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  1. Re:Editing on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    That's not the point. Take out the parenthetical aside in the second sentence and you're left with this: -

    The odd thing is that this 13-year-old article recaps research 19 years ago.

    Your original submission may have had a slightly unwieldy second sentence, but at least it made grammatical sense.

  2. Re:Why Not as Fast as XP? on Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 is literally putting lipstick on a pig!

    Literally? Wow, I look forward to seeing that!

  3. Re:MOD PARENT UP on MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events · · Score: 1

    if that happens, and these proceedings are streamed by websites like YouTube, people will lose their ability to keep personal copies of government proceedings

    It's easy to download YouTube videos. Admittedly there isn't a big button on the site to do so, to make it easy for the less technically minded users, but they're hardly the ones who are likely to be concerned about YouTube's effect on their democratic rights.

  4. Re:Delete it & forget about it on Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    Sun and/or the OpenOffice.org foundation can and probably should approach the scammer company privately asking it for 1000x retaliation

    1000x retaliation? For every dupe that the scammers rip off, Sun will rip off another 1,000 people?

  5. Re:LOL, No... on Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple · · Score: 1

    You can argue the iPod was priced high, or that it's nothing special now. You can't argue that it wasn't revolutionary when it came out.

    No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

  6. Re:Form over facts on Saving Journalism With Flash and Java · · Score: 1

    JibJab [youtube.com] summed it up quite nicely.

    Pf. Flash site.

  7. Re:Hand held at arm's length or two scoops of dipp on Countdown To NASA's Kepler Mission · · Score: 1

    No problem. I just thought the software sounded interesting and went for a look. When I got the warning, I thought I'd been duped, till I googled it and found it was for real.

    Good luck sorting the site!

  8. Re:Hand held at arm's length or two scoops of dipp on Countdown To NASA's Kepler Mission · · Score: 1

    FYI, the site in your sig is currently flagged by Firefox as a "reported attack site".

  9. Re:a 21st Century DC-3 on Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane · · Score: 2, Funny

    From what I saw at the company website, it looks like they're building the orbital equivalent of the first commercial airliner, the DC-3.

    Cool. Now if we can just scale up to build space DC-8s, we can take all the scientologists to another planet and drop them in a volcano.

  10. Re:A very insidious scenario... on Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 1

    We must crack down on this insidious overuse of the word.

  11. Re:Faster speed? Really? on USB 3.0 Is Ten Times Faster; Get It In 2010 · · Score: 1

    New technology will be faster than old technology? Impossible!

    That's right Mr. Ballmer!

  12. Re:Killer? on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 1

    You're right about still no copy and paste

    Ah, I thought I read they'd added this in an update. How hard can it be FFS?

    it was recessed by about 3mm

    Yeah - I don't count something as a standard headphone socket unless I can plug standard headphones into it. :) I wasn't aware they'd fixed this on the 3G though.

  13. Re:Killer? on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 1

    No one is going to beat Apple on specs.

    Just about every other phone on the market beats Apple on specs, and has done since long before the iPhone came out.

    The iPhone has a paltry 2 megapixel camera, no flash, no MMS, no copy and paste (is that fixed now?) and a non-standard headphone socket.

    For better or for ill, the company is brilliant at style and presentation

    That is certainly true. The iPhone is one of the most stylish phones around, the interface is a thing of beauty, and I can't see anyone improving on that any time soon.

  14. Genius on Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Plug in a small box at the back of your TV, and connect to it wirelessly, and send the display signal over the airwaves

    Alternatively, plug in a small box (called a "computer") at the back of your TV, then connect to it wirelessly (using a "wireless keyboard"). All the fun of the fair, without the useless 3 hour battery life.

  15. Re:Need a new plan on Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job · · Score: 1

    You mean become a pharmacist?

  16. Re:Fire safe won't do much on How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library? · · Score: 1

    My critical business data gets backed up out of the state every night, via the net.Bruce

    That sounds like an excellent idea. Where can I get me a net.Bruce?

  17. Re:Labels on How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library? · · Score: 1

    he can fit 800 pictures on eight 2-gig cards

    Er, what's wrong with one 16GB card?

  18. Re:another thing missed on A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 1

    To be fair, no-one would.

  19. Re:I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think... on A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 1

    Simply picking the most commonly used word from the possible options will allow speech recognition to be much more accurate. Such con text yule analysis will solve most of these problems.

  20. Central Park on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    'It's not an accident that Central Park is in the middle of Manhattan,' says Berman.

    For real? I thought they'd just forgotten to build shit there.

  21. Re:Matt Smith on Actor Matt Smith Will Be 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Matt Smith.

  22. Re:Uphill battle on Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM? · · Score: 1

    I hate DRM as much as the next /'er

    Yeah, those guys from Slashquote really can't stand DRM.

  23. Re:My name is Kent Mcclure on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your name is Kent Mcclure... I may remember you from such Slashdot stories as "Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote" and "How Do I Manage Seasoned Programmers?"

  24. Re:don't save passwords on Safari and Chrome: Tied For the Worst Password Manager · · Score: 1

    I know the rules I use to spell or punctuate words.

    It's a good job you never post examples of those rules in a public forum.

  25. Re:Similar conclusions from bibliometrics on The End of Individual Genius? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's possible that this is due in part to the sheer amount of bureaucracy that goes on in academia these days. Perhaps these collaborative papers are written by one genius, backed up by one or more people who know how to secure the funding and generally get things done.