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  1. Re:Bad idea on Amazon Lets Students Rent Digital Textbooks · · Score: 2

    Didn't you take notes in those courses?

    In my first semester I made the error to rely on the text book (well, at least in one course). After that, I wrote complete notes for any course. Which resulted not only in me having the complete material covered in the course without paying anything, but also having it memorized much better than by using the book, because it all went through my brain in order to get into my notes.

  2. Re:Change name of Slashdot to Plusdot? on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    I understand this article mainly as an article about Facebook.

  3. Re:Well, that's one way to advertise.... on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    Even if really everyone has heard of Google+ (which I doubt), it gives an extra incentive to get a Google+ account: It makes obvious that Facebook can cancel your account at any time without giving you a reason (it is a guess that it's due to the Google+ ads).

    Note that a Google+ account and a Facebook account are not mutually exclusive.

  4. Re:Well, that's one way to advertise.... on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this really any different than Google getting investigated for allegedly boosting results of its products?

    Yes. Facebook disabled an account. Now if Google removed their competitors from Google search results, then it would be the equivalent.

  5. Re:Fight for rational behaviour on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is a business. A company. That means it is not an individual with feelings and personal views. When you attack Microsoft for being Microsoft, then what you are really doing is attack the employees that chooses to work there.

    No, you are attacking the C*Os who make the decisions there.

  6. Re:Slashvertisement on Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovaltine

    It's not that uncommon that products are named different in different countries.

  7. Re:Uh, tough? on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 1

    So just because Google lost on the copyright issue, it gets to use it's considerable market power to punish the winners by not including any search results? IANAL, but doesn't that smack of anti-competitive behavior? If this was a US firm they pulled that with, I'm sure the DOJ would be very interested.

    The court said that Google News linking to the newspapers violated the newspaper's copyright. Now linking from Google Search and linking from Google News is basically the same thing; if one violates the copyright of the newspapers, the other does, too.

  8. Re:Security on Visual Hash Turns Text Or Data Into Abstract Art · · Score: 1

    Can't you add that salt yourself, before passing your data to Vash?

  9. Re:Applicant POV on Green Card Lottery Judgment Favors Mathematical Randomness · · Score: 1

    forced to commute long distances at very high fuel prices

    Very high fuel prices? Compared with European fuel prices, your fuel prices are extremely low!

  10. Re:Arbitrary? on Green Card Lottery Judgment Favors Mathematical Randomness · · Score: 1

    Well, "random" is quite often used with the meaning of "arbitrary". You didn't think that "random access memory" is memory where you can't predict which data you access, did you? No, random access means that you can access the data in arbitrary order (as opposed to sequential access where the order is fixed).

  11. Re:Well on Green Card Lottery Judgment Favors Mathematical Randomness · · Score: 1

    Well, the point was that for a large number of applicants (namely all those who didn't apply during the first two days), the probability of being chosen was exactly zero.

  12. Re:A Smart man once said... on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    There's no good reason why anybody should need to memorize the value of Pi, e or other constants when memorizing the presence of that particular constant will suffice.

    Nobody knows the value of pi or e anyway. People only differ in whether e.g. their best known approximation of pi is 3, 3.14, 22/7, 3.14159, or something even more precise.

  13. Re:Nice on Man Builds Turbine Powered Batmobile · · Score: 1

    In the given case, the post came from a logged-in user. Therefore your foe list should be sufficient for that.
    Also, blocking a certain IP wouldn't do much good for dynamic IPs.

  14. Re:Nice on Man Builds Turbine Powered Batmobile · · Score: 1

    When did you people stop being content with a simple rickroll? This is why Slashdot needs a "delete for spam" option.

    Well, a "disable links" option would be sufficient, and less easily abused.

  15. Re:Photoshop on AMD Bulldozer Information and Benchmarks Leaked · · Score: 1

    completely new SMTP design

    They redesigned the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol? :-)

  16. Re:Photoshop on AMD Bulldozer Information and Benchmarks Leaked · · Score: 2

    Since Vista you can use UTC in the RTC.

    Add DWORD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\RealTimeIsUniversal
    and set it to 1.

    Well, once again the superior intuitive and explorable interfaces of Windows are demonstrated. :-)

  17. Re:Bullshit article IMO on The Science Behind Fanboyism · · Score: 2

    And I guess writing all of this up here also marks me some kind of fanboy. Quite frankly I am; I'm very excited about the products and the stuff I can do with it.

    No, it marks you a fan.

    BUT... I'll also be the first to acknowledge that this software can't do it all (well, it comes very close though) and that other people might be much better of using other environments (Reason/Record, ProTools or maybe stuff like Cubase or maybe even Reaper).

    And that's what makes clear you are not a fanboy. A fanboy would claim that you are always better off with his preferred choice.

  18. Re:I hate flash. on Adobe Released 64-bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 1

    And why exactly would I bother spending hours of my time learning how to use GIMP?

    And why exactly would I bother spending hours of my time learning how to use Photoshop?

  19. Re:I hate flash. on Adobe Released 64-bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 1

    As a big women magazine photographer

    You take pictures of fat women?

    Big != fat. Also, he's obviously photographing magazines. :-)

  20. Re:What a waste of time. on Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    The killings by Mao and Stalin were not motivated by atheism.

    And the crusades have not been motivated by religion, either. Don't confuse the officially stated reason with the real reason.

  21. Re:To give the whole story: on Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 2

    One thing I note on the blog is that he doesn't wear that headgear on the photo on it. :-)

  22. Re:Not blocked on 41% of Chinese Websites Shut Down In 2010 · · Score: 2

    Was there something wrong with good old HTTPS?

    Maybe it lacked government backdoors?

  23. Re:To answer your question on 41% of Chinese Websites Shut Down In 2010 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter whether the name is true or not, it's still the name, and distinguishes the People's Republic of China from the Republic of China.

    Indeed. Just as during cold war, the German Democratic Republic was the part of Germany which was not democratic.

  24. Re:To answer your question on 41% of Chinese Websites Shut Down In 2010 · · Score: 1

    No love for Xinjiang? Darn Tibetans get all the attention...

    Where's the Dalai Lama equivalent of Xinjiang? I'm sure without the Dalai Lama few people would know of Tibet either.

  25. Re:Programming Language Manual on Computer Learns Language By Playing Games · · Score: 1

    But please don't let it read anything about Skynet!