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  1. Of course it can. on Can Machine Learning Replace Focus Groups? · · Score: 1

    Just get the last answer and repeat it over and over.
    Such a machine will be equally as good as any focus group.

  2. Re:Dance, monkey, dance! on The Gamification of Hiring · · Score: 2

    And exclude anyone from another English speaking country that use 's' instead of 'z' (e.g. for initialise).

    Our only redeeming feature is we don't use that awful American word 'gotten.' In Australia, we are taught to avoid 'got' where ever possible - 'gotten' is right out of the question.

    Considering we have a long past of being Americanised (Americanized?), "Dance, monkey, dance!" seems somewhat appropriate.

  3. Re:Exhaustive search... on Goldbach Conjecture: Closer To Solved? · · Score: 1

    You may write that in jest. You can use a theorem if it is not proven for the general case - only need it to 32 bits.

  4. Re:so it compiles, drops down a CPU core and a ROM on Startup Claims C-code To SoC In 8-16 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Same thing happened to CPLDs. Once FPGAs were cheap - we all jumped to FPGAs.
    Why lock yourself down - or even finish design before turning a PCB.

  5. Re:Who's Zuckerberg to judge? on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 1

    That sort of statement shows he is an inexperienced poor manager.

  6. Re:Mod parent up! on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 1

    That's what being employed is: you forego future profit for an immediate pay packet.
    An investor to foregoes immediate pay for future profit.

  7. Not really sure ... on Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool · · Score: 1

    All in favor of the idea; but many boundary conditions are dependent on the implementation. If the documentation goes down that far into the implementation level - well ... it becomes code.

  8. Re:Human perception on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1

    I don't think inventing "motor/sensory-fold interface necessary to consume higher bandwidths" will stop procreation.

  9. What could possibly go wrong? on New Zealand Developers Building Open Source Code For Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    See comment!

  10. And what's the point of having a transparent display if you can only read the text from one side anyway?

  11. Re:Ms. Pong on Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong · · Score: 1

    Oh, I thought you meant this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDu9gbuKpKc

  12. Game play on Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to get a Government form completed. You bounce backwards and forwards between departments. The only difference is that you never get out and the game lasts forever.

  13. Re:Post PC world for newb users who carry no workl on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    And OSX isn't going to make a dent in the embedded and custom product world world. There is no embedded OSX and you can't customise the UI.

  14. Re:Who shives a git!!! on Is Onlive Pirating Windows and Will It Cost Them? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, everyone is different. I can't stand OSX and Ubuntu. So what!
    As a contractor, I have to work in all of them - they are all as bad (or good) as each other. Just different.
    Also, the users bitch about each of them equally.

  15. Too small on Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want steam based computing. Big things lots of spinning wheels and whistles.
    Down with this mamby-pamby micro electronics.

  16. Re:The Raspberry Pi? on Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom · · Score: 2

    You guys are going round circles over the diameter.

  17. Re:They do support that also on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    So why does Apple insist on using non-pixel accurate fonts in XCode editors? Frustrating looking at blurry fonts when coding.

  18. Screen size and ergonomics on Microsoft's Killer Tablet Opportunity · · Score: 1

    To do effective work you eventually need a large screen space - maybe go VR ... who knows?
    While they are at it, make ergonomic devices - can't imagine the number of neck, back and wrist problems there will be after all that hunching over iPxxx devices.

  19. Re:Intersting long term move on Apple Seeks Court Permission To Sue Kodak For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    The employees did not 'pick the fight'.

    Or at the very least, the very very senior managers on massive salaries picked the fight - they can ride over any job loss.

  20. Re:Intersting long term move on Apple Seeks Court Permission To Sue Kodak For Patent Infringement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is where the real bastardry starts. The sad fact is suing Kodak now that it has filed for bankruptcy means the ex-employees who have not been paid out yet will get much-much less. Apple are effectively ensuring the unpaid employees will get virtually nothing.

    I think this is one of the great un-addressed problems with companies. Employees forego future growth for immediate payment (salary). As a result, employees should really be paid first as they did not partake in risk - not last. Even worse, the amount owed to the real people employees is often small by comparison the whole company - but a lot to them!

  21. Left handed on Engelbart's Keyboard Available For Touchscreens · · Score: 1

    Damn it! I only get 16 combinations.

  22. Re:Really? on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 2

    I thought it was invented by Kim Jong Il

  23. Re:Really? on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 2

    Two years ago? Those start ups are already dead.

  24. Packaging format on Details Emerge About Spark Linux-Based Tablet · · Score: 1

    The Linux and Android mob really need to standardise the packaging connector location and shape. Let alone too many variants of OSes.

  25. Time is money on Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Even if you are lucky and Linux installs with no hitches, you will waste a day. If things don't go smoothly, which is far more common than the Linux community admits, expect to waste 3 days to a week.

    How much is you time worth? After a week you should have just bought something that does what you want.

    But we have all done this for the fun and challenge ...