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  1. How comical on Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog' · · Score: 1

    Are you accusing me of being a Marxist who doesn't know what dialectical materialism is?

  2. Astroturf on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's astroturf, dude.

    Slashdot user pauljoyce has uid 966868, which means he signed up in the last week or so.

    His profile is basically a plug for his services as a marketroid:

    Paul Joyce is Vice President, Creative Director at MC Direct, one of Canada's largest Direct Response agencies. With over 15 years of creative marketing experience Paul has worked for three of the country's major direct marketing agencies, writing and developing creative for Bell Mobility, RBC Royal Bank, General Motors, Ford, UPS, Schering Plough, Biovail, Scotiabank, BMO, 3M and Royal & Sun Alliance...

    He has never commented or submitted a question before this one. Unlike many 'askslashdotters', he hasn't bothered to reply or discuss anything with the people who have given him advice here. Paul, if you're reading this, perhaps you have a plausible explanation as to why a few days ago, you suddenly decided to join slashdot, and ask such a strange, loaded question about Windows software?

  3. on the other hand on Bunk Camp - Apple Gets It Wrong? · · Score: 1

    what if you could then hibernate windows, to switch back into osx. that would be much quicker too. then both windows -> mac and mac -> windows transitions would be fast.

    on the other hand again, what if while windows was hibernating, after you hibernated osx to start it up, you couldn't unhibernate that instance of osx, because it would kill of the 'child os' instance of windows. or at least lead to an infinite loop regression of each os hosting the other as a virtual machine. you would have to hibernate windows and start a new osx. then when you wanted to go back into windows, you would have to hibernate this osx, and start up a new windows. this would enable lots of speedy transitions, with the downside being that when you wanted to shut down, you would have to wait while all your nested os's shut down repeatedly inside each other, alternating mac/windows until you got back to the original one you booted into. also you might have some information in a running program of an os instance further down the stack, that you would have to stop what you were doing, and shut down all the os's, til you got back to the one you left it at.

    on the other hand, everybody could JUST STOP ALL THIS OPERATING SYSTEMS AS A COMMODITY CRAP AND PUT GENUINE FUCKING MULTITASKING COMPATIBLE OPERATING SYSTEMS BUILT FOR THE CORRECT MACHINES ON THE COMPUTERS THEY SELL THAT ALLOW USERS REAL CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN POSSESSIONS AND TO RUN WHAT THEY LIKE ON THEM! but hey that would never work..

  4. Re:inventing the internet on Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog' · · Score: 0, Troll

    firstly, der grundrisse was published in 1941.

    >somebody who apparently champions Marx

    i have reread my post, and i don't see any part of it which 'champions Marx' or suggests that i do champion marx, expressly or implicitly. this leads me to think that you are a paranoid. do you often have delusions that people who annoy or disagree with you are part of an international marxist conspiracy? do you fear and hate marxists, for reasons you are unable to put into words, despite the fact that you've never met any, and don't have any clear idea of what marxism is? you've probably reported a lot of your neighbours / coworkers to the department of homeland security ? to the extent that they no longer take your calls? do you repeatedly replay and reimagine the events surrounding your parents' divorce, and your mother's subsequent abandonment of you and your siblings in your head, ascribing the justification of her behaviour to 'marxists' who had her under their control?

    these are all danger signs.

    if it's the crackpipe, that shit will destroy you if you don't be careful. try stopping freebasing and sticking to the white, even though you get less for your money. chase some heroin 'on the side' to take the edge off, especially after you've been rocking it for a while. think about giving up and reclaiming your life. you can succeed in this.

    if it's aryan nations, or similar organizations, you also need to reclaim your life. you seem like an intelligent person, now you just need to learn to think for yourself. not everything these people tell you is a lie; that's how their brainwashing works. some of it is insightful politics, critiques of our society that don't appear in the mainstream. but you do need to walk away from the group. they are extremist, they are violent and racist, they do have cult-like aspects. most of what they preach is nihilism and hatred. they seek to subjugate the individual within the group.

    finally, if you have nothing to blame but your own mind, for the constant delusions that people around you are marxists, i pity you but i don't really know what to say to help. a doctor may be able to help but it's unlikely that you can be cured.

    good luck. i really mean that.

  5. inventing the internet on Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog' · · Score: 1

    marx would have hated the internet. he denounced similar iniatives, early precursors of the internet, that the soviet union put into place after 1917, in his post-humously published 'der Grundrisse'.

    the title refers to the schism with Lenin that this book engendered. this led to (Bolshevik) 'marxist leninism', the ideology most 20th century americans mistook for true marxism, and the rival theories of trotsky and the Memcheviks.

