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  1. Re:God I hate to say this, but on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Every story ark is the center

    I have Noah idea what you're on about.

  2. Re:The world is happy about Lucas not participatin on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    the whole franchise could back-peddle on this

    You mean they're offering a refund?

  3. Re:Yeah yeah on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And apparently you're a fan of the concept of "women as prizes"? Win a battle, get a woman FREE, right?

    Yeah, that's why he didn't use a negative word to describe that. Like "outmoded" or something.

  4. Re:Yeah yeah on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    On skates.

  5. Re:Even if we solved all of them... on List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 (narod.ru) · · Score: 1

    Got me too - reported it a few days ago. IE on Win 7 & Firefox on Linux.

    Opening stories & reply links in a new tab works sometimes.

    Submitting, getting the error that you failed to confirm you're a human (shouldn't even be a captcha when you're logged in) then hitting back works. Sometimes.

    Bunch of monkeys they are.

  6. Re:These were already solved... on List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 (narod.ru) · · Score: 1

    IMHO 7 was a step backward from XP. Not a huge step mind.

    Yes, 8, I did look at you.

  7. Re:Whoa on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1

    If songs count there's Bob Dylan & Elvis Costello.

  8. Re:Whoa on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or they were too busy trying to get systemd to work.

  9. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just... meh... the writing is lazy and sloppy. It's like a bunch of old Star Wars scenes stitched together loosely with a half-assed framing story

    I guess in this article we can take *spoilers* as a given, right?

    Where we we? The clip show. Yes, they even hang a lampshade on it. When they're looking at the plans of the new death star and somebody says "there must be a weakness, right?" I almost expected a reply about womp rats.

  10. Re:Ian Murdoch was a racist on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you seen a chihuahua? Have you seen a bulldog?

    They exist, and they're quite easy to tell apart - try kicking one in the butt. And yes, I know what a mongrel is, and no, that doesn't disprove the existence of St Bernards and greyhounds.

  11. Re:Move to a proper country on Oracle Asked To Help Low-Income Residents Evicted For Its New Cloud Campus (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Go away, read this, and come back.

    Preferably in that order.

  12. 318M is 880M.

    After Big Luigi's cut.

  13. Re:Good time to be an Android developer! on Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs · · Score: 1

    The Psion 5 had similar hardware limitations, but the UI was fine. But perhaps that's because, having a more or less unique OS, most of its apps were designed specifically for it.

  14. Re:Subject matter experts vs teachers on US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class · · Score: 1

    Using an interface and designing one are not the same thing at all, though clearly plenty of people think so or abominations like Win 8 and Gnome 3 wouldn't exist.

    Bollocks, then.

  15. Re:somebody wants to defend google? on Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Thomas More and the Devil. Google it.

  16. Re:Weird Account Issues on Tech Segments Facing Turbulence In 2016 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Were you getting the thing where even if you were logged in it was telling you the captcha was wrong, when there wasn't even one visible? And both submit and preview buttons disappeared?

    There was a similar bug a while back, maybe even before beta was introduced.

    For me, it sometimes works if I log on from the main page and if I want to open a story or post a reply I do it by opening a new tab. Makes you wonder if dimothy and his crew test anything, ever.

    I think they let the work experience boy frig around with the code again. The one who was supposed to be getting experience in the canteen.

  17. Re:Subject matter experts vs teachers on US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class · · Score: 1

    Basic Computer Use is one thing, but that's so removed from CS that there's almost no connection. (The only connection is at the level in user interface design.)

    I'm not really sure what you're trying to say there, but it's either complete bollocks or you didn't say it very well at all.

  18. Re:Wh3r3f0r3 @r7 7h0u R0m30! on US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class · · Score: 1

    while it is less effective at weeding out people with at least adequate 'teaching' skills; but subject matter knowledge that is a little too shaky to allow them to teach it with full confidence and facility.

    A prime example would be whoever taught you about semicolons.

  19. Re:Hey, Ray . . . . on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil a question · · Score: 1

    Lots of people have done more than me. Hitler, Kim Il-sung ...

  20. Re:Wh3r3f0r3 @r7 7h0u R0m30! on US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class · · Score: 1

    I'd have thought that if you tried to compare an object of type person with one of type country it would throw an exception.

  21. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is one in TFA using some kind of hand weapon sword thing.

    Saw it yesterday. Not a lightsaber.

    if you were a professional soldier from an early age with nothing else going on I imagine in that 20 odd years you might well have had a chance to learn hand to hand combat skills.

    You imagine, do you? Soldiers - even cloned ones - aren't a homogeneous mass. There are, and always have been, specialists.

    Look at how totally shite Luke was the first time he picked one up.

  22. Re:Would you rather have Xena the princess warrior on US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class · · Score: 1

    She can fix my dangling pointer any time she likes.

  23. I thought it was axiomatic that the inbuilt default PRNG was good for writing scissors/paper/stone when doing programming 101 but not for anything more serious.

    In any language.

  24. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Are there any other instances (in all 7 films) of stormtroopers using light sabers?

    I wouldn't expect a Napoleonic musketeer to know how to ride a horse, let alone handle a lance on one.

  25. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    She still got far too good far too quick even for what is effectively a fantasy movie.

    It's like she found C for Dummies on night, leafed through it during her next morning dump and by teatime she'd written Linux.

    (Anyone else having trouble logging in, by the way? Perhaps she wrote slashcode before reading the book...)