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  1. What about The Incredible Machine? on Ask Slashdot: Best Book Or Game To Introduce Kids To Programming? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure there's new versions of it out, and it's a good start to what engineering (in pretty much any sense) is all about.

  2. Re:91? They must have some good-ass healthcare. on Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'd like to think that most of those people have no idea who or what they're voting for. They just think either "My daddy always voted republican cuz he was a real 'merican", or "My church told me that guy is a secret muslim", or some other such nonsense. Then they just repeat whatever Limbaugh says.

    I'm not saying there aren't Dem's that aren't the same way, but my experience lately has been mostly ridiculous misinformation on the republican side.

  3. What about changing it around a little? on Start-Up Wants To Open Up Science Journals and Eliminate Paywalls · · Score: 1

    Why not use copyright a different way to achieve a goal of openness, and still bring in some cash? Have all the articles free to read. Charge money to cite the articles in other academic papers. You'd have to invest in lawyers to go after people that try to screw you (plagiarizing without citation), but everyone gets to read and learn, it creates a barrier to entry for crap papers that mean nothing, and you can keep it cheap enough to not have it be a huge burden on actual researchers.I'm not a copyright lawyer...I don't know that this would work, but it's a decent idea, I think.

  4. Re:You Tell Me If You're Too Old; What Is Your Goa on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    Heres a question, if .NET is so great, why isnt 99% of the windows GUI and desktop + IE + non speed critical code written all in C# ? Didnt MS abort converting 90% of the OS to .NET ?

    Different tools for different projects. C# is not normally used for speed critical stuff, because it's interpreted. IE was written before C# was a thing: rewriting it is not cost effective (at least not yet). Stop being a hater. Seriously, it's just a language. Just a set of libraries. Works the same way as most other C-type languages.

  5. Re:You Tell Me If You're Too Old; What Is Your Goa on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    It's not like .NET 2.0 is that much different than the current .NET 4 stuff. In fact, .NET 4 is just an add-on. I never understood why people get so freaked out. It's just a library. Google is available. Just get yourself into a project that uses new technology, (or push your current one forward, if possible), and learn by doing.

  6. Re:Stats Fail on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    C could conceivably be "Time". Earthquakes have happened those areas more regularly because of some event (someone previously mentioned the Indonesian quake which shook everything up), which also correlates with higher amounts of fracking purely by coincidence. Note that I don't know enough about the subject to make any sort of conclusion, but there you are.

  7. Re:Wait, what? on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 5, Informative

    He's the swim coach. That's fairly common, for quick updates about practices and meets.

  8. Re:Teaching? on Study Attempts To Predict Scientists' Career Success · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm just going to put this out there: you're wrong. A good lecture should produce students who want to learn more about the subjects on their own. Not because they have to to pass your class, but because they want to because you made the subject interesting. If you're not doing that, but rather just telling the kids all they need to know to pass your test, it's not a good lecture, it's a good study session.

  9. Re:Cool but... on Elon Musk, an Industrialist For the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Has it always been? I quite liked it when it first started up. It was a decent way to pay for things online, knowing fairly well you wouldn't get completely screwed either way. The issue with them is really their more recent actions.

  10. Re:wtf? on Cash-Poor Sharp Mortgages Display Factories · · Score: 1

    Turn. The word you're looking for is Turn. Turn Over if you want to be more specific.

  11. Re:Sharp screens are mediocre IMO. on Cash-Poor Sharp Mortgages Display Factories · · Score: 0

    This is pretty stupid, because they probably make the actual screen in the TV you actually bought.

  12. Re:make human drivers illegal on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 1

    Most people drive their entire lives without being injured in an auto accident. Not sure what you're on about, quit being paranoid.

  13. Re:Don't hire union workers on The Truth About Hiring "Rock Star" Developers · · Score: 1

    The solution to this is not having "workfare", but just having a graded welfare system where you can still receive welfare while working a normal job. Have people not working receive the most money (but less than they do now), and slowly wean people off welfare while working normal minimum wage jobs. This way people still get health insurance, can still live, and encourages people to work (because they can make more total money and be in a better situation insurance-wise by working).

  14. Re:$313 is worth it on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    313 dollars and girls will want to blow my son more? Sign me up.

  15. Re:CAFE Kills on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    Subaru makes the Outback.

  16. Re:Replace the batteries on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Why do intelligent people have to watch "Intelligent" programming? How I Met Your Mother is pretty funny for everyone.

  17. Re:Voice is the anwser on Ask Slashdot: Single-Handed Keyboard Options For Coding? · · Score: 1

    For programming? Good luck getting any speech recognition software to type a long variable name, or worse, a regex for you.

  18. Re:Mounting evidence - of hype. on Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work · · Score: 2

    As a moderate drinker and a person who looks into these things (I live in the second heaviest drinking city per capita in America. It's interesting to me), I can tell you that most people are not what any normal person would consider drunk at 0.08. In fact, 0.08 was chosen because it is really a very low tolerance, to make it so no one even a little tipsy could pass it. It basically allows a normal sized person to have 1 beer per hour.

    Methinks the breathalyzer was not accurate.

  19. Re:Tmobile wifi calling solves this problem on T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    They've supported WiFi calling on all smart phones (aka, the ones that get wifi) since My Blackberry 6 years ago. I've since had a Google G1, HTC G2, and now the Galaxy S3, all supported. Lower android models also support it. You're just complaining without researching.

  20. Re:There are no Facts on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy · · Score: 0

    The slave could reasonably live without her master. The embryo cannot. That makes it a parasite.

  21. Re:Money goes straight to foundation... on The Oatmeal Begins a Fundraiser for a Nikola Tesla Museum · · Score: 2

    If Tesla gets a museum out of it, why does that matter, exactly?

  22. Re:Sour grapes much? on How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal · · Score: 2

    The idea was that you listen to your own comment before you post it, so you know how much you sound like an asshole.

  23. Business Casual on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    Nice Jeans/Khakis and a collared shirt. It's not hard, and you look like a respectable but casual person.

  24. Look into XNA on Ask Slashdot: Are The Days of Homebrew Gaming Over? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As far as I know, you can still write a game in XNA, play it, distribute it, and indeed sell it in XBox Live.

  25. Re:Classy on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    If there was only one kind of whiskey, bars would be a lot less fun. I think you see this when there's plenty of money to be made by all the competitors in a certain business. In a way, they help each other. Some people like Jack, some people like Jim. If one leaves, then there's a lot less friends drinking together.