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  1. Re:Scheme and beyond on Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? · · Score: 1

    I was just making an old joke that's all.

    Besides emacs is fine, you just need to use viper mode.

  2. Re:Scheme and beyond on Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? · · Score: 1

    Hell, I say make them use ED.

    Kids need to learn the value of hard work. Get off my lawn. I have to go yell at clouds now.

  3. Re:Scheme and beyond on Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean in VIM. Teaching kids emacs is just wrong

  4. You can make a lot of money? on Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? · · Score: 1

    Sure you can make a decent income, but nothing like what those folks make. On top of that the politicians want to make sure this job no longer pays a good wage. What jobs they cannot export they will import cheaper workers for.

    This tells kids who are paying attention that they should become politicians or celebrities. Since you never see famous coders like Carmack endorsing the latest Kutcher movie or whatever this will.i.am person does.

  5. Re:Stronger than Steel on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 1

    Which is why people use non-standard measures.

    You are correct about that being the right way, but no vaporware car maker if going to do that.

  6. Re:Wasteland2 - I'm with you. on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    I only found out about that now.
    I was excited, then sad to see it had no fog of war and basically was a terrible game.

    This should be easy. Make old game again, updates graphics and story line. Change nothing else.

  7. Re:Wasteland2 - I'm with you. on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    I was surprised how fast that went too, especially since the genre is pretty much dead. Maybe we can eventually have another "Jagged Alliance".

  8. Re:Original IP from Blizzard? on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    Incorrect sir!
    They are actually showing off two games WarStar and CraftCraft. In the first one the two famous IPs have been combined into one single RTS, in the later the SAME DAMN THING!

  9. Re:a blizzard version of call of duty on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    A proper RTS or turn based game would be great to have again. If we could forgo having to buy each bullet.

    I am pretty excited about the new wasteland.

  10. Re:WoW for PS4 and Xbox Durango?!?!? on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 2

    Watch, probably moving to the annoying mobile IAP method.

    Player, you have run out of Mana! You may disconnect from battlenet for 1 hour to regenerate or pay $1 to regenerate now.

  11. Re:Stronger than Steel on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 1

    For a given mass it does when both are a fixed area.

    So if you have a 1 ft sq of material, ABS and steel and both must mass only a few grams the ABS will be stronger.

    This sounds misleading and is why they say it that way.

  12. Re:Stronger than Steel on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 1

    Most of them have some metal and use the engine as a chassis member. There are many that have some chassis parts that are not metal. I do not know of any without metal at all in the chassis and since you would be using the engine as a chassis member I doubt you could build such a thing.

    There are quite a few that do use the structure as part of the crash safety system.

  13. Re:Stronger than Steel on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 1

    They are spraying down layers of ABS. This may well be stronger than similar mass steel, just because the density is so low compared to steel. This is typical of people promising magic. They lie by omission.

  14. Re:Stronger than Steel on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 1

    It can still pass a crash test if you mold pieces to break at known points. They do this will all carbon fibre cars. It is super expensive.

  15. Failure to learn from history on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 4, Informative

    Covering the front wheels like that is a bad move, SAAB taught the world that long ago. They had to flare out the wheel arches to deal with it when they built the Ursaab prototype.

    Snow will build up between the wheels and the body, the driver will not notice this until he tries to turn and the car continues in a straight line.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursaab

  16. because of the pricing on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    These idiots charge outrageous prices then are surprised when few folks select those plans?

    It is almost like they want to slow down progress of residential broadband speeds to save themselves upgrade costs. That can't possibly be it can it?

  17. Re:Stronger than Steel on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't. Lots of common materials are stronger than steel in either compression or tension or for a given mass. Most hit only one of those, the rare materials that get all three costs many times what steel costs and have far more complicated fabbing processes. Like this 3D printed car, which I bet costs a lot more than stamping body panels with a transfer press.

  18. Re:know how I know it's a pipe dream? on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 1

    You can use compression engines with alcohols, but yeah that change will then exclude running pump fuel.

    Besides pure ethanol is nasty stuff for an engine. No diesel fuel pump is going to like it either.

  19. Re:that all actually sounds fairly reasonable on How Paid Apps On Firefox OS Will Work · · Score: 1

    Amazon is another very popular vendor that could use this. Not sure they would want to though.

    Lots of little android app stores too.

  20. Re:High-tech entrepreneur in Kansas on RSA: Self-Encrypting USB Hard Drives for all Operating Systems (Video) · · Score: 0

    Wow, I guess Kansas residents got lots of mod points today.

    Way not to be able to take a joke. I guess I must have struck too close to home.
     

  21. High-tech entrepreneur in Kansas on RSA: Self-Encrypting USB Hard Drives for all Operating Systems (Video) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder what sort of advantages there are to being a high-tech anything in Kansas.

    First of his neighbors to get Electricity?

    Every invention is prototyped in corn first?

  22. Re:It just don't make no sense on 1967 Gyro-X Car To Be Restored · · Score: 1

    1. How would it avoid flat tires?

    2. What do pilots base that on? and why would they be qualified to make such a determination? As far as I can tell the FAA disagrees considering the rules favoring many engined planes for commercial use.

  23. Re:What? on Controversy Over Violet Blue's Harm Reduction Talk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any sex content is hostile to women?
    That is the most misogynistic thing I have heard all week.

    You do know that women are as interested in sex as men, right?

    You do realize that the treating them with kids gloves you are endorsing is exactly what people expect of geek groups right? It is the other side of the creepy fratboy coin. Same not treating them like real people BS.

  24. Re:NO sense at all! on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 2

    Slavery ended in NY state in 1827, most buildings we have today were built far later. DC was years later, but again most buildings are simply not that old.

    Lots of warm nations had slavery.

  25. Re:What? on Controversy Over Violet Blue's Harm Reduction Talk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no consensus that we should ban anything in public that might trigger this though. I don't see how this leads to banning a talk, if you think it might trigger your PTSD just don't attend.