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  1. Re:It is Psychology, Science! Fact! on Paper On Conspiratorial Thinking Invokes Conspiratorial Thinking · · Score: 1

    This hole is too deep to climb out of. Let's keep digging down till we figure out a way to climb out.

  2. Re:Too expensive. on Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you buy an upgrade from the App Store you are allowed to install it on all of the Macs you own. That does not work for businesses though. For business use you do have to buy one upgrade for one machine.

  3. Re:Ethernet! on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 1

    Can you please explain what you do with the 6 foot auger bit? I'm not being a smartass, I would like to run ethernet to several rooms in my house. Thanks.

  4. Re:Eh? on Windows Has a Future In RAM: AgigaTech Samples DDR3+Flash DIMM · · Score: 1

    Single Inline Memory Module, Dual Inline Memory Module

  5. Where's the hardware that just works? on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Every time I've ever tried linux I've run into minor annoying hardware support issues that over time make it just not worth the hassle when I can easily afford a Mac. Can someone point me to any currently available, inexpensive notebooks where all of the hardware is fully supported in linux and has a trackpad that doesn't suck?

  6. Re:"Microsoft's Downfall" on Microsoft's 'Cannibalistic Culture' · · Score: 1

    Had they recognized the wave of competition in digital and the commodization of digital cameras, and instead of shifting to low end competitions with manufacturers of cheap equipment and focused on the higher-end large margins in the commercial market (as IBM did with computers), they might have survived.

    Yeah, they sort of tried that too but the Graphic Communications division is saddled with the same clueless fucktard executives as the rest of the company. They used to have great service and support but now they can't even keep their software up to date with current releases of Java and quality control on their consumables has gone down hill. They had a pretty dominant position in the printing industry but they're pissing that away now too.

  7. Re:Have they actually found it? on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Go watch the movie again. It is unusually hot where I live. You say it's unusually cold where you live. That is not contradictory to what he was saying in the movie. The theory is that climate change will manifest itself differently in different areas. I watched the movie and his message seemed completely plausible to me. If he's wrong, no big deal. We spend a lot of money on lots of dumb things. Spending a little extra to convert to carbon neutral energy sources that don't funnel money to our enemies doesn't seem all that bad to me. If you're wrong, we're fucked.

  8. Re:Have they actually found it? on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 0

    No... Al Gore's Nobel Prize doesn't mean anything because Al Gore's Nobel Prize doesn't mean anything. He did NOTHING to deserve it. They are many, many far more deserving people around than that hypocrite.

    I don't know if I'd say NOTHING. It's pretty fucking hot outside.

  9. Re:Dell inspirons on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 2

    He's saying a screen at 1920 x 1200 gives you more real estate in the vertical dimension than a 1920 x 1080 screen.

  10. Re:America what? You mean United States? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Nobody that isn't a pedantic douchebag calls themselves American unless they are from the USA. The United States of America is the only country in either the North American or South American continents with America in the actual name of the country. A Chilean telling someone he's an American isn't really being very honest when the only useful information he's conveying is that he's from somewhere in the western hemisphere.

    Your analogy doesn't really fit anyway because whether an Englishman calls himself English, British, or European there's no reason for confusion since most people aren't idiots and they can tell the difference between the nation, kingdom and continent because they have completely different names.

    The only reason this keeps coming up is some people are too stupid to put the answer in the context of the question. If you ask me what my nationality is and I say American and you take that to mean "from somewhere in the western hemisphere" then you're a fucking idiot because there are no other countries named America. If I ask you your nationality and you say American but you're a citizen of Peru then you're still a fucking idiot because I asked what country you're from.

  11. Re:Falcon 9 Splashdown on Astronauts Open Dragon Capsule Hatch · · Score: 1
  12. Re:All Chinese authors on Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory · · Score: 2

    1,000,000,000.33 people

  13. Re:Failed experiment? on Navy To Auction Stealth Ship · · Score: 2

    Yes, roll reduction has been a concern, but as you point out - the one feature of Sea Shadow that contributed to that (the catamaran hull) isn't in operational use.

