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  1. Re:Abstraction on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well a lot of the fantasy films have a medieval themes to them. So it make sense that they would have an English accent. Because American, Australian, Canadian... Accents are post Medieval times, so you want to have an accent from an area that experience the medieval culture. You could use an accent from an other nation however. Their accent is more from not naively speaking the English language and putting their native languages inflections into the language. So for a movie that is in English British English will seem the most authentic.

  2. Re:That seems weird to me on Scientist Who Oversaw OPERA's Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Study Resigns · · Score: 2

    We live in a litigious world. Where Science is RIGHT ALL THE TIME!!! And if anyone is wrong, they have to quite. Because people never ever learn from their mistakes and it is better to fire after a mistake was made and hire and retrain a new person, then to actually find new processes to stop the same mistake.

    I think others have came up with the idea, but they made a mistake in implementation and promptly got fired.

  3. Re:In Other words... on Studies Link Pesticides To Bee Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 0

    Of course if you follow your logic. We would ban everything until we can prove it is safe. Pesticides are used to keep bad bugs off the crops, It was formulated with due diligence to not kill the bees. However there is some preliminary research that may mean there is an unknown side effect, and it should be studied. However this public statement that this Hypothesis may be a major factor, will only cause the wrong people to action. People who have bought the pesticides will still use it until they are told to stop, the same with producers. And they will fight tooth and nail until they got real evidence. In the meantime the Stupid Idiots will be protesting and creating a ruckus and taking the Hypothesis as fact, and if evidence proves that the Hypothesis is wrong then it is part of some conspiracy, in the mean times companies will need to retool just to silent the Idiots.

  4. In Other words... on Studies Link Pesticides To Bee Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Although the studies don't directly study the Colony Collapse Disorder, the scientists believe these pesticides are likely a contributing factor."

    We have a hypothesis so we want people to panic and give us funding so we can actually see if there is a direct relationship between Colony Collapse Disorder.

  5. Re:like palm on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    The WebOS hacking to get iTunes support was the biggest turn off to me. As a possible customer that told me that Palm Didn't want to be professional and act like a bunch of babies because they couldn't license iTunes. So as a customer I will have the feature one day, then a week later it will be gone, then the week after that it will be there.

  6. Re:like palm on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 2

    You don't have to live with your photocopier.

    If work gives you a phone, the company will often allow leeway for you to use it as your primary cell phone even for personal use. It is a perk if you are going to be on call for 24 hours a day, you might as well not have to pay for cell service. You can use your work phone for some personal use too.

    So the ability to play games, browse a better web, and do non-business things too really made alternatives more attractive.

    For the longest time, the Blackberry while a business phone had better toys and then toy phones.

  7. Re:Yeah yeah on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    Because the call to action is called after the Scientist makes an Hypothesis not when they make the conclusion.
    How many laws are put on the table before these is strong evidence. Banning chemicals in plastic without conclusive evidence that it is causing health problems. Cellphone regulations because someone who is a Scientist says that Cell phones may cause cancer.

    The problem isn't as much the Scientist but the Psuto-Scientist who did OK in their High School science class. Who take everything from a Scientist as fact, vs. Asking for their data, and checking it out. And wants to be the guy who said I told you so, if something was actually harmful.

  8. Re:This actually happened to me on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    Because it is an aspect that shouldn't be part of your decision making. The Laws for Business and Hiring are more based on a Meritocracy where your Skills and Achievements in life is what makes you more of a match for a company. vs What you have been born with and you cannot change.

  9. Re:This actually happened to me on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    After reading this article, I realized I once made the mistake of asking about their nationality. I wasn't using it as a factor to hire him or not. He put on his resume that he spoke an other language, I was more interested in what dialect he spoke, as my family speaks the same language. I didn't press him for the answer, I was more checking out his personality, and I meant it as part of a friendly conversation.
    The point of this little story is to point out sometimes people who are interviewing are not up on the details of the rules. And it is often just as uncomfortable for the interviewer as it is for the interviewee. Sometimes it is OK to let things slide too.
    However after deciding to refuse the answer and they are pressing or you choose the answer and the nature of the interview changes then you are probably getting into legal territory.

  10. Re:I don't think so. on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    Well the problem is if you have a one sided view of the problem then the solutions given are often overly simplistic.
    I got cut off driving to work. I wish people would get off the road. Well I know exhaustion fumes are bad for people how much does it effect the environment.... Oh that much, it is enough to call for action... However there is little work done to come up with alternatives that are viable to the problem at hand and offer the public a good choice.

  11. Re:Let's hear it for the 1%ers! on In Your Face, Critics! Red Hat Passes $1 Billion In Revenue · · Score: 1

    It wavers back and forth.
    But if you compare Apple having only a small subset of products it is more impressive.

