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  1. Re:Politics on Slashdot? Never! on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 1

    Well really left and right are a bit old fashioned, there some studies to multivariate spectra in political analysis but unfortunately I don't have anything in english yet.. I will see what I can find and post accordingly. I trust that the /. fuhrers will refrain from some of their less than politically correct modding whic led to evil spin-offs.. anti thingys and the like.. it would get messy if you get that sort of polarisation...

  2. Re:surprising? on Wikipedia != Authoritative? · · Score: 1

    Well what I found surprising is that there is misinformation in there too. Especially about political events. It strikes me that those who feel moved to write up entries are thus politically motivated and well, quite frankly you will find a tremendous amount of propaganda and tripe.

    excerpt:
    "
    At another occasion, Khrushchev said in reference to capitalism, "We will bury you," recalling the popular Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism."
    "

  3. Re:acitveX for moz on Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store · · Score: 0

    Apart from that, the psoter writes about superioir quality @ 160VBR... umm dude, do you even know what AAC is? Apples codec is far superior to WMA at any bitrate, namely because of it's lossless charachter...

    but whatever.. good luck to MSN and I am sure they will soon dominate and monopolize the online music market. Maybe once they ahve done that, we will all return in flaming masses to the cd store...

  4. Re:Killer app? on Is Tableau The Next Google? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well I think that most of it is a straight rip off of Lasata's Vision software which has been around for about ten years now... http://www.lasata.com.au/ And my criticism to tableau is twofold: - looks great in the demo, but what of real-world databases without a datadictionary for your api? - why only MS products? I really don't want to pay 1000$ + for an add-on that requires me to dump oracle or postgres into textfiles .... In short, the product is not innovative and it is extremeley limited in platform. As many of you know and remark, these guys are waiting to cash out with Microsoft and have their add-on borged into xl and xs. Of course for more money you can get it borged into mssql.... ach man, these guys are cheesy and it is insulting to even imply a similarity with the genious and vision of Brin and Page.

  5. Re:poor guy...and War Hero! on "Scotty" Gets Walk of Fame Star · · Score: 1

    Well now considering Scotty's excellent performance as an actor and his life before that as a war hero my only question is... where the heck was James T Kirk??? was he sick or didn't he feel like coming to congratulate his Chief Engineer??

  6. Re:Let me ask everyone here... on Jack Valenti: The Exit Interview · · Score: 1

    Failing that, Mr. MPAA should either enable me to put my purchased albums on my Ipod or tell Apple to stop selling them.

    I get so peeved about cd's I can't get on my pod I end up downloading someone's shitty mp3's anyway. As of next week thoug, I will be making analogue copies, yep, lot of work but at least I can get nice sound onto my Ipod. So Mr. MPAA sue me for "getting around" your macrovision on my cd, by all means, I will ask Phillips to sue the cd label for violating the patents and standards..

  7. Re:Save Your Soul, Stay Away From Psych Majors!!! on Surviving College With Gear And Sanity Intact? · · Score: 1

    I completeley agree!! If you want action hang out at law faculties, sports campus and yes a few at the social sciences but steer the F&^K away from psych beaches!! Anyone doing psych has deep rooted personal identity issues...

    Your higher education is the BEST time of your life, really, I know your dad told you but this time, he's right! Enjoy it, enjoy it and then go and enjoy it some more. Just don't forget to pass your exams otherwise the fun is over too quick. Work sucks ass and the life after college is for wankers so really you need to have that fun....
    And try and travel around abit on an exchange program if you have the grades for it.