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  1. Re:Get off my lawn on 2014 Underhanded C Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    All of them are intentionally curved so that there is no shorter way from one destination to another.

    I wonder how many readers understood the reference.

  2. What? on Linux World Domination Creates Shortage of Linux-Skilled Workers · · Score: 1

    Their sound quality suffers from the distance involved...

    This is digital audio transmitted via the Internet. How is distance affecting the quality of the sound?

  3. Re: Gun Rights on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    A fucking toy usually looks like either a penis or a vagina, not a gun.

  4. Re:point proven on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 2

    If the guy had been dressed as a red shirt with a phaser, nothing would have happened.

    You don't watch much Star Trek, do you?

  5. Re: Gun Rights on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 2

    From what I understood the guy was not on school grounds. So, legally define the area of "outside schools"? The middle of the woods is "outside schools"...

  6. Re:There's prices and then there's Apple prices on NAND Flash Shrinks To 15/16nm Process, Further Driving Prices Down · · Score: 1

    You usually shouldn't get your RAM or storage upgrades directly from Apple, but since they've started integrating both directly in the hardware, you can't do that anymore on some of their computers.

  7. Re:Not a Fraction on NAND Flash Shrinks To 15/16nm Process, Further Driving Prices Down · · Score: 1

    Gotta love that 0.9375nm process!

  8. Re:Sinking on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 2

    Convection, bleh. Ever heard of a microwave oven?

  9. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Well of course they would have. If you're driving at 65, it's much faster than 40!

  10. Re:The Great White North on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    If are you living near the US border, as almost every Canadian does, you have to be comfortable using both systems.

    Not at all. All Canadians have to use both systems since we share a lot of construction materials, fasteners, etc. The worst part is, even though we're officially a metric country, it's usually (a lot) cheaper to buy (for example) imperial machine screws than metric ones.

  11. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Yeah but Europe has Italy, which is shaped like a freakin' boot. They could totally kick your ass.

  12. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    You forgot Canadania, where all the good maple syrup and great actors come from.

  13. Re: Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Being Canadian, I use both metric and imperial. Even so, I find it much easier to calculate half of 136 (68) then half of... eh, well first I need to either convert 3/8 into a fraction so I can add it to 5 and calculate half of that on a calculator, or I can divide 5 by two and add 2.5 to 3/8, which again I'd need to convert into a fraction or go with 2 1/2 and add 3/16 but then I need to convert 1/2 into 16ths first, to get 2 8/16 + 3/16 which is 2 11/16".

    I can't understand why anyone would find imperial easier.

  14. Re:WHAT! on Baidu Forced To Withdraw Last Month's ImageNet Test Results · · Score: 1

    Hurray!

  15. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't count (almost) all the other countries on the planet being metric as a huge push?

  16. Re:WHAT! on Baidu Forced To Withdraw Last Month's ImageNet Test Results · · Score: 2

    I think you're mixing the Chinese with the Ferengi here...

  17. Re:Subscription-free? on Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was assuming that "subscription-free" was referring to an existing cable or satellite subscription. There's a lot of "channels" on the AppleTV that have this requirement.

  18. Re:Great, but not great on Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan · · Score: 1

    It seems Netflix and CrunchyRoll understood the international game very early on, as well as being wise enough to stay under 10$ per month.

    As for region lock, look up the stupidity that are Shomi and CraveTV. These idiots require a subscription with their cable/satellite services in order to get these streaming services at an extra cost. That's proof enough that the media dinosaurs need to die before any real change happens.

  19. Re:Great, but not great on Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan · · Score: 1

    You say that because the other entertainment options are over-priced.

    These media companies need to understand that they need lower prices to get more subscribers, not higher prices with less subscribers.

    A lot of so-called "cord cutters" are doing it either because:
    1. they don't think there's anything worth watching
    2. they don't think it's worth the price
    3. they're trying to save as much money as possible

    People in group 1 won't pay since they think it's a waste of time and groups 2 and 3 aren't going to want to pay too much, especially group 3.

    If all the streaming services start increasing their price, it quickly becomes a game of calculating which services offers the most for the money. At the moment, both Netflix and CrunchyRoll are staying under 10$ each. HBO and Showtime are putting themselves up on a pedestal, shouting "we're worth more" and they must be prepared to have enough content to prove it.

  20. Re:what tech would i want in my house? on Ask Slashdot: If You Were Building a New Home, What Cool New Tech Would You Put In? · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it. That idiot forgot to put a secondary backup fusion reactor for power. I thought we had more Star Trek fans around here.

  21. Time to hunt on eBay! on Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Speakers As Fire Risk · · Score: 1

    Buy broken speaker on eBay, get 325$USD in Apple store credit!

  22. Re:Last songs on Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Speakers As Fire Risk · · Score: 1
  23. Re:three hundred dollars for a desktop speaker?? on Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Speakers As Fire Risk · · Score: 1

    Hey you, calm the fuck down. Those speakers are not three hundred dollars.

    They're three hundred and thirty dollars.

  24. Re:fruity on Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it's anything like the HBO Now deal, it's just a temporary exclusivity and should be available via other means in a few weeks/months.

  25. Re:Subscription-free? on Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because unlike other stupid "channels" available on AppleTV, this one doesn't require you to already be a cable TV subscriber.