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  1. Re:/. cookies on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Oh. Is that why I don't get the whole beta thing ( NoScript user here).

  2. Re:First! on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 2

    When you put it that way emacs ,
    It's even on my tablet.

  3. Re:And the Stockholders Don't Want the Policy Chan on Tim Cook: If You Don't Like Our Energy Policies, Don't Buy Apple Stock · · Score: 0, Troll

    Headline:
    Apple willing to be environmentally friendly and willing to have workers jump of the top of their factories.
    There fixed it for you.

  4. Re:Which climate will rule the earth? on Pine Forest Vapor Particles Can Limit Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Which ones are the Ents?

  5. Is Linux becoming Windowized? on Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will · · Score: 2

    I remember when compiz was new, demos of it running effectively on 7 year old machines.
    Recently I replaced the had drive in an old laptop with an SSD despite meeting the minimal requirements for Mint KDE I had many problems installing.
    I kept running into out of memory problems when the LiveCD used the ramdisk it created. Finally I created a VM on which I installed a basic copy of the distro, I then rsynced the files to the old laptop drive. There I tweaked a few thing installed grub, made the drive bootable. Then I booted from a USB dock installed ubiquity on the old drive and installed Mint to the SSD. This seems like a very exhausting process to go through to install Linux.

    In doing this I see a lot of defects in linux: growing memory requirements, drowing disk space requirements, inefficient sytems. In this sense Linux and free software seems to be becoming Windowized. Good archotectural decisions are been forsook for the sake of expediency, even to the point of exposing the systems to malware writers. Is this a concern for you?

  6. Re:Mick Jagger of physics on The Higgs Boson Re-Explained By the Mick Jagger of Physics · · Score: 1

    The problem with experiencing things after a few beers is waking up in the morning.

  7. This is what you get when an experimetalist ... on The Higgs Boson Re-Explained By the Mick Jagger of Physics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    tries to explain theory.

    There are lots of misconceptions Symmetry, for example, does not prevent divergences.Divergences are still present although in a controllable way. That's what renormalization and the renormalization group is all about. If a symmetry is broken through quantum mechanical processes then the breaking can lead to new divergences which turn out to be uncontrollable if they do not follow a certain patterns. The symmetry leads to a conserved quantity and a current following the basic rule that the amount of current goes in determines the change in the conserved quantity ( charge ). In the case of QCD, for example, the charge is color ( red,blue.green. The pattern need to control the divergences caused by quantum color violations is that the sum of the current leakage has to equal zero.

    This essentially says that quarks have to appear in pairs to cancel charge violations. So once a bottom quark was seen, there had to be a top quark.

    This has absolutely nothing to do with the Higgs mechanism though.

    The Higgs mechanism is based on the fact symmetry depends on two things. The laws of motion and the initial conditions. I can take a puck on a smooth surface and push in any direction and the motion will look the same. That's because the laws of motion and the initial conditions both obey a symmetry. If I replace the smooth surface with one with random bumps the motion will not look the same in all directions. The laws of motion are still the same in each direction, but the inital conditions no longer are. That's the Higgs mechanism at it's crudest.

  8. Re:Fabs cost gazillions... on The Ever So Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came To Rule the World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except when you include the pofits for making ARM chips from Qualcomn, Apple ( if Apple had actually seperated out their chip making division, ), Samsung, Allwinner etc. that number changes drastically.

    The only company making money off Intel chips is Intel there are many companies making ARM chips and you have to include the companies making the chip.

  9. Yes. No. maybe. on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Shame that I cam in so late because I think I have the definitive answer.

    First of all, if writing the code for a GUI, then a WYSIWYG IDE is a must. Something like Delphi.

    Second, for everything else using an IDE does not make you a bad programmer. Relying on an IDE does.

  10. Does it scare anyone else? on Book Review: Sudo Mastery: User Access Control For Real People · · Score: 1

    That you need a whole book on one linux utility?

  11. When Microshill stop lying. on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    I'll reconsider my perspective on MS when Microshills stop lying about MS's behavior. Like saying things like MS did the illegal things that got it in trouble in 1994.
    As a matter of fact, the first antritrust violation that Microsoft engaged in was with DOS2.0. Remember "DOS isn't done till Lotus won't run."?

    Microsoft had created a twenty year+ history of flaunting the law and screwing over their partners not to mention their competitors. The people running the company then are the same people pulling the strings now. I will be willing to reexamine my lack of faith in MS when those people are completely gone, and the new people running MS have demonstrated that they are not interested in the tactics used by the old regime.

    For now, though, MS has to act nicer. It's in no position to do otherwise.

  12. Two reasons. on Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    The purpose of these invites is to get GG in the hands of developers who will write apps that take advantage of the environment it runs in.
    If you are not such a developer then you mau be hindering it's acceptance by keeping it's out of the hands of such a developer.

    OTOH if GG takes off, then in ten-twenty years, then these first editions will become collector items, worth mucho dinero.

  13. Re:Q about glass on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 1

    If Obama has nothing better to do with his time. like say fix the economy, then watching me masturbate, then he should be impeached.

  14. If only... on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 1

    George Zimmerman or Trayvon martin had been using Google Glass at the time.
    Think of all the political disruption we would have avoided.

  15. Re:So.... on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 1, Funny

    Better a glasshole than an ihole

  16. Re:You mean like this? on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 1

    Did you see the Asian guy "oooh you have google glass...".
    as the comments say enjoying a nice nerdgasm.

  17. The Chicken Littles at it again on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: -1, Troll

    After running around in circles and sqwaking tirelessly about the sky falling, the chicken littles have invented another reason to get even more scared that the sky is falling.
    I say let's have some bbq chicken for lunch!

  18. Re:Statute of limitations on South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I believe the DA does. If they feel they cannot get a conviction.

  19. Re:Big shoes to fill this one has on The Ultimate Hopes For the New Cosmos Series · · Score: 1

    Actually they are not anachronisms, probably more high tech then any other type pf pen.
    I believe that pen ( if it is the same one I once saw ), then it is a Pelikan Blue Planet. Definitely the nib is a Pelikan.
    Waterman's have been crap since Gillette bought them ( but then I haven't looked recently maybe they've improved them. )

  20. Stop global warming. on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 1

    With the winter we've been having.I want more global warming!

  21. Re:What's wrong with that list = Heritage Foundati on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they are proffitable, then why do they need government money?
    Or is that they are not bankrupt --yet?

  22. I just wish... on Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years · · Score: 1

    they could amke a decent crust that I could put my own sauce cheese and stuffings on, and that I could cut into small pieces.
    Bobboli's just doesn't cut it and pillsbury is too greasy.

    PS: The army should learn about microwaves. Then they would get warm pizza,

  23. Re:Wow more free FB... on German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games · · Score: 1

    Except that just because a contract says it's a rental does not make it a rental. I would expect certain terms for something to be considered a rental. In particular I would expect that the longer a person has the object or the mor he uses it, the more he pays.

  24. Re:You are not reading history. on LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating · · Score: 0

    LLVM is the "go-to" compiler for academic projects involving compiler research.

    Actually I believe the goto languages are Scheme and Haskell.

  25. Re:Nothing new here? on Quarks Know Their Left From Their Right · · Score: 1

    Yes I was wondering about that.