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  1. Re:Evolution wants to be anthropomorphised? on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I mean, i don't believe in magical pink unicorns either, but you can't pretend to be more enlightened than someone else when you have no evidence that a magical pink unicorns doesn't exist.

    The burden of proof lies with the one making the outrageous claim. The existence of an all-powerful being is an outrageous claim.

  2. Re:Actual Rest Home Conversations on In Japan, Old People Talk to Robots · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An honest question: How was that post racist? If anything, it was ageist, as it makes fun of the old and senile, bet racist? come on.

  3. Re:dang I should have asked... on Tycho and Gabe Respond to Your Questions · · Score: 2, Funny

    God, I hope you're trying to make a joke, and not just being stupid. "cells" is the proper way to write the plural of "cell", and "plurals" is the proper way to write the plural for "plural". You could even say that "cell's plural is cells, and plural's plural is plurals"

  4. Re:Lessons to learn on Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How does that change anything? I have a valid license to a copy of Photoshop, but that's on my laptop at home. Should I feel justified in using a pirated version at work because it would allow me to "get my work done faster" than if I drove home to fetch my computer?

  5. Re:Censored version? on Possible Half Life 2 Troubles in Australia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the law isn't just saying that the game shouldn't be allowed for children. It's saying that it shouldn't be allowed at all; so the analogy to pornography isn't valid.

  6. Re:No. $500 for ADC membership that comes with ext on Tiger Early Start Kit · · Score: 1
    That price is only if you want a physical CD. To download it, after logging in at https://connect.apple.com/ :
    1. Click on "Download Software" in the navigation area on the left
    2. Click on "Developer Tools" under "Download Software"
    3. Xcode Tools v1.5 is the third item in the list on the right
    However, I still reckon there is a good chance that XCode will become a standalone product.

    What evidence do you have that suggests that? The way that Apple is dealing with seeding Xcode 2.0 is exactly like what they've done for all previous versions of Xcode and ProjectBuilder

  7. Re:No. $500 for ADC membership that comes with ext on Tiger Early Start Kit · · Score: 1
    Requiring people to fork out $500 for a beta, an ADC account, non-specific discounts on hardware and a release of 10.4 when it eventually appears seems like rather a lot. In fact it appears more like a revenue stream than as a way to keep the unwashed masses away. Perhaps if you were an Apple shop it might be worth it for the development lead in, but I don't see any reason for individual programmers to bother.
    I've been a select member before, and I'm planning on renewing soon; the hardware discounts alone make it more than worth the $500. And, for a large enough shop, the Premier membership is a great deal, for the same reason ($3500, but you get 10 discounts, and a pass to WWDC)
    That is of course if the ADC weren't being changed too. XCode used to be a free download but since 1.5 not any more. I would not be surprised if 10.4 shipped without XCode 2.0 at all.
    What are you smoking? Xcode 1.5 was indeed a free download, as has been every single version of Xcode and ProjectBuilder; there's no reason to suspect that Xcode 2.0 won't be.
  8. Re:Powerbook soon to follow on Apple Announces New iBooks · · Score: 1
    And I really thing they should dump that mini DVI and go with a full sized one
    The 17" and 15" PBs do have full-sized DVI ports, and there's no room for one on the 12".
  9. Re:At what speed? on To Mars and Back in Ninety Days · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, the numbers are reported to 3 significant digits. Then the "real" speed could be slightly higher, like 26,049 mph, in which case, the miles per day would be 625,176 ... which, when rounded to 3 significant digits is 625,000

  10. I'm Super.. on Humans Are Superorganisms · · Score: 1

    ... thanks for asking!

  11. Re:First quantum OS on German Scientists Create 5 qubit Quantum Register · · Score: 1
    But since all possible boot cycles happen simultaneously, this shouldn't be a problem.
    At least, until you observe it; at which point, it collapses down to a single boot cycle :)
  12. Re:Safe in an accident? on Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S. · · Score: 1
    blows my mind how incredibly stupid some people are, please go learn physics before you open your mouth again.

