Slashdot Mirror


User: StackedCrooked

StackedCrooked's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
58
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 58

  1. Re:I don't think so on Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas · · Score: 1

    If an idea has no chance of spreading if shared by less than 10% of the population, then how did the theory of evolution ever become accepted?

  2. Re:13 years? on Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care) · · Score: 2

    He started coding in 1979 and waited until 1998 to build it?

  3. Re:umm... on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 1

    People that want to sell something feel the need to find fault with the existing solutions in order to justify their own.

  4. Re:Old as dirt. on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work in Starcraft.

  5. Re:Well.. on Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Includes Passwords, Email Content · · Score: 1

    A better analogy seems to me washing your car and this act being exposed on Google Maps.

  6. Re:productize? on Kaminsky Offers Injection Antidote · · Score: 1

    People that use such language often don't have a clue what they are talking about.

    Or worse, they do.

    They merely have a clue of what they're talking about.

  7. Re:Autorun?! on Olympus Digital Camera Ships With a Worm · · Score: 1

    So your employees are too stupid/lazy to learn how to use a computer. Either train them or fire them.

    Either train them or set them on fire.

  8. Yeah but... on Video Game Music Recognition Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    anime music beats video game music any day.

  9. Re:Qt Creator on IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Qt Creator's Vim bindings are not complete yet. For example keystrokes like yiw or diw don't work. Recording macro's (which for me is Vim's killer feature) also doesn't work. That aside it's a great piece of software. Actually, it is the only IDE that I find usable on Linux.

  10. Re:Great defence! on Brain Scans Used In Murder Sentencing · · Score: 1

    Perhaps some of these people with "faulty genes" have found a way to channel their compulsion into more positive or creative endeavors. I remember reading somewhere about similarities between highly successful people and criminals.

  11. Re:Great defence! on Brain Scans Used In Murder Sentencing · · Score: 1

    I remember reading this story before on slashdot. I think its plausible that there is such a thing as a "bad gene". However we should fight the temptation to jump too quickly to a conclusion. In the end this is just one story, which would be considered "anecdotal" for scientific point of view.

  12. Re:Gender ratios are not a problem on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    I would be really great to be one of THOSE very few men!

  13. Re:Good news for feminism on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    Why is this good news for feminism? It could negatively be interpreted as: "poisonous chemicals degrade boys into girls" implying that feminine is somehow less than masculine.

  14. Re:Dolls and tea sets? on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Commentary: Monkeys, girls, boys and toys: A confirmation Comment on “Sex differences in toy preferences: Striking parallels between monkeys and humans” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2643016/

  15. Re:Dolls and tea sets? on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 4, Informative

    Girls prefer to play with dolls, and boys prefer to play with toy cars, guns etc.. This is genetic, not cultural.

  16. Re:It's the chemicals!? Bollox to that! on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    Sources?

  17. Re:Obligatory George Carlin Quote on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Damn, that HTML filter!! Replace "=" with smaller than or equal to.

  18. Re:Obligatory George Carlin Quote on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    50% of the population has an IQ = 100. Scary, by definition.

  19. Re:Um... on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 1

    The single Mac application the might make me choose Mac over PC would be Terminal (over cmd.exe).

  20. Re:They must be kidding on "Going Google" Exposes Students' Email · · Score: 1

    It's not their personal mails but their school mails that became public. These mails are less likely to contain sensitive information. Not that this makes it a totally minor glitch, but somewhat less dramatic nonetheless.

  21. Re:Proud to be sorry, an odd concept on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 1, Troll

    And "I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him". I guess British pride gets in the way for a more humble way of phrasing an apology.

  22. Re:Easier explanation on Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid · · Score: 1

    They're dutchmen after all.

  23. Kindness? on Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid · · Score: 1

    From the article: >'But a woman also looks for signs of other attributes, such as wealth, youth and kindness.' Wealth and youth, ok. But I wasn't aware that kindness belongs to that list...

  24. Re:The feature C++ REALLY needs. on Bjarne Stroustrup On Concepts, C++0x · · Score: 2, Informative

    He means adding a GUI to the STL, not the C++ language.

  25. Re:How about a REAL C++ feature.... on Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later · · Score: 1

    Firefox has the Gecko engine which is sort of like a VM on its own for running XUL based apps. That's probably where the bloat comes from, not from C++.