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  1. wwu frosh here on New Technologies for Colleges? · · Score: 1

    i've noticed its kinda hard to figure out what all you've gotta take to get gurs and yer major requirement and all, and the pre reqs for classes can be kinda random sometimes. it seems like it'd be real nice if you could have the computer crunch the numbers on that. like, you could have an option that each time a student registers for classes, they could just select their desired major and the computer would sign them up for the available classes that they need to take. i mean, all that schema cascading seems best suited to a computer.

  2. maybe the conclusion is flawed on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 3, Interesting
    is the correlation based on grade performance (article doesnt seem to say)? being just out of high school, i noticed that geeky computer guys are super-smart, but get bad grades cuz they just dont give a **** about menial tasks like homework (maybe a realization that most menial tasks would be better done by a computer). also, intelligent teenagers who spend much time on computers tend to care little about the superficial aspects of things, such as formatting and making cardboard displays really pretty, which are both a major part of doing well in high school.

    i note some objectivity here (if not much) as i was not one of the geeky computer guys (i am now).

  3. Re:Why is this story even getting any attention? on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 0

    there was tha tlady in the 50's with the tumor that lived forever. the tumor was, quite literally, a mutation.

  4. we can't live that long on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 0
    because we lack sufficient space in our brain to store those memories. most cognitive psychologists will agree that we have plenty of space in our brains to store 100 years' worth of memories, but 1000? i expect we have enough for 200, tops. we're only designed to live 30-40 years, and we can prolong by taking care of our selves, certainly, in a more primitive method of the suggested practice for living 1000 years, but analogous nonetheless.

    some psychologists even theorize that some forms of senility derive from "running out of space," suggesting we may only have enough for 80 or so years.

    we do not know at what point will our brains run out of space, and whatever point that is the ultimate limit to our lifespans (in lieu of genetic re-engineering).

  5. in a freezer on Running a Server at Freezing Temperatures? · · Score: 0

    a buddy of mine put his mobo and suchwhat in a freezer so he could oc it like mad, but the humidity condensed on it and froze, and when it got warm it melted and destroyed it. you might face a similar problem.

  6. interesting on The Mystery of Cell Processors · · Score: 0

    will this finally put an end to moore's law, but in the opposite direction one might expect?

  7. electrolysis not good enough? on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: -1
    to reiterate:

    electrolysis not good enough?

  8. what are we gonna do tonight, brain? on Blending Mice and Men · · Score: 0

    same thing we do every night pinky... try to take over the world!


    simple coincidence... or prescient cartoonists? you be the judge!

  9. atom bomb on Microsoft Offers to License the Internet · · Score: 0

    First Leo Szilard, then Amazon, now Microsoft

  10. im arrogant! on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 0

    ive been coding since i was eight! when i was 12, i wrote a compiler using ms debug!

  11. excuse my perhaps misinterpretation here on Total Lunar Eclipse This Week · · Score: 1, Funny

    might this be the intervention of god to break the curse of the bambino?

  12. twilight zone on New Security Bill Proposed · · Score: 0

    reminds me of some non-essential plot elements of a certain twilight zone episode. http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-237/epid-12598/

  13. abbreviation on iRiver Ships Linux Media Players · · Score: 5, Funny

    clearly the pmp stands for pimp

  14. protocol on Could IM Be The Next Step For Google? · · Score: 1

    wouldn't it be neat if it was a serverless udp kinda thing?

  15. Re:Escape US jursidction != stronger US privacy la on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1

    i'd rather have spyware (including, but not limited to, dataminers) than a totalitarian gov't. spyware is easy to remove. more laws = less freedom.

  16. Re:At last! Intel realizes that.... on Intel Scraps Plan For 4 Ghz P4 Chip · · Score: 1

    time cube? that page is poorly written... i suppose you're right about that app thing, so it's really the architecture combined with the flops.

  17. Re:At last! Intel realizes that.... on Intel Scraps Plan For 4 Ghz P4 Chip · · Score: 1

    aren't flops the end all be all of performance measurement?