jchonan
JC needs a vacation
jchonan

Not directly related, but if you haven't seen it you might like the religioustolerance website.

Probably the big touchscreen in the middle. I imagine that some PC+Fiona games would sell the thing... BattleTech, for instance, with the Window/HUD view on the PC and use the Fiona for damage control, comms, and radar.

23 July 1989 (age 22)

I was going to make this point and note that it's actually the original purpose of VLC anyway; That people use it to simply play videos locally is an accessory use, not its original purpose.

There are also people (myself, for instance!) who browse while at work on nasty locked-down browsers that have no Flash installed.

I wonder, did the agency buy the manual or is it an internal document? Would they be willing to let you use snippets to write an article for Jez, possibly?

Original from Flickr ( [bit.ly] ), photographer suggests it was attacked by a rabid motorcycle before they decided to go ahead and finish it off.

It's unrelated to this case, but my grandmother holds the opinion that women shouldn't run for office, and that she'll never vote for a woman because "they think with their hearts and not their heads." She also dislikes it when women work, since they should be at home taking care of their families.

So, any chance we'll have one of these in a giveaway soon? :)

I've always had a background suspicion that the surge R2 got while first working on Amidala's ship maybe upgraded his emotional/mental state, similar to Johnny Five from Short Circuit.

Same problem with terrorism fears, y'know. You fear terrorism, so you put draconian privacy-violating laws in place, put up a smoke and mirrors security theatre, and the actual terrorists don't have to do anything... they've won without lifting a finger.

Given that he's a Baptist minister, I imagine there's a good chance he'll rebut with the whole "Adam was first, Eve was just the spare rib" thing.

You don't want to eat them. See [on.io9.com] - especially the paragraph under "Keep the Pepto-Bismol Handy".

The majority doesn't.

I totally need a "dispatch Troll Hunter" button for the Internet.

I make far too many mistakes myself to have an attitude to share with people who make their own mistakes.

I imagine his point was that "iPad users don't know" instead of "iPad users doesn't know". It's a fairly common mistake, though, so don't feel too bad.

I'm more curious if they have a high switching speed transistor that works at temperatures low enough to allow for superconductivity. Having teensy tiny wires is fine, but if you can combine super-high speed switching and superconductors with nearly no resistance (read: energy loss via heat) during switching, that