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  1. Just stop it on WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    You don't need to create a device to compete with the ipad. The ipad will fade into obscurity and during that time your efforts could be better invested else where.

  2. Re:CC on Help Me Get My Math Back? · · Score: 1

    Out here in California each unit costs 20$ and the average class was 90 minutes long and met twice a week adding up to 3 credits. So we paid 60$ a class BUT! the books ended up costing at least 50-120$ it was ludicrous.

  3. CC on Help Me Get My Math Back? · · Score: 1

    Just do Community college summer sessions or something similar, should be enough and they only cost like 60 bucks a class. Taking the college level calc classes would be good too at CC unless they are upper division differential equations or something as those are not offered.

  4. and here I was thinking..... on Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik's Cube In 12 Seconds · · Score: 1
  5. Re:What could be done? on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    France?

  6. What could be done? on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    Build new nuclear reactors, specifically of the design that, either, doesn't use tritium or is melt down proof. Why are the same people that bitch about the safety of nuclear reactors all at once the people whole also hold it back from being a, somewhat, excellent energy source? Uncool green peace, uncool.

  7. The problem... (maybe?) on The Neuroscience of Screwing Up · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't help but think that Neuroscience needs to calm down, sit back, and take a deep breath. We are examining a system and we are trying to reverse engineer it. We can't start out by trying to create elaborate hypothesis for large systems, we need to go low level and examine the simpler systems. I really think they should hold on to the higher cognitive models for a later time because we can't even completely model C. Elegans and it has the least neurons of any, current, living organism. The way I see it, I total expect their hypothesis to be wrong, because they don't thoroughly understand the low end of the system.

  8. Re:No surprise because of the dosage on Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills · · Score: 1

    as an addition to the parent, LSD is administered in micro-gram doses and its cognitive effects are astronomical.

  9. Re:Maybe .... on Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Why not just write a header file that does that for you?

  10. Re:ill-informed nonsense on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    Lol yeah Hawaii... where old aircraft go to die.

  11. BMW has it right on Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start · · Score: 1

    Why invest a lot of money and time into an electric car that won't sell well when you can put money and time into the M series which already kicks ass and has a great image?

  12. Re:HM on Brain of Patient H.M. Being Sliced, Streamed Live · · Score: 1

    The only good thing about this school is our school hand signal.... the shocker. Also, there's a wiki link in the summary... so I guess I should be ashamed of my fellow student. AT LEAST RTFS!

  13. Honestly on Brazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What options do you have to protect your self from Van eck phreaking? Lead casing? Foil voting boxes? Honest replies welcome.

  14. Better to just edit it on a computer on Nvidia's RealityServer 3.0 Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    I'd rather manage my scenes on my own computer where I have a complete interface with the work I've done. If they have a service where I could upload my scenes and have them render them for me quickly I'd be happy... but they have to do this real time stuff with minimal ability to edit and experiment with your scene. The only use would probably be for sales men and designers who want to show their work in different lighting to a potential customer... but even then they could render that ahead of time. I just don't get it, could someone enlighten me?

  15. Re:It's about social status... on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    Yeah calculus has nothing to do with programming.... unless you include all the numerical methods that are used throughout programming. The numerical methods developed in calculus to approximate values of functions are pretty much mandatory for programs to use... You don't actually think computers calculate sin, cos, and tan using standard methods do you?

  16. Re:Too Bad on Psystar Crushed In Court · · Score: 1

    Funny, I swear by performance charts.

  17. Re:Sgt is an idiot on Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? · · Score: 1

    ah but don't you need calculus to prove the average velocity over time which is what essentially is used to find him guilty?

  18. Re:Alas its' first words were... on Robot Controlled By Human Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Quickly get to the stairs!!!

  19. Awesome on Scientists Write Memories Directly Into Fly Brains · · Score: 1

    We already know we can implant false memories into humans and now a method for creating false bad memories in flies by command? Things are looking good. I just want a way to model this as a system instead of just being able to target groups of cells. Full neural systems would be awesome!

  20. Crystals on Researchers Discover "Magnetic Current" · · Score: 0

    Not just for RC planes any more!

  21. Can o' worms on Court Rules For Software Ownership Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    Oh no they didn't.

  22. No ones beliefs are false says Britain. on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    This is disturbing, in that attacking beliefs is now a crime in Britain. Even when they're legitimate attacks on beliefs that can hurt people. This behavior by the state is retarded and should be fought at every turn. Skeptics must not waive their hand because of these unjust laws.

  23. Re:Frustrating movie on "District 9" Best Sci-fi Movie of 09? · · Score: 1

    Well, a good portion of the humans in the film can speak the Prawn tongue and are at home talking to, threatening and killing the prawns as well. The idea is that the aliens are mostly comprised of under-class workers who have no care for property, intelligence, or population control. *spoilers* Scientists did enter the ship but only found the worker class in horrible living conditions on the verge of death from disease and malnutrition. *spoilers* I will agree with you though, one glaring error is that nothing of the alien technology (even though it has been around for 28 years) has been reverse engineered. You'd think that we'd have some pretty smart dudes reverse engineering the weapons instead of just preforming genetic experiments. Over all though, the first third of the movie is neat and interesting and the two thirds that follow are cliche.

  24. Re:I think I speak for many of us when I say... on The Perils of Pop Philosophy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Giving this a +5 insightful is kind of ironic don't you think?

  25. art school lol on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not take it to class and pay attention instead.