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  1. A brown-nosing call to Apple fanboys everywhere.

  2. Re:Physically impossible on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. All Turing complete means is a universe Turing machine can execute anything any other Turing state machine can. People misunderstand "Turing complete" can think it means someone that is Turing complete can do "anything." That is NOT what it means.

  3. Re:footage on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    Sigh. I didn't have an issue with identifying myself. I just thought it would be beyond hubris to karma whore on an article I submitted.

  4. Re:footage on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess it is. The intent of my sig. was that people that use the AC system to be abusive and rude, suck. I posted the You Tube link and the follow ups as AC, because I didn't want to comment on a story I, myself, submitted. I only planned to supply the link that was stripped from my submission (and I didn't want to be modded up for it).

  5. Re:footage on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because it didn't warrant it. Why are you suspicious?

  6. Re:cold blooded on Experiment Will Determine Dinosaur's Skin Color · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is evidence. There is evidence that dinos sat on their eggs. A cold-blooded creature would not do that.

  7. Re:FLAC on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1

    So, *that's* why! Thank you. I've always wondered why, when I rip CD tracks of songs that flow into the next (like a lot of Floyd albums) into MP3s, there is a noticeable break between songs that shouldn't be there. FLAC doesn't have this problem. I've always thought it was because of the compression MP3s use.

  8. I keep them on What Happens To Your Used Games? · · Score: 1

    I still have every game I've ever purchased. The first one from 1978.

  9. Nice! on Legend of Zelda NES Nintendo Prototype On Sale For $150K · · Score: 1

    I've been collecting computer games since the 70s (yes, 70s). I love this kind of stuff! What I really want to see is the prototype cartridge for the Atari 2600 version of Treasures of Tarmin. I would love to have to the ROM from that!

  10. Re:Whit, what? 135M yr old? on German Paleontologists Find a 'Near-Perfect' Dinosaur Fossil · · Score: 1

    Old-Earth, Young Earth. You're still a nut-bar.

  11. Re:The soundtrack on World's Worst Hacker? · · Score: 1, Informative

    The endgame song from the game "Portal."

  12. Re:metaprogramming FTW! on Land of Lisp · · Score: 1

    You mean like you repeating yourself every other sentence?

  13. Re:Please explain on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I never said it was a boxer engine. I just asked how they differ. Watching the video doesn't help me. As I said, I'm not a car guy. I'm a solid-state kind of guy. I am not good with moving parts. I don't think it's a bad thing to be able to ask questions.

  14. Please explain on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I not a car guy. So, will someone explain to me how this differs from a boxer engine?

  15. Re:My Mom Liked Clippy on 15 Years of Microsoft Bob · · Score: 1

    One thing you can do, which is what I ALWAYS do, is go into add/remove programs. For office, there is an entry to completely uninstall ALL the animated helpers!

  16. Re:Bendable on Color E-Book Displays Coming From E Ink Next Year · · Score: 3, Funny

    The new Kindle! Now with that Old Book Smell (tm)!

  17. Re:Oppo is a really solid player. on THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player · · Score: 1

    I too have an Opp upscaling DVD player (DV-980H). I always read comments like yours about skipping the normally unskippable clips (UOP) with an Oppo, but I can never figure out how. Can you tell me was the magic is?

  18. Re:Full refund on Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" · · Score: 1

    Ain't that the true! The last time I was contacted was for a defect in certain brand of TV. The TV cost $1000. The lawyers got something like $10 million. Each person in the class action of a $30 coupon to be another crappy TV from the same company.

  19. Re:Responsibility to customers on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 · · Score: 1

    Yes! This is exactly my issue with them: not that they deleted the books, but the fact that they COULD. They actually built this functionality into the device.

  20. Re:Adaptability on 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only answer to that problem is lots and lots of jewelry.

  21. Re:Can we.... on NASA Has the Lost Tapes · · Score: 1

    Then I would tell them to get out of my house, and go home.

  22. Re:Written Before Christianity Was PAGANIZED on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    That's kind of you to said. I am, as you probably surmised, an atheist. One of my dearest (and oldest) friends is a Christian. She teaches Sunday schools and goes to Bible camp. I don't have an issue with religious people. I just don't think one should believe something because they were told to, or because others do. But if someone has read the Bible and decided that's the life they want, that fine. My father was very religious. He often told me, "I'm your father. You'll believe what I believe." I would often reply, "if everyone thought that way we'd still be burning witches at the stake."

  23. Re:Written Before Christianity Was PAGANIZED on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    Right, and I'm saying your reasons for calling it "highly unlikely" are invalid. I could use your same logic to say the opposite. The Jews and the Muslims do not believe in the resurrection, and they have also been around for thousands of years, and have millions of followers.

  24. Re:Written Before Christianity Was PAGANIZED on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    Really? The Jewish faith is about 5000 years old. That's 3000 more than Christians. They don't believe in the resurrection. Neither do the Muslims, and they way out number your "millions and millions." So, are they the "geniuses" or are you? Because you both can't be right, and using time or number of people doesn't prove your point, neither.

  25. Re:Written Before Christianity Was PAGANIZED on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    So, because something popular, it must be true. And if people die believing something, it must be true. Wow, no wonder people choose dogma over critical thinking. Thinking for yourself must be too hard. Just follow all the lemmings that came before you. They MUST know what they are talking about!