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  1. Re:Maybe you need a longer time sample on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    Yes because a typo and complete ignorance of ---at the very least--- the education systems in a good half of the world are the same thing...

  2. Re:Maybe you need a longer time sample on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    In a context comapring countries, the ignorance displayed by this comment is pretty amazing.

  3. Re:speak for yourselves.... on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    Hmm, so you are the guy that uses the capslock key for something?!

  4. Re:Popcorn loaded, commence fanatical BS... on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    You will need (correct) usage examples, then, on top of the definition...

  5. Re:Popcorn loaded, commence fanatical BS... on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Please look up the actual meaning of the *per se* thingie you used there.

  6. Re:Tech in schools is such a waste on Teachers Resist High-tech Push In Idaho Schools · · Score: 2

    > I always hated the "show your work" because I could usually do it in my head a lot faster so I never bothered.

    The thing is, for most purposes "I did in in my head" turns a solution into uselessness. Solutions to problems are things that you can communicate with others. There is almost as much value in *how* you got to a solution as in the solution itself, because a good *how* actually adds value. No one builds a 100 floor building after an engineer computed something in his head.

    Most of what you learn is not useful in itself, but as a way to teach you how to "show your work". The showing of your work is what really counts.

    The standard argument I get from [university] students when I fail them for not making their reasoning explicit is that because the problem was easy, it was pointless. The underlying idea is that they can simply skip the communicative part of solving something easy, and magically when they are confronted with the problem of communicating something difficult they'll somehow manage.

    Hating-the-"show-your-work" is simply something you have to get over.

  7. Re:Simple solution on Teachers Resist High-tech Push In Idaho Schools · · Score: 1

    Textbook are revised for all sort of reasons. Most of them, quite independent of methodology and what not. Permuting the exercises counts as a 'revision'...

  8. Re:A tag in the HTML source? It can be ripped... on Google Tags Content Creators · · Score: 0

    That must be an amazing particle to get you that interested!

  9. Re:makes sense on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 1

    Huh? As a mathematician who travels quite frequently I have never ever had any issues with that. I would simply stop going to a place where people have such problems!

  10. Re:WHy are you majoring in CS... on Professor Questions Sink-Or-Swim Intro To CS Courses · · Score: 1

    SO you are saying that you took CS when you should have taken Software Engineering? Well, everyone makes mistakes.

  11. Re:Math environments are hackable hobbyist friendl on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, the Next Round · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. Have you just been unfrozen?

  12. Re:Gnome developers and mental disorder on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    Gnome2 should be forked and development continued by people with functioning brains.

    Well, then: do it.

    The ones currently developing are quite free to do the same: exactly what they want.

  13. Re:Them new DE's, man on 5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study · · Score: 1

    No, they realized (a long time ago) that writing a desktop targeted at people that do care to personalize their desktops in the sense you have in mind is a pointless exercise: they are far too few in the big picture and way too uninteresting.

  14. Re:Sounds like a more verbose C# on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 1

    Closures has been available in good languages since essentially the egining of time. That it is now a "modern" feature only reflecs the fact that languages mostly suck...

  15. Re:hmm... on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Best slashdot comeback in a few years...

  16. Re:Are these annual "Summers of Code" really usefu on Google Names Winners For Summer of Code 2011 · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce to to this thing Tim came up with...

  17. Re:And we reinvent X on Gtk 3.2 Will Let You Run Applications In a Browser · · Score: 1

    You seem to think this is some kind of X server implemented in the browser. It is not. You *could* read up a bit on what it is before evaluating the technology... What you wrote only shows you have no idea what this is, really.

  18. Re:And we reinvent X on Gtk 3.2 Will Let You Run Applications In a Browser · · Score: 1

    By posting that you have only proved that you simply have no idea how this works, or even what the architecture is.

  19. Re:I'll just watch from my rooted Arch box on Has GNOME Rejected Canonical Help? Shuttleworth Responds · · Score: 0

    Or, you know, like someone who expects his software packages to be signed...

    (And before you say anything, I don't think I have even been closed to an Arch package much less used the thing)

  20. Re:meanwhile... on Has GNOME Rejected Canonical Help? Shuttleworth Responds · · Score: 1

    But choice does not mean that every piece of software has to provide you with every choice!

    Gnome has decided where it wants to go. You may not like it, and you may surely choose to use something else which is moving in a direction you prefer. But Gnome is under absolutely no obligation to provide choices which go against what it thinks it should provide.

    If you think the GPL is somehow related to all desktops environments providing all possible interaction option, you are seriously mistaken.

  21. Re:String theory comes to mind on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    Well, they did built LHC to test one of its predictions...

  22. Re:postmodernism on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    If you think that in quantum mechanics "everything is based on your perceptions" then you have no idea what quantum mechanics is...

  23. Re:Has slashdot been taken over by The Onion? on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that Redhat is secretly trying to ruin Gnome so as to hurt Ubuntu... I imagine you suspect Redhat is also secretly writing a new desktop to use in future releases of RHEL, right?

  24. Re:The moral of the story on Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video · · Score: 2

    You would have prosecuted Navokov, I guess?

  25. Re:Suggestions on Why IP Laws Are Blocking Innovation · · Score: 1

    No, I am not from Chile. I am from *another* country that was sucked into chaos with cheering support from the US. You should look up the numbers---I doubt many countries got more money from the US than Egypy.... And I can but assume you have not been in Chile lately!