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Comment: Yes, depending... (Score 1) 646

by Y Ddraig Goch (#32965576) Attached to: Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens?
For work, coding, I like the mate/anti glare finish. It reduces the glare AND fingerprints from people pointing to things on the screen. For home use I do a lot of digital photography and I find the glossy screen to be crisper and better saturated than the others. Also I find the the color calibration works better as well.
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Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion 93

Posted by kdawson
from the it-takes-braaains dept.

Comment: Re:To that I'll add (Score 1) 441

by Y Ddraig Goch (#31655824) Attached to: Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job?
I agree, mostly. However, I'm at at point in my life that I'm trying to change jobs, and move to another area. EVERY job I've looked at requires a Bachelors degree minimum, and most want a Masters. I have an Associates Degree. I can't even get through the HR filter. I'm a damn good programmer, I've worked with those so called graduates and most can't even write a simple piece of 2 way matching code in COBOL let alone in SQL or C++. One individual I worked with would spend hours searching through code he could "hack" and make it do what he wanted instead of sitting down and just writing what needed to be written. My first compiled language was FORTRAN IV on an IBM 360

Comment: Don't blame the guilty party, no... (Score 1) 1343

by Y Ddraig Goch (#31443020) Attached to: Accidental Wii Suicide
She shot herself "after her stepfather left his loaded Smith & Wesson handgun out on a table"! 3 year olds play with what ever they find laying around, I know I've had two of them. If they had not had a Wii, and the circumstances were other wise the same the same tragedy would still of happened. DON"T LEAVE LOADED GUNS WHERE CHILDREN CAN FIND THEM AND PLAY WITH THEM!

Comment: Re:Not Bad Math At All (Score 1) 356

by Y Ddraig Goch (#31167370) Attached to: "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver
True, however propane is a by product of crude oil refining, although now it is optimized. Still my point is that the closer you get the "work" to the energy source the more efficient the machine can be. There are too many factors for us arm chair nrg guru's to consider. I don't want to even think of all the wages, labor, and cost of the devices used to obtain the raw material in the first place. What is the carbon foot print required to construct the drilling rig to extract the crude oil? What is the cost of the refinery to refine it? You see where I'm going. To say that the electric vehicle is more green because it uses electricity is misleading at best.

Comment: Re:Not Bad Math At All (Score 0) 356

by Y Ddraig Goch (#31159154) Attached to: "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver
"ALSO, you people are forgetting to mention the carbon footprint the electric one has: is it's power source a petro power station? Or a coal power station?" Not to mention that first the fossil fuel was converted to electricity, then stored chemically, then re-converted to electricity which is finally turned into work. With a propane powered unit the propane is converted directly, or more directly into work. The fossil fuel is combusted, producing heat which is converted to rotational energy which geared down to drive the machine. The question is which is more efficient? From a consumer, the operator of the the resurfacer, most likely it is the electric version. However, when all losses are taken into account, I suspect the more direct approach may be more efficient. Just my $0.02

Palm Pre and WebOS Get Native Gaming 49

Posted by Soulskill

Pirates as a Marketplace 214

Posted by Soulskill
from the marrrrrrrket-share dept.

Comment: 7 Pounds is 12 weeks (Score 1) 978

by Y Ddraig Goch (#30032264) Attached to: Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss?
while not fantastic it is in the ball park. I've been losing weight at a rate of about 1-2 pounds per week for the past 15-20 weeks. I've lost about 28 pounds at a rate of about 1-2 pounds a week. When you crash diet your body goes into "survival mode" so you loose the weight but as soon as you stop the diet, your body goes into "storage" mode to store up provisions for the next "famine". Best to watch how much and what you eat AND get moderate exercise, and increase your metabolic rate. As long as your intake is less than your output you will loose weight. You didn't gain it overnight why should you try to loose it overnight.
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Command & Conquer MMO a Possibility? 159

Posted by Soulskill
from the +1-sandbag-of-blocking dept.
