Slashdot Mirror


User: Graemee

Graemee's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
232
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 232

  1. Some errors IMO on Top 25 Innovations of the Past 25 Years · · Score: 4, Informative

    The shuttle, wasn't that designed and built in the 70's?

    The PC is a product of the late 70's too. The Apple II, Atari and Commodore PET all were released in 78-79.

    So # 3 & 20 are 70's

    Air bags date to the 60's but is the footdragging by and reluctance of goverments to make the car makers use them innovation? NO

    Strike number 13 too.

    So it down to 22.

  2. Re:use for backup on Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon · · Score: 1

    Unless they're laptop ones. we replaced 50 out of the last 400 laptops we got. All 5400 rpm drives.

  3. Yawn on Top Ten Advances in 2004 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Move along nothing new here...

  4. Re:Bring back the VIC-20! - on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    Your must be in marketing right? It only had 3.5K for user storage.

  5. Those (few) /.'s who have wives know. on Life Interrupted · · Score: 1

    "You spend too much time playing on that computer." LOL

  6. Re:Ummm... on Sin City Trailer · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Ron Jeremey is not in it, I don't watch it.

    I think Mickey was the closest they could get on the budget. He's never looked better BTW.

  7. Well we won't have to worry about 2038 then, on 2004 MN4 Probably Won't Kill Us · · Score: 2, Funny

    January 19, 2038 the date when 32 bit time runs out or is that overflows?

  8. Was it Overthruster equipped? on New Speed Record For Hybrid Cars · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see it now zipping across the salt flats, Dr. Banzai enables the overthruster and it's through the 8th dimension.

    Make sure they check for Red Lectroids in the grill.

  9. Re:Ho, Ho, Ho - Not quite right on Ho, Ho, Ho · · Score: 1

    Actually Santa's offical postal code is H0H0H0
    That's like H zero H zero H Zero, U know Santa 1337 speak.

  10. Re:Man, you were looking hard on Nanotech Brings Cheap Flat TVs From Diamond Dust · · Score: 1

    Control the supply......and you can control the price.

  11. Re:50-in-1 Electronics Lab! Yeah!! on Top 100 Toys From The '70s or Thereabouts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had one. My cousin's had the 75-in-1 RS kit and I got the 50-in-1. Spent years building and modding different circuits. Then one day in a quest for power, and to majorly annoy my sisters I built the TV jammer circuit and connected a very large battery. The battery was a military brick style, I think it had 120+ AA in series and parallel to make 15V with just a few amps. When the diodes exploded and the potentiometer caught fire the fun ended. So sad. It was however very cool.

  12. Re:frist post - ISP throttles on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 1

    I bet your ISP limits the default BT ports and your still using them. Try a different range. I started using a different range and my speeds went from maxing a 30K to 200K. ABC allows you to limit the up load speed. You'll have to set the range in the BT client and you firewall. Limit your client to 1-2 downloads.

  13. Mattel's police helicopter set on Top 100 Toys From The '70s or Thereabouts · · Score: 1

    http://www.whirlybirdcentral.com/faq.htm#V1

    I was really, really good that decade, but I never did get one.

    I also liked the Hot Wheels power house. The battery operated "car shooter" that you could connect to your track and make the car "endlessly" loop. Except I had more matchbox cars, they and the few hot wheels I had would stick. "Not for use with all cars"

    Still it was fun a on a good set of batteries and the right one or two cars.

  14. A nice lump of coal from St. Nick. HO HO HAAA on SCO Shares Plunge, Canopy Management Change · · Score: 1

    Santa comes early to the naughty.

  15. Re:Even more...But on Chief of eBay's Indian Site Arrested, Released · · Score: 1

    she's in Canada now. Going to India won't help.

  16. Re:TuPac Ron Hubbard? on Bad Science Awards · · Score: 1

    TuPac or Hubbard? I'm confused...

  17. Re:Use Synthetics! - It's all marketing on Nanotech Brings Cheap Flat TVs From Diamond Dust · · Score: 1

    De Beers has controlled the majority of the diamond trade to the point that people believe they are the rarest of stones. They're not.

    http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/corporate/de be ers/

  18. Re:SCI-FI is the most consistently disappointing T on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Sky One paid some of the bills, they already showing the series. With BT there are no borders. BTW it is good. IMHO they're following a Babylon 5 formula. Several sub plots developing and interweaving into the main plot. Check TVTOME.

  19. Re:My complaint so far... Sorry, it didn't on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Well if you saw the second episode, you should be even more disappointed in the story. Now I have to say I've never read any Earthsea. I've read other books by her, but I wasn't into reading fantasy and never even read the Lord of the Rings until I was out of high school.

    I have to say I thought the ending was rushed, tripe and the whole show badly acted. It will make me read the books because I know they're better. It was so obvious IMHO that they barely touched on the details of the story.

  20. Re:The Wild West on Illegal File Trading Draws Two P2P Raids In Europe · · Score: 1

    Just don't be the Indians. That's native Americans not the outsourcers.

  21. Re:Awesome.. on PSP Battery Journal · · Score: 1

    I threw my MiniDisc player in the garbage,

    Dude, that's called Ebay

  22. Re:Video drivers - PC Mag tests on Truth in Advertising? · · Score: 1

    I remember when the PC Mag benchmarks were THE benchmark. I still remember the article on the card that had the test strings embedded in the BIOS, so the numbers were out of sync with it's performance in other tests. They disassembled the BIOS and found the test string.

    To bad I don't remember the card manufacturer but then it's doubtful they are still in business. I think this was in the late 80's early 90's time frame.

  23. Re:Plastic? on Optical Mouse Used As Cheap Motion Sensor · · Score: 1

    It was the plastic used to wrap the wires in the cord. Since every optical mouse I seen that "broke" was due to the wires breaking where the cord enters the mouse's body. Fatigue.

  24. Re:Intelligent design goes a long way. 6200 too on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    The 6200 series is also very quiet. It should be very similar to the 8200 since they are both HP models. The X and XW 6000 & 8000 models were similar in design. What surprised me was when I saw inside that it has an 80mm fan on each CPU, a fan on the Video, a fan in the PS and TWO 120mm fans on the back. That's SIX fans, yet you need to put you hand in the airflow in the back to know they were moving. The SATA HD is quiet too. We didn't stress test it to much, just a few OS loads as we were building a company OS image for it. But the fans did pick up, but only in the air they were moving, not the noise levels.

    Looks like they traded high RPM for low RPM high CFM airflow. Plus I bet they are also BIOS controlled.

  25. Re:No Simpsons Jokes yet... Come on.... on Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles · · Score: 1

    You got me. I know I guy named Lenard and I have stop myself from typing Leonard when I email him.
    I guess it pays to check. But I wanted to get the comment in before someone did a simpson's joke. I still missed that one too. Bad day on slashdot.

    I guess the best "trekkie" way to deal with it is,

    "Get a Life!" ;)

    "What are you 30, I bet you never even had sex"

    I saw that SNL episode when it was first on, my respect for Shatner went up a notch that night.