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  1. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    It;s basically a question of how much you're willing to water down the question, in proving your point... (anything we're aware of is used as learning tool)

  2. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    As are shielded semiconductors; it's not about EMI.

  3. Re:Technological independence on Russia Launches, Loses, Finds Military Satellite · · Score: 2

    Probably mostly an "interpretation" added by "reporting"...

    And the partial failure is of Rockot. Considering those launch vehicles are basically inexpensive, surplus, repurposed ICBMs - they still have quite decent success ratio.

  4. Re:I'm confused. on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    That's the best part about how massively ominous this possibility would seem to people, if only it was made the next "big scary issue"!

  5. Re:The nature of the universe, answered years ago. on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    Luckily we were spared "does not compute", sparks and smoke.

  6. Re:I'm confused. on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    Linking terms from a given field in a semantically (as far EN is concerned) proper way doesn't protect you from writing gibberish. One which is (to borrow the name from TFS) not even wrong.

  7. Re:Crusoe launch on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 1

    "somebody snail mail.it" would sound ... interesting (sadly, the domain seems unused)

  8. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    You're arguing that colors silver, white, gray and black are 'better' for a car.

    (generally, the main problem with such definite statements - about what is, in essence, just a straightforward approach of building circuits which sound enjoyably - is how the pleasurable end results are, if anything, largely due to inherent flaws of vacuum tube)

  9. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    "Pleasurable" is the word you're looking for and certainly should have used in the first place (also because it covers even factors like ~nostalgia), without "assumptions" made in such definite tone... (a lot of people do blindly follow the "absolutely untouchable benchmark" crap with vacuum tubes)

  10. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    Absolutely anything can pass "as a piece of important history". Bones of dinosaurs have great impact on us, "as a piece of important history"

  11. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    By this logic, colors silver, white, gray, and black are "superior" for a car, when compared to other.

  12. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    You said "tube amps sound better" - that is NOT remotely the same as "different" (or "customary sound", "being used to", "instilled preference")

  13. Re:Next up, Windows Phone 7 goes from nowhere to # on Android Passes Symbian As Most-Shipped Mobile Platform · · Score: 1

    Servers and handhelds (mostly niche gimmicks, those - and pretty much abandoned) are not in any way about "they tend to always be behind Apple ... still somehow end up at the front". DOS and Windows falls into the same, one phenomena, IMHO.

  14. Re:What if were were near the "edge"? on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    Do you ever want to, while standing on the surface of a large sphere (Earth being a good approximation), to travel so far that the "edge" will come into view of your horizon?

  15. Re:I'm confused. on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    Surely you must have something more accurate at hand to think that...

  16. Re:I'm confused. on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    ...fortunately, we can still fear false vacuum decay hitting us at any moment ;)

  17. Re:What does that even mean? on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or what is deeper than the center of the Earth. Or what lies to the north of North Pole.

  18. Re:Hence infinite? on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 2

    Since those areas are beyond the reach of our light cone, they almost certainly are not much better than nonexistent.

    Of course still such estimates should help with cosmological models, science in general, or understanding our negligibly minuscule (heck, not even a speck of random noise...) place in the Universe (yeah, like that will happen soon...)

  19. Re:Radioactive tools on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    For that matter, so far as I know people are not building new steam locomotives either. That doesn't mean that rail museums aren't refurbishing and using them. I'm sure that steam engines are being produced that *could* be adapted to pull loads over rails, but they wouldn't have the performance and form factor to make that practical.

    People are building new steam locomotives ... sometimes (I think it might be a bit more common with narrow gauge ones, especially of mountain varieties)

    They are not used only by museums, too. It's not too hard to find a completely regular, daily service - as is the case near my place (seriously, absolutely normal scheduled passenger service, with one end on one of the biggest rail terminals in my country; I sometimes use their route)

  20. Re:Radioactive tools on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    Probably general levels of higher vertebrate meat consumption (from whatever source) in many places, falling into the trap(*) of basing most meals around it.

    (*) Strong preference for unspoiled meat is understandable, it was a great news for many millennia of our evolution. Great news also because of being not the most straightforward food to get, not a case of meatwall in the supermarket.

  21. Re:those were the good old days on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 1

    like when if you wanted to watch TV you had to wait for the right time for a show to start and you can't pick your episode in case of re-runs

    Huh? We certainly had VHS... many units even could be set to record something at designated time & date (I once left mine unattended for almost a month, to record successive episodes of ... Sea Quest; ehhh, good old days indeed... but who will build it now that Bridger is dead? ;( )

  22. Re:Crusoe launch on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 1

    @ was there, but I think not really in daily use by common folks. Just be glad you're not stuck with a word which means "monkey" or "ape" (yes, I know the difference in EN, but in my language it's much less delineated) - can you imagine how stupid this one sounds in serious situations?

  23. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    That seems to be at least rapidly fading for a solid few years? Starting from around the times of DV-like formats.

  24. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    A lot of them also imagine new physics for cables or have ABX anxiety (which, when they meet with anxiety trigger, of course disturbs them enough to temporarily impair their spectacular hearing)

  25. Re:How sillilly obvious on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA is about cherishing biases of our memory... We don't remember, we are hardly aware of those types of artifacts which disappeared.