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  1. Re:Garmin Vivoactive HR on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    The VA3 is still going through the usual growing pains that all Garmins do but I'm very pleased with it. I still use a FR735 for races and intervals but treadmill runs and any other activities like strength training, yoga, hiking, etc. I use the VA3

  2. Re: News for nerds? on First Hidden Electric Motor In Cycling World Championship (cxmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down to find a "This isn't news for nerds" post.

  3. Re:Doubtful on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    The (in all senses) brings in things like having to deal with all of the other fluids besides the fuel that have to be monitored, maintained, and disposed of when they're replace like coolant and engine oil.

  4. Re:What's performance enhancing? on Pro Gamers To Be Tested For Doping · · Score: 1

    I suck at pool until I have a shot or two of tequila.

  5. Re:I don't get the point of this thing... on Watch the US Navy Test Its Electromagnetic Jet Fighter Catapult · · Score: 5, Funny

    now if we go with a destroyer or smaller craft that has electric propulsion, what you'll find is that they all have diesel generators in them. That is they burn GASOLINE... and the gasoline produces electricity and that electricity then drives electric motors.

    I hope you never buy a diesel powered car.

  6. Re:Obvious guy says on Ask Slashdot: Programming Education Resources For a Year Offline? · · Score: 1

    Your last line had eight
    Your formatting is wrong too
    Put your snark aside

  7. Re:I don't see it on Machine Vision Reveals Previously Unknown Influences Between Great Artists · · Score: 1
    It's more than just that the two paintings share 3 or 4 similar items. There's also where they lie within the composition.

    Then there's the overall composition of the piece. The overall balance is similar although one biased to the right the other to the left, and the similar trait of something slanting into view at the left edge at about the same angle.

    The subject matter doesn't even have to be the same in order to draw similarities. They just used those examples because they illustrate the point of the article the best. Had they tried to use more conceptual things like space or light it would have elicited even more "I don't see it" comments.

  8. Re:Why the fire suit and helmet? on Long-range Electric Car World Speed Record Broken By Australian Students · · Score: 1

    A) Because it it's and experimental vehicle that's made as light as possible and if shit goes wrong you can get hurt. B) It's an FIA sanctioned event and proper safety gear is required.

  9. Re:ukraine! on Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week · · Score: 1

    Don't worry they will soon. Then there will be a bunch of people bitching about how it's not news for nerds.

  10. Re:Wait so now on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    Except that while they bought the property when the area was a slum, in order to attract the higher income tenants they would have to put money into the building. Said money most likely wasn't spare change they had lying around so those improvements would be financed so if the neighborhood did revert back to low income after a new round of urban flight the new residents wouldn't be able to pay the rent required by the landlord to cover the debt he incurred sprucing the place up.

  11. Okay, I'll say it. on Google's Comical New Social Networking Patent · · Score: 1

    How is this patentable?

  12. Re:rant from a gun nut on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1
    I used to put 8 out of 10 shots in a man sized target from 500 meters with an M-16A1 when I was in the Corps, and the grouping was smaller than the distance from heart to hind quater of a deer.

    Most people don't take shots from nearly that far away when hunting. If you can't be within two feet of your point of aim from normal hunting ranges the problem isn't with the rifle.

  13. Re: Who Gives a Fuck, Which Shares Better? on Playstation 4 Vs Xbox One: Which Shares Better? · · Score: 1

    Natalie Portman covered in grits.

  14. Re:Global Warming is good for something. on Researchers Regenerate 400-Year-Old Frozen Plants · · Score: 1

    Not that I'm a warming denier, or think that things shouldn't be done to make our species impact on the environment smaller. But you do realize that there wasn't a glacier there 400 years ago right?

  15. Re:What a name. on Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship · · Score: 1

    Although no fan of George the First, I see nothing wrong with naming an aircraft carrier after a president who was a naval aviator. Now the USS Ronald Regan, that's another story.

  16. Re:All the newer IBM training courses... on IE Standardization Fading Fast · · Score: 1

    I've been taking some online classes through http://coursera.org/, when I log in from work where I'm only allowed to use IE on Win7 I get a big banner telling me to upgrade to a modern browser.
    I can stil view the site, access the video lectures, take multiple choice quizzes, and most everything else but for some reason it won't allow me to submit essay type quizzes.

  17. Re:People use Red Hat? on Alan Cox: Fedora 18 "The Worst Red Hat Distro," Switches To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I remember when Mandrake use to show pictures of bulldozers and other heavy equipment while the packages were installed.

  18. Re:Obligatory Simpsons Ref on IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary · · Score: 1

    So it's OK if I shoot my friend in the face?

  19. Re:UPDATE on John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police · · Score: 1

    Now the name of the governor in Blazing Saddles makes sense to me.

  20. Re:FLAC on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1

    That's what he meant by adding a 60 Hz hum.

  21. Re:Their vulnerability is not demonstrated on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    Have you ever served in a branch of the US armed forces? Granted its been more than 20 since I was in the Corps, but we were always trained to know each others jobs, and having junior Marines take leadership roles.

  22. Re:poor on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 1

    Once had a guy at work do an entire engine system schematic for the E-2C in Paint because the project manager was too cheap to buy an Autocad seat. It was very impressive, but took four times as long to complete, and was a bitch to edit.

  23. Re:Who cares? on How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini? · · Score: 1

    My son and I still use G4 Luxo lamp type iMacs as DAW machines, and experience less latency than the P4 based PC my band uses which has speciality audio gear installed in it.

  24. Re:The most used ten chords on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Podcasts killed the industry on Despite Drop In Piracy, French Music Industry Still In Decline · · Score: 1

    When the recording industry was first getting started it was sheet music publishers that got all up in arms over the new "disruptive" technology that was eating into their sales. However they seemed to have adaptive fairly well over the last hundred years or so.

    The recording industry will survive. Just not at the levels they once did. Lather, rinse, repeat for the next major shift.