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  1. Re:Myth busters episode on Spider Bite Allows Man To Walk Again · · Score: 1

    I think we're missing the point. Its the spider that should the centre of our attention, tired of people bashing spiderman as impossible and tired of the public's scepticism of spiders, one spider took it upon itself to show that world, that indeed spiders can create superheroes. They just don't want to.
    That could be a myth though.

  2. Thank you, CS3 please? on Microsoft Office 2007 In Linux With WINE · · Score: 1

    For some reason all my attempts at running Office and CS3 failed on linux (I use fedora). Both gave similar errors so I assume you can install CS3 as well? Have you tried it?

  3. Obama? on Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AdAMO's mirror image is OMAbA...switch b and M, ObAMA... This article claims that "amabo" is Latin for "I will love"...whats Dell doing screwing up names?

  4. Re:Google tie-in? on Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it has anything to do with Kundra's big push to turn over everything to Google.

    Yes his office asked and received money for loads of Microsoft products that were never purchased. That is part of the problem.

  5. Re:Picked the Wrong Name for the Job on Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes · · Score: 1

    They should have gone with someone with a cooler name. Like Padmasree Warrior her name kick's Wolf Blitzer's name any day of the week and she's better looking too.

    In Sanskrit-derived hindi, Vivek means "wisdom". Obviously you're proposing we discard brains for brawn.

    You're assuming the Obama administration has brains to discard.

    At best, your assumption lacks supporting evidence.

    You are assuming that my assumption lacks evidence. Let me be clear here: in Soviet Russia, evidence lacks assumption.

  6. Re:Boring on FBI Searches New Fed CIO Kundra's Former Offices · · Score: 1

    Awesome! And very responsive. Now, we might as well complete the trifecta and call this one overrated. Thanks in advance!

    Dude, your projections were incorrect. Maybe if you predicted correctly, you'd end up with +1 informative.

  7. Re:Kundra is currently in negotiations... on Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes · · Score: 1

    I expect a presentation "On the Optimal Distribution of Assets in a PMITA Facility"

  8. Re:Picked the Wrong Name for the Job on Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They should have gone with someone with a cooler name. Like Padmasree Warrior her name kick's Wolf Blitzer's name any day of the week and she's better looking too.

    In Sanskrit-derived hindi, Vivek means "wisdom". Obviously you're proposing we discard brains for brawn.

  9. Re:Surely they could have chosen a better name. on New Graphics Firm Promises Real-Time Ray Tracing · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's non-macho name never hurt it.....unfortunately.

    But Microsoft was really popular among men!

  10. Re:2009 on New Graphics Firm Promises Real-Time Ray Tracing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems we've been waiting forever for Duke.

    I think in Soviet Russia, Duke Nukem waits for YOU!

  11. Oh well on Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes · · Score: 1

    I submitted a story on this earlier....may the force be with you VK!

  12. Re:20 percent? try 20 times on New Graphics Firm Promises Real-Time Ray Tracing · · Score: 1

    You must have misread the article... it reads "20x", not "20%".

    Yep, you're right :)

  13. Something's not right on New Graphics Firm Promises Real-Time Ray Tracing · · Score: 1

    Larrabee has a dedicated z-buffer module, there was no place for bringing it up in the article...Plus, much research has already been done in this are which the article didn't cover. Here's an example: Toward a Multicore Architecture for Real-time Ray-tracing -- this architecture benefits from secondary rays by equipping each tile with a shared L2 cache and exploiting locality
    Also, 20% increase isn't much....really. With software simulators of new architecture, something between 10-20% increase in speed is within the margin of error.

  14. Re:For my fellow USians.... on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    It's United States of Americans.

    North American or South American?

    Maybe US Americans...like that innocent teen beauty once said.

  15. Nothing new on How Office Depot Pushes Service Plans On Customers · · Score: 1

    America is the land of opportunity and innovation in science and business. All Office Depot has done is work out an innovative way to generate extra profit for their company. I'm sure they consulted their legal department to find out if federal and state laws allow this innovative method of training salesman to follow a sales flowchart.

    There ought to be a patent on this technique! Infact, the only hurdle is used-car salesmen who might sue claiming prior art (but thats a minor inconvenience)

  16. Re:is that all? on Discovery Launch a No-Go, Again · · Score: 1

    Wrong, just put back the heart of the heart of gold and feed your score from grand theft cosmo.

  17. I'd like to know on Berners-Lee Says No To Internet Snooping · · Score: 1

    What Al Gore thinks of this.

  18. Re:Translation on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And you cannot represent every statement of concepts in a purely mathematical expression.

    Yes we can, it is the whole point of mathematics.

  19. Re:would u fly on that bird on Discovery Launch a No-Go, Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    if you are an astronaut an the mission has been rescheduled like 3 times because of failiures on the ship would you fly on that? i wont, i guess that bird its to old to fly any more.

    Yes, but NASA also has Astronuts, many of whom have been flying quite frequently.

  20. Re:Translation on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 1

    But doesn't anti-socialism lead to anti-communism?

    Not necessarily, its plain logic, p => q does not mean q => p.

  21. Re:Sixth Sense on Demo of a New "Sixth Sense" Technology · · Score: 1

    Who would have thought that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father?

    Or that R is killed by Dr. Manhattan and there is no squid?

    Well, Rorschach is really killed by Dr. Manhattan, I'm not trolling! Look it up, in the comic book published 20 years ago.

  22. Re:Not a bug on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    Talk about doublespeak! Not a bug vs. It's a consequence of not writing software properly. reminds me of that FG episode where Stewie says, "it's not that I want to kill Lois... it's that I don't... want... her... to... live... anymore."

    I think you're confusing lies with mistakes/misunderstandings. Bugs are usually unknown...unintentional. Writing code improperly is an intentional act, possibly with unknown consequences. Windows Vista isn't a "Bug" (although I expect some /. smartass to assert that it is...), Vista is simply badly designed.

  23. Re:Justice on Kremlin-Backed Nashi Admits Cyberattacking Estonia · · Score: 1

    welcome our new Russian overlords.

    Haven't these guys pwn'd the internet several times through a flood of news every now and then when someone somewhere was "evacuated" by ingenious means? They have the power to dominate news outlets at will, all they do is find a clever cold-blooded way to set off the process, and then it enters your psyche.

  24. Re:Justice on Kremlin-Backed Nashi Admits Cyberattacking Estonia · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never heard of anyone admitting guilt whilst having a loaded Kalashnikov pointed at the back of their head...

    Wait, this was classified. Who told you?

  25. Re:Duh, what's new? They're Fox on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    The bright young execs are too busy managing to keep the "fair" away from the "balanced" over at the Fox News department, lest they meet and annihilate each other in a blissfully exothermic reaction.

    You do realize that Rupert Murdoch is a character based on Ayn Rand's real-life Gail Wyand?