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  1. Re:The Dumb One on Slashdot Asks: Which Smart Speaker Do You Prefer? · · Score: 1

    Yes. As I've said many times, I do not want a relationship with my machinery.

  2. First... on Slashdot Asks: Which Smart Speaker Do You Prefer? · · Score: 1

    Explain why I would want to replace my current speakers with a smart speaker.

  3. Re:The MCU has a newtonian mechanics problem on Marvel Cinematic Universe Has a CGI Problem (screenrant.com) · · Score: 1

    A simple firsthand knowledge of athletic endeavors will do. Everyone I know understands that you can't stop a car coming at you at 5mph, much less 80+. It is *you* who will move regardless of how strong and invulnerable you are or what shoes you're wearing.

  4. Re:The value of CGI shooting. on Marvel Cinematic Universe Has a CGI Problem (screenrant.com) · · Score: 1

    It was the fault of the director. Even with blanks you shoot *to the side* of the actor, not *at*. If you need at, you layer two shots.

  5. Re:Why has the bar set to be high? on Marvel Cinematic Universe Has a CGI Problem (screenrant.com) · · Score: 1

    Black Panther is so heavily CGI'd that if you have any athletic experience at all, nothing looks right. Not even the physics of jumping from car to car.

  6. Re:I've done it. on Marvel Cinematic Universe Has a CGI Problem (screenrant.com) · · Score: 1

    You do not understand the word "involuntarily".

  7. Re: Why has the bar set to be high? on Marvel Cinematic Universe Has a CGI Problem (screenrant.com) · · Score: 2

    "Supersize Me"? You mean the movie made by a man with an agenda he readily admits to and attains by eating in a manner that would do the exact same thing to you if done at a high end restaurant? *That* is your reference point?

  8. Re:Bing is a recursive acronym on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but *nice*. I shall use that in the future. Thanks.

  9. Re:Did /. at least get paid for this Microsoft Ad? on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Given your lack of a user number, who the hell should listen to your opinion?

  10. Re:Bing is fine on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, this. Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Altavista, DogPile, Lycos - are *any* of those names anything more than just monikers? Do any of them sound more "professional"? The only one I can think of without searching that did so and sounded like a descriptor was Infoseek.

  11. Re: Alternatives to Google on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I set my search to Bing over a year ago. Results strike me as more useful than Google and I find DDGo is inferior to both.

  12. Re:Total DRIBBLE. on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    So, you with your telepathy *knew* he meant "silly nonsense" instead of verbal spew leaking onto a keyboard?

  13. Re:This is news? on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    That quote makes an invalid assumption - that "learning programming" means learning all the newest bangs and whistles. One can program without once accessing 'cloud', or for that matter a mobile device.

  14. Nope on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    anyone learning to program has to start by installing an SDE

    When you start with a false premise, the rest of what you say is suspect.

  15. Re:Oiled wood. end of story on Apple's HomePod Speakers Leave White Marks on Wood (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    everything leaves a mark on oiled wood

    Bullshit. You do not know what you're talking about. That, or you do and you're lying.

  16. Re:architecture and design approach on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The architecture profession has never emphasized grades, realizing that creative design is hardly measurable.

    Yeah, because a beautiful building that collapses is no problem. Architecture is about math and materials knowledge. A creative architect is a step above that but *still* knows all the rudiments and friggin' passed all those classes. "Purty" alone doesn't cut it.

    Worst concept ever - "It's the *process*."

  17. Conflations on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What a surprise, Scott E Page, a political scientist dealing in diversity.

    The entire summary and article is a wonderful example of purposeful conflation.

  18. Re:If you believe in lies, then you become extremi on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to watch a few videos of college students signing petitions against dihydrogen monoxide, disagreeing with Obama SOTU statements when they believe they're from Trump, and other choice bits showing college students are anything but "harder to trick" into believing false statements.

  19. As a gray tone. You like reading gray text on a color varied background?

  20. Why do you bring up a laser?

    From the article (emphasis added):

    On the right stem of the glasses sits a suite of electronics designed to power a very low-powered laser (technically a VCSEL). That laser shines a red, monochrome image somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 x 150 pixels onto a holographic reflector on the glasses’ right lens. The image is then reflected into the back of your eyeball, directly onto the retina.

    VCSEL means Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.

  21. "Projected" - I don't think you understand that word.

  22. I'm incredibly sensitive to light. The light that the optometrist uses to view the retina causes me searing pain. Damned if I'll let some tech company shine a friggin' laser in there. Short - I don't trust them.

  23. Re:I quite liked the movie on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The friggin' bugs were bent on human extermination. Damn right they had to keep the war going. Most people are adverse to rolling over and being eliminated.

  24. Re:Interesting experiment on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    So either people sign up to be imperialist occupiers

    We can stop there. You probably don't realize the entire conflict started with attacks by the bugs. The humans were never interested in occupying the bugs. They were interested in survival.

  25. Re:Verhoeven is not wrong about the book on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you know how we feel.