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  1. Re: They just work..... on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    As someone who uses a Mac for music production, specifically Logic Pro, this is crucial. Everything I plug into it does what it's supposed to almost immediately. It's worth the premium for that convenience. I've never once had to cross my fingers, make a backup and update registry keys to make it do what I needed.

  2. Re: straight from the OMFG NO dept on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 2

    Wasn't 'solving problems with basic thinking' the long-discounted Aristotelean method of scientific deduction?

  3. Re:I don't usually complain about summaries... on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    People have been typing "Micro$oft" since the days of Bulletin Boards. So the answer to, "Who types that???" is "people who are still upset at the cost of upgrading to MS-DOS 6"

  4. The right to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theatre... on Gag Order Fuels Responsible Disclosure Debate · · Score: 1

    ...remains intact if the theatre is actually on fire and the manager refuses to pull the alarm.

  5. Teach the controversy! on Scientists Find Trigger For Northern Lights · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the Dover school board was run by Vikings they'd have to teach this theory alongside the 'theory' that the Northern Lights are the glow from Asgard.

  6. So they did what Hollywood does on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 5, Funny

    They took an OK script and tacked on a happy ending...

  7. Re:Lab Made Diamonds on Diamonds Key To Quantum Computing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just can't see spending the rest of my life with someone who is that susceptible to advertising. Even if she's physically attractive, that much dumb strikes me as being a worse kind of ugly.

  8. Re:Anthropologists As Well As Zoologists on Nuked Coral Reef Bounces Back · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As sad as it is, if the alternative was fighting a drawn-out conventional war instead of just trying to scare the crap out of one another, the US and the USSR's Cold War took a relatively minimal toll on human life... displaced natives notwithstanding. The proxy wars fought in southeast asia are a testament to how bloody and destructive a conventional war between those two countries would have been. If the bloodshed between India and Pakistan declines, we may be in a position to thank those destructive weapons. It would be wonderful to think that people shouldn't need such things, but humanity has a long history as a destructive and bloodthirsty animal. Either way, I'm heartened to see that some life is beginning to thrive in the region.

  9. They've misused the Chaotic Neutral Alignment on Celebrity AD&D Character Sheets · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bush would be lawful evil, not chaotic neutral... So few people seem to grasp precisely how that alignment works. The best description I one saw was in an old Dragon magazine: think Daffy Duck.

  10. Yes, but of course one must consider... on Neal Stephenson Returns with "Anathem" · · Score: 1

    It will likely be 1600 pages of brilliant prose with no bloody ending. He's like the long-form Carver or something...

  11. Re:when pigs have wings ... on Is This the Future of News? · · Score: 1

    You must be watching press conferences from a different white house if you think the serious questions are getting serious answers...