Comment Re:Indiana (Score 0) 182
West Virginia is so sparsely populated, I think only wireless access would make sense for 90% of the state.
Comment Re:The economic aspects of Rome are more complex (Score 1) 122
OK, I can play this game. You are wrong. No need for examples, references, or anything like that.
Comment Re:The economic aspects of Rome are more complex (Score 1) 122
How is the rich not paying taxes a right-wing paradise?
Comment Re:Grow Ops in Marin? (Score 1) 494
Of course, he is being funny.
Why don't we have all traffic signals controlled by a person. Think of the jobs we will create!!!
Comment Old (Score 1) 111
How old in the galaxy again, I get confused.
Comment Re:Not really. It's the LIMIT that's equal to 1.0 (Score 1) 1260
I always used
1/3 =
2/3 =
1/3 + 2/3 = 3/3
Comment Reasons for facebook (Score 1) 280
My kid was in the hospital _everyone_ wanted updates. This makes it very easy.
Take some pics/videos of my kids. I can post them. Other folks can check them out if they want to.
This way I don't have to e-mail spam.
I like to be able to follow the happenings of friends without e-mail/phone.
All that being said I rarely update and spend about 30 minutes a week on facebook.
In my mind that 30 minutes is well worth it.
Comment Re:Drinking Game (Score 1) 461
Troll? Come on that was funny.
Comment Re:I finally could tell my friend to go to hell (Score 1) 461
I want to use OS/2 back in '95 back IBM priced it too high for me($250 I think).
Ironically, MS is doing the same thing with Windows 7, simply priced too high for me. So I stick to XP and linux.
"Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way 142
astroengine writes "Assuming you had an interstellar spaceship, how would you navigate around the galaxy? For starters, you'd probably need a map. But there's billions of stars out there — how complex would that map need to be? Actually, Samuel Arbesman, a research fellow from Harvard, has come up with a fun solution. He created the 'Milky Way Transit Authority (MWTA),' a simple transit system in the style of the iconic London Underground 'Tube Map.' (Travel Tip: Don't spend too much time loitering around the station at Carina, there's some demolition work underway.)"
Comment Re:I CALLED IT. (Score 2, Insightful) 1713
Overpriced for you. Products are not over-priced if they sell well, which apple products appear to do.
One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman 232
dragonturtle69 writes with this story, short on details but interesting: "These sea slugs, Elysia chlorotica, have evolved the ability to gain energy via photosynthesis. Forget about genetic modifications for sports enhancements. I want to be able to never need to eat again — or do I?"
Antarctic's First Plane, Found In Ice 110
Arvisp writes "In 1912 Australian explorer Douglas Mawson planned to fly over the southern pole. His lost plane has now been found. The plane – the first off the Vickers production line in Britain – was built in 1911, only eight years after the Wright brothers executed the first powered flight. For the past three years, a team of Australian explorers has been engaged in a fruitless search for the aircraft, last seen in 1975. Then on Friday, a carpenter with the team, Mark Farrell, struck gold: wandering along the icy shore near the team's camp, he noticed large fragments of metal sitting among the rocks, just a few inches beneath the water."
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361
darthvader100 writes "Gizmodo has run an article with some predictions on what future space battles will be like. The author brings up several theories on propulsion (and orbits), weapons (explosives, kinetic and laser), and design. Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie."
Comment Re:Perspective... (Score 1) 1061
Are you trying to use logic with someone who thinks killing people driving an SUV is a good idea?
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