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  1. If you want to get them into ENGINEERING on Simple, Portable Physics Simulations · · Score: 1

    As opposed to PROGRAMMING

    Get them some building kit like mindstorms. This kid created a mock-car factory using mindstorms. Just search youtube for lots of similar examples.

    Or kits to build steam and stirling engines.

    Hands-on experience.

  2. "scientific" payloads on Armadillo Aerospace Flight Paves Way For Science Payloads · · Score: 1

    Is that what you wanted to write?

  3. Who cares about attendance? on University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Forcing someone to attend won't magically make him interested or engaged in the subject. They need good teachers for that. And good exams so bad studens won't pass by cheating and those who do pass will be actually well prepared.

  4. What, people still read dilbert? on Dilbert Goes Flash, Readers Revolt · · Score: 0, Troll

    The funny dried out many years ago... It's just a repetition of old jokes (or let's call them situations, since calling them a joke implies they're funnY) or the same old comments over a new subject.

  5. even if it WAS a software problem... on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 1

    let's remember purely mechanical systems fail too, and more often than modern electronic controls

  6. "people get their content"? on Jatol.com Disappears, Stranding Customers · · Score: 1

    anyone who doesn't have local backups deserves this. just like darwin awards for websites.

  7. That's impossible! on Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing · · Score: 1

    That's impossible! Since you got back to where you started, at the same altitude, that means you cycled through the same amount of uphills and downhills on the roundtrip. That's physics for you :)

  8. Re:Aftermarket coolers are useless for most users. on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 1

    You're wrong.

    Intel's stock cooler makes more noise than a 747 on take-off.

    I tossed mine on the trash and put a QUIET cooler. I can even work now.

  9. Re:Bad release practices on PHP 5.2.2 and 4.4.7 Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's because you aren't supposed to use php for any serious stuff anyway, so it doesn't matter when it breaks, it's all in good fun.

  10. Re:Cool, but... on An Origami Lens for Your Camera Phone? · · Score: 1

    Crappy phone lenses are fixed focus, so the christmas light defocused as a ring behind the subject will never happen as the camera focuses on something like 50 cm to infinity.

    That only happens on non-fixed focus lenses that also have a large enough aperture.

  11. Re:dd /dev/random on Memories of a Media Card · · Score: 1

    A normal person would copy a few large, useless files (such as MP3s) until the card was full.

  12. Re:Cease and um....stop...or something... on Censoring The Net With A Hotmail Account · · Score: 4, Funny

    Turn of the century?

    You mean, four years ago?

    How old were your grand-grandfather, grandfather and father when they had children? I'm guessing they were minus eighteen years old.

  13. Could this gun be used to shoot stuff into orbit? on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or, to hit stuff in orbit?

  14. Can it be installed from one CD only? on Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors, Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Or do I have to download 4 CDs of obscure programs I'll never use just to get a funcioning system with Gnome/KDE?

    I downloaded test3's CD1 and even the minimal (400 MB) installation required more than one cd.

  15. So theyll be shipping P4s with 64MB RAM now? on A DIMM Future for RAM Bundles · · Score: 1

    As if they already didn't ship them with 256 MB, which makes them dog-slow under XP with more than two apps open. "Waste your processor buying a machine without RAM". At least, they should go back to selling pentium IIs, that would balance things out.

  16. Re:You know what I think makes the difference? on 1985 Usenet About Y2k · · Score: 1

    Bumping into someone while walking does not cause thousands of dollars worth of damage.

  17. Re:It is, of course, even more complicated than th on Is the Universe its own Largest Computer? · · Score: 1

    But since gravity's effect only propagates at the speed of light (very slow in the timescales discussed) the implementation is so much simpler, you don't have to update the entire map, only the cells/nodes nearest to you, which will pass on the information on the next cycle to their neighbors, etc.

  18. Suit? on New HDTV Encryption Obsoletes Sets · · Score: 1

    Seems like an excellent opportunity for a class-action suit.

  19. Re:Supercavitation Explained on High-Tech Hydrofoil · · Score: 1

    Your post is probably correct, but the thing is that supercavitation IS possible on the hydrofoils because while the whole vessel isn't submerged the FOILS are completely submerged, and they certainly can be taken as vessels on their own.

  20. How come nobody sued them yet? on Open Sourcing Closed Sourced Drivers? · · Score: 1
    Seriously, why has no video card owner ever sued the manufacturer for its right to use the product they've bought?

    If I buy a video card I figure I'm entitled to use it any way I want, under any OS I want, instead of depending on the manufacturer's good will to make drivers. That means at least having access to the board's specs.

    Being the troublemaker I am, I could actually do that if I lived in the US.

  21. Re:Viva la Revolution! on .god Domain Names: Another "Pioneer" Registrar · · Score: 2

    Sure. Then all the mess we have today under .com we'll have at top level. At least today we can distinguish between commercial, non-commercial and foreign sites.