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  1. Re:In related news... on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 2

    Screw electricity, let's hear it for zinc!

  2. Re:Why should I like him? on Type With Your Brain — Like Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    Because Hawkins... maintains a media presence

    Not enough of one for people to get his name right, apparently.

  3. Re:Whew... on Copyrights To Reach Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the book and CDROM are no longer being published and are hard to find as a set.

    I believe the submitter was using the archaic form of the wood "book", referring to information printed on pulped wood sheets and bound in rectangular form, in which sense, yes, they are still hard to find.

  4. Re:So what? on Valve Hands Over Its Own Movie-Making Tools To Gamers · · Score: 1, Funny

    I really could care less

    Do you want another go at that?

  5. Re:It is a common grammatical error... on World's Hardest Sudoku · · Score: 2
    Reposting what an AC said, because these things matter ;)

    Wrong. Fewer can never apply to [non]-count nouns, but less can apply to either.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less

    I could care fewer about people mixing these two up.

  6. Re:Magitech on Headlights That See Through Rain and Snow · · Score: 1

    Here's another idea: don't tell anyone your brilliant* idea.

    *but don't worry, I'm sure someone will be along to pour scorn on it any minute. "It'll only be effective for about 5 hours a day!" for example.

  7. Re:Winning! on Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing · · Score: 2

    Asking Bill Gates about Microsoft's platform direction is like asking Mikhail Gorbachev about the future of Russia.

    In the sense that you'd get a much more informed answer from him than most people?

  8. Re:Shock! Horror! on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Current UK Prime Minister David Cameron came out in support of McKinnon before he was elected

    I've highlighted the most pertinent words.

  9. Re:Made in Britain, not for the rest of the world on NAVSOP Navigation System Rivals GPS · · Score: 1

    Uh, yeah, thanks for over-explaining the joke for the hard-of-thinking.

  10. Re:Made in Britain, not for the rest of the world on NAVSOP Navigation System Rivals GPS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So your sole criterion for something being completely useless is that it doesn't work 3 hours north of Perth? I look forward to your input when the next article on deep-sea submersibles comes along.

  11. Re:Tokyo? on Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems · · Score: 1

    If that was the heaviest traffic I ever had to deal with, I'd be ecstatic.

  12. Positive spin on More Uptime Problems For Amazon Cloud · · Score: 1

    We don't have downtime. We have "uptime problems."

  13. Re:Patent trolling is the new iWhite... on Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have you actually used a Galaxy Nexus? I have one in my pocket right now.

    So you're not just pleased to see me?

  14. Re:Good things about PHP on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In what way does it "live in the browser"?

  15. Re:Fixing PHP brokeness on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 1

    Which particular bit that isn't are you thinking of?

  16. Re:Scare quotes? on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    my partner calls it "waking her nicely"

    Waking her what? I've never heard it called that before.

  17. Re:Here is what everybody should do on Targeted TV Ads: Silver Bullet Or Privacy Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    Oh, let's not and say we did. Planet's Funniest Animals is on!

  18. Re:Ask any grey beard. on Facebook iOS App Ditching HTML5 For ObjectiveC · · Score: 1

    Better, in the sense that cost considerations aside...

    Yep, that one's usually waaay down the list ;)

    Write it all in assembly and get off my lawn. :)

    Now, real programmers...

  19. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    That said, the idea of Microsoft junking the button for everyone does sound fairly insane.

  20. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    One right here - since I started using Launchy. The most beautiful part is the way it learns which programs you want to launch with which shortcuts, so you can rapidly end up using a single key (well, hotkey combo+key+enter) to launch your most-used software.

    Sorry, I know this sounds like an ad, but I'm a big fan of brilliant simplicity.

  21. Re:Science... on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 2

    you have this constant drowning feeling that takes a bit to get over.

    I nominate this for understatement of the year.

  22. Re:Ridiculously expensive? I think not. on Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software · · Score: 2

    Good luck with yet another DAW

    Digital Audio Workstation. Solving the world energy crisis one unnecessary Google search at a time!

  23. Re:" high density club" not really on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 1
    Scaling it in the one direction only to make it fullscreen would distort the aspect ratio. At the correct ratio (which would hopefully be the default), it would remain 1:1 - no scaling.

    Given that the Transformer only needs to scale (full-HD) in one direction, it would probably look worse.

    Not following that logic at all.

  24. Re:" high density club" not really on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Great! So on an iPad all HD video has to be scaled up to a different resolution resulting in a loss of perceivable sharpness, whereas on this Asus it can be displayed at a perfect 1:1 pixel correspondence.

    I know which I'd prefer.

  25. Re:They are even dumber than they seem. on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 1

    Animals only need to evolve when their environments change.

    Animals never need to evolve ;) We just don't see the ones who failed to do so around any more.