User: beyobe

Re:Andromeda Strain!!! or not...

On: Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru

From the picture on Yahoo! News of the green streak as it came down, assuming the photo was of THIS particular meteorite and not some stock photo From the Guardian (emphasis added): "The orange streak and loud bang were initially thought to be a plane crashing. "

Re:no other technique???

On: Future Ships Could Float On Bubbles

Or kites?

Re:IBM pc jr

On: What Was Your First Computer?

So, there were two of us. I too had the post-chicklet keyboard, but only one 360KB floppy drive. After a few months of disk-swapping madness, I added on the memory expansion "sidecar" and bumped the RAM up to (I believe) 512KB. Ah, the joys of a RAM disk!

Re:Macs or PCs

On: Apple's First Flops

Actually while using a PCs you can only write software for a PC (assuming it's Windoze)

Java, anyone?

Re:How long before the USGS is sued

On: Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash

Enquiring minds want to know: where were the psychics? Did any of "them" see this coming?

Re:Alternatively...

On: Apple to Buy TiVo?

... or the fact that "creative types" are the traditional sweet spot of the Mac market?

Re:yowza

On: Leapfrog Talking Pen

Gets my goat, too, when I see the effect in an animated movie (e.g., Shrek).

Re:Top-level acting

On: Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed

"You won't see him raise his left eyebrow."

Wanna bet? Welcome to Hollywood, Mr. Callaham.

Easy for you to say

On: Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting

Translation from babelfish: You should calculate the average altitude of your country, any bulldozer has this level and to start again has nine.