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  1. Re:I'll never forget... on The Boeing 747 Is Heading For Retirement · · Score: 1

    Prior to terrorists making getting on a plane an unpleasant experience, being able to wander around one or two extra airports per flight was fun. I'd being willing to pay $10 per stopover.

  2. Re:"the 747's ... life was ... 2x that of Concorde on The Boeing 747 Is Heading For Retirement · · Score: 1

    Lockheed did make the L-1011, a very good widebody but third into the market (thanks in large part to bumbling by Rolls Royce)..

  3. Re:Can't we just stop printing? on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1

    I've worked on making my signature look good, but I can't make a touchscreen signature that looks even slightly like it. Any lawsuit that depended upon my touchscreen signature would surely fail.

  4. Re: Done to _gouge_ the customer better on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1

    If you need to maintain color quality and have new prints match the old ones, you're probably stuck with Samsung. For B&W laser printers, OEM cartridges are often priced double or more what they should be. It's not new technology, second tier suppliers aren't selling you a product that will harm your printer, and differences in appearance will probably be within the adjustment range of your printer driver.

  5. Re:Done to _gouge_ the customer better on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 0
    It's so funny to see a post refute itself in one sentence:

    Just look up the list of things required for perfect competition, a third of the items are physically impossible...

    "Perfect competition" is a straw man created by the enemies of freedom.

  6. Re:Linux and Bloat on Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK · · Score: 1

    Aren't accessibility features handled by the desktop - like KDE or Gnome?

  7. Re:And the language is...... on Air Traffic Snafu: FAA System Runs Out of Memory · · Score: 1

    ADA is the Americans with Disabilities Act; also the American Dental Association. Ada is a computer language. You're blaming this on cripples and dentists?

  8. Re:Software error ... on Air Traffic Snafu: FAA System Runs Out of Memory · · Score: 1

    The idea that the computing power required to keep track of, and report dangers to, all the aircraft in a region is more than could be handled by a 1985 PC is preposterous. There just isn't that much going on and it isn't happening all that fast.

    At any one time, there are roughly 5500 maximum IFR flights aloft for the whole US, so any region will have a considerably smaller number. Updating status once a second means an aircraft's position might have changed by 800 feet. If this can't be handled automatically and reliably, something is well and truly screwed that can't be fixed by throwing money at hardware.

  9. Re:Super uber extremely worrying on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    If it cannot ever communicate and was never able to communicate, it's not human. Not being human, it can't have human rights. It will also be unable to understand even one word in your post.

  10. Re:Press release update on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    Contrast this with Democrats, where the minds are either pure evil or completely absent.

  11. Re:Recorded activity from the brain on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham
    Stop being childish. It's both annoying and boring.

  12. Re:Cue the Kneejerk on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    Watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat.

  13. Re:Consciousness on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    What would it be conscious of ?

  14. Re:Good news, they can replace republicans on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    Many people become wiser as they age. That's why they become Republicans.

  15. Re: Shocking on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    Unless you live in California, where they're illegal immigrant related.

  16. Re: Shocking on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey moron, who are you going to blame for spontaneous abortions? Whose lives are you going to impoverish because they can't afford to support a child, especially if the child is going to have extreme defects requiring continuous connection to expensive medical equipment?

    Most people claiming "all abortions are crimes" are basing their statements on their religious beliefs. Take your religion and shove it into that dark, moist place where your head already is.

  17. Re:Needless limiting of options on You Can Have My TIPs When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 1

    That doesn't say much good about the design of the microcontroller. Output circuits should be designed to snub overvoltages.

  18. Re: The 555 timer sucks. on You Can Have My TIPs When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 1

    Trimpots can be very cheap; under 10 cents US. Weatherproof pots are much more expensive.

  19. Re:old clunky junk on You Can Have My TIPs When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 1

    Gimp's biggest problem is the lack of a full 16-bit-per-color capability for all operations. Layer operations, while still somewhat clunky, aren't bad for the simple work (not more than 4 layers) I've done.

    I've bought Photoshop 3 times; never again. I don't process photos for a living, so it's not worth it.

  20. Re:TIP series are good devices on You Can Have My TIPs When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 1

    JFETs are not inherently low current devices, it's just unusual for them to be made physically large enough to take high current / high power.
    MOSFETS can be used for analog output, it's simply a question of designing the circuit properly. In particular, the high input impedance of power MOSFETS at audio frequencies makes them appropriate for being driven by an op-amp.

  21. 5 day forecast on How Weather Modeling Gets Better · · Score: 1

    Interesting to note that the 5-day forecast intensity error for 2014 is lower than 1, 2, 3, or 4 day error..

  22. Re:People isn't the issue, farming is on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    It's a failure of a specific ideology.

  23. Re:This state has way too many Republicans on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Judging by the pattern of elections and voter registration over the last half dozen decades, it's the Republicans who are wise enough to leave California. Those entering California aren't Americans, they're mostly Mexicans or people from even further south. If they bother to register, it's Democrat.

  24. Re:There is no reason for any drought to continue on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    Typically of the anti-rich, your hatred obliterates any semblance of reason. Why would you waste good fertilizer and pollute a river by throwing a dead body in it?

    Burlap isn't free. Why ruin a perfectly good burlap bag?

  25. Re: What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Destroying evidence is also a crime.