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  1. Re:TFA Looks Sketchy on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    The useful work is not only through heat. If you inject essentially a liquid and ignite it, even without any heat, it will nearly instantly vaporize, which increases the pressure, plus it decomposes into smaller molecules, which also increase the pressure.

    A car engine isn't a straight up heat engine because it extracts energy from the chemical bonds of the hydrocarbons.

  2. Use screen on Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing beats screen for terminals.

    I use irssi + screen so I can be in some of my irc channels all the time, and connect to it from wherever I can run an ssh client.

  3. Re:Optimism on OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store · · Score: 1

    I find it funny you emphasized 'really', considering most research shows our brains to be terrible at context switching:

    http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html
    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000691.html

  4. Re:Fog Creek on Tech's Top 10 Workspaces · · Score: 1

    I don't think he'd want to be lumped in with most of those. One of the most important aspects to developer productivity is privacy and being free of interruptions. When Joel had his office space developed he made sure to stick by that. In most of the pictures in TFA you see a bunch of open space with a bunch of people with laptops crammed in. Good for social lives, bad for software development.

  5. Whats wrong with a ton of 1u servers on A New Concept in Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    How is a few racks each packed with 80 1U servers, louder than a jet engine, requiring 500 MW of cooling, 30 miles of cable and a million LED's not sexy?

    perhaps that just me...

  6. Re:Don't we do this already, all over? on IBM Patents Pricing Motorists Off Highways · · Score: 1

    It would only be a true reversal if the market took care of all aspects of the roads, and weren't built with money taken at gunpoint (taxes).

  7. Re:Nothing is stopping you. on The Biggest Roadblocks To Information Technology Development · · Score: 1

    No, thats the beauty of Free Software. There are plenty of 'open source' softwares that you are not allowed to fork or distribute.

  8. Re:For the uninitiated.. on New Project To End Stupidity Online · · Score: 1

    Why is there a box around this comment? Or am I just an idiot/AOL n00bzor?

  9. Re:outsiders on Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    I thought the #1 rule of cryptology was "only the key should be secret"

  10. Re:Who flipped the off switch on the website? on The Top Ten Off Switches · · Score: 1

    The better question, is what did it look like? Got any revealing pics?

  11. Re:Equation Editor/Matlab on Stix Scientific Fonts Reach Beta Release · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try using openoffice's math editor, it blows away Equation Editor. Equation editor sucks, requires too much clicking. OpenOffice's can be done entirely with the keyboard, so it is much faster. Mathematica's entering system is pretty good too. Accomplished Tex writers can churn out equations as fast as they can think them.

    With all the other systems, there is a learning curve, but you are trading a little bit of work now to learn them versus a lot of wasted work over the course of being lazy and using equation editor. Time to step up to the plate.

  12. How would that work? on Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Considering that viruses are essentially bundles of proteins, and this laser trashes the virus, how would the laser not trash proteins in cells potentially containing the viruses?

  13. Re:Absolute Bull on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure considering bases accept protons, bleach would not be an oxidizer :)

  14. Re:Damn... on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    If you don't like being a thief or using proprietary software then yes.

  15. Re:Yes, but does it have... on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I wish it had an option that raising one window raised them all.....

    I supposed I could patch it myself but thats too much work :(

  16. Re:which bankruptcy? on Novell to SCO - Pay Up · · Score: 1
  17. Re:What a maroon on Justice Department's Bio-terror Mistake · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean $100,000

  18. Re:Why on IBM Challenges Microsoft with Free Office Suite · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why don't you learn to spell?

  19. Re:Electricity on Gates Successor Says Microsoft Laid Foundation for Google · · Score: 1

    Ben Franklin did not 'invent' electricity.

  20. Re:One time pads people, why is it so hard? on Time Running Out for Public Key Encryption · · Score: 1

    One time pads are not good for the internet because you need an already secure channel to transmit the keys. Public key encryption was good because it allowed the creation of a secure channel despite transmitting information openly.

  21. This thread is worthless without videos on StarCraft 2 Terran Gameplay, Single Player Info · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This thread is worthless without some videos. Give me videos!

  22. Re:What serious person will trust "Feisty Fawn"? on Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess · · Score: 1

    Because "Whistler", "Longhorn", "Tiger", "Panther" are all more professional?

  23. Re:Artists Truly Devastated on Music Industry Shaking Down Coffee Shops · · Score: 4, Informative

    The purple onion is still there, they just moved a block over to a new location.

  24. Re:I kinda doubt it on Explosives Camp · · Score: 1

    If man wasn't designed for killing man, then why does pretty much all of human history involve people killing each other regularly?

  25. Re:I am amazed on GPL Code Found In OpenBSD Wireless Driver · · Score: 1

    I thought that open source was about sharing code.
    You thought wrong. Open Source is merely a development methodology. Free Software is whats about sharing.