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Re:Dorm Room Design and Construction on Friday August 26, 2011 @11:06AM (#2928691)
Actually, he mentions the base was taken from another chair.

I found two Herman Miller Eames chairs being thrown away. The bases were missing, so I pulled two chrome chair bases off some old desk chairs and mounted one of the Eames chairs onto a base.

Re:Senators seek crackdown on "Bitcoin" currency on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @01:54PM (#2634202)
Actually, bartering is already covered in the US tax code. You're supposed to claim the fair market value of the goods/ services you received as income.

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html

Re:Ask HN: Diet/Fitness program resources? on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @05:00PM (#1536536)
Starting Strength is a good resource for learning proper weightlifting form and routines. http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...

There is also a wiki covering some of the material with videos: http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Starting_Strength_Wik...

Re:How to lose weight: What worked for me, with graphs on Monday June 21, 2010 @03:58PM (#1449864)
Hacker's Diet Online has a nice graphing utility. It's much easier to see progress on the average than with daily fluctuations.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet

Re:HP explains why printer ink is so expensive on Monday May 24, 2010 @05:22PM (#1375727)
Exactly, and while you're at it, don't ask your barber if you need a haircut.

I'm sure the low ink warning is justified somewhere on the grounds of ensuring consistent quality, but as long as the prints come out good enough, print away.

Re:Ask HN: Which Firefox addons you can't live without on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @12:18PM (#1361397)
All-in-One Gestures saves me a good bit of time. It's the one addon I find myself missing when I'm not on my computer.

Using the scroll wheel to switch between tabs in the bar = priceless.

Re:Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @02:18PM (#1358445)
The issue with having individual fishing companies determining policies is that it invokes the tragedy of the commons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

This is addressed in part by the Law of the Sea Treaty, but this only addresses waters out to 200 nautical miles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_Sea_Treaty

Living resources past this zone are free game. If any fishing companies pull out of a region to allow the populations to grow, it only opens up opportunities for other companies to come in.

Re:Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers on Friday April 23, 2010 @04:42PM (#1289417)
And now you have two problems.
Re:Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @05:37PM (#1116264)
The speeds are 1 gigabit connections. The Dark Knight Blu Ray was approx. 35GiB. At 1 gigabit connections speed it would take 280 seconds in a best case scenario.

That doesn't account for any network overhead and assumes the storage medium can write > 125MiB/s (Pretty much discounting all standard platter drives)

The 5-10 minute figure is reasonable.

Re:iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising on Thursday January 28, 2010 @11:32AM (#1084216)
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Re:A sexy, secure visualization of password field input on Thursday November 05, 2009 @04:18PM (#924796)
Re:Announcing Duck It, a new way to search on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @06:31PM (#920513)
Speaking of tabs, I often use the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab. While you can left click anywhere on the text to open in the current window, the only place you can middle click is on the small link itself. This feels a bit inconsistent.

Also, the search box is too small for entering anything more than a few words.

On the positive side, the expanded text summaries are nice to find relevant content faster.

Re:The SSD Improv on Monday October 26, 2009 @02:27PM (#903795)
This is just a glorified digital photo screen with embedded controls in the bevel. It has limited internet connectivity through preloaded applications and no browser. Hardly a fair comparison to a real multi-touch tablet, even if it did make it to market first

HP's product sheet shows all of it's features (caution, 5MB PDF) http://www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/pdf/ky616aa.pdf

Re:Sprint to Offer Free Minutes to Any Mobile Phone on Any Carrier on Thursday September 10, 2009 @01:25PM (#815701)
This is really great news for the Sprint data plan users. I have the unlimited everything for $99, but I mostly call other mobile lines. With this change I can drop my plan down to the $69 bracket and still be fine on minutes. The free minutes are added to your plan at the start of the billing cycle if you have one of the unlimited data plans.

With an increase in the use of Skype and Google voice which circumvents the minute counts anyway, Sprint made a good choice to push through with this.

Re:Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD on Monday August 31, 2009 @12:50PM (#796257)
Full, print formatted version of the article: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3631