Chris Ashton 84 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:offtopic, but (Score 1) 225

by Chris Ashton 84 on Monday March 02, 2009 @06:17PM (#27045325) Attached to: Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic

Slashdot's rss feed didn't correctly link to the article, so maybe people are having problems getting here.

Comment Re:Fuel economy (Score 1) 1114

by Chris Ashton 84 on Monday October 13, 2008 @04:12PM (#25360519) Attached to: Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving?

I've been watching gallons per hour, which has never gone down to zero... There are a few other things I can see such as throttle position or ignition timing. I've never seen any indication it's actually stopping fuel flow / closing the throttle / stopping the ignition. Also, my engine is a very poor brake - it seems more likely to rev up then slow the car down on any significant hill, which I'd think could be another sign it's still powered.

Novell "Forking" OpenOffice.org 370

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 04, 2006 @07:46PM from the patent-office-dot-org dept.

l2718 writes to mention that In the wake of their recent deal with Microsoft, Novell has announced a new version of OpenOffice.org which will support Microsoft's planned Office formal, Open XML. From the article: "The translators will be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product. Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source and submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project. As a result, end users will be able to more easily share files between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, as documents will better maintain consistent formats, formulas and style templates across the two office productivity suites."

Stupid Engineering Mistakes 592

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 01, 2006 @07:42PM from the back-to-the-drawing-board dept.

lee1 writes "Wired has bestowed on us a list of the ten worst engineering mistakes of all time. We have the St. Francis Dam designed by 'self-taught' engineer William Mulholland, which burst and wiped out several towns near LA; the Kansas City Hyatt walkway collapse; the DC-10, and more, but my favorite is the one I'd never heard of: a giant tank of molasses that ruptured in 1919 and sent 'waves of molasses up to 15 feet high' through Boston, killing 21."

SCOTUS To Hear Patentable Thought Case 394

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 19, 2006 @02:45PM from the get-out-of-my-head dept.

skayell writes "The Supreme Court of the United States will hear a landmark patent case involving whether or not thoughts and relationships are patentable. Michael Crichton's essay in the New York Times attempts a thoughtful summary of Metabolite's primary assertion: they not only own the connection between homocysteine levels in the blood and vitamin B12 deficiency, but also any thought connecting the two."

Journal Journal: Xbox 360 for one of my Slashdot friends 3

Journal by Work Account on Thursday November 24, 2005 @12:21PM

Hi all.

I have an extra Xbox 360 Core system that I would rather sell to one of my Slashdot friends than some random dude on an auction site.

Email your best offer in the $700 range to me at upstandingpatriot@yahoo.com

I also request that whoever gets it from me sends a pic back of you or your kid playing it so I get some joy out of the hours I stood waiting in line in the cold while sick :)

Comment How can you think about this NOW?! (Score -1, Offtopic) 370

by Work Account on Saturday November 19, 2005 @02:49PM (#14071403) Attached to: Is Wi-Fi Ruining College?

Get your priorities straight people!

We may use cell phone traffic to monitor auto traffic!

Clearly we need another post about it!

So in case you missed it the last four times...

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/14 3247&tid=158&tid=215&tid=193
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/07 45248&tid=126&tid=215&tid=158
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/ 01/159241&tid=193
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/16/076217 &tid=215&tid=126

Journal Journal: Monitoring traffic through cell phone use 1

Journal by Work Account on Saturday November 19, 2005 @02:23PM

In case you missed it the last four times...

Journal Journal: TGIF 2

Journal by Work Account on Friday November 04, 2005 @09:58AM

I hope your Friday is going well!

Journal Journal: Damn Slashdot janitors 1

Journal by Work Account on Tuesday November 01, 2005 @10:24AM

For some reason the janitors have my home IP or subnet blocked from posting comments so I was unable to comment and participate in the MNF pick'em last nite.

Instructions: Post a comment below expressing your disgust with a particular way this site is run

Journal Journal: Winner of this week's NFL pick'em & Pick'em for MNF tonite! 1

Journal by Work Account on Monday October 31, 2005 @12:19PM

Work Account (that is me) won this week's NFL pick'em challenge 6-4, besting the 2nd place finisher ShadowWrought.

Pick'em for tonite's Monday Night Football game but be sure to include the total # of points scored. Whoever picks the winning team and has the point total closest to the real total (going over is OK, this is not the Price Is Right) wins.

Monday, October 31, 2005
9:00 pm
Baltimore 2-4
Pittsburgh 4-2