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  1. Some suggestions on this article on Chinese Government to Use Only Local Software · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear Mister Cnet,

    This is a fantastic article. I just have a few suggestions on how to clean it up.

    First off is the introduction. It's too wordy. You dance around your thesis like a barefoot child on a griddle. Try being more direct, more concise. Get right to your point, then move on.

    Now I'm not terribly familiar with the scientific method, but I think your experiment isn't described fully enough for the audience to gain any insight from it. First of all, you haven't given us much of a hypothesis to go on. What is it you really hope to gain from your testing? We have a vague ideal of the goal, but it's hard to see the true motivation that's pushing you towards such a goal.

    Your depiction of the experiment itself is more than adequate. I don't really have any complaints here. It actually reminds me of an experiment I devised in my youth. Heh, that was a real mess. I remember it like it was yesterday.

    It was the summer of 1873. The country was industrializing and the West was still being settled. For a young lad in rural Kansas, such as myself, life was a little more interesting with the railways making far-off cities more accessible to the common folk. My parents had been planning a trip to Knoxville for some time now, to visit relatives. My father sold a few of his cattle and scraped together enough money for us to make the journey. Mom, pop, my two brothers Anthony and Skeet, and my sister Juliana, all got on the Southern Express, headed east for St. Louis and on to Knoxville.

    It had never occurred to me just how boring a train ride could be. My brothers ignored me, as usual, and my sister was fawned over by my mother constantly. With my dad sleeping most of the time, I was left to entertain myself.

    The train was very crowded. I'd never seen so many people crammed into one place outside of church. Some of them weren't farm-folk, neither. There were a couple men and ladies in fine dress clothes, probably city dwellers. A few man were even worse dressed than us, probably miners or something. One of them had been staring at me for almost half an hour. I went over and talked to him.

    "Hey mister. This your first time on train? It is for me!"
    "Nooo, I ride trainss hic all the time."
    "You okay mister? You smell funny."
    "Heh heh ... at's because i haven't WASHed in threeeee days, son."
    "My mom says to take a bath every day or the devil will eat my soul!"
    "Well, now, ain't that precious ... you want a drink?"
    "Okay!"

    That man introduced me to alcohol, my future, and my undoing. That man's moonshine set me on a long road to endless sorrow and pain. My drinking problem escalated rapidly. Upon arriving in Knoxville, I had already completed five twelve-step programs. None of them worked.

    Fast foward to 2173. Shortly after my 900th birthday, I will go out for a binge with my friends Jesus Christ and Karl Marx. The three of us have been buddies for longer than I can remember. We will often get together to swap stories, talk about girlfriends, that sort of thing. We will drink, of course -- always heavily and always grain alcohol. Jesus never has any problem with the stuff, of course, but Karl and I can only down so much before we go blind and vomit our intestines out on the bar. Jesus can really work miracles, though. That guy will always have us patched up by morning.

    Anyways, Jesus and Karl will be having a heated discussion about the relative merits of kittens and puppies.

    "Kittens are fuzzy, and God is fuzzy, therefore kittens are better," Jesus will argue.
    "Yes, but puppies grow into dogs, and dogs work in packs for greater effeciency, and to the benefit of dogs everywhere," will be Marx's counter.
    "Kittens are really soft, and God is soft, therefore kittens are better," Jesus will reply.
    "Dogunism has no place for your purring and your pawing and your meowing! The barkin

  2. Some Suggestions for Rasterman on Hardware Based XRender Slower than Software Rendering? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear Raster Guy,

    This is a fantastic article. I just have a few suggestions on how to clean it up.

    First off is the introduction. It's too wordy. You dance around your thesis like a barefoot child on a griddle. Try being more direct, more concise. Get right to your point, then move on.

    Now I'm not terribly familiar with the scientific method, but I think your experiment isn't described fully enough for the audience to gain any insight from it. First of all, you haven't given us much of a hypothesis to go on. What is it you really hope to gain from your testing? We have a vague ideal of the goal, but it's hard to see the true motivation that's pushing you towards such a goal.

    Your depiction of the experiment itself is more than adequate. I don't really have any complaints here. It actually reminds me of an experiment I devised in my youth. Heh, that was a real mess. I remember it like it was yesterday.

    It was the summer of 1873. The country was industrializing and the West was still being settled. For a young lad in rural Kansas, such as myself, life was a little more interesting with the railways making far-off cities more accessible to the common folk. My parents had been planning a trip to Knoxville for some time now, to visit relatives. My father sold a few of his cattle and scraped together enough money for us to make the journey. Mom, pop, my two brothers Anthony and Skeet, and my sister Juliana, all got on the Southern Express, headed east for St. Louis and on to Knoxville.

    It had never occurred to me just how boring a train ride could be. My brothers ignored me, as usual, and my sister was fawned over by my mother constantly. With my dad sleeping most of the time, I was left to entertain myself.

    The train was very crowded. I'd never seen so many people crammed into one place outside of church. Some of them weren't farm-folk, neither. There were a couple men and ladies in fine dress clothes, probably city dwellers. A few man were even worse dressed than us, probably miners or something. One of them had been staring at me for almost half an hour. I went over and talked to him.

