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  1. A 5-year Mission? on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 2

    Maybe this'll just end up like "A Taste of Armageddon" and we'll kill ourselves.

  2. Re:Cure worse than disease? on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 1

    Right, that's true. But I don't generally see anyone tattooing those facial features. Most of even the most extreme people seem to stop with the neck.

    We say this as Mike Tyson walks up behind you...

  3. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    Almost all multiplexes will show both 2D and 3D versions and YOU get to choose which one you want to pay for. 3D is an additional option that DOES attract wider audiences by providing an additional choice.

    I don't care for 3D, and it can stay, as long as the motherfu**ing theater would stop only giving me 4 times for 2D and 12000 for 3D...

  4. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    If you go to the grocery store and see milk priced at $8.95/gal when you saw it the day before at $1.98/gal, then you'll remember that higher price vividly. If it happens often enough for something you planned on purchasing, then you're likely to start shopping for milk somewhere else, even if the average is a little higher, because the security of being able to make the planned purchase is worth the higher stable price.

    Actually, if I see milk for $8.95 one day, and $1.98 the day before, the next time I see it at the lower price, I'm gonna buy 3 or 4 gallons even if I don't need that much. People do this all the time! They're programmed to hoard, even if they don't need it right there and then. Why do you think that frozen pizza that's on sale (for almost half price) and that you love so much is a hole on the shelf? They think they're getting a deal! They'll do the same with a dynamic pricing system (which is why I wait the month or two and go see whatever I want in the cheap $2 theater.)

  5. Re:You had your turn, buddy on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 2

    So what 20 something year old is going to have 10 years experience? What person with 10 years experience is perhaps not going to have 3 years experience with C++ or Java? How do you manage to miss the two of the most predominate programming languages out there?

    My father, who is 50, and a retired Marine, knows all sorts of languages from FORTRAN to SAS and SQL, but never learned C++ or Java.

    He's looking for a job now, but between his age and archaic knowledge, just can't seem to find work. Languages change, but not everyone can keep up.

  6. Re:A good thing? on Sony's Next-Generation Portable Is Out, In Japan · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet that people don't buy these things to play a hardcore FPS. They buy these things just to have some casual fun that can kill 20minutes.

    So why are people spending $200-$500 on these things, when they can pick up some casual games off the App Store/Android Market for $0-$5 a pop?

  7. Re:and peopel will want nuke plants more on Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas · · Score: 1

    Show me a sane nuke program today, and I'll show you an industry that's lobbying against it.

  8. Re:Asia goes up! on Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas · · Score: 1

    So where are you going with this? Do you mean "provide" by means of something like social security?

  9. Re:and peopel will want nuke plants more on Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas · · Score: 1

    Nuclear power is your friend. mr burns

    That's fine. We can store the waste in your home. No dice.

    And both solar and wind energy have the big problem of scale.

    It's a shame we can't utilize nerdrage as an alternate energy source...

  10. Re:Android has many problems on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    Android is outselling iOs. Either what you say isn't true, or nobody cares.

    Technically, yes. But you forget that, whereas, there's only one manufacturer using iOS, there's at least 4-5 using Android. Add the extra iPhone fee, and the fact that almost every phone that isn't an iPhone has Android on it, and it works. But if Google was just as restrictive as Apple, I'm sure those numbers wouldn't look the same.

  11. Re:Kudos to the JPMC engineers! on JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer · · Score: 0

    You wouldn't believe the totals I saw come out of some reports, and I wish I could forget them. Such numbers are not meant for the grasp of mere humans living on a working wage.

    ...so what you're saying is that the numbers you saw are the CEO's salary?