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  1. Re:Context vs platform tweeking on Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' · · Score: 1

    | until Java came and levelled most of the differences ..
    And that would be by being indistinguishable from the x axis?

  2. Freelance photographers are cool on Ask Slashdot: How To Find Expertise For Amateur Game Development? · · Score: 2

    There is lots to learn from them, they etched out a niche market that most freelance programmers can only dream of,
    Often, and at least early in their career, true photo-artists will 'don the fishnets' and do weddings or whatever to keep the food supply running. That doesn't lessen their art, Everybody that took a couple of bucks for some crappy code should stammer here and move on.

    Oh, yeah and 'imagine no religion; its easy if you try...'

  3. oblig: (Jerry Garcia) on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

  4. Finally, "news for nerds"! on Humans Are Nicer Than We Think · · Score: 1

    People are more complex than a simple markov chain can model.
    What is the next newsflash for nerds?
    "Randomly applying theory x yields no new information!"
    "Ignoring everything that doesn't agree with your viewpoint doesn't make your argument stronger."
    "Sometimes you are wrong."
    "Potato chips are bad for you."

  5. Auction games. on Valve Switching Team Fortress 2 To Free-To-Play Increased Revenue Twelvefold · · Score: 1

    Don't auction games work this way? You 'win' by being willing to pay more than anybody else. Seems to be a proven model.

  6. grocery store games... on Kinect Grocery Cart Follows Shoppers Around the Store · · Score: 1

    I love it!

    Would I be able to convince one to break away from its leader and follow me instead?
    I imagine an improv jesus + disciples thing; complete with loaves and fishes.

    It adds a whole new dimension to the kids grocery store experience.

  7. Re:yeah, just use monster cables. on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    +1 Clueless
    Can we please have some more modifiers?

  8. Shipping Container? on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hell, they could put a nuke in a train, and drive the train right into the middle of the white house; then detonate it.
    Maybe they could get Bruce Lee to drive the train, jump out right before it hit, and rip the pres' heart right out of his chest and show it to him before he dies.

    Once you take that little step into insane, there is no point in coming up short.

  9. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 4, Funny

    wow, did I miss that. I thought he was talking about the united states. My next thought was, shit, we make oil, and we are a US neighbour, maybe we need some nukes to keep them at bay.
    After all, the US only attacks defenceless countries...

  10. Re:I feel you man, on Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive' · · Score: 1

    I doubt you can overstate the BS in CS.

  11. Re:lololol on Stem Cells That May Make Eggs Found In Women · · Score: 2
  12. If this is true.... on Stem Cells That May Make Eggs Found In Women · · Score: 1

    How did the medical community miss this? Is this another 'we didn't bother checking with actual women' thing that seems to be plaguing them?
    What is with that? I thought one of the benefits of being an MD was access to lots of women....

  13. irony on Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's · · Score: 4, Funny

    he typed it on his cell phone...

  14. respect the fine document on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think its a cultural thing. Some cultures get in more of a knot over the sanctity of the tokens than what they represent. Religious texts, flags, UK football colours, to name but a few.

  15. Re:What use is a fondleslab anyway? on Should Microsoft Put Office On the iPad? · · Score: 1

    Is it funny that my fondleslab keyboard is an add-on, but my desktop one isn't? They are physically the same keyboard, just my desktop isn't much use without it, but my fondleslab can still do a few things.

    One of them is be mixed signal scope (with oscium plugs, which I suppose are an add-on'). I knew that watching lines squiggle across the screen was a lot like watching youtube videos, so I thought it would be a nice fit. It was.

    I'm sorry to hear that software development == Visual Studio. Shell (thus vi, make loop) work just fine.

  16. Re:Microsoft already is on Should Microsoft Put Office On the iPad? · · Score: 1

    MS Office is not going anyway...
    s/MS Office/WordPerfect/g

  17. not just wives... on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 1

    Who really wants to surrender more brain resources to operating an intricate trinket that further clutters our heads.

    I'm not an anti-TV evangelist, I watch TV, and even like some of it. A few years ago, we switched from rabbit ears to Shaw Satellite with a pvr. TV watching almost ceased. The set-top box was so annoying everybody just gave up. When I cancelled the service, nobody noticed for 3 months.

  18. repugnant, like Gingrich on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 0

    But Newt is very smart and shrewd.

    Both are to be feared for nearly opposite reasons.

  19. don't forget the 34 lawyers... on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 2

    They have families, mistresses, and organized crime to feed too.

  20. We the people... on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 1

    and all that blabber should provide the answer to your fundamental questions.
    The bigger question should be how much personal information with respect to those accused/victims/witnessing crimes is indiscriminately broadcast over police radio.
    When faced with the 'next victim', it is too often a Chief-Wiggam event.

    The rest is just astro-seeding.

  21. Re:TFS - obviously written by a hardware guy on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try this one on your hardware guys:
    "The main purpose of software is to make hardware reliable".

    Drives them nuts...

  22. Vive le Québec libre ! on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 1

    Guess it wasn't such a long life after all....

    The SQ surely knew this was nonsense and harassment, so why do it? Is it because the repercussions are so limited as to be meaningless?

    "I was just following orders" should not be accepted. The entire chain in the SQ should face criminal charges, not a wrist-slap and let the taxpayers pick up the tab.

  23. Forget about mating; study science instead! on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    Considering this text, I can't imagine why the interest in science education is waning...

  24. Re:Our shop on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 1

    Way to stick it to them! Obviously their ignorance and incompetence is keeping them from being a star like 'your shop'.

  25. Watch the commercials.... on Ask Slashdot: Wireless Proximity Detection? · · Score: 1

    There is a really lame commercial with some mock do-gooders who recover an elderly ladies purse, then charge her for their services. Not surprisingly, they are using Windows mobile device, and print her invoice on the nearest printer.

    If your lame-ass tablets don't do what the commercial says, toss them and get an iPad or two. Rendezvous/Bonjour/mDNS, as they say, "just works", without embarrassingly sophomoric ad campaigns, or blatant astro-turfing like your query.

    If tossing them isn't an option, root them and put a compatible distro on them. You'll never be happy with windows.