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  1. Re:Good thing on Testing a Pre-Release, Parallel Firefox · · Score: 1
    There are a few things keeping me from Chrome as well.
    • Firebug. The dev tools for chrome are nowhere near as good - the features that I use anyway.
    • It's really a nit, but I cannot stand applications that don't at least look like they're using the standard window decorations. I want it to match the rest of my OSX, Windows, KDE, Gnome apps, whether it's skinned qt or gtk, I don't care, but it needs to look like it's supposed to be there.
    • I'm used to Firefox. On my mb pro, there is no noticeable difference in performance between Chrome and FF.

    If Chrome at least had good enough developer tools, I'd be willing to give it more of a shot and see if I get used to it, but for now, it just gets in the way.

  2. Re:Who needs GNOME when Windows is affordable on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    I, too, haven't had good luck with MacFUSE. It crashes all the time and just doesn't work well in general. Still not as bad as CyberDuck though. I realize they are for different purposes, but click and drag actually moved something off the server and to my computer, instead of copying. Then it crashed and I lost all my data. It was not a good day.

  3. Re:Exactly on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    Well, I once took a class that was IE only. It was the dumbest thing I'd seen in my whole life, but hey that's college. You can expect 60 percent of things to be done well and 40 to have been bureaucratically broken.

  4. Re:Show me some example code on The Power of the R Programming Language · · Score: 4, Informative

    R is for statistics. Matlab is for numerics focusing on matricies. There is overlap, but they are good at two different things.

  5. Re:Freak your colleagues out with "no loop" code.. on The Power of the R Programming Language · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you considered using sage (www.sagemath.org)? It is FOSS and has highly active community and developer support. I'd suggest reading the tour http://www.sagemath.org/tour.html and seeing what you think.

  6. Re:the most cost effective applications on the mar on Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? Just too many bugs?

  7. Re:I feel my mind going....... on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 1

    Good thing too, spiderman is getting bored.

  8. Re:It's not a great test on US Officials Flunk Test On Civic Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Yes, this test is terrible. Also, the interpretation of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is "life, liberty, and property". I would imagine that many people got that wrong. Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person This is obviously not true. The government has lots of things they can sell, buy, etc.

  9. I'd care more on US Officials Flunk Test On Civic Knowledge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they had the text of this 'civic test' available.

  10. Re:Women aren't a "minority", either.... on Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    I think he meant 'marginalized'. Look at women's history in the United States.

  11. Vector Analysis on Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is where to start when it comes to deriving PDEs. The heat equation and the wave equation fall easily out of vector analysis, as do a number of other familiar PDEs. I'd start with a vector analysis book.