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  1. Re:Future? on Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022 · · Score: 1

    But if civilization continues at such a pace until 2022, we'll simply get matter from asteroids and other planets.

  2. Re:How do I add tags to posts now? on Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022 · · Score: 1

    Assuming that you mean a 14mm x 14mm chip, divide 14mm by 4nm to get 3.5x10^6. Then square that to get 1.2x10^{13} 4nm x 4 nm cores in a 14mm x 14mm chip.

  3. Re:Because they're about to start writing software on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1, Informative

    They are in their second millennium of being a civilization.

    More like their third, at least. Chinese civilization certainly extends back past 1 BCE.

  4. Re:Let's not forget...... on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Not all Gungans are as stupid as Jar-Jar. The others seemed reasonably intelligent.

  5. Re:I respectfully disagree. on "District 9" Best Sci-fi Movie of 09? · · Score: 1

    Star Trek had its moments, but the plot didn't really do it for me, especially at the end, when the enemy spaceship is about to fall into the singularity. If you were the helmsman, wouldn't you be engaging reverse thrusters to get away from it? Also, the planet Vulcan is in TOS, so how do you get away with destroying it? And the scene where the older Spock teaches Scotty an unusual transporter maneuver, which Spock himself had learned from Scotty? If it were only a matter of violating the Prime Directive, I would not object.

  6. Re:Humans on 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs · · Score: 1

    Amd what is the percentage of people having distended colons?

  7. Re:Humans on 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs · · Score: 1

    Compared to this? Although they're not pulling sleds

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartathlon

  8. Re:Humans on 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs · · Score: 1

    According to this, people have done 152 miles in under 30 hours (record: 20:25:00)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartathlon

  9. Re:Humans on 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs · · Score: 1

    I've read that the only land animal that can outrun humans over an entire day is the kangaroo, which also uses bipedal locomotion.

  10. Re:Humans on 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But our reptilian ancestors had only four limbs each, and having two new limbs wasn't going to happen.

  11. Re:How disappointing. on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    I just did that. A Spaceballs reference was fifth out of some 11 billion results.

  12. Re:Humans on 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    3) Walking upright leads to distended colon, piles, etc

    It also allows us to use our hands better, for things like wielding weapons against animals that would kill us otherwise.

  13. Re:If your supervisor is female on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    Do women ejaculate enough for that to be important?

  14. Re:Fast way to shut down! on Windows 7 RTM Reviewed & Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    He doesn't want to unplug it before it shuts down completely, that whole separate from the grid thing.

  15. Re:Antitrust avoidance on Microsoft Acknowledges Linux Threat To Windows · · Score: 1

    Use the katana, Richard.

  16. Re:Neat. on SUSE Studio 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, Apache (among others) is available on Windows, but doesn't that require hand editing configuration files? Which is actually what the OP wanted to avoid.

  17. Re:Word sucks, but it doesn't on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 1

    And temps can't click on pretty icons in kile?

  18. Re:Neat. on SUSE Studio 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services, IIS in Windows Vista only allowed 10 concurrent connections.

  19. Re:Why Word didn't have "reveal codes". on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 1

    Does this make it more difficult to write software that manipulates Word files? Are there Python (Perl, PHP, whatever) modules that grok these objects? One can generate LaTeX output in any programming language that has string processing.

  20. Re:Last Word on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 1

    Excel is still deeply entrenched among the bean counters and the armchair quarterbacks running sports fantasy teams but, for my purposes, I've found OpenOffice and GNU Cash to be ample in all regards.

    Not Gnumeric?

  21. Re:Word sucks, but it doesn't on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 1

    Why would it be inappropriate to write business letters in LaTeX (I'm assuming that's a use case for MS Word)?

  22. Re:Word sucks, but it doesn't on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 1

    LaTeX's integration with Gnumeric and Postgresql probably is not as good as the integration in Microsoft Office, but LaTeX has its own presentation macros.

  23. Re:Neat. on SUSE Studio 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, Windows 2008. The small-business version costs $1,089 and includes 5 CALs. Additional CALs are $77 each.

  24. Re:Neat. on SUSE Studio 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    And what version of Windows includes a web server and ftp server, and how much does it cost?

  25. Re:Fuck Slashdot on Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux is facism

    Have you seen some of the kernel devs? They're definitely not facist.