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  1. Re:Just like Siri... on Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android · · Score: 0

    No, not nearly the same number of evangelicals. Speaking of denial: "Most people wouldn't bother with Swype. I mean, yes, it works, but it would piss off 95% of consumers. It's worse than Graffiti in that it requires you to re-learn something so basic and fundamental that it's practically intuitive."

    Apple taking away choice == good, because someone else ("95%" of respondents pulled out of fanboi's ass) wouldn't like it. That's what denial is all about.

  2. Re:Just like Siri... on Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apple wouldn't be raking it in if they didn't have people like you doing their advertising work for free.

  3. Re:No Hockey Stick on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    You can only reasonably claim that if you know nothing whatsoever about trend analysis.

  4. Re:Why so hard. on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    Because the free market won't solve the problem, which means the goverment has to take action, and government action means more taxes, which is morally wrong and therefore disproves the AGW hypothesis.

  5. Re:A real important thing to note... on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    Way to go, debunking climate change alarmism by pointing to a conversation with a waiter on Corsica. Brilliantly put!

    Idiot.

  6. Re:No Hockey Stick on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    Christ. Yes, if we take away the stuff in the middle, it becomes a straight line.

  7. Re:What Tesla doesn't get is Marketing on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 1

    No, they did not. It's blatantly obvious that they're staging a situation to make a point when the power sort-of goes out. Look. If you don't see it, then you're simply incapable of understanding media. Asperger?

  8. Re:What Tesla doesn't get is Marketing on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 1

    So you don't get it, but believe you do. Probably not the best starting point if you want to learn something.

  9. Re:What Tesla doesn't get is Marketing on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 1

    You seem not to get how illustration works. Which is actually your problem, not Top Gear's, as what you're saying is that you're incapable of reading live images. Most of what you believe is probably wrong.

  10. Re:Tesla on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 1

    What? That doesn't even rhyme.

  11. Re:Well then why bring it up? on Android Source Code Gone For Good? · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) No one does that. 2) It is open. CyanogenMod makes Gingerbread available to an awful lot of devices with source and everything. It's the latest code currently available on Android phones, in actual fact.

    I hope that when you grow up, you become more honest. Otherwise, you'll be unsuitable for politics.

  12. Re:He does have some good points on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 4, Funny

    See? Google takes everything from them.

  13. Re:If you like ASM sure on RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sounds incredibly unlikely, considering it's ported to ARM, MIPS, PPC, i386, etc.

  14. Re:Mint- How many slashdotters out here use it? on Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    I see your problem. You're being deliberately obtuse in the face of features you've decided to dislike. Grow up or grow a brain, and your problems will solve themselves.

  15. Re:Mint- How many slashdotters out here use it? on Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    Oh right. So if you don't have problems with PulseAudio then it must be totally fixed by now.

  16. Re:Mint- How many slashdotters out here use it? on Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    When was that actually true? In 1998? As long as you know about Debian's Free policy and take care to install the firmware packages you need (which is easy), it's far easier than Ubuntu for the simple fact that it's much easier to avoid PulseAudio.

  17. Re:Typical Slashdot comments pattern to follow... on Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers · · Score: 2

    Actual scepticism is a rare thing on Slashdot. Most of the time, it's just some regurgitated nonsense from someone who didn't even read the article, never mind understood it. Also, your claim "Extraordinary claims without skepticism isn't science, it is religion" is both wrong and moronic.

  18. Re:It's not me it's you. on LibreOffice Going Online and Mobile · · Score: 1

    Is this an attempt at making a false argument irrefutable through poor grammar?

  19. Re:Or... on LibreOffice Going Online and Mobile · · Score: 1

    I've had OpenOffice crash on me with two (I think) different documents, both written in Word for Mac. Both documents also crashed Word 2003 for Windows. Perfect compatibility with a rubbish document format aside, it's been very stable.

  20. Re:Wow. on Columbus Blamed For Mini Ice Age · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It might be, but if the reforestation alone can account for that drop in atmospheric CO2 (that's a lot of forest!), then the change in the landscape itself would certainly have an influence on local climate, possibly enough to influence Western Europe.

    Also, don't be so quick to dismiss research based on an article in a popular science magazine: most journalists are incompetent, and will try to get a sensationalist angle out of anything and nothing.

  21. Re:Wow. on Columbus Blamed For Mini Ice Age · · Score: 4, Informative

    From TFS: "Tying together many different lines of evidence, Nevle estimated how much carbon all those new trees would have consumed. He says it was enough to account for most or all of the sudden drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide recorded in Antarctic ice during the 16th and 17th centuries."

    So yes.

  22. Re:... and the problem is? on AMD Ports Open-Source Linux GPU Driver To Windows · · Score: 1

    True. But to be fair to AMD, they're developing the drivers themselves for the main part, the open as well as the proprietary ones. Unfortunately, that also means the code needs to pass their legal department to make sure nothing interesting goes public.

  23. Re:Office Use? on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 1

    Of course. Half the point of Apple's gadgets seem to be to draw attention to them all the fucking time. Case in point: the story above.

  24. Re:... and the problem is? on AMD Ports Open-Source Linux GPU Driver To Windows · · Score: 1

    The problem is that AMD's open source Linux drivers have very poor power management compared to their proprietary drivers, making them unsuitable for embedded use. Hopefully, this means they'll work on improving that aspect of them, though.

  25. Re:What distribution left for developers? on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    It's one fucking command and takes as much time as downloading and installing the packages. Compare that to "faffing about" with downloading a new distro, burning it to CD or a USB stick, then installing it and configuring it.