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  1. Re:Bay needs to... on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 2

    We'll see no more Megan Fox ass. He's too busy showing us the Teenage Alien Intelligence Ninja Turtles.

  2. A Gamer also isn't... on Wil Wheaton's New Show: Tabletop · · Score: 2

    A gamer also isn't necessarily someone who plays video games. I'm not personally much for video games these days, but I love a good game of Settlers of Cattan or Apples to Apples. I'm interested to see Wheaton's take on that forgotten group of "gamers" who preceded video gamers.

  3. Re:About time common sense prevailed! on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 1

    If there's a suspected problem they're very very screwed. Those iPads hold chart data. If the crew needs them on in the first place, they're vital to the navigation of the aircraft. These days charts only come out when the GPS has failed and they need to figure out what heading they should be on now.

  4. Re:About time common sense prevailed! on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " Seriously. Just shut your fucking iPad off for five minutes."

    Tell that to the pilots and crew who are using them now instead of lugging around a flight bag full of charts. Their iPad is the same one you can buy anywhere. If their which are sitting right in the cockpit aren't gumming up the works, I fail to see how mine magically will.

  5. Re:Morons on Looking For iPad, Police Find 750 Pounds of Meth · · Score: 1

    It's not really $35M in meth. When these drug busts happen, to make them seem more sensational the recorded "street value" of the drug is the going price sold in its smallest quantity, completely ignoring that someone moving a large quantity probably isn't breaking it up and selling it on the street themselves. That would be like saying the $10 carton of candy bars you can get at Sams/Costco is worth $50 because there are 50 bars in the carton and you can sell them in a vending machine for $1 each. In reality, it's a $10 box of candy with the potential to be resold for up to $50.

  6. Re:what's a mob without pitcforks and torches? on Astroturfing For Speed Cameras · · Score: 2

    I get the above is humor, but what I don't get is how someone goes "Cool Hand Luke" on someone. Near as I cal tell, the notable things about Cool Hand Luke are that he got the crap beat out of him by George Kennedy, he can bluff at poker, he ate 50 eggs, he successfully ran away from prison a few times, he got the crap beat out of him by prison guards, and he got shot in the neck. Which one of those are you suggesting the flash mob do?

  7. Re:Cycles on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    And what do I need a laptop interface for when I have a laptop? I think smartphones do have the potential to replace laptops, but I think that'sa lot further off than you give it credit for. To bother spending the money on a laptop interface, the interface itself will need to be sufficiently cheap and/or my laptop will have to stop filling my needs. Right now my laptop is 6 years old and still handles my workload. I can run my development software, watch streaming movies, use Office, etc. And with the aforementioned SSD installed, it can do all of that rather quickly. And I can still talk on my phone while I'm using my laptop.

  8. Re:Water utilization? on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 1

    Being a better brewer isn't a linear pursuit. Growing your own hops is a really cool thing to do if you have the climate for it, but it doesn't really indicate your knowledge of water absorption or even your general abilities as a brewer. I was being a bit dickish about it and I apologize for that but I stand behind my assertion.

    As far as calculating hop water absorption, the closest thing you'll find is the "other absorption" category in ProMash. You'd have to set that by hand each time. When I made something hoppy enough to worry about it, I always assumed 1pt or wort was lost per 1oz of leaf hops but I operate in what is now considered a very narrow range. The hoppiest thing I ever made was the Sister Star of the Sun IPA recipe. It was mindblowing at the time for having 7oz of hops in a 5 gallon recipe. I think that gets a chuckle these days in the IPA community so certainly take my advice on hop absorption with a grain of salt but it's a good starting point. I imagine hop absorption will be very technique-specific.

  9. Re:Water utilization? on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that's supposed to be 2 qts. LME ~= 6lbs.

  10. Re:Water utilization? on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 1

    For an extract brewer, adding water after-the-fact has some hop and specialty grain utilization impact but little else. On top of that, for an extract brewer you have additional volume because the extract has volume, too. 5 gallons plus 1qt of extract (the rough volume of 6lbs LME) yields somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 gallons post-boil. For an all-grain brewer, your only sugars are what you can wash out of the grain. Adding water after-the-fact generally means you got a terrible extract efficiency and will end up with a much weaker beer than you were intending.

  11. Re:Water utilization? on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 2

    Growing your own hops doesn't have anything to do with water utilization. Even if you're using fresh hops, the amount of additional moisture is negligible.

    What exactly are you trying to get out of your water utilization? Are you trying to get a fixed starting volume or are you trying to adjust pre-boil volume to nail an original gravity? BeerSmith and ProMash can both handle the former. For the latter, the only brewer I know who does that uses ProMash but I think he does his own calcs for that part.

