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  1. Re:Wrong... read more closely on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand what heat death means, or the term open universe...

  2. Re:only a laptop? on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest · · Score: 1

    Haha, no you're not. Although I don't think that ever got given away in the end :)

  3. Re:Faulty premise on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    With regards to horses, have a look at this news item :)

  4. Re:No, ketamine on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 1
    The effects of ketamine last around an hour or two, after which point you'll be almost 100% back to where you started. You might if you've had a lot notice some (very) minor effects for a bit longer, but certainly not to the point of impairing you in any way. And the effects are very dose dependant - in small amounts it doesn't make you antisocial; after a point the effects certainly change, but that's typically from a single larger hit, not a series of small lines.

    Snorting it (don't ingest it, it causes stomach cramping and is generally unpleasant) won't be fatal on its own, you can't generally take enough to cause anything other than blacking out. It's used as an anaesthetic on adults as well due to it being about the safest anaesthetic in terms of possible allergic reactions - it's often used when the patient's medical records aren't available. Indeed as an anaesthetic is has unique properties that make it valuable.

    Recreationally it's also the fastest growing drug (well, other than cocaine) in the UK as well.

  5. Re:I just noticed on Google Finance Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Except for the one I develop which has all of this and a lot more (multiple stocks, multiple indicators, user-chosen frequencies, drawing tools etc etc) in a web page. Still, Google's chart is nice.

  6. Re:Where do we draw the line for the CDC? on Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games · · Score: 1

    I'd disagree somewhat; self-confidence can be the result of education, but that's in no way the only way. I'm sure there are far more self-confident athletes or gangsters out there than Nobel laureats ;)

    I agree on the finding friends thing; but school provides a much greater melting-pot of people that helps expose kids to a lot of things that a more homogenous environment wouldn't.

  7. Re:Where do we draw the line for the CDC? on Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games · · Score: 1
    I'm fully aware that homeschooling groups go out and do all of these things. When did I say otherwise? But are you trying to tell me that the kid is likely to have the same variety of socialisation through this than as at school?

    I also don't think teachers should raise kids. But there are plenty of studies out there showing that parents are a tiny factor in how their kids end up - kids are shaped by their genes and their peers.

  8. Re:Where do we draw the line for the CDC? on Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games · · Score: 1

    However sadly, your kid's social development is far more important in determining whether they'll be successful or happy later in life than a good education.

  9. Re:Oh really? on Human Genes Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    The WHO never did any such study, and in fact recently released a press release specifically stating that fact.

  10. Re:The universe is safe. on Test for String Theory Developed · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. Inflation is caused by the decay of a scalar field which goes from a higher energy state to a lower one... this releases vast amounts of energy which drives inflation. I think this field is the Higgs field, which gives particles their mass.

  11. Re:Like ATM fees on BellSouth Will Charge Providers For Performance · · Score: 1

    It probably will last, as they tried to levy charges on using other banks' ATMs a few years ago and the public outcry forced them to reconsider - hence the "you will not be charged for using this ATM" notice on most ATMs.

  12. Re:Python? Why not Ruby (on Rails)? Because ... on Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional · · Score: 1
    You mean properties?

    class foo:
    ....def __init__(self):
    ........self._hiddenvar = 0
    ........self.prop = property(getprop, setprop)

    ....def getprop(self):
    ........return self._hiddenvar

    ....def setprop(self, value):
    ........self._hiddenvar = value

    You can change a variable in a class to a property pretty easily without changing anything in any code using the class.

  13. Re:The real 90s versus outdated 00s software on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1
    for line in open("file.foo"):
    ....print line

    File objects are iterators now.

  14. Re:.NET?!? on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1
    They don't. This doesn't work

    ArrayList<String> lists[] = new ArrayList<String>[5];

    in Java because generics aren't properly supported in the JVM. Which is pretty annoying because it means you end up having to do

    ArrayList<ArrayList<String>> = new ArrayList<ArrayList<String>>();

    instead which is uglier and performs worse.

  15. Re:The Trreat Intake Metric on Depressed Hamsters Help Researchers · · Score: 1

    There are no African hamsters - the breeds are Syrian, Russian, Chinese and Roborovski, they're all desert animals and don't really hibernate, although they have a torpid state they can enter if in very, very bad conditions.

  16. Re:Do you have to keep referring to yourself as .. on Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod · · Score: 1

    Of course "libertarians" themselves robbed the word from it's original meaning of an anarchosocialist i.e. far-left.

  17. Re:Cosmological pressure on Einstein's Biggest Blunder That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    No, he's saying that you don't understand that spacetime itself is expanding everywhere equally all at once. There is no center. Imagine the Big Bang as causing a 2x2 picture to come into existance, and expansion causing each pixel to turn into 2x2 pixels every so often. There is no centre, each pixel expands uniformly. This is fairly basic cosmology, I'm sure a quick search will lead you to the usual surface of a balloon analogy.

  18. Strange on Geneticists Claim Aging Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I've read that book, except it's called The Long Habit of Living.

  19. Re:Hope it catches on on More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit" · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Civ4 does have it, but to get round it you can use Daemon Tools and a little utility called SafeDisk4 Hider (as it uses the latest version that Daemon Tools doesn't support yet). Or at least, so I've heard...

    The game itself is well worth the hassle though.

  20. Re:This is really stupid on Ontario to Match U.S. DST Change · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it. I work on doing stock charts for users around the world, which means that taking into consideration both the user's local DST and the market's DST rules - it's a bloody nightmare, and this change is going to mean more annoyances as Java doesn't have any mechanism to handle this sort of thing. I seriously wish they'd get rid of DST altogether.

  21. Re:Civilization game length on Ask The Civ IV Dev Team · · Score: 1

    There are three options for game length, so you can play a normal game, an epic game or a quick game which you're supposed to be able to complete in a session or two.

  22. Re:Alpha Centauri on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1
    Too right, SMAC was far, far better than Civ III. Despite my massive addiction to SMAC when it came out and for years afterwards, I don't think I've ever bothered to finish a game of Civ III - it just didn't feel right.

    Fingers crossed though that Civ IV looks like it might be a much better game to play...

  23. Re:Car stereos + loud exhausts on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 1

    Depends on how it's configured. The 60K rig at an outdoor party I went to a while back didn't hurt my ears at all afterwards - on the other hand a 4K rig inside with over-loud treble is painful to listen to after a minute or two.

  24. Re:And yet Europe seems to be doing fine on Pornified · · Score: 1

    Hardcore pornography isn't illegal at all in the UK. The law is pretty much the same as it is in the US.

  25. Re:Language is not a reliable indicator... on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1
    People who are biased in this respect are basically identical to racists, in my opinion.

    You can change how you talk, you can't change the colour of your skin. The two aren't similar at all!