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  1. Re:When will they realize on US Gov't Circulates Watch List of Buyers of Polygraph Training Materials · · Score: 1

    So you lied about being able to ride a horse?

  2. Re:It's a good idea to try it. on Dart 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    >The only reason they come up together is because there are not any practical alternatives for a lot of web development cases

    Which was my point.

  3. Re:pointless on Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) · · Score: 1

    Great, so they can stop already.

  4. Re:pointless on Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) · · Score: 2

    >I have seen a few and can see the difference with 1080p on a 55" screen from 3m away.

    So I'm better off not seeing that, because right now I'm perfectly happy with my 720p TV. I don't want to have to want a better one.

  5. Re:pointless on Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) · · Score: 4, Informative

    >What I don't understand is why music is mastered in 96KHz or 192KHz and we're not even getting 48KHz digital distribution yet

    So that a low phase distortion rc filter can be used to remove the super-nyquist components before sub sampling.
    You don't need more that 48KHz for playback. There is no benefit.

  6. Re:pointless on Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I prefer a good story. There are no amount of pixels that will improve the story.

  7. Re:pointless on Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) · · Score: 1

    Cibachrome?

  8. Re:bitcoin versus paypal & other online transf on Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency · · Score: 1

    >bitcoin prices are artificially high because people are essentially hording it instead of using it as a currency.

    And are doing extremely well.
    $0.10 -> $400 is a good return.

  9. Re:Why use this? on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Have they done C yet?

  10. Re:so it's like playing the stock market on Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency · · Score: 1

    I sold mine halfway up the spike, thinking it couldn't possibly go any higher.

    It'll come back down soon enough.

  11. Re:It's a good idea to try it. on Dart 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    >The *language* of JavaScript is *NOT* the Document Object Model (DOM) of the browser... People tend to conflate the two, but it's just not the same thing.

    But you never get to deal with one without the other. They are joined at the hip and the hip is badly dislocated.

  12. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    The statistics on car crashes and phones is obviously bad.

    "Most car crashes have a mobile phone involved" tells you nothing without a random sampling of car journeys that shows that non-crashing journeys are less likely to have a mobile phone involved.

    The same is true for alcohol. The statistics are meaningless.

    But I was commenting on the roulette analogy, which while imperfect, does get at one of the ways in which the mobile phone-car crash statistics are BS.

  13. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    The 1 in 6 is the 1 bullet in a 6 hole chamber.
    So a 1 in 6 chance of being shot in each trial.
    The odds of not being shot if you play once a day for a year are astronomically small.

  14. Re:Healthcare Quality on We're Safe From the Latest SARS-Like Disease...For the Moment · · Score: 1

    That is not dissimilar to an actual MI6 conspiracy - on a TV show. I think it was China/Europe thing in the show.

  15. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    Actually I have.

    The 1 in 6 binomial distribution for one 'shot in the head' event in 10 years of playing Russian Roulette is pretty darned small.

    If the null hypothesis is "There's a bullet in the gun", what are the odds of the Hsub0 being true?

  16. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    No accidents so far

    That's like playing Russian Roulette and claiming it's safe since you've never shot yourself yet.

    If' I'd been playing Russian Roulette for a few years and had never shot myself, I'd conclude there are no bullets in the gun and feel safe to continue.

  17. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    You're not really a data driven sort of person are you?

  18. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 2

    >Sorry I try to keep both my hands on the wheel at all times
    How do you get out of the car?

  19. Re:But.. on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only once.

    That's the point - you can never re-assign to a variable.

    It felt like a kick in the monads.

  20. Re:But.. on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    I tried Haskell once. Only once.

  21. Re:Why use this? on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    > What's the benefit for people to invest more time into learning a language?

    In this case it lets you use a different language than Java in a JVM. That has to be a good thing, regardless of the language.

  22. But.. on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    >combining subtype and parametric polymorphism with declaration-site variance, including first-class union and intersection types, and using principal types for local type inference and flow-dependent typing; a unique treatment of function and tuple types, enabling powerful abstractions; first-class constructs for defining modules and dependencies between modules; a very flexible syntax including comprehensions and support for expressing tree-like structures; and fully-reified generic types, on both the JVM and JavaScript virtual machines, and a unique typesafe metamodel

    But how do I make it *do* something?

    It's all very well being able to lock down what something is, but programmer cannot live on types alone.

  23. Re: Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    No I wouldn't. I can discern a difference.

  24. Re: Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    >Not to go all ad-hominem but could you find a source supporting the Ketogenic diet that isn't called ketotic.org?

    I couldn't find one with a more comprehensive, transparent, honest enumeration of the evidence used in the argument.

    There is an objective truth out there somewhere, that exists independently of what you or anyone else thinks. The evidence is all you've got.

  25. Re:Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. I assumed it was mostly fructose due to it being fruit.

    But
    http://www.livestrong.com/article/267094-natural-sugars-in-oranges/