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  1. Re:I guess now's as good a time as any on Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series · · Score: 2

    They number and if you can run Crysis on a linux system detail exactly what system hardware, video, ram, etc by UPC number. The exact flavor of Linux (strawberry, pony, salmon) with detailed configuration and what fucking technogod you prayed to. Saint Vidicon just ain't cuttin' it at my end. ;)

  2. Re:United Nuclear on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    There is a drastic shortage of medical isotopes. I assume from some news articles that readily available supplies of other isotopes are as hard to get. I will check and see if the 10yr half life ones are available and get at least one sample.

    The uranium pigmented marbles they sell are pretty neat under UV. A high intensity UV LED plus one of those is an intensely bright spooky green glow.

    The owner was harassed by some government agency, not over the radioactives but over some of the pyrotechnic supplies.

  3. United Nuclear on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_5

    All Isotopes are sold by the microcurie (uCi)
    ( 1 microcurie = 2.22 x 10E6 disintegrations / minute = 2,220,000 cpm )

    Normal sources are + or - 20% pf stated value.
    For calibrated sources, add $120.00 and source will be + or - 5% of stated value and will include a calibration certificate.
    Calibration is only available for gamma sources.

  4. Re:Nope on Will Graphene Revolutionize the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    Dr Phaedon Avouris, of IBM. is behind on his papers.
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090610133453.htm
    Tunable band gap graphene at room temperature.

  5. Re:Your not qualified on Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    All prays two the gray mare g'nazi.
    In daze of your we wood flee
    from there stealy gaze wii dew knot know piece.

    Another website, depends on eviscerating english and it's doing just fine. Unfortunately; it does not eviscerate grammar gnazis

  6. Does no one remember Speak Freely? on Linux-Friendly Alternatives To Skype · · Score: 1

    http://www.speakfreely.org/

    I made many international 'telephone' calls long distance free over a crappy 56k modem using this software. I'd lost the need to use it and moved to windows.

    Development ended in 2002. Pity.

  7. Re:Offer it on old dos game forums for the postage on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    That's more elaborate than I've had to do. I've been lucky none of the stuff has needed special patching.

    Did you release the patches?

  8. Offer it on old dos game forums for the postage. on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 2

    I've used Dosbox to emulate all of my companies legacy dos stuff we have to use. It works find with XP.

    Every game I've tried it with works though most of mine are text based Remember T-Zero? http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/t.html#tzero all of Infocom's games.

    I still play the ones I've not solved yet, I have all my notes.

  9. Re:You people on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    In 10 - 15 years I hope he thinks of us as his people.

  10. You people on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    "In this country (America) you people throw away better food that I ate in mine" --A Sikh I met.

    Good people, dry sense of humor. Work way too damn hard (complement).

    Don't touch the knife.

  11. Syphi on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    I quit watching it after the name change and the direct put down of science fiction fans by them. It's become a purveyor of putrid shows pandering to mundane pustules of human flesh.

    It is the Syphilis channel.

  12. Re:Part of a general pattern on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All I get from trains is inconvenience. They deliver zero of my companies products or supplies. They block traffic into the business for excessive amounts of time during the highest traffic times. If we miss a delivery or a sent shipment we miss a deadline.

    They are becoming irrelevant, a monopoly that needs to go away.

  13. Re:Any tech that has testimonials on Startup Wants To Put 64-Cores In Your Smartphone · · Score: 1

    I'm out of mod points *tears*

    BTW how many commodore 64 emulators can you fit on a high end FPGA? Right. That's what I'm talkin' about. Give me 64 C64's or give me armpit!

  14. Any tech that has testimonials on Startup Wants To Put 64-Cores In Your Smartphone · · Score: 3, Informative

    Smells of infomercials and burned popcorn.

  15. Re:Obvious answer on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 1

    Off by one does ok for simple sites and has SSL. It fits on a floppy. I do wish they'd update it as some websites will not render well.

    http://offbyone.com/offbyone/

  16. Re:Interesting... on An RC Car That Runs On Soda Can Rings · · Score: 3, Informative

    The space shuttle used aluminum fuel.
    http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/system/system_SRB.html

  17. Re:Bad News for USD on Local Currencies To Replace Dollar For 5 Countries' Dealings · · Score: 1

    How are you getting 8%?

  18. Re:FPGA for shipping products? on Cheaper, More Powerful Alternative To FPGAs · · Score: 3, Informative

    All of our product have some sort of reprogrammable logic. PLD , GAL , EPLD, CPLD , FPGA, and some the designers should have been shot for making.

    Without it we would not be able to design a product and get it to market with any hope of turning a profit. It keeps engineering costs low allows us to make changes for regulatory requirements and allows end users to load new firmware and fix problems in the field.

    Some of our products are niche and low volume and some of our products are very high volume and we're growing.

  19. Re:Not impossible on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    I agree with what you say. Understanding human history's how and why with some general idea of who and when will give the public a better grasp of how to handle current events. Having the public understand the tools used for political manipulation can blunt those tools effects.

  20. Re:Not impossible on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Geeks who don't understand history will be ruled by those that do. -- paraphrasing Kevyn Andreyasn of http://www.schlockmercenary.com/

  21. Re:Custom game controller on The Awesome Button · · Score: 1

    If you have the time you acquire additional skillz and you get tasty sushi.

    Can you hack a microwave controller to do some other task?

    How about using 'disposable cameras as strobes?

    $25 dollars is a basket full of items at a thrift store that can be used for some other purpose. Or sushi

  22. Re:So Expensive on US Navy Close To On-Ship Laser Cannons · · Score: 1

    So get rid of both Then you won't breed cretinous weapons or people.

  23. Re:Custom game controller on The Awesome Button · · Score: 1

    For $28.95 I can get fantastic sushi with hot saki. Yes it's worth it. I used the price of a new keyboard to show even that is cheaper.. I can get keyboards for $3 at thrift stores.

    Or something cooler. http://symlink.dk/projects/c64key/

  24. Re:Custom game controller on The Awesome Button · · Score: 2

    http://hackedgadgets.com/2010/05/10/computer-keyboard-disassembly-and-cleaning/

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Hacking-a-USB-Keyboard/

    It's a tiny board. the chip is under a blob of goo. The only downside is it has to be a working keyboard so you can use a multimeter to know what pins goes to what key. It's tedious but not terribly hard. Once you know the key matrix you have for the princely sum of 9 dollars a USB dongle that you can wire up how ever you want. You literally have as many inputs as keys.

    What I do not know is if it's possible to assign one keyboard to normal tasks and have the hacked keyboard only do some specific thing.

  25. Re:Infinite harddrive! on Magical Chinese Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    If two people have the same compression dictionary locally how much compression can they reasonably expect of something like a DVD?