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  1. Re:The Invisible Unicorn Argument. on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 1

    stolen.

  2. Re:The World of Mathematics on Ask Slashdot: Mathematical Fiction? · · Score: 1

    If you're going to read Einstein, pick up his 1916 treatise "Relativity: The Special and The General Theory." Ripping good friction.

  3. Re:Well... on Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs · · Score: 1

    should have gone to law school

  4. Re:Sadness. on NPR's "Car Talk" Glides To a Halt · · Score: 2

    Retiring?

    More like getting retreads.

  5. Surf's up! on Ask Slashdot. Best Online Science Course? · · Score: 1

    Time to hit the internets for some basics. Use the same search terms as you've just typed in and use the homework-helper sites for high school and college. Some professors (and good HS teachers) know their students need more than just lecture in class.
    Also, visit Tube-U (youtube) and watch actual science experiments in progress. Go to Wiki places for dry descriptions and SOURCES you can actually look up at your local public library.
    Specifics? chemistry.about.com, chem1.com, google...
    Don't be afraid to take notes; if you have a question the (course/video/text) doesn't answer you will be able to look it up later.
    Lay in a good supply of baking soda, vinegar and don't forget to notify the DHS you're interested in becoming a Mad Scientist.

  6. There will Come Soft Rains on Location Selected For $1 Billion Ghost Town · · Score: 1

    Bradbury had this town written and burned before I was a Martian Wannabe.

  7. Hello? on Study Aims To Read Dogs' Thoughts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, this is Dog.

  8. Re:Think harder... on The Cost Of Broadband In Every Rural Home · · Score: 1

    We lived in rural (I could see the nearest town 7 miles away on the plains) Colorado in 1996. For me, a 25 mile commute to a tech firm for support work. I had all the internet I could eat (then still almost fresh).

    For the wife, life on the farm, make the best of what technology we had was the rule. We had party-line telephone access. No personal calls allowed to my work, so she'd dial up my company's server on the old 286 we had, login as me, use shell to run mail, send me a message, then logoff. If a neighbor had to make a phone call... we learned more about NO CARRIER than we cared. On that system it took her a few minutes to send me a message, where today she uses sms on a cell phone to ask the same questions: what time home for dinner? But it's me asking as she's the primary earner now.

    The punch line here is that in 1996 the telco was laying fiber to our doorstep. Fiber, and we were listening for a distinctive ring!

  9. Re:We build excitement! on Integrating Capacitors Into Car Frames · · Score: 1

    When I was in the first grade (1968ish), we had a Sears and Roebuck television set with whatever special warranty for service. This was a big deal, because it went past the "mechanical massage" stage of repair, so dad called the Sears Television Repairman to the house.
    All I remember of this is:
    1. the nice man sticking a screwdriver into the back of the set
    2. a loud POOF
    3. tiny bits of foil floating amid all the smoke in the living room
    and
    4. the nice man says "yup, this is going into the shop"

  10. antidote on Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive · · Score: 1

    All we need to negate the effects is a Graham Cracker Crust !

    said food designed by a Presbyterian minister to suppress unhealthy carnal urges...

  11. Re:glow, baby, glow! on Nuclear Power Could See a Revival · · Score: 1

    The same cost analysis applies to coal plants as well if you consider regulating and capturing coal's pollutants in the same manner as we do nuclear contaminants. The same ground-chemical pollution from a nuclear plant simply does not exist as it does for a coal plant. Additionally, nuclear fuel has a greater ability to be recycled than does used coal, we just have to DO it.

    You're correct that it ain't cheap, but the costs probably run pretty equally in the long run.

  12. Re:Lego is the company name on Man Repairs Crumbling Walls With Legos · · Score: 1

    We DO say Nintendos, LEGOs and Barbies. We's all American!

    oh, btw, it's Hot Wheels without the extra -es in our favorite vernacular.

    kthxbye.

