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  1. Re:Labview on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm stuck on a several-month-long Labview project right now. It's been a terrible experience. I don't know if it's more because of the poorly designed editor, the language itself, or the visual language paradigm. But I'm sure all three of those are part of the problem.

  2. Re:Applications? on Engineers Invent Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass · · Score: 2

    Except this device is active, and a concrete wall is passive. Hard to believe the energy costs over, say, 20 years, would not more than make up the difference.

  3. Re:even compared to the number sold in 1975? on PC Shipments In 2013 See the Worst Yearly Decline In History · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the word "decline" in the title.

  4. The main youtube video doesn't show anything on CES 2014: Now You Can Make 360 Degree Videos With a Single Camera (Video) · · Score: 2

    Why would I want to see video of them using the device? I just want to see SAMPLE VIDEO that comes out of it.

  5. The map on Data Visualization: Too Easy To Be Too Slick? · · Score: 4, Informative
  6. Re:Lets not on Statistics Key To Success In Run-and-Gun Basketball · · Score: 1

    I don't know if working as an NCAA basketball coach quite counts as "everyday life", but I agree with you nonetheless.

  7. Re:posting the most used passwords is probably bad on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    I noticed that too, any idea what it means? Sun IV? Sambalpur University?

  8. Re:Hashing vs. encryption on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 2

    Do you understand why Chrome doesn't allow a master password that actually obscures the stored passwords? I can't figure it out. I can't use a browser that doesn't do that. That's the only thing holding me back from Chrome.

  9. Re:Sounds different from the bike one. on Goodyear's 'On TheGo' Self Inflating Tire · · Score: 1

    That's an argument FOR Japanese cars - the manufacturers have no reason to build obsolescence into their cars.

  10. Re:One word on Can a Regular Person Repair a Damaged Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    I did the same thing, 5-6 years ago. Drive still works now.

  11. Re:Let me get this straight on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly what progress have they made in the office application field that justifies this argument?

  12. Re:PHP - python on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 1

    Thanks, that's exactly the kind of response I was hoping to get.

  13. Re:Yay Oatmeal on Charles Carreon Drops Case Against the Oatmeal · · Score: 2

    You cared enough to comment about it though...

  14. Re:Really? on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 1

    It returns a string. What is null for strings?

  15. PHP - python on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 2

    I've been using PHP for years, and not two days ago I decided it's probably worth learning python and switching to that for server-side scripts. I got a python cgi script working in about 10 minutes. Then, I just wanted to be able to run python scripts from arbitrary locations on my site. Looking into that, I could not find a single explanation or tutorial website to help me out. Is that just not how python works? Can anyone point me to some resources that will help an amateur familiar with PHP, learn to completely replace PHP with python, on a commercially hosted webserver?

  16. Re:Why do they act like a keyboar dock is a big de on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 1

    Except this is, as far as I know, the only non-mac laptop with such a high screen resolution, so it actually fills a niche that was previously empty.

  17. Re:Life Insurance on Ask Bas Lansdorp About Going to Mars, One Way · · Score: 1

    Well, by that reasoning, "life insurance" can't exist for anyone, since death is always guaranteed.

  18. Re:Why do they act like a keyboar dock is a big de on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 1

    Some people are still more comfortable with the laptop form factor, and a discrete keyboard and stand do not replace that design. Maybe the laptop form factor is outdated and dying, maybe not, I don't know. But as of now there are enough people who at least want to keep that an option.

  19. "Obviously, standardized tests aren't everything."

    "Test scores have increased since NCLB passed in 2002. Reading scores also are up slightly, and girls achieved parity with boys in mathematics. This is a monumental victory." What?

  20. Re:George Orwell couldn't even come close to today on War and Nookd — eBook Regex Gone Haywire · · Score: 1, Funny

    Tolstoy isn't really western, is it?

  21. Re:Colloid on Turning Soap Film Into a Projector Screen · · Score: 1

    It's just kind of odd to refer to it as "a colloid", as if that term were meaningful prior to the mixing.

  22. Re:Poor effort, there's much better trolls out the on Google Releases Key Part of Street View Pipeline · · Score: 1

    Where is there a solver in open office?

  23. Re:Making Up vs. Facilitating on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 1

    How does an unaccounted leg from a huge explosion with dozens of deaths imply a conspiracy?

  24. Re:Valleys and Language on Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive · · Score: 1

    FTA:
    "In their time study with the Yupno, now in press at the journal Cognition, Nunez and colleagues find that the Yupno don't use their bodies as reference points for time – but rather their valley's slope and terrain. Analysis of their gestures suggests they co-locate the present with themselves, as do all previously studied groups. (Picture for a moment how you probably point down at the ground when you talk about "now.") But, regardless of which way they are facing at the moment, the Yupno point uphill when talking about the future and downhill when talking about the past."

    "In earlier research, Nunez found that the Aymara of the Andes seem to do the reverse, placing the past in front and the future behind."

    The second example seemed odd to me, but makes a lot of sense with your analogy.

  25. Re:Gasoline-like energy density on IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery · · Score: 1

    Put 12 cells in each car. Replace 1-12 as needed.