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  1. oh you haven't heard about the systemd Transfunctional Desktop (STD) ? Your existing apps merely need some changes now to use the mandatory STD API or they won't run, and once modified can't run anywhere else like lesser OS or lesser distros (defined as territory not having any Poettering piss on it)

  2. Re:Better Question on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Just pull the red lever all the way back https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Re: I seriously doubt... on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    No because you just change them out, you should put in thinner less viscous winter electrons when the cold season starts, otherwise the motors will strain more trying to the the juice flowing

  4. Re:Horrible English Makes for Bad Math on Scientists Produce Graphene 100 Times Cheaper Than Ever Before (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    not quite but it's 100 times as free, that is to say a hundred times freer. are we clear?

  5. Re: Graphene is for Cows on Scientists Produce Graphene 100 Times Cheaper Than Ever Before (gizmag.com) · · Score: 0

    you write a lot of words but the only meaning I'm gleaning is "I am a unhappy cow. Moooo! Mooooo! I'm jealous of happy cows. MOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

  6. Re:Very surprised... on Japanese Rocket Launches Its First Commercial Satellite (upi.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Title is misleading, Japan has been launching satellites since the 1970s, making commercial satellites since the 1980s. Just not launching commercial satellites itself

  7. Re: Look at the bean counters for your answer on Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Engineers make those rule books, politicians can't. see my other comment

  8. Re: Look at the bean counters for your answer on Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, no, politicians and "evil governments" aren't smart enough to make building codes. Instead, a non-profit organization called the ICC makes building standards that states in the USA and also many countries adopt

  9. Re:Many a young engineer.... on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    they go into the material to change hole charge distribution. how do you imagine semiconductors with holes act as having charge carriers MUCH MORE MASSIVE than electrons?

  10. Re:Many a young engineer.... on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    wrong, the electrons move from many directions to fill a hole, but the hole current vector has direction from positive to negative. you have seriously mistaken mental model of the process

  11. Re:Many a young engineer.... on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    It's certainly an old meme, was doing it in IRC in the 90s. There was even a text to "moo" encoding script that could be decoded back into text by receiver with script but without that varying lengths and variations on "moooo!" were displayed

  12. Re:Many a young engineer.... on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the electron moved but there is *no continuous electron flow*, instead holes flow. Holes are real, holes flow, holes can make current

  13. Why are manned flights part of your criteria for space progress in the near future? Smarter to probe for now rather than waste money prematurely, while we can develop useful tech for moving and sustaining humans in space: e.g. bioengineering, efficient solar panels, ion engines and other thrusting systems, nanotech, etc.

  14. Re:"Delusions of Space Enthusiasts" on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because he chooses legitimate targets worthy of contempt, such as string theorists. Don't shoot the messenger, don't let the truth butthurt you

  15. Re:The guy aint no Sagan... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not true, asteroids could be brought near earth by incredibly cheap process that merely would be time consuming. A little nudge in the right place at the right time

  16. Re:More than just money on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Those small boats do not make a global commerce systems, they're not relevant to discussion. Vikings in north america were more like our moon landings than a space colony that mines and manufacturers.

  17. Re:Look at the bean counters for your answer on Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    the syntactic uses of cases is a fairly modern practice, for most of history it was more a stylistic choice. hence, i merely choose to at times ignore trendy fads.

  18. Re:Vacuum tubes handle EMP's better on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vaccuum tube radios were damaged by EMP in the 1962 Kazakhstan Soviet tests, as were diesel generators (shorted windings).

    Facts are our friends.

  19. Re:Many a young engineer.... on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    What conceptual debate? Hole flow is a real thing

  20. Re:Look at the bean counters for your answer on Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? (dice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    a big correction is coming, outsourcing mission critical systems can end very badly, especially if it involves countries with huge black markets for stolen data with no real legal venue to pursue. yeah India is prime example of what I'm talking about, and if you farm out to any former soviet country their mafias will make a killing on your data too (as aside sometimes that's not a pun)

  21. correct

  22. over half the earth's population will not give two shits about electricity if that happens, what with their starving to death and all

  23. only said phrase once on Netflix Remaking Lost In Space (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Only once in the third season did The Robot say "Danger, Will Robinson"

    other times he said "warning, warning" or "danger, danger"

  24. Re:Fusion is for cows. on French ITER Fusion Project To Take At Least 6 Years Longer Than Planned (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Cows do run on solar energy. So do steak and milk eaters by running on cows. Mmmm! Mmmm! Cows are edible solar energy stores. Mmmmmm!

  25. we already have a fusion reactor in the sky that put out more energy than 1000 earths could use. we don't need to be wasting money on making one here. all the energy needs of the USA could be met with collection in desert, and transported over the continent on UHVDC lines. That's tech we have now, not some dream tech.