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  1. Re:Lenovo. on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    I have two Lenovo T500 laptops that have served me well, allowing me to easily swap in larger hard drives and more RAM as needed

  2. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Good Tracking Solutions For Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    it is not *based on* Unix - it has a modular Mach kernel that contains some userspace bolt-on's licensed from BSD

    OS X is "Unix compliant" which is code for "OS X acts like and smells like Unix but it ain't Unix"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

  3. Re:I thought it was standard on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? · · Score: 1

    "You'd be surprised how often psychopaths show up in a corporate environment."

    funny, I thought that was where all psychopaths wind up

  4. Re:Not sad at all on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support? · · Score: 1

    I just inherited two Lenovo T500 Thinkpads - one is running AVLinux while the other will soon get Mint loaded onto it - they both use the Intel Mobile 4 chipset which seem to work fine

  5. Re:Doesn't help on MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive' · · Score: 1

    "...take money away from content creators."

    you are obviously *not* a content creator or you wouldn't make such a misinformed statement

  6. want freedom in user experience? use Linux on Why Tablets Haven't Taken Off In Business · · Score: 1

    'However, there exists another key to Apple's success: its products are built around giving people freedom in the user experience. Apple lets you figure out how best to make use of their handhelds. The App Store is a beautiful demonstration of this--it's all about choosing what you want to do with your iPhone or iPad, and not being badgered into using them in a particular way.'

    this guy is either drinking too much of the Apple flavored Kool-Aid, has some sort of favored tech journalist status with Apple, or completely clueless. A hermetically sealed walled garden community of Apple blessed apps running on hardware that is also hermetically sealed?

    I'll take a Samsung Galaxy running Android 2.2 any day over an iPad running a watered down version of OS X

  7. Re:Be radical. on Google Wave and the Difficulty of Radical Change · · Score: 1

    exactly -- I succumbed to the hype and started an account when they opened it up to us mere mortals and I found it to be the most ridiculous bit of hype I've ever used...convoluted, confusing, yawn-ware...glad to see it go

  8. Rhizome on What To Do About CC License Violations? · · Score: 1

    I had a similar run in with Rhizome, the uber-hipster online art journal, around 5 years ago. They published a photo I had used for artist promotion which I had appropriated from an old IBM computer mainframe ad. A women who worked there found my promo photo on the Interwebz and used it as an opening picture for some dumbass article she wrote. When I confronted her about it she gave me some clueless arrogant hipster-speak about the photo being open source because she found it online. I wouldn't have minded if she had given attribution but it was coupled with an article that had nothing to do with me or my work and she never asked if it were OK to use it. Needless to say she is no longer at Rhizome. May her hipster-ass rot in soccer mom hell.

  9. Re:Some Helpful Advise on Microsoft Talks Back To Google's Security Claims · · Score: 1

    not 'weather' but 'whether'

  10. Re:Forrest Mims on Where To Start In DIY Electronics? · · Score: 1

    ditto on 'Art of Electronics' as a bible...I know many people who learned electronics from this book

  11. Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? on The Apple Two · · Score: 2, Funny

    my Dell mini9 running Ubuntu 10.04 serves me very well, thank you and at a fraction of the price of an iPad :)

  12. Re:ipad is for humans! on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 1

    http://www.liliputing.com/2010/03/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-to-ship-in-april-for-499.html

  13. bwahahaha on How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Music · · Score: 1

    we're SO f*cked!

  14. remember the Marshall Plan... on EU Committee Says No To Bank Data Sharing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...which was merely a way for the US to quickly expand its markets into a war torn Europe while busting unions to keep labor cheap and subverting at all costs to keep capitalism expanding - not only did the US make money on WWII but it made even more by 'rebuilding' Europe and installing our corporations and military everywhere it could

  15. Re:Audio on Linux has come a long way on Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orchestra · · Score: 2, Informative

    ditto -- I'm an Ardour user on Ubuntu and would never go back to OS X -- ever!
    http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/

  16. Re:Yeah, right. on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 1

    amen to that -- Mr Dell is a well known Ubuntu-geek and I hope he continues to work closely with Canonical

  17. Re:Loudness War on The Death of High Fidelity · · Score: 1

    what the hell are you talking about? you are confusing dynamic compression with data compression

  18. quantum windows on Quantum Computer Works Better Shut Off · · Score: 1

    all Microsoft needs to do is figure out how to use this whenever XP bluescreens or crashes...then their system would work all the time.

  19. Re:Proof that we are not evolving... on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    my wife's boss and his (male) partner just had a baby...they provided the sperm and a willing female provided the womb...voila! passing on genes and continuing the human race!
    you really should get out more! :)

  20. Re:Proof that we are not evolving... on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    my wife's boss and his partner just had a baby...they provided the sprem and a willing female provided the womb...voila! passing on genes and continuing the human race!
    you really should get out more! :)

  21. Re:selection on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    available mutations? mutations are random, mistakes, acceidental formations and are not drawn from an available pool of possibilities...
    also, yes selection is an important part of the genetic algorithm but without crossover and mutations the process has nothing to select...so they all play an important role in the process of evolution...
    peace

  22. Re:Well Done NO/J devs! on At Long Last, NeoOffice/J 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    agreed 1000%...while not as spunky as OO it is a very, very good alternative to the crapware that MS Office is on the Mac.
    I also highly recommend supporting Mr. Luby by donating some cash to his efforts if you use NeoOffice.

  23. professor of management?! on Bigger Brains Make Smarter People Study Says · · Score: 1

    doesn't it strike anyone as a wee bit odd that this anthropological research was conducted by a professor in management in VCU's School of Business? hmmmm...

  24. gB_NiN on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 0, Troll

    in the press release TR states:

    "After spending some quality time sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology now exists and is already in the hands of some of you."

    - uh, this just dawned on him?

    and "This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into."

    - I find the fact he did everything in ProTools and then ported it into gB a rather curious statmement...if gB is so rockin' why didn't he just use gB from the start?

    - oh yeah, because gB sucks and he's only doing this for publicity...got it...

  25. Re:between high school and doctorate on Math Awareness Month · · Score: 1

    I highly recommend this book as both an educational tool and a reference book for any math-geeks bookshelf:

    'Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers'
    Jan Gullberg

    http://tinyurl.com/633y2

    you can find used copies on AmazonUS for ~ 14 dollars US - I haven't checked other online sources for non-US but I'm sure you can find them used for less than 20 euros or equivalent