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  1. Re:how lightweight - good for sports? on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    I wanted to add a question - does anyone know how well these work for people with presbyopia?

  2. how lightweight - good for sports? on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    If so, I would want these for skiing, running, biking & so on. Otherwise, I would just pull out the phone to look at it. BTW, I am not a 24/7 phone junkie at all. But for example when skiing with family & friends, texting and calling is a big pain, but a heads-up display would be perfect.

  3. Re:batteries are not rechargable on Israeli Firm Makes Kilomile Claims For Electric Car Battery Tech · · Score: 2

    I just skimmed TFA, but I didn't see any details of the electrochemistry. So this is only a guess, but I think the Al gets turned over to Al2O3, which provides the current to run the motor. If that is true, than you can't just recycle the spent mass, you have to convert it back to a metal, then you can recycle it. Doable, but not cheap.

  4. Re:Easy, stop eating crap on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    ... Main thing for me was to not make a big deal about it, but to do it. Just keep doing something small everyday and it'll add up.

    Also, don't listen to the naysayers: "it's not true cardio...walking is useless...etc" - every little bit helps. Emotionally and physically.

  5. Re:"totally new like the ipod" on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 1

    You don't know the watch market. High end mechanical watches can easily fetch more that $10K. If Apple could get a high end digital design into play, and market it to the right people, they could do really well.

  6. Re:hmm on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    Good lord, man...

    use

    breaks

  7. need app for the toilet on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 1

    Seriously, the worst are idiots talking into neck-cradled mobile and pissing into the urinal. I feel sorry for the person on the other end of the conversation.

  8. Re:Ron Moore's Galactica finale sucked so bad on Star Wars Live-Action Show Could Still Happen · · Score: 1

    you had to bring up JarJar... , thanks for that.

  9. Re:Didn't Work Out Too Well Before on Buffalo Bills Going the Moneyball Route With Analytics · · Score: 1

    ... How do you think the Patriots get so much production out of fringe players.

    Bill Belichik

  10. Chris Rock said it best: on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    You want to stop this? Leave the guns, just charge $1000 a bullet. No way anyone can afford the 50 grand it would take to do this type of killing.

    Problem solved.

  11. talk to a local on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    Always important to ask locals.

    We are skiers, and have driven mountain roads in states where we don't live. Once you've gotten lost in the snow, you will never drive off with only a map again! Also, why would anyone but an idiot assume that a phone based nav system would have cell coverage in a rural area they obviously were not familiar with?

  12. Re:"Unsavory Character" != Crook on A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed · · Score: 1

    This is "insightful" or "funny" - wish I had mod points today.

  13. Too expensive! on Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's just too expensive; only clueless, rich snobs with more money than brains can afford it!

    Sincerely,
    Apple User

  14. Re:Was it justified on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1

    He lives in a town called "Middlefart"? Now I truly feel sorry for the man.

  15. Roygbiv on Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes To Make Music · · Score: 1

    From TFA link:

    Tim Lundström, a physicist at a Swedish nuclear safety and training organization called KSU, told FoxNews.com that the radioactive orchestra is a good way to represent nuclear energy because it correlates so accurately to what we know about radioactive material. Lower energy beams produce colors like blue or green whereas higher level radioactive materials produce red tones.

    Shouldn't red be lower energy etc? (I think this is cool stuff, just nit-picking with the physicist...)

  16. PLGA on Open Compute Wants To Make Biodegradable Servers · · Score: 1

    mold it from HMW PLGA, I'm going to guess a good mole ratio for this project will be 80:20. It will be pretty stable as long as you keep it dry, then throw it away after a couple of years. It will biodegrade into glycolic and lactic acid.

  17. Sandy Cheeks to Visit NYC! on Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast · · Score: 1

    Howdy Y'all!

  18. Re:Try to keep up ... on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung · · Score: 1

    'gonna help you all out here. Patent trolls buys up patents, and then lay in wait for unsuspecting companies to violate them, then goes after them for cash. They are not inventors, nor do not use the patents to protect their own products. So, is that Apple?

  19. Re:Hard to like Apple any longer on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung · · Score: 1

    I don't like the products that their competitors make, they don't fulfill my needs.

    Out of curiosity, what do you believe the iPhone can do that a similarly matched Android phone cannot?

    Run iOS.

  20. Re:Nonsense. on The Passing of the Personal Computer Era · · Score: 0

    Arg, posting to delete a mod screw-up. sorry bout that.

  21. Dumb racket on Independent Labs To Verify High-Profile Research Papers · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is simply no way this would be effective for major research topics. They can't be experts across all fields, e.g., they would not have regulatory clearance to do medical studies. They would not have equipment or experience to do esoteric materials or particle physics etc. So yeah, call me extremely skeptical.

  22. Re:orly? on Critics Blast Apple's Cheesy New Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    Or their attempts to appeal to a broader, less hip demographic is annoying the traditional recipients of their cheesy appeals, who didn't mind it as long as it was stroking their different thinking egos.

    You mean our "think different" egos. Why can't you haters get your shit together!? (This was sarcasm, BTW)

  23. Re:An Apple Geniusly on Critics Blast Apple's Cheesy New Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    Ah.... but "Think Different" reads perfectly fine if you take it as meaning that it is implying the existence of an unstated noun, and "different" is not intending to describe how the thinking is done, but rather describing whatever it is that is being thought about.

    Exactly. it's not suggesting the "how" but the "what." . Plus it had that "made you think about it" quality.

  24. What's wrong with being sexy? Mine goes up to number 11! :0)

    Ian : "...Sex - IST..."
    David: "have you seen the cover of Derek Small's new album?"

    later...

    Nigel: "Ah, there's such a fine line between stupid and clever."

  25. Re:How Is This Story News For Nerds??! on Ten Cops Can't Recover Police Chief's Son's iPhone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The tech angle is pretty obvious. It's in the 3rd-to- last sentence.

    Cops can't find our lost or stolen smartphones, even when said phone is broadcasting its location, so clearly that's a deficiency in the design.

    ... or is it just that the cops can't/won't take the final step? The location map was pretty accurate when I used it to see where I'd left my phone. There should be no mistake which house/building etc. That's all the system can really do for you.