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  1. Re:Summary doesn't match articles on Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it's difficult to argue for a big study without a small study that suggests there may be an effect worth investigating. Also, we have statistics to tell us how likely it is the pasta-lovers all ended up in one group.

  2. Re:I wish McCain would retire on Senators Threaten To Rescind NFL Antitrust Exemption · · Score: 1

    Major sports teams tend to be clothing companies with a nice line in football(/baseball/basketball/etc).

  3. Re:Airplane Petri Dish on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1
    And you did no worthwhile research either. Yes, recombination is a thing. However, it only happens between sufficiently similar DNA sequences. Ebola and rhinoviruses share very little common DNA and the chances of any sharing happening and producing something that did anything biologically interesting are, to put it mildly, low.

    As for your/my attitude, grow up. Speculating wildly with no clue what you're talking about it is liable to get people taking the piss out of you. In this case you literally had to type a question into Google and click on the first link to come up. Instead you had to waste mine and everyone else's time with your nonsense.

  4. Re:"Read on for the rest." on Could Maroney Be Prosecuted For Her Own Hacked Pictures? · · Score: 1

    Lord knows. I can't imagine a stupider or more pointless question. Is stupid fucking lawyering *really* the most important thing about this whole issue? Who the hell gives a shit? And we wonder why women have a problem with /.

  5. Re:Airplane Petri Dish on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Yes, the reason being you're a fucking idiot with no idea what you're saying.

  6. Re:Gladwell on New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise · · Score: 1
    Getting to the Met involves a lot of things, only one of which is vocal skill. A random adult would not have a lifelong network of contacts, experience, acting skills, and a depth of knowledge of the repertoire that someone who grew up doing it would. And there are certainly arguments that brain plasticity and physiology plays a part in developing talented child musicians in a way that may not be replicable in adults.

    But that aside, yes, an adult can be trained to a high standard of opera singing, sufficiently so to take on significant roles in commercial productions. Bearing in mind, of course, that we are talking here about 5-10 years worth of daily training - but it is possible. Just rare.

  7. Re:Gladwell on New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise · · Score: 1

    "fast"=/="good", but even leaving that aside, I'm sceptical. Fast solos on guitar don't involve that much lefthand speed in absolute terms. I suspect it is something about the way you practice or think about your own performance. Musicians are their own worst enemy when it comes to improving their skills and a large part of my job as a teacher is breaking down roadblocks so that you can actually improve. A lot of teachers don't recognise this (and I suspect it's worse for instruments like electric guitar where teacher training may be, well, variable).

  8. Re:Gladwell on New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise · · Score: 1

    Considering you have a range bigger than that used by most male opera singers, yeah, I'd say that's respectable. Also, G6...why, just why?

  9. Re:Gladwell on New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise · · Score: 1

    Sure, everyone has physiological issues to deal with - this is why the best sprinters are the best - but I don't think it negates my point all that much. Also I bet a good vocal tutor could get you two and half octaves if you wanted to :)

  10. Re:Teachers know this on New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise · · Score: 1

    Hello flamebait mod, care to justify your moderation?

  11. Re:Teachers know this on New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No, your wife recognises the people that fit her teaching style and can't adapt to deal with the rest. I also teach people who arrive and on day one are fingers and thumbs. They have different challenges and need different support, but at least one of my pupils who arrived in this state is now a recording artist.

  12. Re:Related work? on New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise · · Score: 1

    Yes. There's a book - something like "The Child As Musician" that goes into some detail about childhood musical skill acquisition. The lesson I took from that for my teaching is that different kids arrive for their first music lesson with wildly varying levels of musical skill, despite never having had a formal lesson in their lives.

  13. Re:Gladwell on New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As a music teacher, I have never - ever - found that I could not teach someone who practiced regularly and intelligently to be as good as they wanted to be. Your teacher was too damned lazy to teach you properly and as a consequence has denied you the ability to be the musician you could perfectly well have been. I can't comment on whether you ended up in a better place or not, but I can say, with absolute certainty, that your teacher was dead wrong.

  14. PR departments use off the shelf search providers to keep them up to date on their areas of interest. They don't read slashdot, but they did read this story.

  15. Re:How about protecting the public on Piracy Police Chief Calls For State Interference To Stop Internet "Anarchy" · · Score: 1

    Get your party elected to the Court of Common Council.

  16. Re:What undercover agents are these? on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    This is one - just one - of the many reasons you're not an undercover agent.

  17. Re:Valid warrant: no such thing on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is not robust case law on this issue and the Supreme Court has had very little in the way of dealing with it. They may well argue - probably justifiably - that an encryption key is equivalent to a physical key and you can be compelled to produce it.

  18. Re:Google Stock Split 04/14/2014, 2 Classes of Sha on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: 1

    Yes, basically if you reinvest all your profit in growing your business you minimise your tax bill which is in some sense beneficial for shareholders. The overseas thing just multiplies the effect slightly. However, at the end of the day the only reason to own part of a company is to receive profits from it and if you're not receiving profits and have no expectation of receiving profits any time soon, you're putting an awful lot of faith in capital growth. This is Warren Buffet's great trick: he buys companies that pay strong dividend streams and reinvests the lot. Berkshire has never paid a dividend (well, once, in 1967).

  19. Re:Google Stock Split 04/14/2014, 2 Classes of Sha on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: 1

    And of course, none of them pay any dividends, so why any poor sap invests in them is beyond me.

  20. Re:Insensitive Maniac on CDC: Ebola Cases Could Reach 1.4 Million In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    No, you're just plain wrong. Overpopulation is not Africa's biggest problem by a long way.

  21. Re:Here we go again... on CDC: Ebola Cases Could Reach 1.4 Million In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    And road safety is just something that happens to other people. Global pandemics are very real, have happened before, will happen again, and are better off being taken seriously before 18 million people die.

  22. Re:bioaccumulation beginning to be noticed on Fukushima Radiation Still Poisoning Insects · · Score: 1

    Shit, it's like Darwin never existed.

  23. Re:F-22's don't drop bombs. on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    It's not the bomb that kills you, it's the massive internal trauma from the percussive blast front.

  24. Re:Refunding my investment on Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails · · Score: 1

    Yes, if illegal. If it's simply down to a business failure...

  25. Re:Memory doesn't cost that much. on Why the iPhone 6 Has the Same Base Memory As the iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    An alternative explanation, because Apple is no doubt exploiting price drops as they happen, is that they've simply realised many users probably don't come close to touching that amount of storage anyway. My wife uses her 5S nonstop and only has about 10GB used.