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  1. Re:An example on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    No, the Soviets got everywhere else first. The Americans won because the Soviets randomly started killing all their scientists and we had stopped firing ours about a decade ago.

  2. Re:"Informatics" - no, please NO! on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    It's like "speculative fiction"--just hearing it makes me want to kill somebody. "Informatics" isn't as bad as "speculative fiction" though.

  3. Re:Oh? And when did you last write any? on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    No, we are talking about Software Engineering, which is what most people here do. Yes, universities employ a few thousand professors that do computer science, but that requires an entirely different education path through a PhD, focusing on theory. Most programmers are programmers, and have no need for higher mathematics, which is the point made in the article. No, we're talking about Computer Science, hence why Computer Science is in the title of the article!
  4. Re:Computer Science != Software Engineering on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    Quicksort, which is O(n^2), generally outperforms the O(nLog(n)) algorithms. No, Quicksort is only O(n^2) in special cases. In most cases it actually is N log(N).
  5. Re:I like sci-fi on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 1

    Until the three abrahamic religions (judism, christianity and islam) came along it was mostly just polytheism - and groups of people seldom fought religious wars. Bullshit. Go look up the Roman moral precepts. You'll find two. Romans are allowed to kill whomever they want because their people are descended from Romulus, the son of Mars. Romans are allowed to fuck whomever they want because their people are descended from Aeneas, the son of Venus. People talk about the "murderous god of the Old Testament" but Yahweh has nothing on Mars.
  6. Re:Pelagian on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 1

    Read this interview with Strawson that describes why free will has nothing to do with determinism.

  7. Re:I start EACH day on How Much Caffeine is Really in That Soda? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because your gender is completely determined by what you drink.

  8. Re:I was worried about this on Singles, Not Albums, Define Music Industry Success · · Score: 1

    but listening to the album is like reading a Neal Stephenson book with a good ending That's it! We should have Johnny Greenwood end all of Neal Stephenson's books!
  9. Re:I was worried about this on Singles, Not Albums, Define Music Industry Success · · Score: 1

    He's trying to say that people who only like Creep and not other Radiohead songs are fans of Creep rather than of Radiohead. I don't know what the "after ending u shouting at the top of their voice whilst in a drunken clinch" bit means.

  10. Re:First Column! on Are 80 Columns Enough? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hungarians are the Magyars, not the Huns. The Huns were from Mongolia. Also: I occasionally use CamelCase when I'm about to say some phrase that's fairly common but that's because I UseWikisTooMuch.

  11. Re:Old on 50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation · · Score: 1

    What about people who don't speak English?

  12. Re:50 year of an untestable hypothesis on 50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation · · Score: 1

    Physics is weird. Perceptions are inaccurate and experiments have shown that. You're saying quantum mechanics is wrong because it disagrees with your perceptions. But your perceptions, those are what are wrong.

  13. Re:This isn't necessarily bad. on Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    In that case what should be illegal is the creation of child porn, not the distribution.

  14. Re:Libel? on Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    They're probably talking about animated child porn. Creepy Japanese stuff.

  15. Re:Gosh! on Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    It always starts with Communists.

  16. Re:Gosh! on Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    He never said he didn't object to a website serving child pornography. He objects to the use of "child pornography" as a tool for wholesale destruction of freedom of speech.

  17. Re:Swedish police have that much control? on Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    I am a 300lb red-neck trailer trash Southern Baptist liberal atheist artist who supports gay marriage and the ACLU, you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:Overrated on Ancient Robot Was Programmed with Rope · · Score: 1

    This is just the demonstration that that sort of thing was actually done by the ancient Greeks.

  19. Re:steam engines and automatic plays on Ancient Robot Was Programmed with Rope · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wasn't he also the one responsible for the formula for a triangle's area? (Next time, use the alternate transliteration Heron)

  20. Re:Simpsons on Matt Groening to be Final Boss in New Simpsons Game · · Score: 1

    DANIEL: No, I'm with Sam on this one. I mean, who makes a movie out a series that only lasted three episodes?
    TEAL'C: It allegedly performed well on DVD.
  21. Re:Good News !! on Court Orders Dismissal of US Wiretapping Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Whether or not you're being sarcastic, it should be known by those who read your thread that even though the 1st amendment only refers to Congress passing laws the Supreme Court says it doesn't work that way.

  22. Re:Nanny state on UK Copyright Extension in Exchange for Censorship? · · Score: 1

    knee-jerk-politics empty-headed photo-op publicity-seeker That is one of the most awesome lines I've heard on Slashdot.
  23. Re:huh? on UK Copyright Extension in Exchange for Censorship? · · Score: 1

    They remembered the next line. Airstrip One is a wet dream to David Cameron.

  24. Re:Nanny state on UK Copyright Extension in Exchange for Censorship? · · Score: 1

    Because he read the Unabomber Manifesto. (It states that not violently rejecting modern traditions is worse than genocide.)

  25. Re:Nanny state on UK Copyright Extension in Exchange for Censorship? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Apple should have disgised the iPhone as a fag butt Was that supposed to have a double meaning?