Comment Re:GM is the Computer Associates of the car indust (Score 1) 438
More than likely a horse analogy (when you think about it), but I have no firm proof.
If anyone has solid evidence of the etiology of the phrase, please do share.
Comment What this thread needs . . . . (Score 4, Funny) 438
Is a decent car analogy.
Comment Ignore all the Geek posts (Score 1) 122
And while you are at it, don't reinvent the wheel.
Contact museums that have some experience with this sort of thing, such as the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Find out what they do. They would be more than happy to help.
Comment Re:At The Risk (Score 1) 178
The Mongol Invasion took place in Eastern Europe, not the Middle East.
You of course meant the Crusades, more specifically the Third Crusades.
Comment Re:I'd love this job! (Score 2, Informative) 419
And yet you misspelled "paid." As an AS kid, you fail.
Submission + - "Universal Jigsaw Puzzle" Hits Stores in Japan (ameba.jp)
Riktov writes: I came across this at Tokyo toy store last week, and it's one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Jigazo Puzzle is a jigsaw puzzle, but you can make anything with it. It has just 300 pieces which are all just varying shades of a single color, though a few have gradations across the piece; i.e., each piece is a generic pixel. Out of the box, you can make Mona Lisa, JFK, etc, arranging it according to symbols printed on the reverse side. But here's the amazing thing: take a photo (for example, of yourself) with a cell-phone, e-mail it to the company, and they will send you back a pattern that will recreate that photo.
This article is in Japanese, but as they say, a few pictures are worth a million words. And 300 pixels are worth an infinite number of pictures.
Comment Re:Loss of trust (Score 1) 736
The damage is done: nobody will believe ANY temperature data any more. Personally, I'm tacitly accepting of AGW, but even I will no longer put any value on that data. Even if somebody tries to reconstruct this data from other sources, I'm not going to believe it. The political influence is just too strong.
Nice projection. You, Chemisor, will not believe any temperature data any more. The rest of the world will make up its own mind. Belief has no place in science anyway. That belongs to religion.
People like you have an influence through the political process, but you have no influence in the realm of scientific research. You can pick and choose what to believe. We scientists will continue to do research and publish our results using established scientific guidelines accepted by scientists all around the world, and our results will be made public. You, Chemisor, have the option of ignoring these results, cherrypicking the bits which fit your worldview, or trying to take a step back and analyzing the data like a scientist and drawing a rational conclusion. We cannot do this for you. Good luck.
Comment Re:Good start (Score 1) 76
Yes, but it's not open source and it doesn't come with 20 hours of tinkering included.
Comment Re:Good start (Score 3, Insightful) 76
If you divide the price for the number of games (not only Wii games) that it can run, the x86 is *much* cheaper.
Scientific Journal Nature Finds Nothing Notable In CRU Leak 736
eldavojohn writes with an update to the CRU email leak story we've been following for the past two weeks. The peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature has published an article saying the emails do not demonstrate any sort of "scientific conspiracy," and that the journal doesn't intend to investigate earlier papers from CRU researchers without "substantive reasons for concern." The article notes, "Whatever the e-mail authors may have said to one another in (supposed) privacy, however, what matters is how they acted. And the fact is that, in the end, neither they nor the IPCC suppressed anything: when the assessment report was published in 2007 it referenced and discussed both papers." Reader lacaprup points out related news that a global warming skeptic plans to sue NASA under the Freedom of Information Act for failing to deliver climate data and correspondence of their own, which he thinks will be "highly damaging." Meanwhile, a United Nations panel will be conducting its own investigation of the CRU emails.
Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 187
Yep. It's so easy to go talk to Dell about junking MS.
More winning ideas ?
Comment Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score 0, Redundant) 705
Hyperbole called, and wants this entire thread back. Irony could not be reached for comment.
Comment " In other words, it's not entirely dead." (Score 1) 166
I'm not dead yet!"
Comment As a teacher . . . (Score 1) 146
Perhaps the survey should have been titled: "Those who like to write tend to be better writers."
The survey designers have put the cart before the horse. The students are not better writers because of their use of new technology, but use new technology because they are better writers and well . . . like to write.
Think about it. Have you ever met a blogger that didn't enjoy writing?
I see this all the time in my classroom. The kids who write better produce more finished copy, and write more often as well. When we type our papers in the computer lab the better writer will complete one paper in the time their neighbor (the poor writer) has typed one sentence. . . and changed the font 43 times.
Comment Re:Questions? (Score 1) 540
I hope they aren't using the statistics on this stuff for anything important - talk about a vastly biased sampled. The majority of people don't know what DNS is, let alone how to change the DNS server.
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