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  1. So... on Microsoft Kills the Kin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...who is the next of kin?

  2. Pft... on Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook · · Score: 1

    CMSs are so 2004...

  3. Things that make you go hmmmm.... on First Direct Photo of Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 1

    If we can see their Uranus, can they see ours?

  4. What I would do... on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 5, Funny
    Step #1: Wait for him to prove and confirm P!=NP

    Step #2: Solve for N:

    So P!=NP,

    therefore P!/P=N,

    thus the Ps cancel and we are left with N=!.

    Step #3: ???

    Step #4: Profit!

  5. What’s happening? on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 1

    PmanAce is reading Slashdot.

  6. It's a trap! on Giant Planet Nine Times the Mass of Jupiter Found · · Score: 1

    Great, they rebuilt the Death Star a second time and now we found it.

  7. Re:Apple is like a new girlfriend... on iPad Bait and Switch — No More Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lol, never thought it, guess I am in the minority here of getting chicks and reading slashdot.

  8. Apple is like a new girlfriend... on iPad Bait and Switch — No More Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...it's all fun and stuff in the beginning until you hit reality. Next.

  9. As someone once said... on Mars Rover Opportunity Sets Longevity Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Live long and prosper.

  10. I don't get it on Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone want to use their personal computers at work?

  11. Oh how I have waited for an article like this! on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    Back in the day when I did my Computer Science degree, (around 60 students, small department) there was a eastern european girl that was notorious for copying stuff. By the end of my first year, her new nickname was CopyMe.pas (first year code was done mainly in Turbo Pascal) given to her by me which stuck around till she left. I wonder if she graduated.

  12. Re:The 10 on The World's Largest Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Now I can think of another American that has become brain washed with terroristic fears.

  13. Untraceable and Diebold on Bank Employee Plants Malware on ATMs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmmm, where have I heard that before, the terms Diebold and untraceable in the same sentence...beats me!

  14. Ambalamp? on Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds · · Score: 1

    Brin' Me A Ambalamp!

  15. Going to be buying this on The Art of Unit Testing · · Score: 1

    This will fit nicely besides my msbuild book collecting dust on my desk. Jokes aside, we do tons of unit testing and I have never seen a book solely on unit testing for .NET with TDD, mocking, etc. I'm stoked!

  16. We agile the crap out of it... on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What we do is try and break down tasks as much as we can so they each take 1 day or less to accomplish. Then it is easier to estimate a bunch of small task that most of the time have already been estimated in previous projects. Rinse and repeat.

  17. Re:That's disappointing, but... on Cool NASA Tech That Will Never See Space · · Score: 0

    I am sure your budget has funds for your future (yours and your daughter), I know mine does. NASA is important for our future.

  18. Death Star? on Laser Fusion Passes Major Hurdle · · Score: 0

    ...I imagined the Death Star with its three lasers combining to become a super laser. I guess this is not the same lol, I should stop watching the Flea Market Montgomery Mini Mall Rap while I read slashdot.

  19. Re:Toba volcano ? Nuclear winter ? on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Not technically at the bottom, but more like at roughly 300 feet (100 m) of water off the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey. By looking at this picture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black-sea-hist.png, it is perfectly deductible to assume the boundries of the Black Sea were different back then and normal for folks to build stuff on the coast.

  20. Re:Oh god, the still use Waterfall? on Mozilla Tries New "Lorentz" Dev Model · · Score: 1

    "Hell, the whole game industry uses it. (As far as I know.)" Well I can confirm that my work uses agile, and we have been voted in the top 5 best studios in the world according to Game Informer.

  21. Collect 10 tribbles on Star Trek Online Open Beta Starts Today · · Score: 1

    Ooooh, can't wait to go collect x tribbles to earn some cash. On second thought, nah.

  22. Re:American youth have it easy. on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    "There were no Coca Colas! There were no potato chips! There were no McDonalds or Burger Kings!" That is a good thing, trust me. On a side note, I live one year in Madrid, Spain, in the 80s and there were no fast food places there (like in NA). Folks and kids would usually eat at home and the average Spaniard was not as fat as they are today (considerably less than NA though).

  23. Re:Reality Check From A Real Game/Graphics Develop on Why You Should Use OpenGL and Not DirectX · · Score: 1

    Yea but are your games actually popular and fun or have zero market share? That is the real question...

  24. Re:How is the game industry doing in these hard ti on Dragon Age: Origins Expansion Coming In March · · Score: 0

    It is pretty simple. There are a couple of factors to look at, one is "It's an escape from reality" as mentioned below. Another is folks have less money to spend on travel, etc, so they stay home and require more forms of entertainment. Video games is one answer.

  25. Re:I was a math major, work as software engineer n on Which Math For Programmers? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Same as me, well almost. I was a math major and before that I was a computer science major, so I have both. Unless you are working on a latest game engine in a video game company, chances are you will be using set/group theory more from your first class. I speak of experience, I actually work in one of the top 3 video game companies in the world and yet I am using more "math" from the discrete branch than the calculus branch. But yea, do both as someone else said, I am glad I did.