User: fk319

Re:No kidding.

On: Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb

Try using toggle switches, you make punch cards with a keyboard.

Re:Typical /. response is...

On: Email Addiction Runs Rampant

What SPAM filter do you use?

Re:The pictures are like Lost In Space

On: New Movies of Whirlwinds on Mars

With a atmosphere of 1% of earths, I would expect the energy in the wind would be also 1%

13 Month

On: New Calendar Proposal

Many Resturants use a 4 week, 13 month calender to watch there sales from year to year. Every few years, Month 13 had 5 weeks instead of 4 weeks.

Re:What about pollution?

On: Jet Engine on a Chip

What about contrail?

Gas is still cheaper

On: Cold Fusion Back From The Dead

at about $2 US, for a ml of heavy water at 99.99% pure, it will be a while for this to power our cars. At least there is an 'interesting effect' to watch for.

Other industries do rewrites

On: Rewrites Considered Harmful?

The problem with software is that it does not change over time. The engineering comunity already knows that "rewrites" need to happen. Every year there is a new car line, a new fridge line and even a new game box line.
The software industry needs to do the same. The trick is how to pay for it. If you dont change your product and somebody else does and makes it better, then you loose. If you do make changes and nobody else likes it, you loose. Look at the car incustry, the same happens.
This is what business is all about.

Color Blind Test

On: Determining Color Difference Using the CIELAB Model?

I have taken visual tests where they have colored circles, next to other colored circles. There is a number hidden in the circles.
The test is for certian types of color blindness.
Perhaps somebody know the name of the test and you may fine it helpfull.