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  1. Re:No story here, move along on Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius · · Score: 1

    In the physical world, its expression (pi is always constant, of course*) is also affected by gravitational curvature and possibly other effects.

    *For some values of "of course"

  2. Re:No story here, move along on Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius · · Score: 2

    My understanding is that advanced maths becomes almost exclusively symbol manipulation. I could intuit a lot of physics stuff and easily attach equations to concepts but when it came to the quantum stuff, it was a totally different story. That could have just been the way it was taught though.

  3. Re:Lock-in? on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    Actually, I agree. The last few times I've used MS Office help, typically for the Excel functions, the results have been pretty facepalm-worthy. It used to be pretty good though.

  4. Re:Extra-judicial killings in the US on Rand Paul Starts New Drone War In Congress · · Score: 1

    Oh, never mind. It's been one of those days...

  5. Re:Extra-judicial killings in the US on Rand Paul Starts New Drone War In Congress · · Score: 1

    Irony, more than just kinda like steely.

  6. Re:Even a stopped clock is right... on Rand Paul Starts New Drone War In Congress · · Score: 1

    Does the bench also come with a towel and a bucket of water?

  7. *Sigh* on Rand Paul Starts New Drone War In Congress · · Score: 1

    Since the title of this article was so obviously a hook, I'll go ahead and bite.

    "Begun, the drone wars have"

  8. Re:Lock-in? on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    Warm fuzzies mostly. Which is actually important for adoption.

  9. Re:Lock-in? on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it could be done in the form of a Wiki. Or maybe Haiku. One or the other.

  10. This is why Chewbacca lives on Endor.

  11. I can't speak for others but I would say I got 98% of what got me my degree through lectures. I actually had very few books. (Physics).

    Now, it seemed the law students got most of their learning by going to the library and *photocopying* books.

  12. Re:Equations on Students Remember Lectures Better Taking Notes Longhand Than Using Laptops · · Score: 1

    Incidently, the best lecturers would write on the blackboard and work through their proofs. The worst ones (in general*) would use transparencies or, later, powerpoint.

    *There was one really bad prof who would use the blackboard.

  13. Re:Equations on Students Remember Lectures Better Taking Notes Longhand Than Using Laptops · · Score: 2

    I used to write out my physics lectures pretty much verbatim. Of course, my handwriting is awful so much of the prose was unreadable but I had better recall of what I had written down than if I didn't and equations and constants were always given a little extra attention to actually be readable.

  14. Re:A drop in the bucket. on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 1

    Tesla hater.

  15. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Two, actually.

  16. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    vi/vim is not about being intuitive. It's about learning and being productive.

    There are plenty of intuitive interfaces out there for you, many of them not particularly dumbed down.

  17. Re:If not... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 2

    Typically it's the other way around. You don't use grease because it binds up with the metal dust from wear. Hence graphite (though I believe there are other better lubricants).

  18. Re:If not... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Couldn't help but your second paragraph came through with a distinct fake French accent. All it needed was a "Listen carefully, I will say this only once"

  19. Re:Stupid headline and summary. on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    And are worth every penny.

  20. Re:No currency on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 2

    I believe he's talking about someone who was born into a scene of angriness and greed, dominance and persecution. Whose mother was a queen, father was never seen and was never meant to be. Yeah...

  21. Re:Chicken Soup Engineering on Chernobyl's Sarcophagus, Redux · · Score: 2

    Don't worry, elections coming up at the end of this year. You'll soon have that beaten out of you.

  22. Re:The poster-child for unintended consequences on Chernobyl's Sarcophagus, Redux · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you like your concrete shelter, you can keep it.

  23. Re:THIS COMMENT HAS A SUBJECT on Chernobyl's Sarcophagus, Redux · · Score: 2

    It's a paraphrase of an old comment about war.

  24. Re:I gotta better name on Let's Call It 'Climate Disruption,' White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. Especially since I should really have been comparing with plastic bags since I was comparing about paper bags. My point, however, is that you have to compare those "externalities" everyone is always talking about and that it may not just be about how much are consumed but how they are consumed.

  25. Re:How risky? on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Yes, there are certainly no signals is who funds are received from or paid to. Not at all.