    Woah, look in a mirror

    You do realize that when two objects collide, the *exact same* amount of force is applied to both. If I throw a baseball at a mountain, the force that the baseball applies to the mountain is no stronger and no weaker than the force that the mountain applies to the baseball.

    (You know ... that whole pesky "equal and opposite reaction" notion)

  13. Re:Not Great on Uncompressed TV Video Over USB 2.0 from ATI · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know, but my point was that, even with my liberal estimates, it fit well within the capabilities of USB 2. Any extra benefits from reducing the framerate, resolution, or color depth only serves to make my point that much more valid.

  14. Re:Not Great on Uncompressed TV Video Over USB 2.0 from ATI · · Score: 1
    Next, PC World gives 33.75 MBps (yes that's bytes, not bits) for unconpressed TV.
    Umm, no. First, 33.75 MBps = 283 Mbps, so your numbers are even better than mine.
    Don't forget that each pixel requires 3 or 4 (depending on color space) 16-32 bit numbers (depending on depth used. That's a lot of data!
    Second, 32-bits per pixel, means just that, it does not mean 32-bits per component.
  15. Re:Not Great on Uncompressed TV Video Over USB 2.0 from ATI · · Score: 1

    Uncompressed TV-quality video doesn't take that much bandwidth, by my calculations (assuming a resolution of 648 x 486, 32 bits per pixel, 30 frames per second), it would come in at about 302 Mbps, which USB 2.0 (or either FireWire for that matter) could handle without breaking a sweat.

  16. Re:Insensitive clod comment on Matching AirPort Express to Third Party Routers · · Score: 1

    It does look a bit funky at 800x600. The text doesn't wrap, and the "Supported routers:" text intrudes into the second paragraph.

  17. Re:Does not matter on Microsoft Codec Required For Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 2, Funny
    (I specify "family movie" because kids under 13 can't read subtitles.)

    Wow, you must know some very developmentally challenged 13 year olds. If a 13 year old cannot read, (s)he has bigger problems than not being able to watch foreign movies.

  18. Re:your .sig [OT] on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If he meant he'd ignore references to that famous book by Orwell, the title is "Nineteen Eighty-Four"; it is most certainly not, never has been, and never shall be, "1984".
    That's odd. Every copy that I've ever seen has "1984" printed on the cover; and I have never seen one with a cover printed "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
  19. Re:Ditch OS X For Solaris? on Solaris Coming to IBM's Power Architecture? · · Score: 1
    Now I know the default shell in Linux is usually bash, as well, but many shell scripts that are written for ksh or c shell or something of that sort will behave a little differently in bash
    Umm, if a script is written for a specific shell, then put:

    #!/path/to/my/specific/shell

    in the first line. Problem solved.
  20. Re:Almost too weird to be true on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1
    The Family Guy is now a part of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. It's written specifically for AS, so now it's become much...how to put it...less subtle in it's skits. However, my roommates and myself find it even more humorous now since they don't have the limitations that they had on Fox...


    The new episodes haven't been released yet. What you see on AS (except for the "When you wish on a weinstein" episode") are the exact same episodes that were shown on Fox.
  21. Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 2, Informative

    They could use satellites in polar orbit, which would be visible from either pole about half the time.

  22. Re:Why are you complaining? on Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi · · Score: 1

    They're not talking about taxing a serivce. They're talking about taxing the use of a technology.

  23. Re:They score some points with me on a first skim. on Securing Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, because we have anti-virus software that can see into the future, and protect against viruses that haven't been written yet.

  24. Re:Fairplay won't work on CD in its current form on Copy Protected CD Makers Attempt iPod Support · · Score: 1

    There really isn't. I've ripped many "copy-protected" CDs, both on WinXP and MacOSX, and listen to them every day on my iPod. That's what the "Use error correction when reading Audio CDs" checkbox is for in the iTunes preferences.

  25. Re:Fairplay won't work on CD in its current form on Copy Protected CD Makers Attempt iPod Support · · Score: 1

    If it can play in a normal CD-player, then it can be ripped by a computer. There's no way to put "additional software on the CD [to] make it unreadable by unsupported ripping applictions" without rendering it unreadable to the CD player in your car, or your discman, etc.