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  1. To say MS and Google don't innovate... on Is Google the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    ...is absolutely asinine.

    Even today both are very innovative.

  2. In other words... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    ...if you develop a product using our language and/or compiler, it is ours.

    Great.

  3. Advertising and Marketing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Very powerful, virtually nonexistant for Linux on the desktop.

  4. Re:Stand on the back of civilization on How Apple Sidesteps Billions In Global Taxes · · Score: 1

    Stand on the backs of the workers, demanding that they fruit of their labors be taken away and given to others... this is also known as slavery.

  5. Re:how USA manages to remain an union? on How Apple Sidesteps Billions In Global Taxes · · Score: 1

    Freedom. It does not surprise me in the slightest that a European, with to world wars under its belt and a quit work of Socialist economies, does not understand this.

  6. Re:So... on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, *I* am petrified by just reading that.

  7. Re:Time Travel on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    Travel six month backwards in time... ...and you be floating out in space, the Earth on the other side of the sun, the sun itself being about 3,478,464,000 km away from its formerly present point.

  8. Re:Probably not happening on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    You must not be a very good mission computer developer of you can't figure out how to bench test your box.

    >> There's no way you can simulate the conditions for the mission computer to receive an obstacle warning from the radar, then send out an override to the controls to modify course.

    Interestingly, I wrote a simulator 17 years ago that does exactly this for a variety of terrain following radars that sit on a variety of buses and used DTED data as input allowing bench testing over any point on earth.

  9. Re:My first computer on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates was the man when it came to BASIC.

  10. Shouldn't this be trivial? on Did Microsoft Simply Run Out of Time On Windows RT? · · Score: 1

    I may be off in my thinking, but all of this functionality is probably written in C or C++.

    So why can't they simply recompile it for ARM?

  11. Re:been there, done that on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Drop it into the Sahara, mine the crater.

    Not sure what your title is supposed to mean, since you have achieved neither.

  12. Re:Guess who'll get stuck with the bill? on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    >> American taxpayers aren't stuck paying for anything because it's being paid for by private citizens and investors.

    GM, AIG, Chrysler, Goldman Sachs....

  13. Billionaires and polymaths? on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Soon to be not, and already not... if this is an actual plan.

  14. Conversely on CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    CIO's are dismissed as suits without tech savvy by engineering.

    Go figure.

  15. If it isn't your company then sign the damn NDA. on Will Write Code, Won't Sign NDA · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Someone wants you to write their code then no go off and kill their business. Is it really so unreasonable?

    If you have a great idea while working there and really want to implement it... then leave.

  16. Re:Advanced manufacturing no human lives on NASA Looking For Ideas To Explore Mars · · Score: 2

    Dude, they can find volunteers that will strap a large hunk of C4 under their ballsack, get on a plane, and detonate it.

    I bet finding folks for a one way trip to explore Mars would be easy in comparison, considering that we are all essentially on a one way trip down a birth canal to explore Earth.

  17. Re:Remember when NASA was composed of engineers .. on NASA Looking For Ideas To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    I work at NASA Goddard. I can assure you of this: "engineers" at NASA are looked down upon. At NASA you are nothing unless you are "scientist."

  18. Re:Not Niven... Michael Crichton on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 1

    Well, true, as long as we are counting blatantly plagiarized concepts.

  19. MS was probably right on Microsoft Passed On iPhone-Like Device In 1991 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Idea was before its time. See the Apple Newton.

  20. Re:Mixed feelings on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 1

    He already was a maniac. The shocks would simply "shut down" the homicidal thoughts.

    Unfortunately, during the surgery the doctor off handedly decided to put the electrode on a pleasure center figuring that the subject may as well be rewarded while being cured. Too bad the reverse happened - every time he thought about killing he was given a jolt to the pleasure center training him to think about killing even more. The jolts shut down the urge, but eventually he reached a point that he was being continually stimulated in a pleasure center while thinking about killing... and since he was already being jolted there was nothing to stop him from acting on his desires.

    Carnage ensues.

  21. Not Niven... Michael Crichton on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 0

    The Terminal Man. 1972. Read it.

  22. Cool project on Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux · · Score: 1

    Sometimes causes me headaches when trying to develop CUDA projects... but all in all a wonderful thing for 95% of the Linus user base. Spock would approve.

    I only wish Ubuntu didn't ram it down my throat.

  23. Not CAN it, but WAS it. on Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted · · Score: 0

    Regardless of if they can copyright Java.... did they?

  24. Pop it into neutral (or stomp on the clutch) on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    What could be easier?

  25. Re:Wait, wtf, NASA again?!? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    You're argument would be great... if only NASA built rockets.

    Bitch at Northrop and Boeing.