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  1. Re:From what I gather... on What's The Fastest Growing Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    gentoo on your 3GHz AMD chip.

    What I wouldn't give for a 3GHz AMD. >_>

  2. Re:We need a total body workout on New Gamepad Designed To Build Muscles? · · Score: 1

    There is a home version of Para Para, though finding it is EXTREMELY hard.

  3. My spam had Linux gibberish in it. on Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple · · Score: 1

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  4. Dallas area. on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    $42 for cable, 3Mbit down/256k up. It's not bad. I wish Comcast was slightly more reliable, though.

  5. I use IM to talk to my roommates. on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 1

    It's not a bad way to give someone a heads-up when there's food or you need a favor. I would imagine with real family members, I would find myself signing off of IM more often than not, or just having an additional screen name just for when the 'rents were breathing down my neck.

    My $.02

  6. Re:Non-Indentured Servitude link on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why can't people register, for free, without complaining? Well, I for one don't enjoy tossing my information about willy-nilly just to read an article.

  7. Re:Accents on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1

    Same situation at UT Dallas. The benefit is that I don't have a problem with tech support outsourced to India anymore, since talking to them is like being at school!

  8. Re:Interesting technology on NASA's Sensor Web · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The applications in studying severe weather situations with technology like this are astounding. With severe weather, such as tornadoes, it is almost impossible to have a moblie doppler setup near the storm. If a small RADAR system were to be attached to a node such as this (though the cost and size of such an idea may prohibit an idea like this with current technology), and the dispersal rate was large enough, then environmental data never before seen of tornadic activity could be captured and relayed to the NOAA.

    The biggest current bar to giving a bigger warning lead time to tornadoes is the lack of raw data on the vortex and the variables affecting it. This could prove very handy in studying that, and much better than the current system of chasing storms and praying to get close at the right time.

  9. Re:They need to be more outspoken on NASA's Sensor Web · · Score: 1
    Ahh, what a nice sleepless night does for oneself...

    Anyway, yes, they do have some personell devoted to non-research tasks like PR. The call for more disclosure of NASA's projects would require more attention from those individuals, perhaps so much as to require more personell.

    Also, preparing reports and such intended for the use of public relations would still take more time away from the research, and thus drive up cost. (God forbid the layman prepare a report by themselves.) It makes more sense for the public to be informed when the process is nearing it's end, and has obvious application.

  10. Re:They need to be more outspoken on NASA's Sensor Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, I understand how good PR can affect the funding (or lack thereof) of NASA, they are scientists at heart. Scientists tend to have a habit of being very quiet about their work for the most part. Perhaps it comes from the focus on the project, or the desire to avoid exposing an idea that failed in experimentation, but that is the way they are. Personally, I would rather NASA devote their budget to doing the work they currently do, rather than wasting time with pleasing the public.