  12. Re:I don't think so. on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    The Scientific Method - and how it could be used to control an agenda.
    1. Make an Observation - I observe that people are doing something I don't like them doing.
    2. Ask a Question - Is this thing that they are doing bad for other things.
    3. Form a hypothesis - I think what they are doing is hurting this system we all need to live.
    4. Conduct an Experiments - Check to see if there is a negative effect on the system.
    5. a. If experiments coincide with your hypothesis accept the idea. - Tell people who is doing that, that they need to stop because they are hurting X and if you don't you must be an Idiot because I am a Scientist and I am right!!!
    5. b. If the experiment fails - Check for an other system that it may effect (still stand by your guns and make sure your hypothesis will be proven correct)

  13. Re:I don't think so. on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    Well from the Mid 70's I think it actually started more from the mid 60's. A lot of Liberal Hippies went to College to avoid going to war. By the Mid 70's these Left Leaning students who flooded the education system back then got their PHD's and became the majority of the Professors for these schools. Then they teach with their left leaning mindset to an other generations... This really over powered the Educated Response to an Issue to be left leaning and research on topics have been focused on proving the Left Ideals vs. the Right Ideals. So Scientists are having more of Left wing philosophy of looking for problems in our culture, our environment or anything that needs to provoke change in how we live. Lets get a grant to see how Meat Eaters Socialize vs. Vegetarians... So we can find that Vegetarians are some how better people and as evidence to get people to stop eating meat.

    It isn't really that much doubt the Conservatives are distrusting science as their experiments are designed to prove a point, and less effort is towards proving the other side.

    Now the obvious answer is well you are conservative you should go to school and get a PHD and do the Science your way... Which sounds good in theory however if you are in an environment where you are the outsider... You are not going to like you job much.

  14. Re:It's their network on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 2

    Expulsion though is very overboard. Back in my Days If a Kid got caught speaking profanity. They Usually got a stern talking to, perhaps detention. If they Mouthed off to a teacher or an other adult they would get detention to 1-2 days of suspension. Expulsion was reserved for kids who have been considered too dangerous to be in school.

  15. Re:Let's hear it for the 1%ers! on In Your Face, Critics! Red Hat Passes $1 Billion In Revenue · · Score: 2

    Well It isn't the same war.
    Red Hat has distance itself from its consumer business. So they are not competing with Apple who has distance itself from its Server Business.

    For Microsoft how much of their business is in B2B sales. That would probably give a closer number.

    I like Apple, I like Linux and I like Microsoft (Lately). They seem to fill different Niches.

    Apple - Has gotten really strong on Mobile. While I have been dishearten with OS X and Macs Apples mobile Offerings are still top of the industry.
    Microsoft - They finally got Windows 7 to do what they promised us for Windows 95. And I find it a good Desktop OS, even better then Macs, or Linux.
    Linux - If I have a back end server. I want it to be a Linux server. Linux can be stripped down to the basics and do what it needs to do and do it well without all the touch and freely stuff Microsoft gives us.

  16. Perhaps... on In Your Face, Critics! Red Hat Passes $1 Billion In Revenue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps there is a billion dollars worth of revenue from the hobbyist and Student Market?

    What Red Hat did which was shift away from trying to compete on the Desktop Market (Microsoft bread and butter) and focus more on the Server Market where Microsoft while a major player has more of an equal footing. Where they had a lot of legacy Unix shops that wanted to get off Unix Platforms but still keep the Unixy goodness.

    In general most Novel Shops went to Windows, most Unix Shops went to Linux. By "most" meaning there are exceptions, and plenty of anecdotal stories. As moving to the other platform was much easier for the company.

    For new companies. They would split across Microsoft and Linux (With Red Hat offering enterprise level support) Some would go with Microsoft and Other with Linux...

    So in a competive market I am not supprised that Red Hat made money. They played smart business and they made money.

  17. Re:Don't like it, don't play it on New SimCity To Require Constant Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    Yes. For I have played them enough for them to not be fun anymore.

  18. Re:Don't like it, don't play it on New SimCity To Require Constant Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    I remembered earlier when VGA only games started to come out. I had a CGA screen and most EGA games will run in CGA mode... However when VGA came out they dropped CGA. I was quite annoyed that they dropped CGA.

  19. Re:good on her on What Book Publishers Should Learn From Harry Potter · · Score: 1

    However an Author of her Status (and money in the bank) really has little to fear from rogue pirating and distribution issues.

    The average author is not making a living off their books, at best they are paying for lunch. So every pirated book counts for much larger percentages of their revenue.

  20. Well if you stopped pirating your software. on New SimCity To Require Constant Internet Connection · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you disagree with the licence don't use it... It is a game. You don't need a game.

  21. Re:anyone see the flying pigs outside? on Microsoft Releases ASP.NET MVC Under the Apache License · · Score: 1

    I found a VI key scheme plugin for Visual Studio it is Sweet. It makes Visual Studios Almost[Esc]6jdwi quite usable.

  22. Re:Obligatory on Engineers Working On Swarm Of Laser Wielding Satellites To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Austin Powers Happened in 1997 that was 15 years ago. Where the Shark with Laser joke came from.

    The Moon Landing was 43 years ago. If you take the time Austin Powers was out from now is 1/3 of the time from the moon landing.

  23. Re:THERE IS NO GEOTHERMAL on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    Do you want to be responsible for freezing the earths core with your geothermal heat?

  24. Re:THERE IS NO GEOTHERMAL on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    Fossil Fuel and Nuclear are really the few "Portable" Energy sources we have. I live in an area where the main source of power is hydroelectric. However... it is depending on locations. I see Nuclear as a good replacement for Fossil Fuel however it isn't a good replacement if you live in an area where you can get good other forms of power in your area.

  25. Re:Turbo fuel on Poo-Powered Rickshaw Unveiled At the Denver Zoo · · Score: 2

    Perhaps you should check your diet. Diarrhea all the time isn't really healthy. I have a friend who had the problem, then he finally found out that he was allergic to glutton, after the diet change he felt like a million dollars. And the bathroom stayed a lot cleaner.