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  1. Re: Is it a competitor? on GNU Octave Gets a GUI · · Score: 2

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#History

    FreeBSD development began in 1993

    Wow, Linus couldn't just have waited two years?

  2. Re:Going to PMITA prison! on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 1

    Would the authorities put him in the same cell as a dissatisfied V1agr4 customer?

  3. Re: Is it a competitor? on GNU Octave Gets a GUI · · Score: 1

    We have Linux today because someone in the nineties wanted a free alternative.

    I'm pretty sure Linus already had Windows. What he wanted was something like UNIX.

  4. Re:First Shot on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    That's because the NSA is too busy trolling World of Warcraft.

  5. Re:It's an Exclusionary Club on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 1

    Type in PowerPoint slides? Escape, fix, F5 -- probably takes less time than just the recompile, especially when using Beamer.

    Fair enough, but Beamer produces nicer mathematical output.

  6. Re:Prepare for flamefest on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 1

    Are there still UNIX boxes that don't have emacs? It's pretty standard on Linux distros.

  7. Prepare for flamefest on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 1

    The name of the game is automation in the Admin world.. that involves using Vi or VIM to edit puppet scripts

    What, no GNU Emacs?

  8. Re:Lets to the opposite and merge on Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split · · Score: 2

    They were fifth cousins, not first cousins. Also, 20 states allow first-cousin marriage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage#United_States_2

  9. Re:Allow me to burn som Karma by saying on Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split · · Score: 1

    Can we say "Imperial Valley"?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Valley#Agriculture

    Of course, if the US cuts off the Colorado River, they might be in trouble.

  10. Re:Tobacco has the same effect as VX-765 on Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery · · Score: 1

    Of course, if the "leaving you alive" part is important, I'd rather not use tobacco.

  11. Re:Tobacco has the same effect as VX-765 on Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery · · Score: 1

    Is death a caspase inhibitor?

  12. Re:The Group of 4? on The Software Inferno · · Score: 1

    Group of 4

    Z4 or Z2xZ2

    How do you get subscripts on this?

  13. Re:Rob Bell is missing a few things on The Software Inferno · · Score: 1

    Telling people there is no hell is like telling people you can fly if they walk off a cliff.

    Except that it is much easier to establish the existence of cliffs than the existence of Hell.

  14. Re:They're dead on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: 1

    Who became the lead developer after Bond killed him? And wasn't Zorin more of a hardware guy?

  15. Re:History.... learn from it! on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    Ok, this is AC so no one will read this (thanks DICE for auto modding AC to 0, sigh)

    Wasn't AC started at 0 before DICE?

  16. Re:A browser is not an iPod on Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE · · Score: 1

    There is nothing before the what. Or is that what you meant?

  17. Re:spam wonderful spam on Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE · · Score: 1

    But are the boring facts of my daily existence worth posting online in the first place?

  18. Re:A browser is not an iPod on Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE · · Score: 1

    I believe the GP was asking: What value is Google providing to the user?

  19. Re:Calculator on Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be a whitelist instead of a blacklist?

  20. Re:Great on Google Makes Latest Chrome Build Open PDFs By Default · · Score: 1

    I was aware that tex4ht could produce HTML output. I wasn't aware (nor does the man page mention) that it can produce doc output.

  21. Re:Great on Google Makes Latest Chrome Build Open PDFs By Default · · Score: 1

    I'm quite serious. Converting a LaTeX file to pdf is typing pdflatex foo.tex. If you use pstricks, do latex foo.tex; dvips foo.dvi -o; ps2pdf foo.ps. The -o option in the dvips command outputs to file rather than prints. The default file name is obtained by replacing the dvi with ps.

    I'm sure I've rolled my face around on my keyboard and produced a Perl script

    FTFY.

  22. Re:Great on Google Makes Latest Chrome Build Open PDFs By Default · · Score: 2

    Why are we even holding onto PDFs, anyways?

    Can you even generate Word docs from LaTeX files?

  23. Re:Yes, and? on Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility · · Score: 1

    What we were talking about is whether: r1, r2, and r3 can all be normally distributed. The reason being that people investigating the size, weight, and surface area of berries may *assume* (appealing to the Central Limit Theorem) that the quantity they're investigating can be modeled adequately through a normal distribution,

    But the Central Limit Theorem is a claim about the distribution of sample means as the sample size gets larger.

  24. Re:The real issue on Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility · · Score: 1

    Oops, I missed the second image. But the correlation coefficients are there. The sets of data that more closely approximate a line have such values close to 1 or -1. The ones that don't have values close to 0.

  25. Re:The real issue on Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility · · Score: 1

    Also, you may want to account for the difference between the x coordinate of the point and the average of the xs, as having an x coordinate far from the mean contributes to being farther away from the regression line.