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  1. Re:pencil/paper on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    actually 1 isn't that far from the truth. My solution to the problem, don't take notes and pay attention in class. All equations u will ever need will be in text book. I got through the later year, and even earned a PhD, using this method. I noticed that I was taking noted in my early years in school just to feel secure. Everyone around me was doing it so it had to be right. Right? By end of each semester, I also notice that I haven't opened and read a single note, so why bother? I even found that I did better because I wasn't distracted with writing!

  2. Re:No mention of X-platform on Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development · · Score: 1

    I think its going to be interesting over the long run to see which platform gains the upper hand.
    I would put my money on java since its open. I know mono is too, but it only follows microsoft's lead,

  3. I remember the old days .. on The Dilemma of Level vs. Skill In MMOs · · Score: 1

    I don't think anything out there requires skill besides quake
    I would have said kaboom from the Atari days, but I dont think many gamers would remember that
    ahhhh, those were the good ol' days
    now get off my lawn!

  4. Re:buttfs? on EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance Compared · · Score: 1

    I think AC makes a good point if you think about it.
    BUTTerfs guys ... couldn't you have thought of a better name?
    Your fans will be at a huge disadvantage in flamewars

  5. que the porn comments in ..... on Web Servers Getting Naked, For Weight Savings · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    3 ...2 ....1

  6. 116 comment and no one mentioned this? on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 5, Funny

    isn't it obvious?
    Tiberium!
    Now its just a matter of time before the rise of nod.

  7. Re:In a word... on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    I find it difficult to accept the argument of one, while overlooking the other, which is why I'll go with
    maybe

  8. Re:While there may be "newer" languages on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FYI, numpy is just a wrapper around C and fortan based modules
    So you get best of both worlds, I think Python is a better introductory programming language.

  9. Re:Slashporn on Hacking Our Five Senses and Building New Ones · · Score: 4, Funny

    Instead of rushing to get a FP anonymously and making my day, I bet the guy next to me that we will get a porn related comment within the next 10 minutes.
    Needless to say, I won my bet from the 2nd post!

  10. Re:At first I thought it said the end on Front End Drupal · · Score: 1

    You lost me at booby...

  11. Re:That's.... really not smart. on The Pirate Bay Seeks Interesting Route To "Pay" Fine · · Score: 1

    no multiple choice?

  12. Re:android sucks on Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Balmer .. is that you?

  13. Re:Not my fault on Should Developers Be Liable For Their Code? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good luck also untangling the dependency mess in software, I doubt it would be difficult to pin down who is really at fault.

    Think of the mess when people start suing developers of web applications!

    App Developer: Its the browser!
    Browser developer: its the JavaScript library!
    JavaScript library Dev: its the VM developers!
    user again: Yeah lets sue Sun!
    Javascript developer: JavaScript is not ...you know what ..your absolutely right! go for it

    User can't find Sun and sues Microsoft for VBScript because its the closest thing to it.

    Microsoft: Oracle bought Sun.
    Oracle: Hell I knew I shouldn't have bought Sun, anyway, Java is OpenSourced so I have no control over it.
    Java developers: JavaScript is not Java!
    User: Why am I here?
    Java developers: I don't know, but if there is anything wrong, its usually Microsoft's fault.
    Microsoft: .... [chairs start to fly and hit user on the head]
    Microsoft Lawyer: Lets counter suit the chair manufacturers for not anticipating our use case.

    Fast forward to court date after every software and furniture manufacturer under the sun gets involved in the case....

    User's lawyer: What do you mean you got windows off of pirate bay? You could have mentioned this small detail before I took on your case!
    RIAA Lawyer: Don't worry, you can plead insanity, and I can take it from here.
    TPB: Argh! We be hosting the tracker only mate! not the software! the software be hosted in china.

    After a very long court proceeding which involved everybody under the sun and caused three world wars, two nuclear stand-offs, and countless bus parties... a strange group of people came crashing into the courthouse

    Guys in red:Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

    and it starts to go downhill from here!

  14. Re:Another win for PostgreSQL... on Web Analytics Databases Get Even Larger · · Score: 1

    fp after first on topic post

  15. Re:Web Analytics Databases Get Every Larger? on Web Analytics Databases Get Even Larger · · Score: 1

    Yesy. It mighty take a whiley to get used to, but I thinky it's quite a plusy overally.

    I sure hopey that people checky their grammary more ofteny in the future.
    There, fixedy that for you.

