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  1. Re:Remember the one hour equals three hours rule. on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Med-School Note-Taking? · · Score: 1

    I can't say that any of my university classes were so dense that there was three hours of information packed into a single lecture. I'd say half of them were about 10 minutes of information packed into an hour-long lecture and obfuscated to make it seem like there was more content that there was.

  2. Re:One Note? on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Med-School Note-Taking? · · Score: 2

    This would seem to fit. When you search in OneNote it'll give you a list of all the pages that have that search term (including UCRing images, and searching through recorded audio).

  3. Re:Fingerprint it! on Ask Slashdot: How To Deliver a Print Magazine Online, While Avoiding Piracy? · · Score: 2

    But if you have to pay for a new subscription each time you get caught, there's a strong disincentive to keep making your copies available.

  4. No way! A Fingerprint scanner! on iOS 7 Beta 3 Now Available For iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch · · Score: 0

    A fingerprint scanner! On a portable device! Will Apple ever stop hammering us with the revolutionary new features!

  5. Re:Should run on Win7 on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yup. The easiest is to upgrade to windows 7 Pro or Ultimate and install XP Mode

  6. Re:being your own boss on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure where your information is from, but, as far as breaks go, there's no federal legislation at all, it varies from province to province. Generally you're entitled to a half-hour break every 5 hours, which must be paid if you're required to remain on site, but can otherwise be unpaid.

    There's no special provision anywhere for law-enforcement (except that the RCMP are not allowed to strike. Farm workers, commercial fishers, oil field workers, loggers, home care givers, professionals, managers and some categories of salespersons have special federal provisions in other areas of worker's rights.

  7. Re:Monogenism on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Paul does certainly use language that would appear to require a single "original fall" event by one person, but it's also likely, given the historical context and his generally lax exegesis of the old testament, that he's simply appropriating the Adam story out of context to make a point in contrast to Jesus. Certainly,there's a complete lack of reference in the Old Testament to Adam after Genesis 5, and no concept of original sin.

    There also isn't a case in the bible where someone is condemned based on original sin, any punishment meted out to a person is based on a specific choice that person made. Bad things do happen to "good" people, it's true, but even Jesus denied that those were necessarily punishment for sin.

    The concept of original sin is far from universally accepted in christianity. The concept of universal sin, is nearly universal, but inherrited sin isn't. Also, nearly all Protestant churches would deny that Mary was without sin, original or othewise.

  8. Re:Monogenism on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 2

    Christianity commands all Christians

    You're being awefully generallistic here. There's no such command in the Bible, and it's only tradition that leads to this being the accepted belief in many christian sects. Even in the bible itself, it's pretty clear that there were other people outside of Adam and Eve that Cain would have reason to fear after killing his brother. It's also fairly defensible to read the second creation story as the specific creation of the nation of Israel, and not the general creation of the world. Here, Adam is at most the first patriarch of Israel, and possibly just a symbolic one at that.

  9. Re:Uhhh... on New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1 · · Score: 1

    Um.... let's try n=4. 2^4-1 = 15, so not a prime. You might want to read that wikipedia article a little closer.

  10. QuickBasic on The History of Visual Development Environments · · Score: 3, Informative

    QuickBasic was already at v4.5 in 1988 - 3 years before Visual Basic.

  11. Re:In defiance of Betteridge's law of headline: ye on Will Tablets Kill Off e-Readers? · · Score: 1

    No - it's better than "days". With the wifi turned off, most of them are good for weeks

  12. Re:Platform == racketeering on Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS · · Score: 1

    Yes. But then you have to provide your own payment services.

  13. Re:Loophole in Google motto on Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ · · Score: 2

    they'd be spending cubic dollars

    No wonder I can't seem to get ahead, all this time I've been using rectangular or cylindrical dollars.

  14. Re:Sick leaves on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    Why do you have to take a sick day to work from home? If you're healthy enough to drag yourself to work, your healthy enough to drag yourself to your computer and telecommute. You still get the work done, but you don't spread it to others.

    If your office doesn't allow this, then that's something that needs to change. I'm not saying that you can change it - it's a whole cultural view that needs to change.

  15. Peer pressure on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    If we're sick enough to be contagious, but healthy enough to work, we telecommute. If we show up sick and coughing everyone yells at you to go home. There's nothing I do at work, that I can't do at home just as well, other than maintain a team dynamic, and a few days working from home now and then don't hurt that.

  16. Re:Did Zuckerberg ever have to get past HR? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Without that degree, or some other paper, you aren't "qualified" for shit as far as HR is concerned. There are 50 other people who do have the certification they want. Unless you (or, more likely, your parents) have good connections you don't get past that filter. The best bet is to work at both education and connections at the same time.

  17. Re:Did Zuckerberg ever have to get past HR? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's true, you could also get a job at one of those places by being someone's daughter or nephew. It's just easier to get a college degree than to get a VP to adopt you.

  18. Re:Did Zuckerberg ever have to get past HR? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's worse than pro-sports. In pro-sports, at least, there are amateur leagues in place that do a pretty good job at identifying and developing the best of the best. There's no doubt that Gates and Zuckerberg are talented, but they're talented in the way that pro basketball players were talented in the 1940s. When your selection pool starts out by excluding 99%+ of the population due to lack of wealth or connections, you severly limit the number of superstars you'll be able to find.

  19. Re:Wow... on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 2

    why in the hell does wikipedia have articles about the TV series, movie, and video game but not the damned books?

    You mean like this?

  20. Re:Windows 7 compatibility mode on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: 4, Informative

    XP mode on 64-bit Windows 7 can run most 16-bit apps.

  21. Pentel RSVP on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pentel RSVP - fine, very smooth, and very fast. I've never used a pen that glides like these do - plus they're fairly cheap.

  22. Re:Virtualization on Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 2

    Both VMWare and VirtualBox run Windows 8 fine. UEFI isn't required to run it, just to boot off of 3TB disks. and to boot faster.

  23. Re:Might be incentive to buy American? on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hunting weapons are still weapons... Every time you kill a deer with a bow you are using is as a weapon. The fact that bows are almost never used against people doesn't change the meaning of weapon.

  24. Re:massive amounts of deliberate engineering on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    You mean, similar to what would be required to build a Dyson sphere?

    Similar, but orders of magnitude more - the summary cites

    a hundred times larger than necessary

    What would you get from a massive amount of accidental engineering?

    You get cities.

  25. Re:OMFG on Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that at least one of the people interviewed had the current 4S, and was still blown away by the weight, look, and performance of the identical phone handed to him. These weren't people unfamiliar with iPhones.