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  1. Re:this book looks amazing on Core Lego Mindstorms Programming · · Score: 1

    Books may be archaic, but I'd rather get the feel of a subject reading a book on my couch than scrolling through a browser window on my computer.

    Its hard to replace books because they're so simple. The book may be replaced by Linux 17.8, but not linux 2.5.

  2. Re:imprecise hardware... on Core Lego Mindstorms Programming · · Score: 2, Informative

    They do have rotation sensors now which are very accurate...if you need more accuracy, just change the gearing ratios.

    The sensors count 16 ticks/rotation...just change the gears to make it count 160 ticks/rotation or 1600....the accuracy is there for anything you make with lego.

  3. It shouldn't be done on Cenozoic Park: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger · · Score: 1

    Not only could some balance be thrown off, but what are the chances they get it [it being the genetic makeup of the tiger] right the first time. They won't and there will be some different creature "created".

    Not for us to decide.

  4. Re:Use a real keyboard! on How Effective are Ergonomic Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    I did learn touch typing in high school and I don't use an ergonomic keyboard, but I did notice/read about problems with them.

    Noticed problems:
    The original ergo keyboards [maybe from Microsoft, maybe not] had the keyboard elevation feet under the space bar causing the keyboard to get lower the farther away from you it got [qwerty/digits/function key rows]...this seemed natural. But then for some reason they switched and put the feet under the function keys lifting up the back of the keyboard causing your hands/wrists to bend in a awkward way. This seems very unnatural for the "natural" keyboard.

    Read About problems:
    People who were touch typists would simply notice that the '6' key was paired with the wrong [left] hand when it was actually supposed to be used by the same finger that presses the 'y' key. That would throw people off at first but would quickly be relearned. It just seems crazy that a company would make that sort of mistake and I don't know if it is still that way or has been fixed.

    -Jeff "no sig"

  5. Re:This is like that movie... on Microsoft's Overlooked Code Theft · · Score: 2, Informative

    _Antitrust_ Tim Robbins and Ryan Philippe [I think]

  6. Re:Who to send to Mars ? on Mars Exploration Must Consider Contamination · · Score: 1
    This also brings up an interesting point. If there is no life on Mars, what happens to somebody who dies there? The body won't decompose the same way as on earth [if it decomposes at all] and if something happens [that we have not yet thought of], we have basically put life on that planet carrying a disease known to be harmful to humans. Viruses and bacteria evolve much faster than any sort of multicellular organism potentially creating something bad that goes into stasis awaiting the return of some Earthly organism.

    Basically, there is the chance that sending a person there who is sick will wreck the planet for any future expeditions because there is no Mother Nature there that will clean up after us when we screw up [leave materials, organic or other] in ways that aren't necessarily considered screwing up here on Earth.

    Who knows??

  7. Re:But Why? on Intenet2 Backbone Upgrades · · Score: 1

    You need all the bandwidth because right now that darn Klez virus is stealing all mine. Although, I suppose if there was more bandwidth, the virus would just send itself out more. Darn people who open obvious virus attachments.

  8. Re:.prn is a great idea on Senate Bill Would Make Clandestine Video Taping Illegal · · Score: 1

    You are then creating a situation where you assume most of what is out there is dangerous to kids in some way. Allow ".kids" Deny "everything"... I prefer the Deny ".prn" or ".xxx" and allow the rest of what is out there, eventually increasing what you deny as the bad stuff is discovered. .prn/.sex/.anarchy would at least allow/force sites to properly represent themselves. Denying sites that are known to be of questionable taste would be a better path and the TLD's would be a good way to do it.