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  1. Here's a question on Interviews: Ask Stephen Wolfram a Question · · Score: 2, Funny

    How much RAM is a wolf supposed to have?

    Signed,
    Dr. Algernop Krieger.

  2. Re:Not gonna happen on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your job, assuming your rights were protected 100% against illegal copying, still require people to pay for your intellectual property. And media is one of the first thing to go when a family budget gets tight. So your last hope would be to collect a huge amount per copy since only the rich will be able to afford it but there's a lot less rich people than middle class or lower class people. And even the rich people won't pay for your works past a certain amount, so whatever happens you still won't be able to live off that.

    So your title is absolutely correct if it's the answer of your last sentence.

    You're living in a dream world.

  3. Star Trek did it! on Nanotech Makes Steel 10x Stronger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lt. Barclay: Commander, this is what we're thinking of using to replace the damaged warp plasma conduit.
    Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge: [examines the unit] Yeah, Reg... yeah, that's good. But you're going to need to reinforce this copper tubing with a nanopolymer.

    http://vignette3.wikia.nocooki...

  4. Re:From an Audio Engineer on New Map Shows USA's Quietest Places · · Score: 1

    He was talking about getting some peace and quiet, not about getting the best audio you can buy.

    AFAIK, the best commercially available noise-canceling headphones are the QC25.

  5. Re:From an Audio Engineer on New Map Shows USA's Quietest Places · · Score: 1

    Get yourself a pair of Bose QC25.

  6. Annoying websites on Telescopic Contact Lenses Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Totally off-topic except for the linked website being one of those, but...

    I hate those websites that have this "let's scroll the background at half the speed of the real scrolling" Web 2.0-whatever feature. It's annoying for people who use their mouse scrollwheel because it looks like the scrolling it broken and we're not sure if we're dealing with stupid iFrames or broken javascript or some other godamn problem.

    Whoever invented that shit should be ashamed of himself/herself.

  7. I know the voices aren't real on Inside the Mind of a Schizophrenic Through Virtual Reality · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Sigh... Yet another scam on Mars One: Final 100 Candidates Selected · · Score: 1

    "Some chance of economic return"

    You sound like a Ferengi. Not everything in the Universe is about profits.

  9. Re:Number 1: Humanity itself on Oxford University Researchers List 12 Global Risks To Human Civilization · · Score: 1

    Strangely enough, the movie title "12 Monkeys" seems rather appropriate.

  10. Technical solution? on FAA Proposes Rules To Limit Commercial Drone Use · · Score: 1

    In an attempt to bring order to increasingly chaotic skies, the Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday proposed long-awaited rules on the commercial use of small drones, requiring operators to be certified, fly only during daylight and keep their aircraft in sight.

    So if we add an external camera on a stick, pointed toward the drone, does that count? /duck

  11. Re:I am an embedded developer - just do both on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    No, Bob is the name of New Earth.

  12. Re:Education....by computer on Bill Gates On Educating the World · · Score: 1

    In computer years, it may as well been the 1800's.

  13. Re:I am an embedded developer - just do both on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    I'm just guessing here, but isn't setting/clearing a bit supposed to be used with memory, registers or ports? Why is it called a file?

  14. Re:I am an embedded developer - just do both on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    bsf,bcf? What is the "f" supposed to mean? Flag?

  15. Re:I am an embedded developer on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do you mean? An African or European web page?

  16. Re:Pick up more TLAs :-) on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    My pet peeve is forms which have separate text fields with javascript to jump to the next field when the previous one has been typed out.

  17. Re:No on Should We Really Try To Teach Everyone To Code? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that sounds suspiciously like the IT management I do every day.

    Signed,
    your boss.

  18. Re:Now you have the choice on Report: Samsung Replacing Its Apps With Microsoft's For Galaxy S6 · · Score: 2

    Coming up next: Samsung Apps on the iPhone and Apple apps on the Microsoft phones! Everybody loses!

  19. Too much knowledge on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 1

    Everything today works with computers. You can't ask everyone to know even a bit of everything, because most jobs only require knowledge of specific parts, protocols, languages, APIs, etc.

    I'm pretty sure you could ask everyone around you if they know what opcodes and registers are and you'd find extremely competent high-level programmers who have zero clue what those are.

  20. Re:Why not use commit date as version on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    American dates are formatted how they're spoken. "May 17th, 2000" -> "5/17/2000"

    That's another thing I just never understood. Why it ended up that way is beyond me.

  21. Re:Why not use commit date as version on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    Like, totally, yeah, depending, on, how, you, use, them.

    Some standards are totally clueless though, like commas in numbers. You can't write coordinates or arrays if your numbers have commas in them.

  22. Re:Is semver too simplistic for kernels? on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    It gets the version number the day it actually gets released. When it's still pending to be released you just refer to it as "the next version" or "the pending release" or whatever.

  23. Re:Is semver too simplistic for kernels? on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    The solution for this problem is quite easy: don't release software with bugs!

  24. Re:Why not use commit date as version on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    If a format is stupid, I don't care if it insults someone.

    Ex: I find it stupid to use commas to split up thousands in english and I find it stupid to use a comma for decimals in french.

  25. Re:Why not use commit date as version on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    If you guys decide to go with the date, please go with ISO dates. There's nothing more confusing than stupid American dates.