obamacare" cost less than free pizzas on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 2

    In September, Papa Johns ran a campaign where they gave out two million free pizzas. The cost of these pizzas would be $24 to $32 million, estimated.

    The "cost" of each free pizza is the cost of ingredients and other fixed costs expended to make each pizza. You can't factor in profits you normally would get by selling the pizza. Unless you're suggesting it costs $12 - $16 to make pizzas which sell for $12 - $16

    Even with that in mind, if it costs $6 - $8 to make a pizza, the promotion will still cost more than the PPACA costs, just not quite so much more.

  16. Re:App permissions on App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations · · Score: 2

    It's kind of like that post-login "Wall" you can write on when you do your daily dial-up into the "Old Geezer BBS" :)

  17. Re:Samsung is better than Apple on Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not as easy as you think to be able to hide behind the Anonymous Coward moniker, Mr. Cook.

  18. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    Thanks!!

    That was her first time drawing a character in that fashion, She still amazes the shit out of me when she comes up with a quality drawing like that on her first attempt in a different medium.

  19. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 2

    I agree with the use of Rapidograph pens. Dark, thin, and crisp lines. Refillable. My daughter drew this using ONLY a single Size 3×0/.25 Rapidograph pen (before it was scanned and posted on an art site). The character was about 7" high on the paper she drew it on.

    http://hayamika.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d5dhnye

  20. Re:Do you have a sign? on Ask Slashdot: Video Monitors For Areas That Are Off the Grid? · · Score: 1

    A sign or two saying something like "PRIVATE PROPERTY NO DUMPING" might help, if you don't already have a sign like that which is being ignored.

    This is Slashdot... logic of the "common sense" variety is forbidden on these threads!

  21. Girlfriend Changelog on Verizon Tech Given 4-year Federal Prison Sentence For $4.5M Equipment Scam · · Score: 4, Funny

    cosmetic surgeries for his girlfriend

    Just HOW MUCH does it cost to modify a blow-up doll?

  22. Re:The use of analogy on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People? · · Score: 1

    Aaaaand you've now convinced your manager that version control has something to do with cooking eggs.

    With the original codebase as described, I wouldn't doubt that it was a collection of "poached" code. The egg analogy fits!

  23. Super Hero Bacteria? on Around 200,000 Tons of Deep Water Horizon Oil and Gas Consumed By Bacteria · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing they ate it to gain its super powers.

  24. Re:Beowulf Cluster on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Found Calculators? · · Score: 1

    Considering the means of connectivity for a TI-83, the best you can hope for is a bus network.

  25. Re:Leave it at home? on Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum · · Score: 3, Funny

    I use CDMA you insensitive clod!!!