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  1. overload my ass on Choice Overload In Parallel Programming · · Score: 0

    I don't remember reading anywhere that you have to pick all of them. Just go through the list like "ignore, ignore, ignore, aha I know that one" and pick one that you like or are good at and use that one. Then you ignore the rest and I just don't see where the overload happens. Maybe, possibly if a company is dumb enough to let every programmer just do whatever and nobody can read and understands each others' code and nothing works together cuz they all chose something different then yeah, overload time but that's just idiotic.

  2. Re:All Inclusive Tropical Vacations on Titan's Tropical Weather · · Score: 0

    hey I know! Let's have em all fly us there so we can have a 10th anniversary party there! woooo! Bring your swimsuits ppl!

  3. need? on The 700MHz Question · · Score: 0

    Excuse me...business needs? More like business wants. Actually let's just shorten it up to business greed. There's absolutely no need for any business that's gonna bid. It's not like they'll go bankrupt without it. They're all doing just fine, they just want to hold the spectrum hostage with their technologies for more money as a monopoly.

  4. Re:Colors sure look different... on Virtual Robots Fooled By Visual Illusions · · Score: 0

    I was hoping someone would mention that. If it used a true digital camera that literally takes a plain, unedited picture over and over at a given rate to "see" then it wouldn't be fooled. If it used the technology used in a standard handheld comsumer camera, it would be fooled because the way those interpret color is completely different. It's sort of contextual so if a lot of blue is around green, it looks bluish and if a lot of red is around it, it looks reddish. My guess is they were using a digital camera because it's cheaper and easier with less for them to build.

  5. Re:And? on Halo 3 Causing Network Issues · · Score: 0

    you're right. No other university or network has reported problems. It's probably just them and their bad design. Even if it wasn't, let's take a vote. Is Halo 3 more important or are Unix systems more important?

  6. Re:I'd rather go Amazon on Amazon MP3 Vs. iTunes Music Store · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I absolutely hate iTunes and I'm no big fan of Apple either. They're the Starbucks of the computer world with the flashiness and severe overpricing just to pay for a brand and extra prettiness. But despite my recommendations, my dad who's a DJ went with iTunes with the ridiculous DRM that went so far that they actually have their own filetype. I told him it was insane but he just downloads songs, burns them to a CD, then rips them on the player computer and they're completely un-DRMed as far as I can tell. And that barely loses quality since MP3 to CD quality to top quality MP3 isn't too bad. So yeah it's pretty fast and pretty nice. But no DRM in the first place is good too.

  7. Re:Predicting short term failure and long term suc on Olin College — Re-Engineering Engineering · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's just like programming. Every company is turbo-stupid in only taking interns and people with 5+ years of experience for any real programming job. So the fresh grads write their own software and a big company buys and and then they get hired.
    I like engineering being like that too cuz then you get more inventions. It takes a company forever to invent something new with all the budgeting and paperwork and meetings and higher ups and blah blah blah. If engineers can't get hired, they just invent something and sell it and they do it waaaaaaaaay faster.

  8. anyone else notice this? on IBM Seeks US Patents For Offshoring US Jobs · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they're sucessful in holding up that first patent, that means no other companies could do it!!!! I hope they win when someone sues them or they sue someone over it. Then you'll only get cheap foreigners that don't speak english well when you call IBM support. I'm all for this one!

  9. A deep thought on What's So Precious About Bad Software? · · Score: 1

    You know, not all code looks or works so pretty on open source proejcts either cuz there's always people that write bad code. But guess what happens then...someone says "well that's crap" and fixes it. You can't fix a ton of code when you're just sitting on it.

  10. Re:Magnetic Field Detection? on Bird's-Eye View May Include Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    that's how they aim their lasers....anyway bacteria use iron magnetite to navigate and sense direction too.
    and to the other dude like waaaaay up there yeah, this is super old news and it has in fact been posted on slashdot before a year or two ago.

  11. Re:So what happens if the magnetic field changes? on Bird's-Eye View May Include Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    then we all die from cosmic radiation and birds are the least of our worries

  12. Re:The answer: on Powerful Blast Confuses Astronomers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    people say that cuz your heart supposedly stops or beats irreguarly breifly when you sneeze due to a massive blood pressure surge from the contraction of the diaphragm muscles so the bless you part was started because it's like you're hoping the person's heart keeps beating. Mine has every time I did it lol. So anyway my point is, he doesn't have a physical heart and can't die anyway so yeah lol.
    And my 2 cents: there's a theory that Soft Gamme Repeaters aka Nuetron starts that occassionally burst like that can be in our own galaxy without destroying or damaging us and can and do easily last 5 milliseconds. Why is everyone so confused? It's on wikipedia and a show on the Discovery channel!

  13. Re:go with google on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps? · · Score: 1

    you know it's primarily a web service, right? Bloated, super-legacy supporting crazyware is an XP thing.

