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  1. Re:What are they talking about? on Future Phones May Use Vacuum Tube Chips As Silicon Hits Moore's Law Extremes (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuel injection was only introduced relatively recently.

    You call 1940 recent?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Is there some reason this is here? on Alienware Launches Laptop With QHD OLED Display After 20 Years of Business (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    MojoKid is just a shill for hothardware or whatever it's called. It totally *is* a slashvertisement.

  3. Re:Smells Like A Fish Story on Programmer Automates His Job For 6 Years, Gets Fired, Realizes He Has Forgotten How To Code · · Score: 2

    There was a story about that a while back.

    When a grunt like him does that, he gets fired. If the CIO does it he gets a bonus.

  4. Bus? Luxury!

  5. How long before Apple sue MIT, saying they ripped them off with Scratch?

  6. Re: An easier sollution on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Texas has far more guns than CA, but pretty much the same murder rate /100k. So more guns do NOT equal more murders.

    Seems they don't equal fewer either.

  7. Re: An easier sollution on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    The second is a complete non-sequiteur.

    Il ne sequite pas? Bordel!

  8. Re:this is why on Manifesto Calls For 'Rebel Cities' To Reject Surveillance (decentralize.today) · · Score: 1

    Then on top of that each burrow ran its self as an independent entity.

    It's the Big Apple, not the Big Carrot.

  9. Re:Another one bites the dust on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    If the market will bear it, why aren't they charging more in the first place?

    Oracle have certainly got that figured out.

  10. Re:How do you perceive English predominance in the on Interviews: Ask Perl Creator Larry Wall a Question · · Score: 1

    What I imagine has happened is that they start programming a language, look at the keyboard and think "What is the best key to use here?" and then take one that has not yet been used and which one can be accessed easily?

    I can't imagine why they'd do anything else.

    Would you choose, for your most common punctuation, something that you have to take your shoes off to type?

    I'll tell you what, editing html/xml is a bastard on AZERTY, with the > < on the same key.

  11. 60 bucks per user? on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    60 bucks per user? Speaking in a purely personal capacity, that's way over the odds.

  12. Re:Half agree on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Silly question - why don't they stagger them through the year, by something like birth/founding date?

  13. Re:Clearly on How ISIS Finally Hacked the Arkansas Library Association (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    You're a hoot at parties, aren't you?

  14. It's like "that EULA doesn't apply to me, because my cat pressed the enter key, not me.".

    https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

  15. Worst haiku evar!

  16. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's your own made-up definition.

    In that case, I'm a dictionary.

    http://www.merriam-webster.com...

    "one who believes that there is no deity
      [...]
    How agnostic Differs from atheist
    Many people are interested in distinguishing between the words agnostic and atheist. The difference is quite simple: atheist refers to someone who believes that there is no god (or gods), and agnostic refers to someone who doesn't know whether there is a god, or even if such a thing is knowable. ".

    P.S. It's a bit arrogant lecturing someone else about *their* native language. Especially when you're completely wrong.

  17. Re:I want to know on Interviews: Ask Perl Creator Larry Wall a Question · · Score: 1

    And where can we get some?

  18. Re:What's the best fruit on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? · · Score: 1

    For a minute I thought that was an actual thing. In my defence, that shit about cheese was.

  19. Re:The nuanced answer on New York Thieves Wearing Apple Store T-Shirts Steal $16,000 In iPhones (pix11.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a certified accountant

    Really?

    http://smallbusiness.chron.com...

    The rule for reporting inventory is that it must be valued at acquisition cost or market value, whichever is the lower amount. In general, inventories should be valued at acquisition costs. [...] Valuing at the price you could sell at retail is not allowed because retail prices are inflated to cover selling costs. Selling costs are not allowed in the market value calculation.

  20. Re: An easier sollution on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    If someone isn't imposing their religion on you, why should you care if they hold irrational beliefs?

    s /on you/on you yet/.

    Answers itself, doesn't it?

  21. Re:Technology can't stop these on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    gun control can and does prevent a lot of accidental deaths and suicides, but that style of gun control doesn't actually require the government to deny its citizens guns.

    So how does it work? By allowing them to have guns but making them promise, scout's honour, that they'll be really careful and not point them at themselves?

  22. Re:Meanwhile back in the real world... on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone understands budgets and schedules.

    No they don't.

    If you just tell them you're too incompetent to develop what they want they'll believe you and offshore the work.

    You equate not being able to do the impossible by yesterday with being incompetent? I take it you're a user. The kind one who acts like a child if he can't have a pony *and* a puppy.

    I award you zero points, etc.

  23. Re:Nope on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    They have an incident like this maybe once a year, instead of two per month. So it appears to be going pretty well.

  24. Re:Technology can't stop these on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Key word is attempts.

  25. Re:Slashdot Editorial Message Modding - An Update on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    PG Tips.