  13. Re:So you know they're there on Tearing Apart a Hard-Sell Anti-Virus Ad · · Score: 1

    You buy a car to drive it, and figure out how to adjust the seats. You tell your mechanic to change the oil because most of us couldn't be bothered to do it ourselves, or we know enough to recycle the used oil and don't dump it on the ground.

    People gonna buy computers and drive them whether or not they care about AV. They figure out how to use basic software unless they have aptitudes approaching what most ./ers claim. My clients' computers might have an antivirus program or not, but most rely on my instruction to update the signatures manually or to set the program to update itself.

  14. Re:I already had my revenge 10 years ago. on Revenge of the Cable Customer · · Score: 1

    It can be boring at times, but the episodes are worth waiting for.

    ftfy.

  15. Re:Total awareness? on Completely Farm-Bred Unagi, a World First · · Score: 0

    The right answer is "shush up newbie."

  16. kb0nnd before /. on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    and still hamming it up

  17. don't like the ribbon on Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System · · Score: 1, Funny

    I want my menus back!

    This ribbon thing is driving me nuts!

  18. Re:Halfway Competent on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    And in other news, Click and Clack, also known as the Tappet Brothers, have started a PC repair service in addition to their regularly scheduled car show. Expect great things from the Car Guys as they venture into the world of IT.

    Hey, it's got wires and fans right? Shouldn't be any trouble fixing them at all. Coupla whacks and you're good. But if it starts clicking when you take a turn you'd better back up and rebuild it.

  19. Re: Sucker Punch Me on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    But your analogy isn't complete. It would be like me going up to you, you have a shirt on that says "Caution: You will be sucker-punched" and me saying, "OK, sucker punch me."

    My shirt has a clause stating "you may opt-out of the sucker-punch by hitting me first".

  20. Re:I don't get it... on Anti-Virus Bug Briefly Identified Windows Explorer as Malware · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the late 90s and into the early 00s a few MS components and some legitimate DLLs were identified as virus laden. I solved the problem on my work machine by formatting the HD and installing RH-7, then VMWare for the only windows-dependent executable I couldn't get to run on wine. I had the fastest software package in-house and it made a kick-ass Quake server.

    maybe that's why I got laid off...

  21. Are you just another Anti-Semanticist? on Challenging the Ideas Behind the Semantic Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm calling the Anti-Neutrality Web Designers of Amerika!

    Demands of inequality such as this should be allowed!

    (btw, the spelling doctor has "loosing" as in "loosing the hownds for the huhnt")

  22. Re:No, but I thought of User Application Error on Space Tourism from UAE · · Score: 1

    First thing I thought of when I saw the title. Nearly made me flip the big red switch!

  23. Re:And the other half? on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 1

    Finally some wiseacre from Hoboken gets his turn on stage.
    He looks at the crowd with trepidation, and speaks slowly into the mic, "902,187."

    The crowd stares blankly at him, then erupts into riotous laughter.

    The young comiedian quizzes his mentor, "what was that about?"

    The older comic, wiping a tear from his eye, replied, "We haven't heard that one before!"

  24. Re:The El Cheapo solution on Offline Storage for Hard Drives? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make sure they're protected well from the elements.

    If you pack them in salt, the cured drives could last for several years. A little spice, and the data will have just the right flavor when the drives are finally used.

    The ancient Egyptians used ceremonial drives prepared in special enbalming fluids to accompany their kings on the journey to the afterlife. Little wooden server rooms on the ceremonial boats gave hope to the SysAdmin^H^H^H^H^H^HScribes of everlasting employment. If the drive wieghed more than a feather upon the king's judgement, he would be required to spend time slaving for the BOFH before ascension.

  25. Re:OT- slide scanning on CD Ripping Services Compared · · Score: 1

    I did the same thing for my parents, without the benefit of a carousel-scanner adapter. I have an Olympus ES-10, parallel/SCSI. I used parallel, Win98 to drive it, had no problem other than it was slow. Does slides and negatives with adapter/holder, nice scanner, okay software.

    I was bummed 'cuz I didn't know enough about Linux at the time to make it work on my own machine, I had to use my kid's old game box. yech.