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  1. They are windows 8? on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then I don't think anyone wants one. Begging and debasing yourself for a computer makes sense, if you really need one. Doing it for a computer that suffers from delusions of being a tablet? What's the point?

  2. Re:dumb question on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 1

    And how well does office run on tablets/touch devices like microsoft is pushing? And what if native windows/.NET isn't a commercially viable target for consumer applications? How well will Visual Studio sell then?

  3. Re:Incompetence on Labor Dept. Wanted $1M For E-mail Addresses of Political Appointees · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with Hanlon's razor is no one ever seems to believe it when it goes up against their conspiracy theories. It's such a helpful rule for separating conspiracy theories from reasonable assertions. Maybe Hanlon was a member of the Illuminati, or something.

  4. About the title... on World of Warcraft Film Shooting Begins Early 2014 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why "World of" warcraft? Is the plot of the movie going to have the inherently global scope that an MMO does? Does Warcraft have a seriously different name recognition from "World of Warcraft"? Does it mirror the "plot" of the MMO? Or does it just take place in Azeroth?

  5. Re:"reining" on White House Announces Reforms Targeting Patent Trolls · · Score: 0

    Are you sure? This is the president of the United States we're talking about...

  6. Re:Coding Architecture Models on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    I think you're overestimating the talents of programmers on the whole.

  7. Re:Oculus Rift on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 2

    And that's always the point of an SDK. It's not to improve the quality of polished work, but to give a framework that does all the overly duplicated work for you, so you can focus on the unique parts you care about.

    If you want a high performance sports car, you're going to need to reinvent the wheel to make it perfectly mesh with your design. If you're just trying to develop a cool idea to attach to your car, why would you?

  8. Re:Coding Architecture Models on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    There are multiple skills in this industry, and they have good command of a number of specialized technologies we use, multi-threading principles, algorithm performance, and a number of a non-design skills. Having one skill doesn't give another.

  9. Re:Coding Architecture Models on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, and I have co-workers who I consider quite skilled, and none of them seem to know when to define an interface. Guys, enums and switches aren't replacements for subclasses.

  10. Re:Why wouldn't the people support them? on Google Maps Used To Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 1

    It's certainly not the case that wages are incredibly depressed compared to productivity, and the average private employer wages in this country force people to live paycheck to paycheck. Oh man, if you could only imagine a country if people might unexpectedly lose their job, face high unemployment and need weeks they don't have to find new work. It would be so horrible, thank god we don't live in a country like that, and we can afford to be crass and ignore the possibility of anyone starving.

  11. Re:Business Model on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but there is actually an electric charging station next to where I live.

  12. Re:Already Slashdotted... on DOJ Fights To Bury Court Ruling On Government Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I think it's inverse-slashdotted. It must've gotten better since you posted this 7 minutes ago. Broken before it makes the main page. Fixed afterwards.

  13. Re:All hail on DOJ Fights To Bury Court Ruling On Government Surveillance · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, they're doing a great service. The republican party should be our watchdogs, but since they seem to cry "wolf" at every little thing, especially the starkly irrelevant and overstated, we have to rely on organizations outside the government to do any sort of digging on real problems.

  14. I like my wii-u on Wii Street U Uses Google Maps to Create 'An Immersive Experience' (Video) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm almost certain to not buy any other consoles this generation, and I like my Wii-U, but this app is really lame. The "tablet as window" input paradigm is kinda clever, but also not worth the physical effort involved. Oculus rift looks like a better approach to this same concept. I'd rather see street view with that.

  15. Re:Closed Platforms on Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1 · · Score: 1

    It absolutely was for the vast majority of people there, at least briefly. Most of the really awful stuff didn't come until Statlin came into power. Lenin's NEP only lasted a couple years though, so it's not clear how fast it would have fallen apart if continued.

    Note: I'm not endorsing Leninism as the best choice, just that it lacked the brutal tyranny that both Stalinism and Czarism had.

  16. Re: No! on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    But there's some team of developers somewhere in the depth of googleville who depend on having to constantly write new code for the existing application. Would you see these poor poor devs left to actually work on something interesting and new?

  17. Re:lulzsec is not the good guys on Jeremy Hammond of LulzSec Pleads Guilty To Stratfor Attack · · Score: 4, Interesting
  18. Re:Lies? on Jeremy Hammond of LulzSec Pleads Guilty To Stratfor Attack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because Habeus Corpus is dead. Murdered in an attempt to "be tough on crime." I think these convictions will do very little to deter other anonymous splinter groups.

    Reminder that what this guy leaked that he's being prosecuted for: The company stratfor was using their government sponsored spying program to also spy on companies in order to provide Goldman Sachs with insider information through a foreign owned subsidiary, in order to dodge US insider trading laws.

    Then the government arrests him, and not them.

  19. Re:Yay, carbon! on Graphene Yields Another Trick: Ultrashort Laser Pulses · · Score: 2

    Be produced in useful scales?

  20. Re:Dodging bullets is hard work. on Console Manufacturers Want the Impossible? · · Score: 2

    Call me when it's the rich people being shot when bad unemployment drives murder rates up.

  21. Re:Great a new way to measure IQ on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Oh yes, if only IQ predicted economic, academic, or social success with any degree of accuracy...

    Wait? It does?? With a substantial but not perfect correlation? Well, who could've guessed.

  22. Re:Simple solution on Possible Collision Between Cube-satellite and Old Space Junk · · Score: 2

    That is entirely what will not happen. If you manage to "destroy" much of anything, you'll just end up with more smaller, faster moving, less predictable pieces of space junk.

  23. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 1

    You seem to think no one with autism is high-functioning. Thanks for working so hard to make "autistic" a bad word like "retarded" is. I have an uncle who is quite severely autistic, and a cousin with a much more minor incarnation of the illness. Aspergers has no diagnostic or treatment criteria that distinguish from autism. The end.

  24. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 1

    Also, remember person-first language: "workers with autism" instead of "autistic workers"

    That's a nice sentiment, but it's not how English sentences are constructed. Adjectives reduce awkwardness. It can make a real difference in complex clauses.

  25. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 1

    Not in the DSM anymore, because it's not really distinct from autism in any meaningful way.