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  1. Propulsion on UK Publishes Asteroid Armageddon Report · · Score: 1

    The only physical influence even in the same magnitude is an application of thrust by nuclear device in any stable direction in right angle to the vector of the asteroid. This is where the number grinding comes in. We would have to generate the mother of all algorithms to find the blasting spots. As to the resultant debris, that is a trivial matter in relation to the major body of the rock.

  2. If you have to ask.... on 19" Monitor Goes Portable · · Score: 1

    don't ask.

  3. my favorite Einstein quote: on The Limits of Software · · Score: 1

    "We should take care not to make the intellect our god. It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

  4. Yea, baby, yea! on What's That In Your Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Now that's what I'm talkin' about. Would'ja look at the shipping weight for the two (18 lbs!) Now if we could just convert...

  5. actually, on What's That In Your Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I would go for somthing in solid ebony (no labels on the keys, I know which is which!) with a four line lcd monitor and a scrambled rf transciever so I can code on the crapper. I don't need the clicking, just the action.

  6. "...and one side makes you small." on Copying A DVD To A CD? · · Score: 1

    I did not see what specs are needed to push the playing at speed.

  7. market proliferation on Red Hat's Linux Market Share Eroding? · · Score: 1

    I feel your comment is quite accurate, Stephan. Further, I salute the Red Hat company for moving Linux forward to compete with M$. The first rule in writing in the literary sense is to know your audience. While the 13372 might deride a 'softened' OS, us old greenscreeners remember how irritating and stilted the first Windoze was compaired to old MSDOS. So Red Hat is not perfect...look at its competition! Not other Linux OSs, M$WME! So, Red Hat is just a 'Model A'. At least it is mass produced and marketed.

  8. We need some hardware mavin on What's That In Your Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    to build and offer us a converter for these old 'boards.

  9. Wear your rubbers! on What's That In Your Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Keyboard condoms for everyone! Keyboard covers, of the type you can type through, are the looming norm. Safe text!

  10. Re:slime build up on keys on What's That In Your Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you suggest to him he might buy a keyboard cover, the form fitted type, which he could simply drop over the keyboard?

  11. I miss the old 108 key IBM mainframe keyboards; on What's That In Your Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Built on a curved sheet of heavy steel, coil springs for each key, completely indistructable and easily disassembled for cleaning. Typing on one of those was hyptnotic and felt powerful, like operating heavy machinery or firing a machine gun. I guess I am old fashoned about some things, but if somthing isn't broke don't fix it. (And, I will never give up my old Royal portable, manual typewriter, even if I do get an AlphaSmart.)

  12. Unintentional Troll. on Creative Boycotts CeBit Over MP3s · · Score: 1

    I ment to say CeBit bend and bite, not Creative Labs. Pardon me.

  13. Don't you mean "Space Cadet" by Heinlein on NBC Signs Up To Broadcast "Destination Mir" · · Score: 1

    in which the kid wins a contest to go to any place on earth, and construes the rule to force the sponsors to send him to the space station?

  14. Re:You ignore the beneficial aspects of wear on Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Film · · Score: 1

    ...and diamonds are the compressed carbon remains of....oh! that's just too creepy!

  15. I am not too familiar with Beowulf Clusters, but; on Portable 8-iMac Linux Cluster Real World Debut · · Score: 5

    If you hook 8 Macs into a token ring, would you consider that a Fruit Loop?

  16. configuring is a bitch on A Metric Ton of Quickies · · Score: 1

    ain't it?

  17. The only answer to this lack of National Security: on US Government Computer Security Evaluated · · Score: 1

    Hide your harddrives behind the Xerox machine!

  18. And here's my imitation of the Holy Ghost: on Hackers And Mysticism? · · Score: 1

    BOO! (Get thee behind...uh, let me rephrase that.)

  19. Admit to nothing, brothers and sisters! on Hackers And Mysticism? · · Score: 1

    The unilluminated have spotted our secret symbolism of the ASCII bird and fish. Their resistance is futile! The Gnomes of Zurich have been notified. The Orbital Mind Control Lazers are powered. Behold the power of C. My bird perches and sings. My fish ate a worm. We shall undermine and overcome. We are united in our estrangement. One million dollars. Buahahaha!

  20. Naw.... on Slashback: Guido, Games, Felines · · Score: 1

    It just means SOME people are like that. Kids need to see this kind of selfish behavior in a controlled environment so that they can recognize it in the real world later. That's the whole reson for storytelling.

  21. great title. on Slashback: Guido, Games, Felines · · Score: 1

    Great book. Great point. Changing from S-mail ordering to E-mail ordering with the mechanism of this CueCat gizmo insures proper SKU entry and automates the entire process. This cuts out the need for some poor schlamiel whose dreadful task is reading scrawled order forms. And, it allows the resource media of the order to be any printed form, such as magazine, mailer, flier and such. Thanks, Mooset. Good reality check.

  22. pffttt. another buzzword. on Transmeta To Becomes Fabless Chip Supplier · · Score: 1

    I thought it was some new chip architecture.

  23. For those of us who can survive full sunlight; on Transmeta To Becomes Fabless Chip Supplier · · Score: 1

    someone please define 'fabless'.

  24. I thought it was a stoplight. on Is This How Sol Will Die? · · Score: 1

    It took me twenty minutes to work up the nerve to move my mouse.

  25. If you really want to tweak the Feds on Carnivore Comes Up Hungry · · Score: 3

    Change your name to Sarin N. Gas. Find a pen-pal in Saudi Arabia. Have the word LETTERBOMB as your letterhead. Talk exclusively about 'freeing the people'. And end all correspondance with the cryptic phrase, "My Bird takes a long walk."