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  1. Re:Fascinating! on Using Bacterial DNA For Data Storage · · Score: 1

    Uh, just what do you think a microchip is?

  2. Junk DNA on Using Bacterial DNA For Data Storage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Names like that are funny. I don't know why people keep doing that. Here's another one: imaginary numbers. Anybody else got some?

  3. Re:End Users on newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System · · Score: 1

    There is neither evidence to support that the cause of the problem for organizing their file system data is laziness or that it is not. Therefore. you can't assume either one. However my personal exprience would seem to indicate that I haven't been able to organize my files as well as I would like (that (Classes) (Notes|Homework)) problem that's been brought up in other posts, among others) I got that people were unable to give meaningful names to files from other post in this subject.

  4. Like windows on What Package Management Features Do You Value? · · Score: 1

    Provide just enough extra code in the graphical package manager to run in 640x480x16 VGA mode.

  5. End Users on newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System · · Score: 1

    Taking end users that can't handle directories and subjecting them to some sort of SQL syntax is simply absurd.

    On the contrary, teaching them some sort of SQL syntax may be exactly what they need to wrap their brains around the problem.

    As others have said: if they weren't meaningfully naming files and directories before, they're not going to create useful metadata under this new system.

    File names and directories present a conpletely different set of challenges to generating meaningful names than those that exist under the new system. I don't see what evidence is being used to come to the conclusion that everyone who weren't able to give meaningful names to files and directories under a heirachical file system won't create useful metadata under the new system.

  6. Align your thoughts? on newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System · · Score: 1

    Is that on a word or doubleword boundary. I'm afraid that I'm having trouble understanding your arguement, even given that you probably mean structure their thoughts. The proper tools can be an aid to structuring your thoughts, and just because a person can't structure their thoughts given one set of tools doesn't mean that when given another set of tools they still can't.

  7. Naming things. on newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I have trouble naming things because there are so many choices. Now if I could just throw the choices into an attribute list, that might be easier. If his way of doing things is slightly faster than with directories and symlinks, then something has been gained, and it appears that it is.

  8. Bush tactics on Hollings vs. McCain on Broadband and Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought Bush mimics the tactics that made Maverick famous.

  9. Then again... on Should We Change the Weather Even If We Can? · · Score: 1

    Temperatures tend to drop at that time of the year anyways.

  10. Re:Do we understand enough? on Should We Change the Weather Even If We Can? · · Score: 1

    I can predict with near 100% certainty that the temprature will be between -100 and 100 degrees celsius on this planet. That good enough for you.

    Hate the ludditeism, love the luddite.

  11. Re:we alread have on Should We Change the Weather Even If We Can? · · Score: 1

    Why are people so agrogant that they believe that we are more powerfully than nature

    What are you a Luddite. Pretty much all of human activity can be said to modify nature.

    *Gasp* Making wood pulp lie in flat sheets, or burning it instead of on trees or lying on the ground, or letting lightning strike it, is an act against nature.

    Oh, please.

  12. Re:Pop can? on Friendly Plastic Pop Can Nearly Ready for Market · · Score: 1

    So what part of which country are you from?

  13. Re:perspectives on Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Themselves · · Score: 2, Interesting

    your rights end where the rights of the next person's start.

    So, um where do the other person's rights start? I keep running into people that try to lay claim to rights I have no interest in, that interfere with rights I want.

    I remember in Dragonball where Goku asked a policeman where Bulma lived and the policeman could call up a picture for every person named Bulma in the city and helped him find her. Impossible with the rights some people want. But then, some people want to be afraid of their government.

  14. Americans on Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Waaiit... You're not an American are you? Because if you were, you'd know that Americans come in all varieties: those who think that "one world government" is generally a good thing and those who think it is the most horrible thing you could think of, those who think the government should get involved in the lives of its citizens for any number of reasons, and those who feel that the government should have a very hands off approach, and those who have no clue what the government should be doing. (and all those can be further subdivided, and there are sure to be plenty of other sub-divisions both having to do with government and without.) However it seems to me that the people running the government are pretty much a self-selecting bunch, narrowing down the people they deem worthy to join their ranks to one or two per position before the general populace has a chance to have a say in things.

  15. Better Technology. on CDMA 2000 1x Comes to India · · Score: 1

    Better technology IS better social conditions.

  16. His comment. on Tom's Hardware Reviews Xbox Live · · Score: 2, Insightful

    His comment did not say that X-Box Live was poorly tested or filled with pervasive bugs. He was merely pointing out that you can not draw the conclusion that things must have gone fairly smoothly from the premise that Microsoft is rolling out the service, and it is evel less certain given Microsoft's history of rolling out products that have been poorly tested or filled with bugs.

  17. Post it when it's news already. on Anime Unleashed on TechTV · · Score: 1

    Nobody's going to see this probably because they posted their little article while I was away from my computer, but I submitted this story and had it rejected on 11-20 (to news) and 12-1 (to anime) and got it rejected both times, so I posted it to my journal

  18. Re:Make the Xbox mods *clearly* for Linux use on The Lik-Sang Saga Continues · · Score: 1

    First off, the item is not their hard work, their work, hard or otherwise went into the process of the item's existence, and they should be compensated for it, but calling it their hard work legitimizes the notion that they should be more than compensated for the effort involved, and I find that rediculous.

  19. Hurt vision? on Sharp 3D Monitor Next Year · · Score: 1

    So will this hurt your vision in the same way those audio formats purportedly hurt your hearing... Wait a minute... Do current displays hurt your vision in the same way that the audio formats purporedly hurt your hearing? They are nowhere near the same resolution as real life and forget about depth perception... Hmm, perhaps I should ask if the new displays improve your vision over the old ones.

  20. Tax on Taxing Text Messages? · · Score: 1

    They should just tax corporate profits and let the corporation decide how to pass it on to the workers/buyers.

  21. The internet on Web Enabled Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    The article aside, It seems that the satillite would be on a private network.

  22. Except that C... on WinXP and WinAmp Vulnerable to Malicious MP3s · · Score: 1

    makes it extremely easy to not enforce bounds checking when you do need it. Do you have a good example of where bounds checking is enforced but not needed in other programming languages?

  23. Robot problems on MIT Develops New, Different Rat-Brained Robot · · Score: 1

    One problem is that it keeps trying to eat cheese.

    No! No! You are a robot. Robots do not eat cheese! *sigh*

  24. In case you missed it.. on RIAA Now Targeting Retailers · · Score: 1

    the 421 number was made up by the RIAA.

    421 burners
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=421+burners
    Slashdot's link making feature seems messed up in the preview pane, so if the previous link works, this is the explanation for what might seem strange to some.

  25. So incredibly stupid on Would a Boycott of the MPAA/RIAA Help Matters? · · Score: 1

    First off, if Anime firms were part of one of the two groups it would be MPAA. Second, do you even know that they are associated with such a group. Post your evidence.