  12. Re:The original Free as in Beer on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 1

    I use BeerSmith myself. It provides a database for keeping up with recipes, keeping track of inventory, automatic recipe scaling, a brewsheet for brew day detailing my volumes for batch sparging, strike temps for water, etc. It also gives me a good idea of how a beer might match a particular style if I'm trying for that sort of thing. I don't need all of that but I don't need to homebrew.

  13. Re:Where are the JRPGs? on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    Not to pile on, but Beyond Oasis and Legend of Oasis were also very much action-RPGs.

  14. Re:You're old. on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    "while console games were made to be not too difficult, as to be discouraging."

    Someone missed out on Ninja Gaiden, Battletoads, and the original NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

  15. Re:Should do that with Matrix 2 and 3 on Topher Grace Screens Star Wars Prequel Re-edit · · Score: 1

    A group of my friends went to see the first film before I saw it. When I asked about it, they mentioned the special effects but spent most of their time talking about the idea of the matrix. Sure, such an idea has been a staple in science fiction for decades but this was really new thing to bring to mainstream film. And they absolutely ate it up. When the Matrix became popular, I don't think the production team acknowledged exactly how much the plot contributed to the success of the first film. The first film turned Ubik into a martial arts flick. The sequels turned the back of a Chinese restaurant menu and an "End is nigh" prophecy brochure into martial arts flicks. The Matrix production team made the same mistake Gary and Wyatt made in Weird Science when they tried to make a new Lisa at the party: They forgot to hook up the doll. (And I personally don't think in the Matrix case that they really "forgot." I think they were just too arrogant to give credit that plot the credit it deserved.)

  16. Re:300 Acceptable? on Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency? · · Score: 1

    African or European?

  17. Re:80387? on Precise W Boson Mass Measurement Helps Lead the Way To the Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    There were two 80387s. The 80387DX (originally just called the 80387) which was designed to work with the 80386DX (originally just called the 80386) and the 80387SX designed to work with the 16-bit data bus of the 80386SX. You could tell them apart because the 80387SX had edge-connector pins while the 80387DX had pins on the bottom. Maybe you are confusing this with the 486DX (which had an integrated math-coprocessor) vs. the 486SX (which had no integrated math-coprocessor)? But I can assure you that both the 386SX and 386DX required separate 80387 math coprocessors and that each math coprocessor was specific to the type of 386 chip. link

  18. Re:80387? on Precise W Boson Mass Measurement Helps Lead the Way To the Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    Is it SX or DX? The post isn't explicit on that point.

  19. Re:That's why I like the basic Kindle on The eBook Backlash · · Score: 2

    Indeed. The Kindle is for people who like to read. The Kindle Fire is for people who like the idea of reading.

  20. Re:Japan and Europe is where the industry is on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 1

    I thought all TJ's had overhead lighting? My 2003 has the updated speaker bar (now 2 distinct speaker pods). There are two overhead lights built into it. Works just fine for map-reading and that sort of thing. There are also factory solutions to most of what you don't like. For example, it sounds like you may have been happier with a hard top or at the very least the full steel doors. Coleman makes a cooler short enough to fit under that tension bar (and that stupid bar is one thing I REALLY hate about soft tops). I'm also curious if you have the 4 cyl or 6. I've owned both and the 4 cyl just really isn't suited to highway travel. The 6 is great as long as you don't get the CAFE-friendly 3.07 rear end. 3.73 is ideal for stock wheels and tires.

    I'm not saying Jeeps are for everyone, but it sounds like you may have gotten a worst-case-scenario for your needs vs. what your Jeep offers. Mine has been great for the 5 years I've owned it and doesn't suffer from many of the problems you mention despite it being completely stock. At any rate, I hate to hear you had a bad experience with a vehicle I love so dearly. I hope you find something that better suits your needs.

  21. The real story.... on Computer Programmers Only the 5th Most Sleep Deprived Profession · · Score: 1

    So the difference between least and most is less than 30 minutes? The real story here is occupation makes very little difference in your sleeping habits.

  22. Re:Shale is coming on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    ""fracking" (hydraulic fracturing using horizontally injected water)"

    Only for the very loose Ma Fratelli definition of "water." (It's wet, ain't it?)

  23. Re:Substantial improvements? on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 2

    A lot of season one stories were rewrites from the jettisoned Star Trek: Phase II. They had the characters figured out. However, the characters they wrote for weren't the ones used.

  24. Re:Stop it. on Santorum Defends Robocalls To Democrats · · Score: 1

    This is ML. I think currying would be more appropriate.

  25. Re:Stop it. on Santorum Defends Robocalls To Democrats · · Score: 2

    Here's an ML function call to help you figure it out without Slashdot intervention:

    fun caresAboutYourFreedom(candidate : Democrat) = 0
    | caresAboutYourFreedom(candidate : Republican) = 0