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  1. Re:none on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Position To Work For Long Hours? · · Score: 1

    I regularly swap between sitting and kneeling in a normal office chair. This helps both lower and upper back. It's effectively impossible to slouch while kneeling, and the position swaps help keep the arms from staying at one angle for too long.

  2. Re:No surprise on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 1

    Homeopathy works to cure one thing: Dehydration.

  3. Re:No humans are weird on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Psychological therapy works by using a conscious desire for change to find subconscious causes of undesired behavior and eliminate them. It is arguably psychosomatic, but not all psychosomatic effects are placebo effects.

  4. Re:This was done at Microsoft's behest on Nokia Feeds a Patent Troll · · Score: 2

    http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/07/the-sun-tzu-of-nokisoftian-microkia-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-whose-the-baddest-of-them-all-waterloo.html

    Nokia was in a position to dominate the market, but threw away their assets to become an OEM for the third-rate Windows Phone system when Elop became CEO.

  5. Re:People are shallow on Baskerville Is the Greatest Font, Statistically, Says Filmmaker Errol Morris · · Score: 1

    I don't like comic sans because the letters feel disjointed. It's a fine font if you want someone to spell every word out loud and sound it out, but not for actual reading.

  6. Re:What if you can change a font in a book? on Baskerville Is the Greatest Font, Statistically, Says Filmmaker Errol Morris · · Score: 1

    Some people have difficulty reading some fonts (dyslexics often have trouble with serifed fonts) so changing the font can be useful.

  7. Re:Simple solution on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    I had this nearly happen recently.
    Luckily the e-mail provider I'd been using was a free online provider that deletes accounts after a month of inactivity, and no one had taken the address in the meantime, so I was able to sign up for the same e-mail address and use the reset function, then change my e-mail.

  8. Re:Simple solution on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    That's what epic poems/songs are for. Much easier to remember.
    And lo, he did hate the preprocessor!

  9. Re:Iain M. Bank- Consider Phlebas on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    I think he's trying not to be a "only read this guy's stuff if you want to hate life" author. Better to have some variety.

  10. Re:Try this nasty Sudoku on The Chaos Within Sudoku - a Richter Scale of Difficulty · · Score: 1

    931 824 657
    642 157 389
    578 963 124
    467 381 592
    283 579 416
    159 246 738
    824 615 973
    795 438 261
    316 792 845

    Lots of "forcing chains" to solve it, no use of unique rectangles.

  11. Re:At what power are they going to send the neutri on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    Except for the guy in the office next to the exchange, with fiber going next door. You know, the normal HFT guy.

  12. Re:At what power are they going to send the neutri on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    Thereby negating part their speed advantage from being near the exchange.
    The speed-of-light delay is significant for HFT at very short distances. 300km = 1 millisecond. Since their trades are being executed on the order of 1 millisecond that is quite significant.

  13. Re:already a working replacement on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    Well, the whole "can't transmit information" via entangled particles is a bigger problem than distance records (which we know the answer to, that's mostly due to them interacting with their containment systems and thus leaving the singleton state.)

  14. Re:At what power are they going to send the neutri on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    And since they will all be trying to transmit from as close to the major stock exchanges as possible...

  15. Re:plugins on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    I used to use RSS ticker, but found it more distracting than it was worth. I'm more productive when I check the news a few times a day, instead of glancing down every minute or five.

  16. Re:plugins on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    I currently have about 45 tabs open. Firefox is using 260MB of memory.

    Why 45 tabs?
    I open google reader, then open all the interesting news stories in tabs. As I read them I open relevant links in tabs, and close stories I've already read. I also have about 20 tabs of reference information that I access quite often, so it's a bit faster to keep them open than to reload them from bookmarks. I use Tree-style tabs to keep everything organized.

  17. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    Tools -> Options -> General: Uncheck "Show the Donwloads window when downloading a file".

  18. Re:Direct3D can do better on Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution? · · Score: 1

    Or the whole "Linux has a 3d accelerated desktop and windows is only getting that with version 7 next year-ish" thing.

  19. Re:Look to Gene Kranz on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    I don't have a pocket slide rule, but I do have a pocket caliper. Comes in handy more often than I'd expect.

  20. Re:Angry Birds ads on Google Clamps Down On Spam, Intrusive Ads In Apps · · Score: 1

    That looks like it patches the .apk of the apps, not any of the framework.jar/system.jar/services.jar files that PDroid modifies.

  21. Re:Don't look now... on Google Clamps Down On Spam, Intrusive Ads In Apps · · Score: 1

    Their best option might be a tiered market. A reviewed-by-Google, must-be-approved store and an open may-contain-dragons store. Same app, have a mark or option to show which tier apps are in. Allow searching only reviewed apps or reviewed and unreviewed apps. By default allow searching of all apps.

  22. Re:Can't have enough detail on How Much Detail Is Too Much For Games? · · Score: 1

    Look out the car window. Stare at the ground near the car at a fixed angle. Everything is blurry! Now follow successive road markers with your eyes. They're not blurry!
    Motion blur occurs when objects move through your field of view and aren't tracked by your eyes. It often seems unrealistic in games because things you ARE tracking with your eyes will be blurred. Without good eye tracking systems realistic motion blur will be impossible.

    The same goes for depth of field. Your eyes do have a depth of field, everything outside a very narrow range is in fact quite blurry. We just don't notice it because the brain is good at interpolating and the eyes constantly move a bit. Depth of field in games doesn't track what your eyes are focusing on, so things that shouldn't be blurred are blurred.

  23. Re:It's not detail, it's contrast on How Much Detail Is Too Much For Games? · · Score: 1

    That's an art design problem, not a realism problem.

  24. Re:Market Share on Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? · · Score: 2

    What does that have to do with the fact that Android and iOS are vastly more popular than current generation Windows Phone for both users and developers? By breaking backwards compatibility with WP7 apps MS makes it easier to switch to a more popular OS. By not releasing the SDK early they're not giving developers much time to port and test apps, so those devs that do chose to write apps for WP8 will likely not have those apps available on release (thus discouraging purchases of WP8 devices) or have buggy early versions available (thus discouraging purchases of WP8 devices.)
    That said, due to the above fewer developers will make apps for WP8, reducing competition and allowing those devs that do to set higher app prices.

  25. Re:It's not just the money on Star Wars: The Old Republic Adding Free-To-Play Option In November · · Score: 1

    Aaah, sorry, I was mistaken. It's only the Server vs Server (called World vs World vs World) PvP that guests can't enter.