  6. Re:$25 for 10.000 computers on Return of the Web Mob · · Score: 1

    biggest botnet found: 17 million infected PCs. that's the biggest one that they know about, mind.

    no, I don't have a reference, some man in the pub told me..

  7. wow on Return of the Web Mob · · Score: 1

    great analogy!

  8. Re:PAR files on Startup Webaroo to put the 'Web on a Hard Drive'? · · Score: 1

    welcome to missing the joke.

    w/o idiots like you, the internet would fit on a floppy

  9. oh wow on Linux Grows 27.1% in China · · Score: 1

    are you saying the word 'free' has two meanings?

  10. Re:$51 million in revenues by 2010? on Linux Grows 27.1% in China · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ..and Linux is supposed to be a free operationg system

  11. iirc on Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry · · Score: 1

    gregor k is also the guy who was turned into a huge beetle?

  12. oi knobjockey! on On Apple vs Apple · · Score: 1

    it's not Funny, it's true!

  13. feedback on Recommendations for Graduate Programs? · · Score: 1

    i work for that school and the reason we didn't accept you is because of your flawed character and general attitude problem.. to which you appear to be oblivious, but which everyone who meets you is aware of immediately.

  14. Re:ot quibble on State of the Pen and Paper Industry · · Score: 1

    they are not chocolate chips, they are chocolate sprinkles !

  15. Re:here? on Interview With Leader of Sweden's Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    >The Swedish government screws up just as much as the American government.

    Sweden has not carried out unprovoked attacks on less powerful foreign countries, overtly or covertly, since the eighteeenth century.

  16. ot quibble on State of the Pen and Paper Industry · · Score: 1

    mini chocolate chips? how big are your regular chocolate chips?

  17. Re:More proof Ninshito is going to suck even more on Bob Ross And The Joy of Painting · · Score: 1

    alienating people like you is proof of concept for their 'blue water' strategy

  18. indeed on Prayer Does Not Help Heart Patients · · Score: 1

    'positive thinking' and other techniques of 'focused thought' can even allow people to convince themselves beyond all doubt of things which they want to believe, but which are patently untrue..

  19. bite me on On Apple vs Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

    the Apple (Computers) name and the bite taken out of the logo, are in tribute to the father of computer science who was persecuted by the british government for being gay, and committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple.

  20. frogs != lobsters on UK Government to Shut Down GSM Networks · · Score: 1

    >lobsters slowly being boiled.

    you're thinking of frogs, dude. lobsters don't get slowly boiled, they get thrown right in the pan of boiling water.

    frogs, however, apparently don't notice they're being boiled if you turn the heat up on them very slowly. hence the expression 'like a frog in a pot'.

  21. no on Device Developed To Help Socially Challenged · · Score: 1

    NT doesn't refer to (part of) the myers-briggs typology

    it stands for 'neuro-typical', a term 'autistic spectrum' individuals use to refer to people who are not on the autistic spectrum.

  22. squabbling over details in definitions on Swedish Mathematician Lennart Carleson Wins Abel · · Score: 1

    you've just defined an outer measure, a very common way to construct a measure. if you have an outer measure defined on a whole bunch of sets, you can let the measure be the same as that on the measurable sets, which like you say, can be those that satisfy a Caratheodory condition.

    it's similar to a measure, i'll grant you that. but AFAIK the term 'measure' is specifically defined to be countably additive etc.

    i wasn't aware that the term measure is used anywhere in the literature to mean an outer measure or equivalent. i could be wrong though in which case i apologise, there are too many different mathematical concepts, and not enough words for all definitions to be consistent!

    it is kind of tangential, you are right. unmeasurable sets behave weirdly but you don;t actually need the 'measure' or outer measure of the sets in the B-T paradox. there's enough weirdness going on w/o worrying about it.

    like me, you seem to have learnt measure theory a slightly cooler and nonstandard way? i think it's usual to define measure on Borel sets and build it up? but the reverse approach that you described works as well and is easier to get your head around, imho..

  23. Re:Because they like that style? on Sandals and Ponytails Behind Slow Linux Adoption · · Score: 1

    many coke heads (and especially dealers) are often seen in extremely sharp 'business smart' suits if you move in the right circles..

  24. no on Swedish Mathematician Lennart Carleson Wins Abel · · Score: 1

    wtf?

    by definition you can't take the measure of an unmeasurable set.

    measure is defined on measurable sets. the word 'measurable' gives it away a bit.

    nowhere in your link to the banach-tarski paradox does it say anything about taking the measure of the unmeasurable sets used in the construction.

  25. Re:Except at some negible points? on Swedish Mathematician Lennart Carleson Wins Abel · · Score: 1

    wtf? the words 'the two measures' make it obvious that what is being referred to is the union of two measurable sets.

    Which is (sub-)additive, as was stated.