    "Hey mister. This your first time on train? It is for me!"
    "Nooo, I ride trainss hic all the time."
    "You okay mister? You smell funny."
    "Heh heh ... at's because i haven't WASHed in threeeee days, son."
    "My mom says to take a bath every day or the devil will eat my soul!"
    "Well, now, ain't that precious ... you want a drink?"
    "Okay!"

    That man introduced me to alcohol, my future, and my undoing. That man's moonshine set me on a long road to endless sorrow and pain. My drinking problem escalated rapidly. Upon arriving in Knoxville, I had already completed five twelve-step programs. None of them worked.

    Fast foward to 2173. Shortly after my 900th birthday, I will go out for a binge with my friends Jesus Christ and Karl Marx. The three of us have been buddies for longer than I can remember. We will often get together to swap stories, talk about girlfriends, that sort of thing. We will drink, of course -- always heavily and always grain alcohol. Jesus never has any problem with the stuff, of course, but Karl and I can only down so much before we go blind and vomit our intestines out on the bar. Jesus can really work miracles, though. That guy will always have us patched up by morning.

    Anyways, Jesus and Karl will be having a heated discussion about the relative merits of kittens and puppies.

    "Kittens are fuzzy, and God is fuzzy, therefore kittens are better," Jesus will argue.
    "Yes, but puppies grow into dogs, and dogs work in packs for greater effeciency, and to the benefit of dogs everywhere," will be Marx's counter.
    "Kittens are really soft, and God is soft, therefore kittens are better," Jesus will reply.
    "Dogunism has no place for your purring and your pawing and your meowing! The barking class will not stand for the placidity

  3. Re:Some suggestions on Top 10 Inventions in Money Technology During the 1900's · · Score: 0

    Thank you dear sir!

  4. Some suggestions on Top 10 Inventions in Money Technology During the 1900's · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dear Leonardo Da Vinci,

    This is a fantastic article. I just have a few suggestions on how to clean it up.

    First off is the introduction. It's too wordy. You dance around your thesis like a barefoot child on a griddle. Try being more direct, more concise. Get right to your point, then move on.

    Now I'm not terribly familiar with the scientific method, but I think your experiment isn't described fully enough for the audience to gain any insight from it. First of all, you haven't given us much of a hypothesis to go on. What is it you really hope to gain from your testing? We have a vague ideal of the goal, but it's hard to see the true motivation that's pushing you towards such a goal.

    Your depiction of the experiment itself is more than adequate. I don't really have any complaints here. It actually reminds me of an experiment I devised in my youth. Heh, that was a real mess. I remember it like it was yesterday.

    It was the summer of 1873. The country was industrializing and the West was still being settled. For a young lad in rural Kansas, such as myself, life was a little more interesting with the railways making far-off cities more accessible to the common folk. My parents had been planning a trip to Knoxville for some time now, to visit relatives. My father sold a few of his cattle and scraped together enough money for us to make the journey. Mom, pop, my two brothers Anthony and Skeet, and my sister Juliana, all got on the Southern Express, headed east for St. Louis and on to Knoxville.

    It had never occurred to me just how boring a train ride could be. My brothers ignored me, as usual, and my sister was fawned over by my mother constantly. With my dad sleeping most of the time, I was left to entertain myself.

    The train was very crowded. I'd never seen so many people crammed into one place outside of church. Some of them weren't farm-folk, neither. There were a couple men and ladies in fine dress clothes, probably city dwellers. A few man were even worse dressed than us, probably miners or something. One of them had been staring at me for almost half an hour. I went over and talked to him.

    "Hey mister. This your first time on train? It is for me!"
    "Nooo, I ride trainss hic all the time."
    "You okay mister? You smell funny."
    "Heh heh ... at's because i haven't WASHed in threeeee days, son."
    "My mom says to take a bath every day or the devil will eat my soul!"
    "Well, now, ain't that precious ... you want a drink?"
    "Okay!"

    That man introduced me to alcohol, my future, and my undoing. That man's moonshine set me on a long road to endless sorrow and pain. My drinking problem escalated rapidly. Upon arriving in Knoxville, I had already completed five twelve-step programs. None of them worked.

    Fast foward to 2173. Shortly after my 900th birthday, I will go out for a binge with my friends Jesus Christ and Karl Marx. The three of us have been buddies for longer than I can remember. We will often get together to swap stories, talk about girlfriends, that sort of thing. We will drink, of course -- always heavily and always grain alcohol. Jesus never has any problem with the stuff, of course, but Karl and I can only down so much before we go blind and vomit our intestines out on the bar. Jesus can really work miracles, though. That guy will always have us patched up by morning.

    Anyways, Jesus and Karl will be having a heated discussion about the relative merits of kittens and puppies.

    "Kittens are fuzzy, and God is fuzzy, therefore kittens are better," Jesus will argue.
    "Yes, but puppies grow into dogs, and dogs work in packs for greater effeciency, and to the benefit of dogs everywhere," will be Marx's counter.
    "Kittens are really soft, and God is soft, therefore kittens are better," Jesus will reply.
    "Dogunism has no place for your purring and your pawing and your meowing! The barking class will not stand for the placidity of the feline