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  1. Re:Apple behind this? on Group Calls For Google Antitrust Probe · · Score: 1

    How about both? Steve and Bill do think alike after all.

  2. Re:Money on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    these girls were georgous; made the actresses in Jackie Chan movies look like dogs).

    Cat women, no doubt.

  3. Re:Smart move. on Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn · · Score: 1

    Google doesn't have to do anything other than watching Jobs destroying his own reputation among iPhone fans who can still think.

  4. Re:In other news... on Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn · · Score: 1

    Or when a format wins and was backed up by the porn industry, it is more likely to be mentioned.

  5. Re:More Eyes on Source Code To Google Authentication System Stolen · · Score: 1

    And Microsoft sues the bugs for patent infringement.

  6. Re:More Eyes on Source Code To Google Authentication System Stolen · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unless the bug have developed an invisibility cloak.

  7. The quality of art on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he is comparing the quality of art, meaning he thinks the art in video games is not as high as that in movies. I might not agree with him but I do think he has a point. If the propose of the art is a game, you can afford to sacrifice the art a little. This is kind of like google making a word processor, with the purpose of attracting eye balls to the net instead of trying to revolutionize word processing.

  8. Re:Frameworks do not work. Quit it. on Thoughts On the State of Web Development · · Score: 1

    You are talking like a scientist as if frameworks have to work for eternity. Frameworks are layers over the language or other libraries. How many layers are needed is something dynamic but that doesn't mean the layered approach is wrong.

  9. Re:Need a New UI Tool on Thoughts On the State of Web Development · · Score: 1

    Security risk if you allow downloading binary. Otherwise it wouldn't be much different from Javascript architecturally.

  10. Re:Need a New UI Tool on Thoughts On the State of Web Development · · Score: 1

    The cost of developing a new browser is high. Just take a look at the code bases of firefox, or webkit/chromium. They are huge. Where are the developers for starting a new one? If you are asking Mozilla to abandon firefox/gecko, it's not gonna happen anytime soon.

  11. Re:Musicians on Research Suggests Brain Has a 2-Task Limit for Multitasking · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that when you are sight-reading music, you can "understand" many musical notes simultaneously? If so, it may have something to do with the human visual system, which, like GPU, is massively parallel.

  12. Re:Please define task on Research Suggests Brain Has a 2-Task Limit for Multitasking · · Score: 1

    A task is a control flow. You can multiplex a control flow to do many things, but there is still only one physical mechanism to support each flow, which can simulates sub-tasks.

    So basically the article says that the brain is dual core. If you happen to possess a higher core brain, please notify the authors.

  13. Re:Please don't joke. I think I have three parents on UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo · · Score: 1

    Just do a DNA test, end of story.

  14. A giant telescope on the moon on Obama Outlines Bold Space Policy ... But No Moon · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think a giant telescope on the moon would greatly increase our knowledge of the universe. Maybe our current technology is not sufficient for longer distance space travel and gaining more knowledge about the universe might be better for now.

  15. Better softare on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 1

    ... to limit where, when, and how much the card can be used. How about instant notification for user approval on your mobile phone? That'd be really cool.

  16. Re:Why poker is bad as a career on Revised Mass. Gambling Bill Won't Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    Well, this is getting vague. I had the impression that great poker players were math wizards. Or maybe their skillset has changed.

  17. Re:Why poker is bad as a career on Revised Mass. Gambling Bill Won't Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    But in poker deception has a dominant effect. People admire players who can pretend to play in certain way regardless of the cards they have. This is psychological warfare, and nobody is counting the cards.

  18. Re:This is why... on Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is a collection of groupthink communities

    Does this really make sense to anyone? An axis of Linux, Apple and MS?

  19. Why poker is bad as a career on Revised Mass. Gambling Bill Won't Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The nature of poker is that it's impossible to create a system that can always win, at least practically. Ultimately it relies on gut feelings, or just whims. This makes me wonder what really goes through the mind of a poker player who's pondering the next move. Most of the time they are not playing a game of skill, but a game of deception, that's why they say things like "You don't play the cards, you play the players".

  20. Re:The right thing to do on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    It's more profitable than the user switching to Linux.

  21. Re:Superiority complex on Heavy US Demand Delays iPad's Worldwide Release · · Score: 1

    The command line is a text editor that allows you to type a command that will be subsequently executed with results displayed in the editor. It's just a special case of GUI.

  22. Re:Kind Of Vague on How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? · · Score: 2

    It is vague. If there is a range that defines coding, it falls between playing video games and designing an algorithm. Any healthy programmers can play games for days nonstop, but designing an algorithm? They can easily hit a wall and have to stop.

  23. Re:I'll play Devils Advocate here on How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? · · Score: 1

    This is indeed insightful you are a slave owner.

  24. Re:no brainer? on Something For (Almost) Every Developer · · Score: 1

    By start up time I meant to launch VS without any solution. I believe it has something to do with the managed code used in 2010 that requires the extra time. I maybe a little picky here since on a fast machine like an extreme version of xeon, it's only like 1 or 2 seconds longer (I tested it first with an ordinary dual core)

  25. Re:no brainer? on Something For (Almost) Every Developer · · Score: 1

    I don't know what kind they are, but there are a lot of them: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/windows-7-surpasses-10-market-share.ars

    And are you one of those mediocre programmers who are just lucky enough to be developing cleartype but fail to realize the best way to promote a technology is to improve it instead of relentlessly push it?