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    Image of deciBels deciBels
    12/11/09

    In reply to Every College Student Should Just Buy a Typewriter
    My dad just used an analog tape recorder. There is always hand writing notes. I never took notes by computer as it is REALLY difficult keeping up on a computer when 90% of your notes are big equations and proofs.
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    12/11/09

    In reply to Every College Student Should Just Buy a Typewriter
    Typewriters still have some use... mainly if you need to type on a form that's still not available in electronic format. Getting a form to align in a typewriter is easy - hoping the type from a computer will print correctly on a page is foolhardy.

    As for the video... odds are it was a prank or frat initiation or the like.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12/11/09

    In reply to Every College Student Should Just Buy a Typewriter
    What class is this, Douchebaggery 101?
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    12/11/09

    @Alfisted: No. I'm pretty sure he already took that one.
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    12/11/09

    In reply to Every College Student Should Just Buy a Typewriter
    heh. I had an English Lit professor in high school who insisted the computer would be the death of good literature, and that all good authors would continue to use typewriters.

    He "forced" us to type papers on typewriters, if we didn't have one, there were always a few in the library. My classmates were always in there retyping an essay that had been printed from computer, on the typewriter. If the prof couldn't feel the text impacted into the paper (like the output from a laser printer), we got an 'F'.

    At the time (16 years ago), my father worked for HP. One trip to his office and I had a nice HUGE daisy wheel printer to use. Ahh, good times.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/11/09

    @Lizard_King: Good thing that kind of shenanigans probably wouldn't fly these days.
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    Image of Mikestan Mikestan
    12/11/09

    In reply to Every College Student Should Just Buy a Typewriter
    I remember banging out late night book reports on my dad's typewriter when I was a kid.

    (making a mistake toward the end of the page was the worst feeling in the world)
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12/11/09

    @Mikestan: Ever heard of White Out?

    The later models of typewriters actually had a erase function! How's that for fancy?
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    12/11/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: You must not have worked on a typewriter very much. Mistakes at the end of the page sucked because the paper would inevitably be released from the typewriter when you tried to fix them, realigning a page was nearly impossible. My dads typewriter luckily had the erase function, but at the end of the page it was not locked down well and the vibrations would still screw it up. Word processors were almost as bad since it would type one line at a time.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12/11/09

    @Mayor McRib: There are ways around that. First, use better support at the back of your sheets. Second, don't type so low on the page. Keep a healthy margin.

    Sure, re-alignment was a pain but can be done and done quickly with practice. I've done it myself many o times.
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    Image of Mikestan Mikestan
    12/11/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: The eraser function never worked right.

    And try telling an 8 year old to wait for white out to dry at 1 am while he is trying to finish a book report for school due that day.
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    12/11/09

    @Mikestan: That's called bad parenting, not bad typewriting, skills.
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    Image of Mikestan Mikestan
    12/11/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: Wow your the biggest douche canoe I've come across today. Congrats!
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12/11/09

    @Mikestan: Is there another way to look at how you let an 8 year old 1. Wait until the last minute to do their homework 2. Stay up so late?
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    Image of Anunnaki Anunnaki
    12/11/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: You must have grown up with extremely strict parents that held/dragged your hand all the way through high school. Learning the importance of taking responsibility on your own (by learning from doing it "the wrong way") turns out to be much more valuable.

    You're a douche.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12/11/09

    @Anunnaki: Wow, I can't believe there are so many slacker parents out there. No wonder America is going down the toilet. I didn't need dragging. There's a thing called discipline, ever heard of it? In fact, every wealthy person in the world knows of it.

    You guys wouldn't happen to be these parents would you?[gizmodo.com]
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    Image of Anunnaki Anunnaki
    12/13/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: Oh, give me a break. The only rich people whose parents had anything to do with their wealth are not the respectable kind of rich person. I'm not going to get into an argument on the internet about parenting, but insulting somebody out of the blue because they mention something that disagrees with your personal values is, in fact, douchey.

    Get over yourself.
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    12/13/09

    @Anunnaki: As if good parenting habits such as not letting your kids stay up late and not procrastinating are up to conjecture. Perhaps you need to get your head out of your ass before you start the name calling.

    I just can't get over how some of you are actually defending the indefensible. I'm just calling it as I see it. Letting an 8 years old work so late to finish a report due to procrastination is in fact the real douche-y thing to do as a parent. If you don't see it that way than you're in fact just as guilty. No two ways about that.
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    Edited by Noobs-R-Us at 12/13/09 2:17 PM Noobs-R-Us was starred Noobs-R-Us was unstarred
    Image of Anunnaki Anunnaki
    12/13/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: I think it's pretty funny that an internet troll who totally missed my point tells me my head is up my ass, while simultaneously proclaiming his opinions to be absolute fact, and using words like "conjecture" in the wrong context to sound smarter. Let me attempt to make this clearer.

    I'm not saying your opinions on what good parenting entails is wrong (and no matter how strongly you feel about your opinion, it is just an opinion, not fact. Even physicists who come up with well-supported, generally accepted theories still recognize that they are just theories).

