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  1. Maybe not. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    Well, it might very well mean a decline in the number of cabled set-ups in the future, but it won't immediately kill the infrastructure that's already in place. People are loath to change their way of doing things when what they have is good enough.

  2. Re:You can't get there from here. on Believe the Occupational Outlook Handbook? · · Score: 1

    This summer, I interviewed at an outfit called iProgrammer (their site was iprogrammer.com, but it seems to be dead). They wanted me to liaise between customers in the US and the programmers in India. These programmers were simply no good. For this, I was to be paid $8/hr. I turned them down, since working at my school's student affairs IT office was a better deal, but I have to wonder: how long will it be before US companies realize that we really are worth our salaries, that you get what you pay for?

  3. Re:Foreboding on Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit · · Score: 1

    After they evolved great intelligence, they used their powers of mind to guarantee their own survival, and then they left. They shifted humanity into a universe where they were the only intelligent life and no other intelligent life would ever develop, and then left humanity to its own devices, except for the Galaxia (Gaia is a seed planet) project. They asked humans for their go-ahead, too.

  4. Re:Foreboding on Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit · · Score: 1

    At the end of the Foundation series, Asimov explains what happened to the robots. It turns out unbelievably well for the humans.

  5. Re:2 perspectives on Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'm a college student, and very much in favor of chaos and anarchy. I don't understand his "destroy capitalism" thing, or the part about "democracy." He's a moron.

  6. Re:Unfortunate naming on How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    Get this- I don't and didn't ever play Perfect Dark. My little brother did, and I remember that from watching him. You've got nothing to feel bad about, my friend.

  7. Unfortunate naming on How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Datadyne is the name of the evil corporation in Perfect Dark.

  8. Re:Game playing by posters. on Report Indicates Workers Play A Lot of Games On the Job · · Score: 1

    There'd be something seriously wrong with not hiring a good manager, especially on construction, just because he was your son.

  9. Re:Whole heart next? on Grow Your Own Heart Valves · · Score: 1

    What's to stop harvesting stem cells from a fetus which is then returned to the womb and carried to term? Nobody could get upset about benefiting from the use of one's own stem cells.

  10. Pak on Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years · · Score: 1

    breeders?

  11. Re:Tales from a Beloit non-grad on The Mindset of the Class of 2029 · · Score: 1

    That law is there to protect you. You're an RA. Of course you believe that laws exist to protect people. Seriously, we had our RA indoctrination^h^h^h^h^h^h training shortly before school started, and the entire point seemed to be: you are an elite group, a brotherhood; everyone else is an outsider, terribly irresponsible and in need of protection. I almost walked out a few times during the police chief's talk. (Disclaimer: I'm a resident tech assistant, not a regular RA, so I'm not quite so into writing people up)
  12. Re:*Not to scale on Star Wars Fan Puts Himself in Carbonite · · Score: 1

    It looks that way at first, but if you look closer, it's pretty much to scale. The shoulders do not protrude through the carbonite all the way, which makes him look very narrow and creates the illusion of a giant head.

  13. IP on Thoughts on the Social Graph · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So if I write a little app that I point at my friends page on Facebook or you point at yours on Myspace, which then steals our friends lists and adds them to this wide open free social graph, do Myspace and Facebook have a right to be mad at me?

  14. Re:I knew if I waited long enough... on Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Announced · · Score: 1

    Ya know, calling it 3.5 was a good idea. Maybe it will shut up that annoying guy who kept writing letters to Dragon about how Wizards was evil for releasing new editions. The ".5" implies that it was intermediate.

  15. I hope we have ethical researchers on MIT Team Creates Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    The work, reported in the August 13 issue of Cancer Cell, could be a boon to researchers who study these elusive cells. Labs could easily grow them for use in experiments. Or, you know, give everyone they don't like cancer. Just saying.
  16. Re:Visually and Logically Beautiful on Beautiful Code Interview · · Score: 1

    You don't have a spike to infinity, you have a point discontinuity, which you indicate on the graph if it is important.

  17. Re:Visually and Logically Beautiful on Beautiful Code Interview · · Score: 1

    I'm a math undergrad. Division by zero is always undefined, no matter how badly we want 0/0 to be 0.

  18. Re:Caffeine and Inbreeding on New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    That's not all. On average, people carry between 5 and 10 recessive traits which, if expressed, would kill them. People related to each other are far more likely to have the same recessive traits, which are rarely expressed elsewhere, but often expressed in closely related populations.

  19. Re:Devil's advocate on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 1

    He did mention that he'd only been to one movie that year.

  20. Re:Global Warming? on The Potential of Geothermal Power · · Score: 1

    * Probably because you never put any water in, either that or your single lonely braincell has leaked out and managed to clog the drain. Given the context of the discussion, I think he's probably running the tap into the bath at the same rate as water is leaving the bath through the drain.
  21. Re:Devil's advocate on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 0

    Hey everyone, let's extrapolate from a single data point!

  22. Re:Graphics don't matter on Mainstream Audience 'Noticing' Games Again · · Score: 1

    I play Dwarf Fortress.

  23. Graphics don't matter on Mainstream Audience 'Noticing' Games Again · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that's the whole point: cartoon graphics are good enough. People watch anime, and don't need it to be photorealistic; people play Wii sports, and it's fine. Less complex, more approachable games have always been where it's at. I'd like to see someone market a cheap handheld, easy to develop for, and allow anyone to put games out for it. You probably don't even need the cool controller to make it work.

  24. Ob. Princess Bride on Mitochondria and the Prevention of Death · · Score: 5, Funny

    Miracle Max: See, there's a big difference between mostly dead, and all dead. Now, mostly dead: he's slightly alive. All dead, well, with all dead, there's usually only one thing that you can do.
    Inigo: What's that?
    Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

  25. Re:Where is far? on The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    The sun shone in the sky.