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  1. Re:Water utilization? on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 1

    ProMash does a great job with this. By far the best brewing software I've used.

    It works pretty well under Wine, too. I've looked at some of the alternatives, but I'd need a way to import at least the recipes that I've accumulated in ProMash.

  2. Re:California on Coca-Cola and Pepsi Change Recipe To Avoid Cancer Warning · · Score: 1

    Do people in Nevada get some sort of horrible sickness?

    Yes...it's called Californication, and it's caused by ex-Californians bringing their dysfunctional ways wherever they happen to move next. Nevada has a bad case of it because we share a nice long border with California.

  3. Re:FUCK YES on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    Anybody know how good the BD rippers are?

    MakeMKV is pretty good, and a Linux version is kept up-to-date along with the WIndows and Mac OS X versions. It doesn't shrink video, just dumps it into a Matroska file as-is...if you want to shrink it, feed the output to HandBrake and reencode it however you like.

  4. Re:iPad can charge off of USB ... on US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags · · Score: 1

    What is needed here is a simple voltage regulator to knock 28VDC down to 5VDC. An old-school 7805 3 terminal regulator should be able to take care of things.

    You'd need a fairly large heatsink to dissipate the 23W wasted by that 7805. Fortunately, there are better options.

  5. Re:Physical keyboard? on Halliburton To Dump Blackberry For iOS · · Score: 1

    I find it harder to type on touchscreen keyboards then on physical phone keyboards when I'm shitfaced.

    I knocked a beer over on my Treo once. A couple of buttons quit working; the keyboard needed replacement. I've managed to avoid knocking beers over on my iPhones, but if I had done so, at least it'd just need to be wiped off.

  6. Re:"All"? on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 1

    For someone with a low UID

    Six digits isn't low.

  7. Re:MP3 Players... on Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware · · Score: 1

    I've yet to see an mp3 that supports over 48GB of storage.

    My iPod photo had a 60GB hard drive, and I bought it back around the tail end of 2004. Its successor gives you 160GB to play with.

  8. Re:Don't you get it? Republicans only ones DEFENDI on Romney Invokes Fair Use In Dispute With NBC Over Campaign Ad · · Score: 1

    The Tea Party, for the most part, has dismissed the OWS movement as being a bunch of whiny children just looking for handouts.

    You say that as if it's not an accurate assessment of the Occupoopers. Going on rampages, shitting on police cars, demanding one freebie after another, illegally occupying both public and private property...need I continue?

  9. Re:It does if you kill them for it on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    Why are people in favor or abortion usually against death sentences?

    FTFY.

  10. Re:I propose we Occupy "Occupy" on Occupy Flash? · · Score: 1

    And, let's face it, punishment may be what he's after. Just as long as he remembers the safe word.

    Fluggaenkdechioebolsen?

  11. Re:I propose we Occupy "Occupy" on Occupy Flash? · · Score: 1

    "Occupy" is teetering on the edge of really jumping the shark here.

    "Teetering on the edge?" It jumped the shark as soon as a bunch of smelly hippies decided to squat on private property, make insane demands, and engage in general lawlessness.

  12. Re:They can block all they want on Film Studios Seeking Complete Block of Newzbin2 in the UK · · Score: 1

    Expect that to change. Pay per view DVD is in our future.

    They already tried that more than a decade ago. It didn't go over too well.

  13. Re:KDE? on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who uses KDE anymore?

    KDE works for me on Gentoo. If I could get rid of the mess that is Gtk+, I would, but a handful of apps I use are built against it (though some, like Avidemux, give you a choice to build against Gtk+ or Qt). More often than not, it's some Gtk+ or GNOME dependency called in by an app that causes emerge -auND world to bomb out with an error I have to chase down. KDE, Qt, and their dependencies usually don't give me anywhere near as much grief.

    As for the user perspective, there was some teething pain going from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4, but it's been fairly smooth sailing since then.

  14. Re:Cheap Chinese ones are fine on Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? · · Score: 1

    Or put another way, why on earth do branded ones from the West cost so much money?

    Low production volume. EPROM burners aren't nearly as ubiquitous as other computer hardware. Mine has a 4-digit serial number IIRC, and it's not even a particularly fancy model as such things go.

  15. Re:Why it doesn't matter on Redbox Raises Its Prices To $1.20 Per Day · · Score: 1

    Because: I've never known a single person who uses it.

    Pauline Kael infamously said she didn't know anyone who voted for Nixon. How'd that work out for her?

  16. Re:And now after the press release on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Passenger Flight · · Score: 0

    It's not just airlines that do this though, everything in the US is advertised at a misleading price. You go into a news agent and the packet of gum that says $2 on the shelf actually costs $2.20 or something.

