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  1. Re:As an Islamic country... on Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    This whole "UK is islamic" is a weird fantasy of some segments of the American right wing

    Indeed. It's only Birmingham, Bradford and about half of London.

  2. Re:demand elasticity on Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    While I have no doubt that lowering prices would significantly increase demand

    Perhaps you should take economics 101.

    Pay particular attention to Veblen goods and Giffen goods. It's left an an exercise for the reader to determine which is relevant here ...

  3. "Pound note" means a one pound note. If you're talking about a five pound note, there's a different name for that.

  4. Re:Sirius Minerals claim to have the answer on Facing Soil Crisis, US Farmers Look Beyond Corn and Soybeans (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it have electrolytes?

  5. I call Sean Hannigan! on Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet's Precursor, Dies at 81 (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As any fule kno, it was Al Gore what invented teh interwebs.

  6. Re:Well, if it's not sustainable, it can't be sust on Facing Soil Crisis, US Farmers Look Beyond Corn and Soybeans (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    If they do it properly then after a few cycles they can get the assets of the first thing they fucked up at a knock-down price.

    Now that's sustainable!

  7. Re: Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When I'm using mine it usually doesn't show a "static image" - your words, in the post I replied to.

    Though I suppose staring and drooling might constitute "using" to some.

  8. Re:Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What couldn't you change? I used to set mine to classic look ( the others were metallic and something that looked like upholstery IIRC) and I don't recall anything bothering me that much.

  9. Re: Progressive worsening on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Eww! Think of all that wasted screen real estate

    I don't think of it. Neither do most website designers, hence the pages that have almost as much margin as text.

    But OK, how about a diagonal band across the middle?

    Top right to bottom left, obviously. The other way round would just be stupid.

  10. Re:Dijkstra is rolling ( 0-based) on Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    How the hardware handles the data should be largely irrelevant. It doesn't even matter for performance, since you can simply offset all addresses by 1 and then it's entirely transparent.

    This. You should be able to define an array from -17 to 666 if that fits the problem domain better and allows cleaner code.

  11. Re:Languages are not that important on Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    So, scientists can now produce shit, wrong, and underperforming code too? How is that good?

    It doesn't really matter. If their conclusions are contrary to what the Bible, big oil and the rugwearer-general say they're wrong anyway.

  12. It's a rodent made of wicker that you can put things inside?

  13. Re:Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it's using flat interfaces where you cannot spare a few pixels to create bevels to more clearly visually distinguish between elements.

    They used up all the pixels on big white stripes down the sides and bloody great empty moats around everything.

    Could you imagine if hipsters designed aircraft cockpits? The crew would need to keep a bike around because it's too far to walk from the compass to the altimeter.

  14. Re: Progressive worsening on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like them down the side.

  15. Peter Kasting on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I vaguely remember the name Peter Kasting. Don't remeber where, but I'm pretty sure the context was something to do with assholes.

  16. Re:Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    There is no such thing as making Skeuomorphism "fairly subtle".

    Of course there is. You could, for example, make a photorealistic pushbutton or a very stylised cartoony one with a quite decent artist's rendering in between.

  17. Re:Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If something is first, then it stands to reason that everything else is later.

    The problem is that later never comes. Sometimes there are valid reasoh look! shiny!

  18. Re: Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    LCDs are much more reliable than OLED displays in every way that matters.

    Every one I've had has outlived its backlight.

  19. Re:Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For me Win 7 was a step backwards from XP. Likewise, Gnome 2 is good enough. Does what I want and lets me get on with it.

  20. Re: Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    I can set mine to not show a static image, or to even blank itself if it's inactive for more than a few minutes.

    The miracles of modern technology!

  21. Re: Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume "not mouse" == "keyboard"?

    Apart from the fact that you're a retard, that is.

  22. Re:In American, what's "calling in administrators" on HMV, One of UK's Largest Retailers of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, Calls in Administrators For Second Time in Six Years (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    First sentence should end in a question mark. The second isn't actually a sentence, since it has no finite verb in the main clause. Third one has commas in random places, plus names of countries and words derived from them should be capitalized.

    You're hardly in a position to pontificate about good writing.

  23. Re:It's not bullshit...it's business... on Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You gave them explicit permission when you signed up to use their service. I mean come on, morons, servers, employees, bandwidth, etc all cost money. What did you dumbasses think was going to happen?

    Explicit permission is where you say or write "I give X permission to do Y ...".

    The word you want is implicit.

  24. Re:You're a prick, Mark. on Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Shhh. Don't go giving Zuck ideas for what to do when he gets bored with FaceBook.

    I was going to write "bored with/ousted from" but the latter isn't possible, is it? DIRC or did FOMO cause investors to chuck money in for second-class shares with less voting power?

  25. Re: Goodbye Sears on Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is retarded, as are the mods. What would they gain from doing that?

    The explanation given elsewhere that thin paper = cheaper postage seems a lot more feasible.