    This is what happened in this thread:

    1. Article intended for laughing at a joke involving typewriters is published.

    2. Mikestan comments, reminiscing about memories involving typewriters.

    3. You comment, smugly remarking that most typewriters come with "an eraser function now. :O"

    4. Mikestan concurs, but says that he thought the eraser function never worked right, and mentions in passing that he once stayed up until 1am as an 8-year-old to write a book report.

    5. You recognize something that disagrees with your personal values, and then insult his parents, because "OMIGOOOOOD SOME GUY ON THE INTERNET'S PARENTS ALLOWED THEIR OWN PRECIOUS CHILD NOT ONLY STAY UP LATE, BUT PROCRASTINATE ON THEIR HOMEWORK TOO?! I MUST LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I THINK THIS INTERNET PERSON'S PARENTS ARE BAD. AMERICA IS GOING TO SHIT BECAUSE OF BAD PARENTS LIKE THEM, AND ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS EQUALLY BAD."

    Once again: Get the fuck over yourself.
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    Image of pevans34 pevans34
    09/17/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    This story just emblazoned the image in my mind of "space blimps", and mustached pirates armed with steam powered single shot rifles... in space
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    09/24/09

    @pevans34: ...Last Exile?
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    this is cool, but can't launch from a coast, since there's a good chance it'll end up in the water
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    If this sort of thing becomes a growing trend, I fear our metahuman citizens that zoom through the upper atmosphere to stop evil madmen from destroying the earth will have a serious issue with debris.
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    Image of UgoKliker UgoKliker
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    Yeah, but wait for Homeland Security to pay them a visit. Just musing, but with the cheapness, and the ability to move a payload 20 miles, don't you think that this could be a viable method for drug trafficer's to move small loads of coke or other valuable cargo across the border. They could track the shipment, and have people in place to retrieve it. No need for chancing the border inspections. Come to think of it, rocketry would have its uses also.
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    09/14/09


    @UgoKliker: They already smuggle drugs and cash this way.
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    09/14/09

    @craighyatt: Either that or they are smuggling lots and lots of big balloons. Wouldn't be too concealed though...
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    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    That is wicked cool! It occurs to me that if you were willing to use disposable parts and sacrifice picture quality, you could strip down a pay-as-you-go camera cellphone and hack it (java app) to MMS or email photos back to a server. Strip off the case and extra stuff to save weight. You could probably add some cheap telemetry like temperature and pressure through the accessory port... take a look at www.sparkfun.com for sensors. Just sacrifice the phone... if anybody finds it and tries to make calls you are only out whatever the cost of the phonecard. That idea eliminates GPS and the recovery cycle to make the whole thing cheaper. You might get away with conventional balloons for a test flight given the reduced payload, but I expect you'd need a weather balloon for the kind of altitude these guys achieved. Anyway, just a sketch of an idea for any aspiring middle-schoolers out there. :)
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    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    09/14/09

    @craighyatt: Woohoo! Launch your shit and leave your trash just where it lands. Perfect.
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    09/14/09


    @NurseDave: pffft. yeah, like it's going to make a diff.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    Why didn't they just use a monkey with an oxygen canister?
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    09/14/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: In Russia, the monkey makes humans go in rocketship.
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    Image of JayhawkJake JayhawkJake
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    I've done two or three of these kinds of launches, I'm president of a club at the University of Kansas that does these. We are going to be launching a rocket from a balloon hopefully by the end of this year. It's nice that they did it for cheap, but the only real place they save much money is radios. We use insulating foam and mylar to build our boxes.
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    Image of wingbatwu wingbatwu
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    I would launch at night to see more stars, or maybe a "sunset"
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    09/14/09

    @wingbatwu: while a nice idea, i don't think there would be enough light for the camera.
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    09/14/09

    @deliciousburglar: use a flash.

    /sacasm
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    09/14/09

    @deliciousburglar: a sunset would still be cool, also maybe on a night with a full moon.
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    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    This is why I want to go to MIT when I grow up.
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    09/14/09

    @Curves: I used to think the same thing. Then, as I approached 40, I realized I may never grow up.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/14/09

    @FrankenPC: We have no control (outside death) of getting older, but we can certainly keep our immaturity as long as we want.
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    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    Hm, I actually do feel like dumping $150 on this. I can print the pictures and put them in my bathroom. Then when people use the bathroom and come back and wonder what website I got those awesome space pictures from...I can tell them they were mine.
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    09/14/09

    @ELPARTO: good call but why the bathroom? Perhaps over the fire place would be more of a conversation starter. I wouldn't want people making bathroom faces at my hard work. Although I do see me putting my diploma in the bathroom just for kicks.
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    09/14/09

    @Mess Yo Self!: Diploma goes right over the toilet for that extra touch of class.
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    Image of ELPARTO ELPARTO
    09/14/09

    @Mess Yo Self!: Oh, if I've found anything it's that sticking pictures in the bathroom is a great conversation starter.

    For instance, I have a creepy picture of Thomas Edison currently in there. It used to sit on my desk while I was in college, but when I moved into this place there was a nail in the bathroom wall...and I just happened to be holding the picture at the time.

    Everyone asks me about it when they're done doing their business. Especially women since it faces opposite the toilet.
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    09/14/09


    @Mess Yo Self!: It's this picture BTW
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