  16. Let Madam koko tell you your future ..call 1-900.. on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    Just to say I told you so:
    http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=4049959

    Now let me tell you about MySQL's future. It is safe, its Open Source. It survived before the SUN buyout and its going to survive after it. There is no way oracle can kill it.
    At the very least, MySQL forks will live on (e.g., Drizzle).

    So please stop whining about MySQL dieing. The competition between the big tech companies is just going to heat up, which might be a good thing for open source overall.

  17. I for one dont know how to react to good news on Time Warner Shelves Plans For Tiered Pricing · · Score: 1

    hurrah?

    I'm also positive some will find a dark side to this, being /.

    hey /. overlords, "/." should be replaced by /. icon every time it occurs in posts.

  18. Re:Too much Cat-5 on NASA Taking Ethernet Into Deeper Space · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected
    the real question is, will pr0n be censored?

  19. Re:Too much Cat-5 on NASA Taking Ethernet Into Deeper Space · · Score: 1

    wireless,wired it really doesnt matter.
    the real question is will they cap or throttle?

  20. Re:REALLY now? on Google Losing Up To $1.65M a Day On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Thats what ebay said when they bought skype

    I can see it clearly now, a few years from now when bandwidth is cheap, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim offer google $.5 billion to acquire YouTube.

  21. Re:Up next on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 1

    seems like there is a key difference between US and your country
    Competition

  22. Re:Up next on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 1

    ok im not following you, you want ISPs to meter based on total bits transfered, which they are arguing for because they claim it will reduce congestion on their network, but you say its easy to upgrade?
    If it is easy to upgrade then they should just do it and stick with the current flat monthly rate and no one would have a problem. I don't think ISPs will ever switch to metering if it means users would pay less overall.

  23. Re:Up next on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 1

    mod parent up
    Metering will have far reaching effects on how we use the net.
    Think of all the auto updates services, DRM activation, registration, are we supposed to pay for all of this? What if content providers provide unnecessarily rich web pages? Why would some providers user HTTP requests to update client with all the overhead that comes with an HTTP request instead of using customized and efficient protocol? I think we are opening a whole can of worms with metering, and the consumer is the one who will end up being screwed in all cases.

  24. Re:Up next on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 1

    If what your describing is indeed a problem, then I'm not convinced that "metering" based on bits is the only solution or even "a solution" for that matter. Because we would still have the same capacity problems in terms of bits/sec that can pass through ISP network!

    For example, f we all pay for 10GB total transfer per month, and all of us decided to watch hulu at the exact point in time, the ISP would face the same problems they are complaining from now and they cannot guarantee good service to the users. Therefore, metering is not the solution, it is indeed a solution however for ISPs to extract more income from the users

    What ISPs need to do is keep the same monthly flat payment rate plan, but vary prices on QoS. This way at times of congestion they can reduce the bit/sec throughput for users based on how much they pay. Customers would pay for a "range" of throughput where the minimum is guaranteed, and at times of congestion, the ISPs are within their rights to scale down the service for some of the users. Even those who overuse the network can learn to change their patterns of usage to off peek times. Metering will have far reaching consequences on the way we use the net which might not all be beneficial.

  25. Re:Up next on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lets see,

    for electricity and water, you build the delivery infrastructure, and the costs incurred by the company are the maintenance cost of this delivery infrastructure plus production of water and electricity.
    A company could build a huge delivery capacity, but the resource itself (water, power source) is limited and increasing its availability to the customer is not possible.

    Internet service providers, build the last mile delivery service, pay to maintain it, then produce what which we have to pay for? capacity? capacity is not scarce because we know they can build more capacity into their infrastructure.
    Reaching an infrastructure's limit in usage, especially a huge one such as theirs, would tell me that it is fully utilized. They have to make a profit at this point because most of their cost is fixed! it might take time, but they can expand their infrastructure overtime and still make a profit, so I don't think capacity is the limiting factor here

    content? which makes me wonder, don't content providers pay also for internet capacity? if the capacity exists for them to provide all their content, why shouldn't it be any different for the last miles the ISPs offer? aren't content providers also end users like us for other ISPS?

    Here is another thought, why wouldnt the RIAA,MPAA sue ISPs when they charge us on bits for downloaded copyrighted content? wouldn't they be technically charging us for the content which they do not own? would they also be copying portions of the copy righted content every time it goes from one router to the next? why sue people running bit torrent trackers then and not ISPs?