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  1. Re:Well on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1

    That is true, but I don't think the kids are in this for the money. They just want turnitin to stop infringing their copyright.

  2. Re:Well on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't have to apply for a copyright. You automatically hold a coppyright on any original work recorded to a physical or digital medium.

  3. Re:Dowsing for bad RAM chips. on Computer Voodoo? · · Score: 1

    Oh, got it. I didn't know it was an hours-on thing.

    I was assuming the chip swapping was the longest part.

  4. Re:Dowsing for bad RAM chips. on Computer Voodoo? · · Score: 1

    The real mystery is why you did a binary search. Why not replace one at a time with known-good chips?

  5. No quotes on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He sat down with Apple, yet he has no quotes. 95% of the "article" is his own speculation. I'm betting the 5% paraphrased from the alleged talks comes from his own mind, too.

  6. Re:Dumbasses on Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Dumbasses on Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post · · Score: 1

    Many of the things in it are ironic from the observer's point of view. We don't expect the plane to crash, for example. We'd chide the man for being afraid of flying. But then the opposite of what we expect happens when it does crash. That's irony.

  8. Re:Im not a biologist but... on Possible Antibiotic for MRSA Superbug · · Score: 1

    It's worth noting that among biologists, a virulent virus means a primarily lytic virus and not a particularly infectious or disease-causing virus.

  9. Re:Dvorak is a Goofball Gasbag on John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water · · Score: 1

    As the Spice Girls wisely said:

    Too much of something is bad enough...
    Too much of nothing is just as tough.

  10. Re:A number of issues on Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    It's easy to get a school immunization waiver. Furthermore, health care professionals do of course have to ask before giving immunizations.

  11. Re:I guess good CS doesn't mean good math on Computer Science as a Major and as a Career · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where does it say outsourcing a job CAUSES 9 jobs to be created?

    It just happens to be than there is a ratio of 1 outsourced job to 9 new American jobs.

    I guess posting on Slashdot doesn't mean good understanding of cause and effect.

  12. Re:I like the way this analyst is thinking! on Is Apple Looking to Buy Disney? · · Score: 1

    "Larry Ellison to use underwear!" That's what you think...

  13. Re:Greed is Good on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 2, Funny

    Geil has a few translations, too, if yaknowwhattamean...

  14. Re:Interesting icon... on RSSOwl 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, except this one looks crappier.

  15. Re:Read the Fine Summary on Intel Mac OS X Catches Up With Older Brother · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Mac comes with tons of sweet software and a warranty, as well.

  16. Re:Usefulness? on AbiWord beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker · · Score: 1

    "X is carrying..." isn't passive. The agent (X) is the subject. Active voice is defined as any clause where the subject is the agent.

  17. Re:Personally I do feel cheated on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 1

    But the company isn't misadvertising the products; they're not advertising this at all.

  18. Re:HTML 4.01?! on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    You'd want them to not go half-assed on mime-types as well, I assume? Meaning it wouldn't work in IE.

    Browser support for XHTML is lacking.

    If you want to parse the XHTML, you could always parse via the DOM. That works for HTML 4.01, too.

  19. Re:Why don't they just buy Apple? on Major Microsoft Re-Organization · · Score: 1

    Their cash on hand keeps going up with the iPod. I do remember when it was 5.5$ billion. I remember when it was 4. But I am pretty sure they are sitting on 8.0$ billion.

  20. Re:huh? on Trigonometry Redefined without Sines And Cosines · · Score: 1

    How do you take the derivative of the sin() button? How do you apply trig. identities when using a sin() button?

  21. Re:iPod = horrible value on Behind The Development Of The iPod nano · · Score: 1

    The iPod nano has a stopwatch.

  22. Re:Worst. Sentence. Ever. on Evidence Dinosaurs Are Like Giant Chicks · · Score: 1

    Nope. Dinos' would be okay. Dinos with no apostrophe would be fine, too. But not dino's.

  23. Re:Reality distortion field much? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    Most OS X applications require 10.2 because the dynamic linker changed in 10.2 or because developers chose to use newer APIs. Nothing in the 10.1 API is incompatible with 10.2+; they aren't breaking APIs, they're adding APIs that developers are choosing to use.

  24. Re:Yeah about that standard library... on Stroustrup on the Future of C++ · · Score: 1

    1. The grandparent wanted to know how it would work ("How would this work for C++?"), and I explained that there'd be no VM and how a cross-platform library would work.

    2. Yes. That's what this whole thread is about.

  25. Re:Yeah about that standard library... on Stroustrup on the Future of C++ · · Score: 1

    Recompiling... You know? The same way one GUI library can support multiple platforms in C++ now?