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  1. A: on Ask Slashdot: Do Most Programmers Understand the English Language? · · Score: 5, Informative

    All the ones who can answer your question do.

  2. Re:Rule no 1 on Moving the Linux Kernel Console To User-Space · · Score: 1

    If we don't have it, you don't need it. If we can't fix it, we'll fix it so nobody else can.

  3. Re:Uh on Moving the Linux Kernel Console To User-Space · · Score: 1

    ...because displaying dmesg output in Comic Sans is so useful when trying to fix a low level system issue.

  4. Re:Hmmm. on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    No, your "other words" only demonstrate an inability to reason logically.

  5. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Sorry, ELIZA. I forgot the closing tag.

  6. Re:Hmmm. on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Google does nothing to censor apps on devices running Android. You can freely side-load or use another app store, they do nothing to stop you. Unlike Apple, where the only source of apps for stock devices is censored.

  7. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    "it has a CPU, memory, can do input, processing, and output (the Von Neumann definition). It's capable of doing Turing complete things, and writing code written for it. It's personal, and it meets all of the definitions of computer."

    You just described my clock radio.

    Fact is, "PC" has traditionally meant IBM PC compatibles, not the literal "personal computer." Mac vs. PC, etc. It seems you're the one who's trying to redefine what a PC is.

  8. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    If a tabled is a computer, so it my microwave oven. They both have processors, and my oven even has a keyboard (and it's user programmable).

  9. Hmmm. on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple is now the top politically correct vendor. That must be because they censor apps.

  10. Re:Tyson? on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 1

    Did you ever think about Pluto and Goofy? I mean - Goofy is Mickey's peer, and Pluto is his slave. Like Ferengi women, he's not allowed to wear clothing. Not very politically correct of Disney.

  11. Re:No on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 1

    Where's my cold fusion?

  12. Re:Buy back? Didn't we just do that w/ Analog? on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's a load of BS. There's no need to buy back anything. Spectrum belongs to the people, and can't be legitimately sold, despite what the government thinks it can do. It's a public resource, and the most the government can do is manage it, not sell it.

    Just take it back and use it for a better purpose than it's being used for now. No need to "buy" or compensate anybody - they've been making money off a public resource and have nothing to complain about if that resource goes away.

  13. Re:Old News on Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideologyâ"where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!" - Apple

  14. Re:"... institutions from a number of mediums." on Nokia Receives $1.35B Grant To Develop Graphene Tech · · Score: 1

    Go ahead, mod me down for "your" instead of "you're." :-)

  15. "... institutions from a number of mediums." on Nokia Receives $1.35B Grant To Develop Graphene Tech · · Score: 1

    No, it's "media," unless your talking about clairvoyants.

  16. Re:A store cannot look like a store? on Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores · · Score: 0

    It's now obvious that you can't link to any images to support the claim. You lose.

  17. Re:Lots of Money on Can Any Smartphone Platform Overcome the Android/iOS Duopoly? · · Score: 3, Funny

    They could call it the ZunePhone.

  18. Re:The USPTO is holding roundtables on Micron Lands Broad "Slide To Unlock" Patent · · Score: 1

    If it's all simply math, then there is an entire software industry you can readily replace. What's stopping you?

  19. Re:The USPTO is holding roundtables on Micron Lands Broad "Slide To Unlock" Patent · · Score: 0

    You're simply trying to define "math" to be what you want it to be. Sorry, I won't play.

  20. Re:A store cannot look like a store? on Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores · · Score: 1

    And yet, you didn't link to any images which would support your contention. In fact, a quick Google images search for "coffee lounge in Soma" disproves it.

  21. Re:The USPTO is holding roundtables on Micron Lands Broad "Slide To Unlock" Patent · · Score: 2

    "What part of software is not math?"

    The parts you have to hire sweaty bags of meat to write.

  22. Re:A store cannot look like a store? on Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores · · Score: 1

    Yuppie bars & coffee lounges present no trademark conflict to a store selling consumer electronics. What's your point?

  23. Re:A store cannot look like a store? on Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not familiar with (UK?) stores, but a quick Google shows that Apple stores are distinctively different than Debenahms (I don't see any video screens, and it's much more cluttered), or HMV (I don't see any tables or wall mounted video displays).

    Apple stores do have a distinctive look, and I can't fault them for wanting to keep that unique. I don't think they're trying at all to claim the individual features, but the overall architecture created by a combination of features.

  24. The best platform... on Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform? · · Score: 1

    Is a Mouser or Digikey catalog, plus whatever reference material suit your abilities/needs.

  25. Isn't the goal to print live cells? on Old Inkjet Becomes New Bio-Materials Printer · · Score: 2

    My understanding is that inkjets work in one of two ways, either boiling the ink in the nozzles to make them squirt, or subjecting the ink to extreme pressure using piezo. What effect would that have on trying to print (presumably live) cells?