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  1. Re: Incredibly bad study by thomst · · Score: 1 · on Listening To Music May Be Damaging Your Creativity (newatlas.com)

    DontBeAMoran opined:

    The style of music will impact everyone differently. The current mood of the person and the tasks to accomplish will also alter the impact of the music.

    Simply going with "lyrics that can be understood, lyrics in another language and no lyrics at all" is an incredibly short-sighted choice of parameters for such a study.

    Did you read the actual study, or just TFS's warmed-over rewrite of NewAtlas's almost-indistinguishable-from-the-original summary of the Lancaster University press release about it?

    Because judging an experiment's design from a xerox of a xerox of a dumbed-down-in-the-first-place press release about it lends your critique something more than a little short of credibility.

    Then again, this is Slashdot, so I'm going to go with Door # 2 ...

  2. Re:too little, too late by thomst · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk)

    Zaelath noted:

    Yeah, but then.. Notepad++

    Personally, I've used Alan Phillips' Programmer's File Editor in place of Notepad for almost 20 years now.

    MS made it harder when they killed off support for the .hlp helpfile format, but there are ways around that - and, in addition to a pretty useful feature set, the program IS free, after all ...

  3. Re:too little, too late by thomst · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk)

    Zaelath noted:

    Yeah, but then.. Notepad++

    Personally, I've used Alan Phillips' Programmer's File Editor in place of Notepad for almost 20 years now.

    MS made it harder when they killed off support for the .hlp helpfile format, but there are ways around that - and, in addition to a pretty useful feature set, the program IS free, after all ...

  4. Results not reproduced so far by mccalli · · Score: 4, Informative · on Boeing Joins In Anti-Gravity Search
    I heard this on the BBC's Today programme this morning. They had a professor from my old university, Lancaster, on explaining his disbelief.

    He pointed to the fact that an Irish university (sorry - don't remember which) had spent quite some time reproducing the experiment, and that this re-running of the experiment had failed to verify a single claim.

    I'd love this to be true. Sadly however, at this moment I'd have to put myself in the non-believer camp.

    Cheers,
    Ian