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  1. Re:Finally, a safe use for HFCS on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 1

    The international aid organizations no longer ask for food. They ask for money that can be converted to food. But the shipping com panties hate that because they are no longer paid to ship food.

    Even the Daily Show covered it

  2. Finally, a safe use for HFCS on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can use High Fructose Corn Syrup for something other than making people obese.

  3. Understanding animals w/o understanding evolution? on Ask Slashdot: Educating Kids About Older Technologies? · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that working from the abacus to a modern day computer through evolution would promote a greater understanding and eliminate the "magic" of things. Otherwise we're too likely to dismiss things as too complicated to understand (god) and put them on some untenable pedestal.

     

  4. Re:Now is your chance to try Linux... on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    This is around Ron's barn, but how about Linux with a windows VM to share the printer then map Linux to that shared printer?

  5. Not interested if no UIDs on CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to bother unless his site lists a UID so I can be some of the hipster first then complain about all the 7-digit young-ins and reminisce about the days before it got popular.

  6. Well with my last bout of Flu... on Fighting the Flu May Hurt Those Around You · · Score: 1

    I got up to 103.1 at which point I figured enough is enough. My mental function was impaired. I brought it back down to 102.5 (with a bath and ibuprofen) where I could think again. But I think letting it get so high helped get rid of it faster instead of my friend (who gave it to me) was constantly medicated and I don't think he ever got above 102.0. He had it for the majority of the week, me, just 3 days.

    Sure, letting your fever get up there, but at 103 you get cognitive impairment, 104 you begin to get brain damage, 105 brain damage is happening and 108 is death. So Sure let it get high, but not too high.

  7. Re:Now is your chance to try Linux... on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I have a HP MFP that works pretty well. I only use it over the network though.
    I won't ever buy anything other than HP because they are so well supported.

  8. I have a new appreciation for this on Rosetta Probe Awakens, Prepares To Chase Comet · · Score: 2

    After playing Kerbal Space Program and doing a simple docking in Kerbin orbit. I also managed one in Mun orbit. And to think what they are doing with this comet is just amazing.

  9. Re:Now is your chance to try Linux... on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    ITunes does not work with Wine. I tried :-(

  10. Re:Now is your chance to try Linux... on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    As I dog food, I've also been running Mint Linux, there are a few things I miss about Windows. The biggest ones are:

    • Games. Only a few work on Linux
    • iTunes. (podcasts)
    • some rare software package that no one else has heard of
    • quality 3D software for 3D printing (I'm looking at you 3DS and Rhino 3D
  11. Now is your chance to try Linux... on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Before you label this as another "year of linux on the desktop!" post, hear me out

    I have a retired neighbor that knows nothing of computers, but being retired he needs something to do all day. So with Vista, he uses the internet to connect to his car club and use email with his car club friends. He also uses websites with a fair degree of competency. He is so unsure of himself though, that he asks me hoe for help on a fairly regular basis with questions like "What happened to the little man?" (MSN sys tray icon, discontinued in 2013, replaced with Skype, and yes, that was another question) and "Where'd my icon go?" and plenty of other questions regarding the changing behavior of websites. He's got a very static view of things.A friend of his was also a victim of a virus that stole his banking into, so he was very concerned about that.

    So when he asked me what laptop to get, and being on fixed income, his needs were simple, and I didn't want to have to field questions about Windows 8, which would have been a nightmare. Dual mode? Charms Bar? Yeah right.

    So I set him up with Linux Mint 15 (Cinnamon) on a bargain laptop from Newegg that came with W8 on it. I pre-configured automatic updates for everything except applications (security and stability) and set the theme to the XP theme (He had previously used XP) very literally and let him have it. I got one question from him since. How to install solitaire. Stupid me, I forgot to show him the Software Center. Its installed now. I check in with him from time to time and he got a MyFi for it, and his girlfriend (also not very computer savvy, but better than him) configured the MyFi, and I never heard a peep. He's had it about 4 months now and only that one question. Not a complaint and no little men have disappeared.

    Year of Linux on the desktop? No, but for him it is.

  12. OpenSignalMaps on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 2

    How is this any different from the OpenSignalMaps project?

  13. The *read deal* with "Reactive Programming on How Reactive Programming Differs From Procedural Programming · · Score: 1

    Both slashdot articles are authored by "ValHuber" who works at Espresso Logic Expresso Logic's web page is bannered by

    "Reactive Service for SQL Data
    RESTful API with reactive logic and security in 4 easy steps
    Dramatic reduction in development & maintenance time"

    I think it is time we stop marketing for this consulting company.

  14. Re:QML is like this on How Reactive Programming Differs From Procedural Programming · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. Really its just javascript callbacks. The QML system is just giving you a framework of automatic callbacks. At the core it works a lot like nodejs

  15. How is this just not callbacks? on How Reactive Programming Differs From Procedural Programming · · Score: 1

    This seems like the way nodejs works, where everything is done in a callback (anonymous function). Maybe you layer a triggering framework on it but that's all it is.

    This is the second "reactive programming" article and I don't think it's anything other than callbacks. Someone is trying to get PR for some paradigm they think they invented.

  16. Why not just fill the mine? on How Do You Move a City? · · Score: 1

    It seems to me if you approach it section by section, you can just pour concrete or other filler back in to the section. Using offset parallel channels, you can brace your mine the same time you dig out adjacent channels.

  17. At least on Japan To Create a Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 0

    They have a proven track record

  18. Re:Why not eliminate the piston too? on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 1

    Hrm ok so I confused the intake and exhaust ports for having a valve controlling them, that triangular thing is a piston and the spark plug is still there.

  19. Re:Why not eliminate the piston too? on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 1

    Um, no. A wankel has a piston, valves, and a spark plug. This has none of those. So how is it like a rotary?

  20. Why not eliminate the piston too? on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought this was about this article which uses a pistonless pressure wave and makes all the same promises.

  21. Re:Modeling the powertrain seems like a lot of wor on Ford Engineers Test 'Predictive Logic' To Improve Cruise Control · · Score: 1

    Because the variability is minimal in a EFI system. You can just code a LUT. This is how your engine works today anyway.

  22. Why predcitve? on Ford Engineers Test 'Predictive Logic' To Improve Cruise Control · · Score: 2

    Seems like we all use the same roads... if we just log with altitude and accelerometer readings, we can make a 3d model of all the road surfaces, and layer this into the road database. Problem solved.

     

  23. Depending on your intellectual property agreement on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 2

    Anything you do with that is company property. Or, rather potentially their property. Courts usually side with employees, but that's a costly court battle.

    However wherever possible, I would create the software needed, then put it up for license by the company in the hopes that others would licence it too, so I can make some money on the side. Of course, generalizing it so it wasn't too targeted and generalizing so it did not run afoul of the IPA.

  24. We need a new currency symbol on Soviet Union Spent $1 Billion On "Psychotronic" Arms Race With the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One to indicate whether the dollar amount is inflation adjusted or not. I Imagine a $ with an arrow hat on the | So it's an up arrow and an S. That will work for talking about historical figures in current day.

    There is another problem though that is wanting to work backward, either by date or rate. So I would suggest the arrowed $, number and a divisor $14.7m/3.5 this would indicate to divide 14.7 by 3.5 to get the original dollar amount.

  25. Re:How long until AGW Deniers cite this... on Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified · · Score: 1

    Actually, they did the reverse... There was a record temperature reading from about 100 years ago in Libya. This wasn't convenient because we should be setting high temperature records now, not 100 years ago... so they found a way to discredit it and get a modern death valley reading in place.