  14. Re:Not permanant then? on Hacked iPhones Confirmed As Bricking With Latest Update · · Score: 0

    I gotta comment on that quote cuz it stood out to me too. Hey I've got an idea (that I read in the last article about this!) How about you don't download and install the update? The last article specifically said it's not mandatory. It's only for if you want the latest software and fixes and blah blah blah, just stick with what it is now.

  15. go with google on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I say go with Google. If their map system suddenly changes they'll at least be smart enough to include legacy support or do something remotely responsible and there's no way that their entire map system would just disappear. As for Microsoft, they change their names and systems more often than I change my pants and if suddenly all of that new Microsoft Live crap disappeared, nobody would be surprised at all. Just think how many new Microsoft inventions/projects/experiments there were that either didn't do well enough so they cut them or they did really well and they cut them anyway for who knows what reason.

  16. well duh on Cyber Crime A Distant #3 Priority for FBI · · Score: 0

    Maybe field agents don't do cybercrime a lot...office ones do. The field ones just seize computers and make arrests and a little investigation and stuff

  17. dumb question on First 'Quantum Computer Chips' Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    This doesn't make sense to me cuz I'm not a quantum physicist. If the qubits are in two states at the same time, how do you determine that the data was transfered and stored on the second qubit like that said? Wouldn't it always appear the same because it's always in both states at once?

  18. Re:End nerd persecution! on Washington State LUG to Hold "Nerd Auction" · · Score: 0

    lol just think how mad you'll be if the auctionmaster person shows up in a purple suit with leopard print edges and a cane. Come on, doesn't this sound just like technical pimping? lol

  19. finally on MMO Bans Men Playing As Women · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Everyone knows that 99% of female players in any game are just sneaky little greedy losers who like to find some little 14 year old and charm him into giving her all kinds of free stuff. I've seen it in 3 different games I've played. But it's kinda stupid cuz the actual females playing as females do that too.

  20. Re:I'm an American, so forgive my ignorance... on Bloggers Versus Billionaire · · Score: 0

    wait I'm confused and I read like half the article. Wasn't the first guy from Britain and the rich guy from Uzbekistan? I dunno about their currency but if it wasn't translated, he probably has like $10,000 USD. But with most english articles, he probably does own the equivilant of 1 billion USD so that's why they said it. But then that begs the question...why doesn't he just buy Uzbekistan? It's a small, poor country and he's got a billion. I'm pretty sure that would buy the entire country.

  21. Re:A perfect example of patents destroying innovat on Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement · · Score: -1, Troll

    What are you talking about?! If someone invents something and is patent whoring it so nobody else can use it to compete, that CAUSES innovation not stomps it. Just innovate and invent something better. A bunch of companies trying to steal each others' technology so nothing ever improves is the opposite of innovation. Then you just get a bunch of knock-off crap. If dialup and dsl technologies were perfectly open patents for everyone to use, we'd still be using them because companies would be stuck on "Wow that dialup service is awesome and everyone's getting it! Let's copy it!" With people paying royalties and getting permission to use those inventions, they just say screw it, we can do better and invent cable and fiber and microwave transmission etc.

  22. Re:And so, the incumbent telcos smugly feel... on Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement · · Score: 0

    so if I invent something totally awesome and new and amazing for sending communications over a medium it wasn't intended to be sent like a way for people to talk to each other using their thoughts then I should immediately lose tons and tons of revenues to everyone else cuz I can't horde my own idea in patent form and actually make some money? I'm not saying screw competition cuz I'm gonna milk my invention dry either. Competition would simply be someone inventing something better. If one single company held a patent for DSL and horded the price then forget DSL patent hording, just invent cable and fiber internet. Of course, that didn't happen as far as I know, it's just an example.
    At least this time it's a company that's actually using a patent suing another company for using their patented technology instead of some middle of nowhere, dead end, patent troll company that would never use their patents for anything real suing just to make money.
    Plus don't you know the history of phone companies? They're all just gonna split and merge so it's all the same money anyway. I'd be very surprised if Sprint didn't use the money they just won to buy Vonage lol.

  23. Re:Assumptions are bad, uncheckable assumptions wo on Is Good Scientific Journalism Possible? · · Score: 0

    So do it like an advertisement and just state suggestive facts and let them make their own natural conclusions in their head and call it a report or study instead of a theory paper or persuasive essay. That way nobody can said "you said ____" but they're all thinking it because of what they read. If they really want to know if it's true, they'll test it themselves if possible and then you don't have to worry about 100% backing it up.
    Or you could just stop making assumptions altogether and prove whatever you're assuming or find someone else who proved it since, you know, you're not supposed to make ANY assumptions in a scientific paper unless it's a complete theory and you're not trying to prove anything.

  24. Re:Yes, but... on Gartner Touts Web 2.0, Scoffs At Web 3.0 · · Score: 0

    lol what's that? You just download the executable and run it locally?

  25. mistake on The Quest For Glory · · Score: 0

    He said nobody came up to him asking for a quest then mentioned that he failed to hang a yellow exclamation mark over his head. Well duh, even I would have walked up and talked to a guy dressed as a wizard with a yellow exclamation mark over his head. That's practically an internationally recognized common symbol.