Comments on: Technobabble https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/ Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:40:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Rusty https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498935 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:40:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498935 “Do not visit web sites if your computer is running Windows”
Typical moronic linux fanboy comment.

]]> By: Joshua Zelinsky https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498934 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:44:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498934 Note that the version of the Antikythera Mechanism is not quite a replica. Since the pieces only come in certain sizes they couldn’t get the exact same gear ratios and so had to modify some of the mechanisms to get it to work.

]]> By: Jim Cliborn https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498933 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:31:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498933 One might be able to realize a lot of teachable moments simply by having a class build a LEGO antikythera computer: astronomy, mechanical engineering, mathematics, physics. Sort of a Wikipedia-type meander through all of science as you touch on one topic after another all the while playing with LEGOs. I wonder if L.A. Unified bureaucrats would go ballistic at the suggestion, but hey, who doesn’t love LEGOs?

]]> By: Paco https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498932 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:05:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498932 I would expand that to: “do not turn your computer on if it is running Windows…”

]]> By: Azkyroth https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498931 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:50:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498931

Greg – I could be wrong – often am – 🙂 but that looks to be a problem only for IE and well, anyone silly enough to still be using Internet Explorer as their default browser deserves whatever happens.

Or at all. There are vanishingly few sites where it’s required – even the ones that are deliberately broken for users of “mud browsers” can usually be accessed with whatever clunky, “THAT’s all they give you for settable preferences?!” derivative of Mozilla happens to be floating around lately.

]]> By: Rosie Redfield https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498930 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:42:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498930 Fortunately the ‘religiosity gene’ the article discusses is purely imaginary.

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498929 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:43:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/29/technobabble-1/#comment-498929 Greg – I could be wrong – often am – 🙂 but that looks to be a problem only for IE and well, anyone silly enough to still be using Internet Explorer as their default browser deserves whatever happens.

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