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  1. Re:metamorphosis can happen without "life" on Chemists May Be Zeroing In On Chemical Reactions That Sparked the First Life (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Stromatolites?

  2. Re:Let's watch the creationists squirm on Chemists May Be Zeroing In On Chemical Reactions That Sparked the First Life (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Evolution can happen but it is always devolution (things getting worse not better) Natural selection is the exact opposite of evolution. You may need to understand a little bit here such as evolution is the actual building or increasing of genetic information which is the opposite of natural selection which is the reduction of the genetic information or the selection of existing genetic information.

    Obviously you have no clue about evolution, just like every other creanutter. Look up polyploidy, horizontal gene transfer, etc. And read something like "Why Evolution is True" instead of millennia old piss-poor fiction only the frauds and the gullible fall for.

  3. On very rare occasions, in the past, a movie could indeed crash the player on a Pi. Haven't seen this for a year or two, though.

  4. Re:Sharing Paper on Ebook Pirates Are Relatively Old and Wealthy, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If only Amazon made available a command line converter for free, right? They could call it, say KindleGen.

  5. Re:Focus on a few key things on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 1

    Touch of Class? Still haven't read it myself, hence the ?

  6. Re:That's not a problem for Apple on Laptop SSD Capacity To Remain Flat As NAND Flash Dearth Causes Prices To Rise (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, thanks for the heads up. I am sure most people here were not aware of this, despite the large number of people triggered by each post about Apple, even if it is actually about oranges...

  7. Re:That's not a problem for Apple on Laptop SSD Capacity To Remain Flat As NAND Flash Dearth Causes Prices To Rise (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Feel free to bitch; you fit right, in as that's what most of the crowd here does anyway.

  8. Re:That's not a problem for Apple on Laptop SSD Capacity To Remain Flat As NAND Flash Dearth Causes Prices To Rise (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you don't agree with their prices buy something else. The more people do so, the more likely things change.

  9. Re:That's not a problem for Apple on Laptop SSD Capacity To Remain Flat As NAND Flash Dearth Causes Prices To Rise (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    If that's a problem, you picked the wrong configuration.

  10. Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1
  11. R&D costs money.

  12. OK, optical disk. Anyway, in a few years everybody will have forgotten this, and call headphone jacks an artifact.

  13. Yeah, like the Mac Mini has a floppy drive...

  14. Re:Sheep. on One Billion iPhones Have Been Sold, Apple Says (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    No true Scotsman Fallacy, and all that.

  15. Re:1.09 billion? on Facebook To Shred 'Paper' News-Reading App On July 29th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook, not the Paper App.

  16. 1996 called .... on 2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    wants its nonsense think back.

  17. These apps would eat up a significant part of it?? on Apple's Stock iOS Apps Land On App Store, Hints That It Could Allow People To Get Rid Of Them (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2
    "The apps built into iOS are designed to be very space efficient, so all of them together use less than 150MB. " https://support.apple.com/en-g...

    150MB out of 16GB, yeah, significant part..., less than 1%

  18. Re:Indoctrination on Apple Introduces Swift Playgrounds App To Teach Kids To Code (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "in Apple's chosen Open Source language" FTFY

  19. No, a directory starting with a ! is "magic". It could contain a !boot file (what to do when the filer sees the directory for the first time), a !run file (what to do when the directory is double clicked), a !sprites file (containing the icons, which can also used for the directory itself). See http://www.guidebookgallery.or... for an example.

  20. But still the point stands, it was common in the 80s and 90s: http://www.osnews.com/story/24...

    I guess the AC's lawn belongs to his parents ;-)

  21. For example, RISC OS has an !Apps directory since the 90s.

  22. It's not clear what your taste is, exactly, but one of the best recent series I saw was season 2 of "Bosch" (Amazon).

  23. Re:I hope they don't go after Steve Jobs on Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    *wooossshhhh*

  24. Re:Tim Cook has a cunning plan for resurgence on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure HP is happy to sell it for peanuts.

  25. Re:Do we need to post Ars and Verge stories? on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And better comments (Ars)