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  1. Re:Easy on Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more about the rings. More surface area than any moon, even if they are just centimeters thick.

  2. As much as I hate all things Apple on Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads · · Score: 3, Informative

    I must admit that the IPAD has been a boon to the low-functioning autistic community. If human beings without speech can use the IPAD to talk, why not apes?

  3. Re:Easy on Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? · · Score: 3, Informative

    That was my response as well. Whereever Oxygen and Hydrogen exist, the problem is NOT creating water. In fact, it's very likely that the largest source of water outside of the Earth in our Solar System is orbiting Saturn.

  4. Re:"You could make a fairly powerful computer" on Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn · · Score: 1

    Hungarian depressed camel notation must drive you insane!

  5. Re:also on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    I'm basing it on _New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy_ by Robert Spitzer, not my own work. He goes into some detail about where cosmology in general fails as a philosophy- and why physicists should stick to physics.

    http://www.amazon.com/New-Proofs-Existence-God-Contributions/dp/0802863833

  6. Re:You know... on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    "Lack of documentation doesn't mean it's necessarily poorly designed."

    It just means utterly unmaintainable after about 3 months.

    " And I'm not talking about something that fits on a wheelchair. Think entire industrial plants."

    Yep. I've seen entire industrial plants needing to be scrapped and re-engineered from scratch for exactly this reason.

  7. Re:I' on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    Where it usually fails is that people fail to realize that six months later they're not the same person who built it in the first place.

  8. Re:also on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    True- if he were better at it. As it is, he ends up having his cosmology criticized by a Jesuit from Spokane, Washington, because it's become philosophy and he apparently doesn't even know enough philosophy to understand First Cause.

  9. Re:Problem is... on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    I'd have to. I hate to work.

  10. Re:also on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    To be exact, he says "Gravity did it".

  11. Re:also on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    Replacing the word "God" with "Gravity" doesn't exactly change anything.

  12. Re:also on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    It is a bit old, isn't it? I think I'll go back to my original, which is what gave my my nick way back in Usenet days.

  13. Re:Peanuts on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    Teaching isn't very much of a high-tech skill. Plato did it.

  14. Re:If China treats this like they did Solar Panels on Russia Building World's Largest Li-Ion Battery Plant · · Score: 1

    The other use of such subsidies would be to temporarily lower the price to kick everybody else out of the market.

  15. Re:You know... on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    His work on atheism isn't physics. It's philosophy, and from what I've seen so far, he's particularly bad at it. He should have stuck to physics.

  16. Re:You know... on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    Given the system description- a bunch of cobbled together bits with no documentation- I'd be surprised if it could actually make it more than an hour or two without crashing.

  17. Re:I' on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which might explain why he's got a totally undocumented piece of shit to begin with.

  18. Re:Peanuts on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: 1

    You don't pay the average wage for highly skilled IT work. If you did, nobody would go into it.

  19. Re:also on Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes. Given the logical fallacy in his view of how the universe began, he's way past his original visionary days and is venturing into philosophy- rather badly.

  20. Re:From the cheapie model that I got my son on Ask Slashdot: Best Android Tablet For Travel? · · Score: 1

    Had a hell of a time finding the invoice in my Gmail- I need to start using categories, even with starred items:

    Seller: worldgadget
    discount cheap Google Android 8" Touch Tablet PC Silver 4GB+ Leather Case DHL: 1 x $83.99 = $83.99

    It actually ended up coming fedex from Malaysia. While setting it up I had to change the default language and the time zone.

    DO NOT BUY THIS TABLET- at least, not for anything more than a kid's toy- Christopher likes it. His only complaint is that the wifi doesn't stay online long enough for him to skype (I'm going to figure that out yet!).

  21. Re:From the cheapie model that I got my son on Ask Slashdot: Best Android Tablet For Travel? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The mistake referred to the Android Tablet. My son was born in May.

  22. Re:If China treats this like they did Solar Panels on Russia Building World's Largest Li-Ion Battery Plant · · Score: 1

    Li-Ion can fix this to a large extent. The Tesla's 6000 Li-Ion batteries give it a 200 mile range at freeway speeds- and a 54 mile range at racetrack speeds. Plasma Boy's White Zebra here in Oregon gets 300 miles to a charge at highway speeds- or can go into drag race mode, and dump the full charge of the batteries into a quarter mile in under 9 seconds.

    But Li-Ion is very expensive currently- which is why I said what I said. Chinese subsidized Solar Panels pushed solar below $1/watt, and made companies like SolarCity profitable for the first time ever. I could easily see something similar happening with say, the 40 mile range on the plug-in-electric Ford Focus to bring it's costs down to what normal people can afford.

  23. From the cheapie model that I got my son on Ask Slashdot: Best Android Tablet For Travel? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Based upon my Christmas mistake (he's 8, he doesn't care)- here's what I would look for:
    1. Capacative screen. Resistive touch screens suck, and I forgot how much until I realized this el-cheap sub $90 tablet came with a resistive screen but no stylus.
    2. On-board USB ports, not on a dongle. His contains a proprietary connector with USB / wired ethernet ports on it, and I'm afraid he'll lose it. He might have already and I don't know.
    3. SDHC or microSDHC slot and plenty of on-board memory
    4. Good built-in Wifi- his seems to disconnect at the drop of a hat.

    Go with the same brand as your phone otherwise, that way you can be sure your favorite aps will work.

  24. If China treats this like they did Solar Panels on Russia Building World's Largest Li-Ion Battery Plant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This might just kick the electric car into mainstream mass production, as the cost of reasonable battery technology falls below production costs with illegal subsidies.

  25. Re:"Donations" to Charities on Data Exposed In Stratfor Compromise Analyzed · · Score: 1

    And if Hyperbole doesn't, Starvation will.