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  1. Re:Did You Think, Maybe... on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 0, Troll
    Well, there are those fat people who it does occur to but are two stupid to understand that you need a certain amount of fat and calories, so their bodies go into starvation mode and they stay fat living like a bird.

    Then again, it takes all kinds of stupid people, like stupid people like you who don't realize there is more than one reason people are fat.

  2. Re:Nerd creates solution in search of a problem... on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 1
    Yeah, sooooo difficult for an accelerometer to notice it's moving down. Now how could we get a machine to understand even 3 alcohol levels, beer, wine, spirits? I wish people would invent some sort of selection device thingy....

    Are you not shamed parading your inability for problem solving, oh wait, you are which is why you posted AC.

  3. Re:Nerd creates solution in search of a problem... on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 1
    oh noes, if only it was possible for a rechargeable object to be waterproof!!

    Idiots like you, who are unable to see easy solutions to trivial problems, are what keep innovation down.

  4. Re:Impractical and pointless on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 2
    Personally, for my use, I think it's useless. However there exists a vast majority of individuals who cannot accurately assess their intelligence, skills, talents, etc... let alone their alcohol consumption.

    The logistics don't make sense for a bar, but who said they would? The clearly clueless sometimes can tell that they're clueless. These people would buy their own and have it calibrated to their sips and their individual consumption limits. Simple. I really can't understand why people constantly say something is useless by extrapolating it out into something that is clearly useless.

  5. Re:Nerd creates solution in search of a problem... on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you don't understand how something works, probably best not to criticize how you think it won't work without explaining why it's a bad idea. Given a decent accelerometer and an intelligent algorithm (I can already see it, you however, can not) you can have accurate readings for practical use.

  6. Re:Laptops are the wrong form factor for touch on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    This! You'll be suprised how long that reaching forward action stays around. Still hope I can find a mobo fix for my hp tx2500.

  7. Re:Laptops are the wrong form factor for touch on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    and why would they add gorilla glass to something already protected by it's clamshell design?

  8. Re:Laptops are the wrong form factor for touch on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1
    Dude, you need to learn how to use your body!

    Don't assume the rest of the pop is as kinesthetically ignorant or puny as you.

    Now finger smudges...

  9. Re:Stop the bullshit on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 1
    I tend to agree with most of what you said.

    However, anybody who has met somebody like a Aaron, or is like him, knows that the person that pushed him the hardest was himself. It is very depressing to have a vision of the future within easy grasp and constantly see the world fail at making any concerted effort towards it.

    When you don't have an accurate representation of other's, the only thing you can compare yourself, and your abilities, against is perfection. Believe me, self-esteem problems due to comparison to others who might be better than you in one field is nothing compared to comparing yourself to perfection in everything. Nor does it help to see icons in your field constantly failing against the same measure.

    Do you know how lonely the world can be when even less than 1/100th of the population can even intellectually grasp your vision?

  10. Re:Right... on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 1
    There is a great divide in the grokking capabilities of programmers. Whether or not this extends to the general population in the same ratio or one less favourable to non-programmers is debatable. Imperative and procedural actually seems to be what most programmers are engineered for, and can provide some of the worst code ever.

    Declarative might actually be a lot easier for someone who isn't a programmer to grasp because it isn't mired in pointless little implementation details.

  11. Re:I Can Sing, But I Don't Want To Listen To Me Si on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 1

    I don't get the "at the mercy of" thing. You aren't at the mercy of musicians. They are at your mercy.

    Never worked in an office with a radio playing that wasn't under your control have you?

  12. Re:C++ for 8 year olds on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Why something with so much boilerplate instead of something like smalltalk? Are you considering her needs or just your own?

  13. Re:The Good Ones Are Taken? on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 2

    Understanding tcp/ip is less about understanding algorithms and more about understanding somewhat arbitrary design decisions. It is, in fact, not required at all for algorithmic thinking, nor for programming.

  14. Re:Go ahead, make my day. on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 1

    ...or you'll realize that most of the programmers taught in schools aren't worth their salt.

  15. Re:I'm going to be the asshole programmer on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 1

    I think you mean code-monkey.

  16. Re:Yeah, but we're very productive on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    I'm not. Why are you arguing that I'm arguing that? Can you not read?

  17. I'd like a dumber phone. on Smartphones: Life's Remote Control · · Score: 1
    Just give me a phone I can open ports on and run a lisp image and X. As long as devices speak open protocols I can speak to any device.

    Or at least something that can run an X server that can send multitouch back to a client

  18. Re: I wanted to "FOE" you... on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    It's just a tag, you can use it however you want. You don't have to be so whiny about it.

  19. Re:Welcome back to 2005 on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1
    Well, do you wear glasses?

    If I can easily tell the difference between ~2x the bitrate and you can't tell the difference with ~4x the bitrate on a bigger screen and starting off with a format that had less visual detail, somethings wrong.

  20. Libraries and Documentation on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 2

    Not sure how it is at the corporate level. I just know that I waste way too much time finding out what's available and trying to figure out the documentation. Almost 90% of the time I would have spent less time writing the part I needed. Only exception is CLX.

  21. Re:Yeah, but we're very productive on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    oh, and it's returned to the people with median household incomes that do the work in the factories? No?

  22. Re:Yeah, but we're very productive on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 0
    Yes, but USians are productive at producing crap, Germany produces a lot more quality.

    Not sure why USians enjoy being treated like afeared slaves all the time.

  23. Re:Well... on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 0

    Don't care about people in your own country being slaughtered? Got to love US patriotism.

  24. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    Oh, i'm not a programmer. Just most programmers recognise it's more efficient doing something in place than allocating more memory. Not necessarily safer or more elegant, just more effiCient.

  25. Re:didn't shoot himself in the head? on NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head · · Score: 1

    The beauty of reality, eh?