That would be a pretty good point, if it were made in reference to anything other than Star Trek. As it stands, this is like complaining that the plot of Survivor has become increasingly improbable with each successive season...
Actually, I would expect this to be due at least in part to the fact that laptop hard drives top out at 5400RPM -- fast enough for most things application-wise, but almost unbearably slow for paging, considering that even the fastest hard drives are many orders of magnitude slower than system memory.
Who says he "got mixed up"? He didn't specify temperature scales, and most of the civilized world aside from us 'Merkins don't use Fahrenheit. 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling point of water.
If you think Radio Shack is "the bomb", you probably don't do much work with electronics. I find them to be overpriced, with an unimpressive selection, and do most of my shopping at the local electronics store (decent and conveniently located) and GraybaR or Fry's when the local shop doesn't have what I need.
I also like creative and innovative web sites designed with CSS, DHTML, Flash, or any other appropriately-deployed presentation technology, so long as they feature intelligent UI design and useful information or interesting art/entertainment.
Flash on a Web site is used to... er... impress those who are computer-illiterate, annoy those who aren't
Guess I've been wasting my time, working with computers these past 20 years: apparently my capacity to be impressed by anything beyond purest spartan functionality relegates me to the contemptible masses of the "computer illiterate".
I'd condemn you as a troll, but it seems rather heartless to take you to task for your petty bigotry -- everybody should have something to feel superior about.
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An exoskeleton would be potentially useful for urban combat (punching through doors, knowck down walls, etc.)
Man, I'm just waiting for the exoskeletons with the built-in spellchecker and "Typing Assist" feature.
You know, I'm all for using British word spellings in an attempt to sound erudite and upper-crust, I really am. I routinely spell theatre with an 're', and occasionally neighbour with an 'ou', though I've never been able to bring myself to substitute '-ise' for '-ize'.
But please, for the love of Bob, realize that while the American 'check' has at least seven distinct meanings, its British homophone 'cheque' has only one -- and unless you're alluding to some transfer of funds between branches of government, the one does not apply here...
Is this like the intro to some really bad stand-up comedy routine? ("So I've been thinking...WHAT IS IT with bad airline food???") I have to believe so; the other possibility is just too grim for words.
Higher-precision control of injection volume and penetration depth.
From TFA: "Because the MicroJet's source of power is electrical rather than mechanical, its range of control is continuous, allowing a far higher level of customization than the jet injectors used today."
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That would be a pretty good point, if it were made in reference to anything other than Star Trek. As it stands, this is like complaining that the plot of Survivor has become increasingly improbable with each successive season...
Actually, I would expect this to be due at least in part to the fact that laptop hard drives top out at 5400RPM -- fast enough for most things application-wise, but almost unbearably slow for paging, considering that even the fastest hard drives are many orders of magnitude slower than system memory.
It's a little confused about the question, however.
Who says he "got mixed up"? He didn't specify temperature scales, and most of the civilized world aside from us 'Merkins don't use Fahrenheit. 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling point of water.
Well duh, maybe they had an organic space program! Huh, did you ever think of that?
If you think Radio Shack is "the bomb", you probably don't do much work with electronics. I find them to be overpriced, with an unimpressive selection, and do most of my shopping at the local electronics store (decent and conveniently located) and GraybaR or Fry's when the local shop doesn't have what I need.
I also like creative and innovative web sites designed with CSS, DHTML, Flash, or any other appropriately-deployed presentation technology, so long as they feature intelligent UI design and useful information or interesting art/entertainment.
Got any more theories?
Ah, the Slashdot groupmind strikes again.
Good thing I've got Karma to burn.
(Go ahead, sap my Karma with punitive mods. I'll see you in metamoderation.)
Flash on a Web site is used to... er... impress those who are computer-illiterate, annoy those who aren't
Guess I've been wasting my time, working with computers these past 20 years: apparently my capacity to be impressed by anything beyond purest spartan functionality relegates me to the contemptible masses of the "computer illiterate".
I'd condemn you as a troll, but it seems rather heartless to take you to task for your petty bigotry -- everybody should have something to feel superior about.
An exoskeleton would be potentially useful for urban combat (punching through doors, knowck down walls, etc.)
Man, I'm just waiting for the exoskeletons with the built-in spellchecker and "Typing Assist" feature.
Mod parent up insightful.
You think it's pretty weak that this angry fanboy review got front page on Slashdot, "Home of the Angry Fanboys"?
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You left the US because you didn't like the coinage?
Probably for much the same reason I've never maligned anyone's grasp of particle physics.
I'll say -- he can't even spell "hypocrites".
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You know, I'm all for using British word spellings in an attempt to sound erudite and upper-crust, I really am. I routinely spell theatre with an 're', and occasionally neighbour with an 'ou', though I've never been able to bring myself to substitute '-ise' for '-ize'.
But please, for the love of Bob, realize that while the American 'check' has at least seven distinct meanings, its British homophone 'cheque' has only one -- and unless you're alluding to some transfer of funds between branches of government, the one does not apply here...
Is this like the intro to some really bad stand-up comedy routine? ("So I've been thinking...WHAT IS IT with bad airline food???") I have to believe so; the other possibility is just too grim for words.
Heh. I'd give you either a +1 Funny or a +1 Insightful for that, had I the mod points.
...Yellow channel? Which part of 'RGB' do you not understand?
Absolutely nothing.
Cthulhu fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
what this headline has to do with San Francisco gets dumped in the Bay. That is all.
Yeah, the girl does seem pretty extraneous, here...
Higher-precision control of injection volume and penetration depth.
From TFA:
"Because the MicroJet's source of power is electrical rather than mechanical, its range of control is continuous, allowing a far higher level of customization than the jet injectors used today."
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Great gods, man, be careful what you wish for.
So did the mods, apparently. Go figure.