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  1. Re:Is this being a little too protective? on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 1

    This rule does not apply to software, RTFA.

  2. Re:Chip Design? on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 1

    You think a VC is going to give you any money without a prototype unit of some sort?

    Good luck.

  3. Re:Netcraft confirms Kickstarter is dead? on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not at all, you can still have drawings and pre-production units. Just not renders, since they can easily confuse people into believing you have a near complete product.

  4. Re:You can probably thank "Orbit" for this... on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looks to me like they updated their page less than a month ago. $60k to fund something like is going to lead to delays.

    Kickstarter is not buying a finished product, it is donating to get something hopefully created.

  5. Re:How about not screwing your App Store Customers on How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Letting those folks frame the discussion means letting them win.

    Call a spade(shovel) a spade(shovel).

  6. Re:NDA on NVIDIA To Publicly Release Some Tegra GPU Documentation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That depends what the NDA covers. It might cover just saying they gave him the document, it might cover him showing anyone the document, it might cover him telling anyone how code made from the document works, it might cover him not telling anyone how NVIDIA makes its pancakes. An NDA can cover a multitude of things.

  7. Re:How about not screwing your App Store Customers on How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    You spelled shill wrong.

  8. Re:Most things still work on iPhone 5 Teardown Shows Boost To Repairability · · Score: 1

    Because not everyone will use it. Everyone however does use mini-usb on something, and mini-usb phones sell far more total units. Apple should at least support that without an adaptor.

  9. Re:Pentalobe is not proprietary on iPhone 5 Teardown Shows Boost To Repairability · · Score: 3, Informative

    Torx fulfills that need and is far more common.

    Like you said, with phillips heads the bit jumping the grooves is a design feature not a flaw.

    Pentalobe is just a little less common, but not hard to get either.

  10. Re:Fabulous on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    We are actually already building more units right now.

  11. Re:That explains a lot on When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm · · Score: 1

    I could not understand him at all, what else could I do? I coud not follow his instructions and I could not be sure he understood what I was saying as his responses may as well have been clicks and whistles for all the good they did me.
      I politely asked to speak to someone who spoke English more clearly.

    I tried to be as nice as I could. I am not sure why a company would hire someone with such an accent as a phone agent. It would be like hiring a welshman.

  12. Re: when was last time Xerox was respected company on When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm · · Score: 1

    You think call center employees have anything to do with that stuff?

    It is a job of reading a script and following flow chart. That is it. That is why it pays so little.

  13. Re:That explains a lot on When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't have your own language, which is why the other folks were getting more local support.

    Nothing as bad as the USA though; at one point I asked nicely to be transfered to someone who spoke English when on the phone with Dell Server Support and the agent screamed at me that he was in Georgia(the state) and raised there. I would have rather been talking to an Indian.

  14. Re:Please Be Quiet on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    I was thinking brined penguin could become a new delicacy. Since we will be making them extinct it also has limited availability going for it.

  15. Re:Press coverage on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    Those are marketing numbers. Let's see if it pans out.

  16. Re:Please Be Quiet on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    Can it not be grown in the US?
    I like it as well and it does seem to come primarily from South America.

  17. Re:Press coverage on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 4, Funny

    When they start building trailer parks in NYC? We know that is what attracts tornadoes.

  18. Re:Please Be Quiet on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 2

    Could we not just ignore that though and save a ton of money?

  19. Re:Press coverage on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 2

    Water expands as it freezes. The amount above the water is that expansion.

    Sure you could make the argument about icebergs being fresh water, but the difference will not be huge.

  20. Re:Press coverage on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I as a pretty far lefty must agree. It is like water conservation, consumer water use is practically negligible. This is the only utility I know of the more you buy the cheaper it gets, agriculture pays next to nothing for the water and yet uses the vast majority of it. This means in the end the only lettuce I can buy is the stuff from what should be deserts or the local hydroponic. I do buy the 4x the cost hydroponic stuff because they reuse the water and I am in an area with lots of water. I can understand how you could not afford to buy that food or just would not want to pay that price.

    The problems are even real solutions will involve you paying a little more or waiting a little longer I am ok with that are you?

    Are you ok with paying another $10 on an smartphone or waiting another week to get it because the container ship was wind powered? Or just keeping your "old" phone 1 year longer?

    That is what real change would look like. I am fine with it are you?

  21. Re:Fabulous on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    The limit on building nuke plants is not oil nor metal, it is the limited amount of foundries that can cast such large components.

    If we had the will, we would find the way.

  22. Re:Please Be Quiet on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    Why even desalinate it?

    At -37C salt water freezes just as well as fresh.

  23. Re:Please Be Quiet on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    You know we do raise cattle in the East as well right?

    While I would love to fix global warming, a more pragmatic approach maybe the only option. Stop raising cattle in the southwest, and as the temperatures allow move that activity north. Even invading Canada is probably easier than getting our government to regulate CO2.

  24. Re:Wow! on US House STEM Visa Bill Fails · · Score: 1

    Your website makes no sense. Who wants to be "free" if you have to live in Alberta?

    It backwards rationalizes everything. I would far rather have an educated society than $10 off my property taxes.

  25. Re:Gridlock is real on US House STEM Visa Bill Fails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is trivial?
    Bringing cheap workers to replace the only jobs not yet outsourced is a trivial thing?