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  1. I don't miss those days. on One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 · · Score: 1

    I worked as a university key-punch operator as part of my work study in 1982 and the noise is ingrained into my soul.

    I hate punch cards with a passion and I eneded up working with them until the end of the 80s (insurance industry).

  2. Re:Just had a meal on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    It is you.

  3. Re:"post-food consumers" on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 2

    In your opinion. I really don't care what stuff tastes like because I'm partially anosmic (adult onset) reducing my sense of smell and taste so everything tastes like dirt if it has any kind of strong flavors.

    Even before that I wasn't crazy about eating for flavors so it didn't bother me that much.

  4. Re:Chrome Remote Desktop on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    I use it to tech-support my mom's machine once every couple of months. It's not worth paying for a subscription so I guess I'm shifting to TeamViewer.

  5. Re:Why Wave? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? · · Score: 1

    My company likes WYSIWYG. Wiki is fairly arcane and training users on it can be a royal PITA.

  6. Oh so very busy... on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Graphics are way too large. I browse /. on a 1024x600 screen most of the time and it is not conducive to smaller resolutions.

  7. Re:Awesome! on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    Computer illiterate...

  8. Howard Thompson on Steve Jackson Games Shows Off Their Latest Tabletop Games at SXSW (Video) · · Score: 1

    If you really want Steve to go ballistic, ask him about Howard.

    The split between Steve Jackson and Metagames (the company that first published Ogre and the proto-GURPS Fantasy Trip) was not pleasant,

  9. Re:What difference .... on Malaysian Government Offers Free E-mail To All Citizens · · Score: 1

    I had a .mil and a .gov address for years and never had any problems with the QoS. At least no more or less than with any private providers.

  10. Re:I wrote a custom Database on Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries · · Score: 1

    The tedious part was going through the backlog of stuff I had gotten before I created the database.

  11. I wrote a custom Database on Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries · · Score: 2

    Granted database management is part of my day-job, but it really doesn't take all that long to put together. The tedious part is data entry. Movies and books weren't so bad with a imdb and Amazon scraper script. But data cleanup still takes forever.

  12. Re:Why 50km from Fukushima reactor? on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    Maybe he didn't have access to that data?

  13. Good luck with that... on MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet · · Score: 1

    I mean, really MPAA? HAve you disassociated that much from reality?

  14. When Worlds Collide on NASA Looks At Railgun-Like Rocket Launcher · · Score: 1

    I guess George Pal got it right.

  15. Re:Wouldn't want that now would we? on Games Workshop Goes After Fan Site · · Score: 1

    FUDGE is also OGL compliant, and is definitely not a D20 game.

  16. Good author choice at least. on Asimov Estate Authorizes New I, Robot Books · · Score: 1

    I know Mickey, and she is a superb choice, if something like this is going to be done. A lot worse writers could have been picked, Mickey will at least respect the original material and not mangle it.

  17. Re:The actual Xerox link on Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    That link is a lot more useful, and talks vaguely about semiconductor construction.

  18. Man-Hack Sim Mk. I on MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Indoor Robocopter · · Score: 1

    All that's needed is the saw blades.

  19. Re:HP on Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I love my 2100TN. it has survived appalling moves and falling off a filing cabinet in its 10 year life. The only real complaint I have with it is the integrated fuser drum/toner cartridge which can get expensive if you don't hunt around online. Otherwise it has done everything I've needed it to.

  20. Re:I don't mean to nitpick on Review: Champions Online · · Score: 1

    You can turn off the black outlining in the advanced graphics options. I think it looks really good with outlining off.

  21. Re:If you need it, you'll know it on The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I had to take touch typing lessons from 6-9th grade and I'll be damned if any of them stuck. I've been two finger typing now for 30+ years and all those hours of class time were a waste.

  22. Re:That's great but what about all the hidden cost on Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They designed and built it so they should know how to support it. If someone else builds one, just learning how to get that beast up and running is excellent hands on training.

  23. Snakes on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 5, Funny

    A couple of Ball pythons in the cable runs, and those rats will be history as will anybody poking around where they're not supposed to...

  24. Very, very fast... on goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell · · Score: 1

    The response time is extremely quick and the functionality is more then sufficient for my needs at least.

  25. Re:Of course! on Are Optional Ads Worth The Trouble? · · Score: 1

    The player response on the CoH boards has basically been, "Sure, why not?"
    The environments in CoH/CoV are immersive and having real-world advertising on the billboards (and some people have mentioned inside the various enhancement shops and changing Wentworth's to Christie's as well...) would add to the immersive effect. I would opt in just for the added realism.