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  1. Re:The end of improvement. on Mastering Engineer Explains Types of Compression, Effects On Today's Music · · Score: 1

    Bullshit history. You just made that up.

  2. Re:Water utilization? on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 2

    Brewtarget can calculate evaporation during boil and mash/sparge water volume. I'm not entirely happy with the mash wizard, but the volume given seem to be fairly accurate for my system.

  3. Re:Free Beer on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 4, Informative

    Version 1.0 looks like a terrible recipe, to put it mildly. It's got insane amount of sugar for such a light beer. Then again, the project seems to have started out from the idea of applying open source ideals to beer recipes, disregarding the fact that there already were thousands and thousands of recipes shared freely in the homebrew community, on various messageboards now and on usenet and mailing lists before that. From 2.0 and up, it might be good, although I have no idea what the guarana berries are good for.

    At any rate, the project is nothing new and nothing special. There are plenty of better resources for brewing good beer, by more knowledgeable brewers. I suggest homebrewtalk.com and forum.northernbrewer.com, along with howtobrew.com as a great introduction. As recipes aren't copyrightable, the creative commons license is a bit nonsensical for this.

  4. Re:Wah wah wah on Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' · · Score: 0

    A link would have been a better retort. Apple fanboys speaking about "reality" is just funny.

  5. Re:Wah wah wah on Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' · · Score: 0

    And as a full time shill, you base this on absolutely nothing.

  6. Re:Wah wah wah on Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' · · Score: 1, Informative

    Originality has very little to nothing to do with success, in apps as in music and movies. E.g. Zynga.

  7. Re:Wah wah wah on Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    App development for any mobile platform is a lottery. Most developers make very little from it. A few make tons of cash. Even on Android.

  8. Re:Hopefully.... on The Tech Behind James Cameron's Trench-Bound Submarine · · Score: 0

    You idiot. If he dies, we'll never get to see Terminator III.

  9. Re:Lovely and Intuitive? on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    What you're saying is that the Metro style menu doesn't actually have any advantages to the old start menu (except "big targets", which is great for touch screens and otherwise suck), but that it also has search which you already used in Windows 7 anyway. Your answer to my question of what makes the Metro launcher better is that I shouldn't be using it anyway.

  10. Re:Lovely and Intuitive? on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    Interesting. The whole 'spread a bunch of icons all across your huge widescreen monitor' idea is actually the one thing I dislike in Gnome3's launcher thing. I don't see how hunting for an icon all across your entire screen is any better than scrolling through an alphabetically ordered list. In fact, it isn't. Why do you think it is?

  11. Re:What an ass on Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive' · · Score: 2

    You don't generally use sudo when installing printers under Linux. You either use the web frontend for CUPS, in which case you're prompted for a password (either root or a user in a printer admin group), or more likely some application in the DE, in which case it's up to the PolKit configuration or whatever arcane nonsense they use these days. And yes, the default policy should be to allow users to add printers.

  12. Re:Interestingly, on Asus Transformer Drops Quad-core In Favor of Dual-core · · Score: 1

    Untrue. They've released a bunch of 38 MP images with staggering detail. It is, of course, not its primary function: they take up far too much space for a phone, and in the end you'd prefer noise free 5 MP images for phone usage. But of course, you're free to dismiss things out of hand, based on no evidence whatsoever.

  13. Re:Interestingly, on Asus Transformer Drops Quad-core In Favor of Dual-core · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's so dead that it sold more than six times as much as WP7 in Q4 2011 and almost half as much as the iPhones. Any blind and gullible person can see what they're told they should see, and the idiots will repeat it ad nauseam to show how perceptive they are.

    Fact of the matter is, Nokia just released some interesting technology. This site is supposedly about "news for nerds", not news for gadget consumers who feel they need to prove themselves by buying whatever "experts" in the social media tell them is the next big thing.

  14. Interestingly, on Asus Transformer Drops Quad-core In Favor of Dual-core · · Score: 1

    the one outstanding product to come out of the MWC, Nokia's 808 "Fuck everything, we're doing 41 megapixels" PureView, is ignored by Slashdot for whatever reason, while tiny product differentiations that don't warrant attention at all are posted.

  15. Re:And what else have to to say Mr Dell? on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    Where's the evidence? Oh, there's none.

  16. Re:And what else have to to say Mr Dell? on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    You're a liar. Not that Apple isn't doing anything, but blanket statements such as "whatever you are typing on was made under far worse circumstances" is just the kind of bullshit we've all come to expect from you: pure, unadulterated spin. Most likely untrue, but plausible enough to make other Apple fanboys mod you up.

  17. Re:New technology, old mindsets on Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone · · Score: 1

    No, quite the opposite. I'm saying someone who wants to do away with a certain kind of knowledge just because it doesn't interest him is anti-intellectual and a champion of idiocy.

  18. Re:New technology, old mindsets on Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone · · Score: 2

    The intention of the project has little to do with what's in the bible (except, of course, the thing about turning all nations into Jesus' disciples). As for readability, that's your opinion, and you've already established the fact that you're anti-intellectual, and therefore by your own intent an idiot. It really isn't that challenging to read. Also, it's a compendium of various texts, not an "effort to write a book".

  19. Re:New technology, old mindsets on Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blah. Even though there is no god, etc., the Bible is still one of the most important texts if you want to understand Western culture and philosophy. Refusing to learn about ideas because they are wrong is simply a more vain and self-glorifying form of anti-intellectualism.

  20. Re:Audiophiles on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 2

    The dumbest group of people ever is the one that bases their judgement on other groups of people solely on prejudice.

  21. Frankenstein isn't mad, though on The Science Fiction Effect · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the movies, sure, but in the book, he's just misguided.

  22. Re:I wrote about this once myself on If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language · · Score: 1

    I remember reading an article somewhere, here it is, about a small isolated Amazonian tribe that has no perfect tense. Quite interesting. Their language did seem to influence them quite a bit.

  23. Re:Physical keyboard? on Halliburton To Dump Blackberry For iOS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, don't say that. With autocorrect, an on-screen touch keyboard is just as fast and arrogant as a maniacal keyboard.

  24. Does it matter? on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 3, Funny

    From what I remember from Kubuntu, most of their tweaks to KDE just make it inferior to the vanilla version (for instance: you need to click the tabs in the launcher menu instead of just mousing over them, which is unpleasant). Is there any reason to use Kubuntu instead of just about any other KDE based distro?

  25. Re:We all know what will happen on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 2

    Spoken like a true programmer. Evidently you've never had drunken sex.