c4ffeine - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How can you... (Score 1) 452

by c4ffeine on Thursday September 10, 2009 @07:43PM (#29384581) Attached to: Future of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Looks Bleak

"every species becomes either space-faring, or extinct"

Which species are you using as examples in this statement?

You've been modded insightful but I think the modders don't understand the meaning of that word.

There are no examples of any species becoming "space-faring" while there are a lot of species here on earth that have been around for millions of years (us included) and which have no indications of going extinct any time soon (read for several more million years).

This planet will become uninhabitable eventually. Therefore, any species that does not develop spaceflight and leave the planet will die with it.

Comment Re:Rockets vs Scramjets (Score 1) 131

by c4ffeine on Sunday September 06, 2009 @10:15PM (#29336211) Attached to: Mach 6 Test Aircraft Set For Trials

Take a look at the SABRE engine sometime. It's a hybrid rocket/turbojet/ramjet engine designed specifically to solve the problem you're referring to. I'll admit that it still needs a lot of further development, but it's the approach that I think is most likely to be practical.

Fortunately, Wiki seems to have a moderately accurate overview of the project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Engines_SABRE

Comment Re:Why not? Ascii is everything. (Score 1) 220

by c4ffeine on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:53PM (#27426453) Attached to: Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx

n##n, /" /## (__/ ##_ ___ | ``` `\ \ / / |\ || /_,-\ / # ||| >> > jgs //_( //_( All Glory to Ascii Ponies! Our only enemy is the lameness filter itself!

Comment Re:The gist (Score 1) 200

by c4ffeine on Monday March 16, 2009 @06:58AM (#27208281) Attached to: Utah Senate, House Pass Jack Thompson's Game Sales Bill

Hey, at least it didn't get anything wrong or flame anyone...

Comment EditPad (Score 1) 1131

by c4ffeine on Monday February 02, 2009 @08:29AM (#26692807) Attached to: Favorite text editor?

At work, I have to deal with rather large (often >2GB) log files. I've found very few editors that don't choke on files that large. So far, my favorite has been the EditPad series.

Anyone else know any editors that can handle text files of that magnitude easily? I'm always looking for options

Florida to Scrap Touch Screen Voting? 221

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 02, 2007 @01:42AM from the dangling-chads dept.

AlHunt writes "Florida Governor Charlie Crist is calling on the Florida Legislature to spend $30M to replace the troublesome touch screen voting machines with an optical scan system that allows a voter to mark an oval next to a candidate's name before slipping a ballot into an electronic reader."

Submission + - Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

Submitted by

w1z4rd

on Thursday February 01, 2007 @08:47PM

w1z4rd writes: "Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

The lobby group is funded by ExxonMobil and has very closes ties to President Bush"

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