    Well, there's the five HSV/TSVs, the FSF 1 Sea Fighter, the Spearhead class JHSVs and the Independence class LCS trimarans. I would think the catamaran experience learned from the Sea Shadow must have had some effect on the decision to procure those vessel types.

  14. Re:Still More Than Google Makes On Apple Devices on Google Earns $2 Per Handset; Apple, $575 · · Score: 1

    The article you linked to actually says the complete opposite. It says "Apple Inc., maker of the iPad, 40.5 million shipped worldwide, 62 percent share". That would mean that all other tablets shipped would fall in to the 48% share. Which would mean that the iPad out sold all other tablet devices combined.

    Actually it's even worse than you make it sound. If Apple iPads are 62% of the market then all others would be 38%. Amazon Kindle Fire and B&N Nook may be Android based but Google doesn't get any revenue from them, so that's another 11% that doesn't help Google.

    What you have left is Samsung and AsusTek which added together is 12%, plus whatever fraction that makes up the remaining 14% in the "other" group that is Android. Blackberry and WebOS should account for some part of that group.

    So all Google really gets to count from a potential revenue perspective is somewhere between 12% and 26%.

  15. Re:Correct on World Is Ignoring Most Important Lesson From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    How many reactors have been constructed and put into operation in the US since the Three Mile Island event?

    By my count, nearly 100.

  16. Re:History too on Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Angle of attack. Some airfoils are even symmetrical or completely flat.

  17. Re:All I can say is on Lack of Technology Puts Star Wars Series On Hold · · Score: 1

    Yes, Irvin Kershner for ESB and the restraining hand of reason on Ep. 4 was Gary Kurtz. The more control Lucas gained starting with ROTJ the more dumb ideas ended up on screen.

  18. Re:Someone help me out here. on First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    Just to add to the confusion there is actually a variant of the Black Hawk, the VH-60D, that is also called the Nighthawk.

  19. Re:Fear mongering 101 on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 1

    I managed to use the cast on my broken right arm to pry out the bars in my cot so I could get out at whenever I wanted. I don't remember exactly how old I was but I would guess somewhere between two and three.

  20. Re:So... on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What exactly is the benefit of this over a conventional mouse?

    For most of us there isn't much benefit over using a mouse. I think the real point of this thing is to train Mac users to use multitouch. Apple thinks multitouch is the next big thing in human-computer interaction and they are training us in baby steps to use it in progressively more complicated ways. If they change too quickly no one will be able to figure out all the various gestures and the touch idea will flop. First they added 2nd finger right click on the notebook trackpads then the iPhone touch UI, then added more gestures to trackpads again, then the iPad and now with this thing, multitouch for desktops. This is probably an intermediate step to something else. I don't know what the end result will look like but I'm guessing they know where they want to go and we're not there yet.

  21. Re:Mac mini HTPC = perfect solution on One In Eight To Cut Cable and Satellite TV In 2010 · · Score: 1

    If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch I recommend the Apple Remote app for controlling iTunes and the Air Mouse app for controlling the Mac in general. For queueing up media it works great but obviously isn't as useful if you're doing less passive stuff.

  22. Re:Uh... contradictory? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Well, if you do not know the country's official language (English), and cannot answer questions asked in English, that is pretty suspicious, as in it suggests you are most likely an immigrant.

    Would you be so kind as to point me to an official source that specifies the official language?

  23. Re:ARM servers.... on Job Ad Hints At Microsoft Move To ARM Servers · · Score: 1

    Here's a reason. Your clients are Macs so you go with what works with the least hassles. Some people are ok with trading time for money.

  24. Re:10 years + $20B and someone else gets elected on Companies Skeptical of Commercial Space Market · · Score: 1

    Why did they not just make an F-16-Light.

    Actually there was an F-16 Light. It was called the F-16/79 and was powered by the GE J79 instead of the PW F100. It was similarly unsuccessful as the F-20 and for pretty much the same reason. The difference in price wasn't worth the difference in performance.

  25. Re:Sugar: The Bitter Truth on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 1

    It's too bad no one mentioned this video until way down here at the bottom. This is the single most informative thing I've ever run across on the web to plausibly explain why we are such big fat tubs of goo here in the US. Anyone with even the slightest concern for their health should watch this video a couple times. It's a real eye opener.