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  1. Re:It would be worthless for work on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1
    You're just a bottle of sunshine aren't you. Bet everybody loves you death.

    Never consider your lack of foresight and imagination a reason to dismiss something.

    All of this and more is available in my UI.

  2. Re:It's very possible on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1
    Just proves nerds don't know how to use their bodies.

    Teachers and chalk you know.

    The real problem with lightpens was the cord, that movement restriction seriously affects you. (my dad made a lightpen for our apple II)

  3. Re:laptop woes on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    or you could stop buying cheap laptops with missing parts like Dell.

  4. Re:Color me skeptical on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1

    Working on it.

  5. Re:Ergonomics on Ask Slashdot: Tablets For Papers; Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1
    Tablets weigh about 500-700g, less for the 7".

    There is a solution to not distorting your posture, it's called using your muscles to act as the counter-balancing force. Then again, people with poor posture won't understand this. Then the key is movement. A tablet is wonderful to allow you to move and work. Dancing with a small counter-balance for a few hours should actually be beneficial ...if you have enough body awareness to understand counter-balancing :)

    The health of the body is predicated on movement. Fixed positions, whether deemed good or bad, should not be the focus. Always better to teach proper movement than to reduce the possibility of movement.

  6. Re:The wrong question? on Ask Slashdot: Tablets For Papers; Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1

    Anything with x and lisp.

  7. Re:nook or kindle (e-ink versions, not HD) on Ask Slashdot: Tablets For Papers; Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1
    The nook touch's have the android browser it's just hidden.

    If you really want a browser, root it and install Opera. I read manga on mine. Having the kindle app on it can be useful as well. Still prefer my tablet for pdf's though.

  8. Re:May I be the first to say on North Korea Claims Archaeologists Have Found 'Unicorn Lair' In Pyongyang · · Score: 1

    um, goats.

  9. Lisp on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1
    One liner's in Lisp can be arbitrarily, almost infinitely complex.

    Here's a mishmash of idioms

    (dotimes (height 40) (terpri) (loop :for width :from 0 :to 20 :do (format t "~A" (aref #(#\\ #\/) (random 2)))))

  10. Re:Back to punctuated equilibrium, then? on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1
    It's certainly prevalent in my environment...

    Kidding aside, science can always 'progress' through hard work, but the things that truly expand the realm of science is when we question the very descriptions themselves. You know, like wave/particle. After all, the data is never wrong, just our interpretation.

  11. Re:Scapegoat on Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion · · Score: 1

    Why would Vonage fail? Are you saying that the profitability of Vonage lies in not well connected rural areas?

  12. What about an alternate explanation? on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 0
    Humans used to live a balanced lifestyle, life was idyllic, a virtual garden of eden.

    In a particulary horny make out session, Adam's 'snake' 'convinced' Eve to eat the 'fruit' of his Tree of knowledge,.. he might have mentionned something about it being good for her skin as well. This coupled with the snowballing that followed allowed the potent creative force of humanity to enter the head where it immediately started creating thoughts and the words that allowed them to be shared.

    DNA is actually a record of human possibilities, possibilities radiating out from a balanced center. Like all natural structures, think bones, the only material needed is only that which responds to and/or compensates for external forces. Since expulsion from the garden(from center), mankind has been filling in the sphere of possibilities. Soon the weight of maintenance of unessential structures will fall to the way-side and what will be revealed are the 24 archetypes of human perfection, each with knowledge of good and evil over their domain. With the return of the Elohim, all unsustainable lifestyles disappear, and once again a return to the garden of eden occurs.

    What ever happened to people playing with descriptions and not being trapped by them? Every single post, except for one, has been an uncertain mind wandering through someone elses description.

  13. Re:Summary shows poor understanding of evolution on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    The mind forms the pattern, the words flowing from his lips create the prison, bars of words restrict him. He smiles at the beauty of his own reflection.

  14. Re:Serious question on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Great, we'll start with those lazy people who can't do anything for themselves. Thanks for volunteering.

  15. Re:Times of plenty on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 2
    Maybe, just maybe, they're being kept in that position, you know, for the greater good of the greedy. Unless of course, the US government is so clueless and stupid that they don't realize all the harm they're creating.

    After all who hasn't heard of the saying "Teach a man to fish...", the converse being "give a man a bag of rice every month and he's your slave forever"

  16. Re:It's "Survival of the Fit-enough"... on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    umm, what makes you think most westerners aren't there already?

  17. Re:This this not evolution on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    and you think modern jobs don't create stress?

  18. Re:This this not evolution on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Except for, you know, those cases where we still use bloodletting and toxins in modern medicine today.

  19. Re:This this not evolution on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1
    Why?

    What makes you think people can't sense genetic compatability, Mr. Know-it-All.

  20. Re:This this not evolution on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Maybe our definition of evolution is incorrect?

  21. Lisp on Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? · · Score: 2

    Besides all the good tools mentionned, there's probably going to be interest in twiddling bits, or even protocol implementations and algos. Lisp is a little more ASD friendly and it's easy to write tools to interact with networks.

  22. Re:Not quite... on Sub-Ice Antarctic Lake Vida Abounds With Life · · Score: 1

    I'll be nice. Your explanation was already taken care of in my previous posts. If you failed to understand it, there's nothing I can do about that. But perhaps research the difference between descriptive categories and uniqueness. I'm using different words for the same concept, but that probably won't make any difference because people can't see what they don't understand.

  23. Re:Not quite... on Sub-Ice Antarctic Lake Vida Abounds With Life · · Score: 1

    Ignorance is bliss. People can only see what they can understand.

  24. Re:Not quite... on Sub-Ice Antarctic Lake Vida Abounds With Life · · Score: 1
    I'm sorry. Please explain the basic reality of the number 2 to me as it seems to be so apparent to you.

    Children with meccano can be clever as well, but they're still limited by the building blocks they have at their disposal. Try not to take ridiculous things literally, there are such things as analogies, metaphors, etc...

  25. Re:Not quite... on Sub-Ice Antarctic Lake Vida Abounds With Life · · Score: 1
    Well, it depends on what you want to do. At 13 I didn't want to waste my time on a system that could eventually be 'solved' as the consequences of it's axioms were discovered. Infinite monkeys and so on. That isn't a problem to work on, it's like menial labour.

    Don't get me wrong, we need the monkeys. I just thought it would be more interesting to work on a unifying theory of science and spirituality, just because people seemed to view, and largely still do, that as ridiculous, impossible, opposites blah blah blah.

    But when you get right down to it, practical or not, there is no exact replica of anything else in the universe.