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  1. Re:So really... on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    he's referring to first-time customers getting a freebie

  2. Re:Earth based? on Sorry, But Lasers Aren't Taking You To Mars Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    or maybe faint eh?

  3. Re:Earth based? on Sorry, But Lasers Aren't Taking You To Mars Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    just put a big superconducting ring around the sun, that can twist up a big streamer of plasma and then make it lase in ultraviolet. "they had a weapon bigger than worlds. Hindmost, I think Im going to feint."

  4. Re:Real Talk on Sorry, But Lasers Aren't Taking You To Mars Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    hey kid, we went to mars in the 60s and 70s but never left the farm

  5. Re:The Best Technical Guide? on Ask Slashdot: Good Technical Guide To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    damn, you windows weenies don't know much about alternative operating systems. yes there are plenty of proprietary OS now and 20 years ago that run on the PC besides windows. 20 years ago would be OS/2 Warp, various SCO unix, several realtime OS..

  6. Re:The Best Technical Guide? on Ask Slashdot: Good Technical Guide To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    that's false, there are other OS like eComStation or Solaris. whether those are useful for your applications is your problem

  7. and 4000 years ago on In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it was rising faster than it is now. It was those middle eastern goat herders and their SUVs!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:They stopped funding denial on Scientists Urge American Geophysical Union To Cut Ties With Exxon (insideclimatenews.org) · · Score: 1

    false, you have short memory span

  9. Re:The situation is indeed dire on In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    the minute amount of extra energy won't really matter though, that's the point. The sea won't rise two feet in one day, and those "poor natives" on islands essentially at sea level were going to be under water anyway in 400 years if not the next 75. alarmist nonsense like the impossible scenarios Al Gore presented just hurt the cause of doing anything meaningful about pollution

  10. Re:Forcing Electronic Transactions on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    you will if there are still government goons forcing you to recognize it as legal tender under threat of force. don't kid yourself that government won't still be around even if our electricity and fuel disappear.

  11. Re:Forcing Electronic Transactions on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    you misspelled "banking cartel with governments in their pockets"

  12. Re:so for some simple thing like having text error on Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds · · Score: 1

    systemd does in fact eat strerr, shill

    and putting it into a database I need special tools to read is a horrible thing

  13. Re:This is were we should be going on Editing Genes In Human Embryos Doesn't Mean Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    this would be barrier to colonization? I don't think it would

  14. Re:Good, but maybe not important on Data Written With "Superman Memory Crystal" Could Last Billions of Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    really most the common old file formats for dbase, foxpro, wordperfect, ms works, lotus, etc. have imports into modern tools. LibreOffice for example does dbase and wordperfect

  15. Re:Good, but maybe not important on Data Written With "Superman Memory Crystal" Could Last Billions of Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    how old the wordperfect version? there are import filters going back to 5.1 (released 1989) for microsoft office

    Ingres is open source, GPL licensed. I'd use cvs export feature of older version and import assistant of new

  16. Re:They stopped funding denial on Scientists Urge American Geophysical Union To Cut Ties With Exxon (insideclimatenews.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    go back and look, IPCC climate models have not panned out five years later. we can't model climate usefully

    what value has Obama's renewable energy policies had? zero, that's what

  17. you misunderstand, C has standard functions for I/O, BLISS does not

  18. Re:And how do you decode that data? on Data Written With "Superman Memory Crystal" Could Last Billions of Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    yet a CD would be readable in the 18th century by microscope, and certain data would be decipherable even on a music or VCD (titles and other metadata, etc.)

  19. Re:Good, but maybe not important on Data Written With "Superman Memory Crystal" Could Last Billions of Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    actually, what you are asking is trivial and done regularly. dbase III goes into Microsoft Access, for example. my 1980s compac discs play file too

  20. mobs don't collaborate or not collaborate

  21. Re:Keep it up. You'll invent robots soon enough. on Programming Languages For Coding the Physical World · · Score: 1

    can't be any harder than spoon bending

  22. Re: so for some simple thing like having text erro on Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds · · Score: 2

    unbuffered output is so I can see the dying gasps of something that crapped out

    I admin hundreds of systems, it's a use case

  23. Re:So POOP then on Programming Languages For Coding the Physical World · · Score: 1

    so I could basically somehow programmable control with something like a POOP extruder? where would I get the POOP? Is there a biodegradable source of POOP near me? How would I ensure repeatability and regularity of my POOPing?

  24. Re:Keep it up. You'll invent robots soon enough. on Programming Languages For Coding the Physical World · · Score: 1

    wow, we could call things created by such machines as Cyber Numary Created or CNC. I think CNC machining could actually be viable simply by using D/A converters and stepper motors on traditional mills, lathes, breakers, etc. or maybe it's just crazy talk.

  25. Re:so for some simple thing like having text error on Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds · · Score: 1

    that's for some buffered output on the console

    how about unbuffered in a file?