    What's misleading about that? Taxes have never been included in the price posted on the shelf (or whatever). The business isn't charging you tax on what you buy; it's collecting it and handing it off to the state (and maybe the city and/or county, if you're unlucky enough to live somewhere that they have their own sales taxes in addition to what the state charges).

  17. Re:And now after the press release on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Passenger Flight · · Score: 1

    A slight addendum - most airlines now don't even give you one free checked bag.

    More specifically, last time I checked, Southwest allows you to check two bags free and JetBlue allows you to check one bag free. Everybody else charges for even one checked bag. For something that will really make you say "WTF?", Spirit even charges for carry-on bags. (I sh*t you not...found out the hard way a few months ago. Won't be flying that airline again anytime soon if I can avoid it.)

  18. Re:If there are no more apps for your device on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    Saying iOS 4 made the iPhone 3G slow to the point of almost unusable is a stretch

    It was slow enough that I downgraded mine to 3.1.3 and stayed there until I upgraded to an iPhone 4.

    I recently dug it back up and put 4.2.something (whatever the last version is that supports the iPhone 3G) on it for sh*ts and grins. I didn't bang on it too hard, but 4.2 does appear to be a fair bit faster than I recall 4.0 having been.

  19. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    This math also points out that its idiotic when baby boomers say, "people should work through college, that's what I did" because times are completely different.

    It's not just boomers, and it's not idiotic. I worked full-time (sometimes with a 2nd job part-time as well) while taking one or two classes per semester to finish the degree I'd started in 1989. I ended up graduating in 2001 (took a few years off here and there, or it would've been done sooner). Taking more than four years isn't the end of the world.

    Besides, who works at minimum wage for more than a month or two? By the time I graduated, I was making somewhere around $20-25k per year, had bought a small condo (which I'm renting out nowadays), and had no trouble paying the bills.

    (All that was for a computer-science degree from a public university, paying in-state rates. Will this hold if you insist on a useless major (underwater basket-weaving, critical theory/"x studies", etc.) or a big-name private university? Probably not, but nobody's forcing people to study useless majors or spend tens of thousands per semester.)

  20. Re:Does it have a seperate entrence for the pilots on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 1

    If the pilot can't leave the cockpit, what happens in the middle of a 13 hour flight when they need to use the restroom?

    They could use piddle packs, same as what fighter pilots use.

  21. Re:The usual way on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    They do it because the company that makes the dental floss pays them to. It's advertising, not a luxury.

    ...but if your dentist is giving you so much floss with your checkup that you don't have to buy more between visits, what good is that doing the company that makes the floss? That kind of advertising seems rather pointless.

  22. Re:Just the start on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    They would also have to ban all emulators and VMs, like apple does on the iphone.

    I think Apple must've softened its stance toward emulators, as there's an Apple IIGS emulator in the App Store. It's not labeled as such, but it's no secret that pressing Ctrl-Reset a couple times will drop you to a BASIC prompt. You can even replace the disk images with your own, whether your iPhone is jailbroken or not.

    I think there's also a Commodore 64 emulator available, but since I used Apple IIs back in the day, it's not something I've spent as much time tracking down.

  23. Re:Infringing material... on Atari C&Ds Emulators, Site About Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If they don't protect the name "Atari" from being used by these sites, there's a chance that someone under the age of 30 might actually learn what "Atari" is.

    When using someone else's trademark in reference to products or services, isn't it usually sufficient to acknowledge that the trademark in question belongs to whoever? You mark the first occurrence of a trademark with the appropriate marks (which /. unhelpfully mangled for me, so they're not included for reference). Once that's done, you then acknowledge it with something like "'Foobar' is a registered trademark of Foobar, Inc." (or whatever); a good place for it would be after your copyright notice (you have one of those, right?). As long as the websites in question were doing that, I wold think Atari doesn't have a leg to stand on.

    #include <ianal.h>

  24. Re:make full time 32 hours a week on US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research · · Score: 1

    and move to a 4 day work week. That will cut down on the need for transport and put more people to work as well.

    Replacing heavy machinery at construction sites with manual laborers wielding shovels would put more people to work, too. Having them dig with teaspoons instead of shovels would put even more people to work.

    Never mind that it'd be horribly inefficient and much more expensive. You're looking in the wrong place for savings if you go down that road.

  25. Re:Diesel MPG on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    You want a "sports" sedan? Take up kitesurfing. Cars are transportation, and the climate is frying,

    Smug Alert!

    Carbon dioxide is plant food. The world is a long way from frying...it's been hotter in the past, and it's highly questionable whether human activity has anything to do with temperature anyway...a much bigger factor is that big fusion reactor in the sky which has been running a bit cooler lately.