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  1. Re:Presume no notice will be given on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the important one. "If you had the need and opportunity, would you hire this person again"

  2. Re:Meh.... on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it's almost the same character with the same makeup and a different name. Armin Shimerman played two other Ferengi before he took the role of Quark in DS9. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001734/

  3. Re:Language is not constant on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Just ask Rick Santorum ;)

  4. Re:Nope on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Depends on the story for me. He could be in it and play Han Solo, but they best have the Han and Leia kids be the main focus.

  5. Re:MS's gaming strategy has been weird for years on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, I build a upgrade PC every 4-5 years for 500 or less. New ram, board, cpu, graphics, and half the time a new HD. Keep the previous CD r/w and DVD r/w, case, power supply, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. When I get a new case I'll usually get a new power supply with it. I generally stick with boards that have sound and networking on them. With my latest build I finally trashed the floppy drive I had from my original 486dx2. I have a few things that make me an exception, but I would suspect a common exception. I work from home moderately often. I watch DVDs on my PC moderately often. I immediately rip any CD I purchase and some movies so I can upload them to my Kindle when I want to watch them on it. When I upgrade it is usually because the old PC died, not for performance. In a sense all I'm doing is paying an extra 50-100 for a nicer video card.

  6. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    I work at a hospital in IT, this is what I've gleamed from the info around me.

    Yes and no. The flu is like the common cold there are many versions of it and most are different enough that just because the body learned how to fight off one it doesn't know how to fight off the other. The flu shot covers the worst of the versions going around. People can still get the flu, its just not the as nasty versions.

  7. Re:Soul Crushing? on High Tech Companies Becoming Fools For the City · · Score: 1

    ya, but how far outside of Manhattan do you have to live to have an affordable living location? I like working in suburbia, I can afford to live a mile or so from the office. Working downtown means I have to live in a neighboring town and deal with rush hour.

  8. Re:Excellent News! on Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP · · Score: 1

    That leaves them with statistics from a large number of home users that are more or less computer illiterate.

    Things such as my mother-in-law typing in google into the quick search to get to the Google home page so she can search for something

  9. Re:They will wreck it. on What's Next For Superhero Movies? · · Score: 1

    I think the only person that could do a good Sandman would be Tim Burton, although Guillermo del Toro might be able to do it acceptably.

  10. Re:Where's the money? on Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend · · Score: 1

    Music wise there isn't enough I want out there for me to even bother downloading. The few artists I do enjoy I buy directly from them via what ever method I think will give the artists the most money. Movies and TV shows I don't have qualms over downloading. I'll download a movie that is no longer available and not yet available for rental / netflix. If I enjoy it, I'll often buy it, but many I don't even finish watching. 90% of the time I'm downloading an episode that the DVR didn't record for whatever reason. The big issue does end up being about money. There is more cost to entertainment than most people can really afford. All they're really going to do is push people to other forms of entertainment, which may be a good thing. We could all stand to get some exercise and/or read more books from the library I'd imagine.

  11. Re:Give it a few months... on Sonic.net's CEO On Why ISPs Should Only Keep User Logs Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    I haven't read into this, I wonder how detailed the law is about the retention. Is it simply that you must retain the logs that you do? Or, does it define exactly what you are required to log? If it is the latter then I'm surprised some ISPs don't turn off logging all together.

  12. Re:Bandwidth costs, offline access ... on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 1

    It varies but usually progressive metal/rock: Tool (and related), System of a Down, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Gorrillaz, and many others. I also listen to powerful (best description off the top of my head) classical music a good example would be E.S. Posthumos. Occasionally I'll listen to folk punk and vaudevillian: Katzenjammer, Hellblinki, Dr Steel. It really doesn't matter, if it is music that I enjoy then I'll still day dream. It's just the way my mind works. I'm the type of person that will start thinking on something when talking and just zone out for a bit mid sentence.

  13. Re:Bandwidth costs, offline access ... on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 1

    I share your concerns with bandwidth. I constantly stream music at work to listen to, and I worry that I'll get in trouble for bandwidth usage. If I bought every song I listen to (I have quite eclectic tastes) then I'd go broke quickly. In the car I mostly listen to NPR or a book on CD as music tends to give me Highway hypnosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis) and eventually I become narcoleptic.

    I do buy a few albums from my favorite artists, but that probably averages out to one or two a year. Due to storage space and cost I'm very picky about what albums and movies I buy.

  14. Re:Time to put a EULA on everything. on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 2

    So EULA on selling the car that states that the car's residence shall remain in your driveway and that you are allowed to use it whenever you like with precedence over the new owner?

  15. Re:New movies aren't even WORTH downloading on BitTorrent Traffic Falls In the U.S. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My opinion is that most new stuff hasn't even been worth downloading. Several of the "blockbuster" movies that I've downloaded I deleted within 15 minutes. For other people I think Netflix and Redbox are an acceptable alternative as well.

  16. Re:AI Chip on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 1

    Exactly, this is how the human brain works. Exact math is slow, estimates are quick. AI and autonomous things could do very well with this.

    Since we're so fond of car analogies here, lets take the autonomous car. The car wouldn't need to know that it is 23.1532 meters away from the car ahead of it. It would be perfectly fine in just knowing that it is around 20 meters away and it can stop in about 15 meters. Of course all this depend on knowing what the significant digits of the calculation are. If said car is attempting to parallel park in a tight space then rounding 6 cm up to 1m would be an issue

  17. Re:expectations on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    This could be the case. But we have a moderately early Hybrid so we knew we were taking a risk. The newer ones have a longer warranty on the batteries I think. Part of the reason was I went to the store wanting to buy a used CR-V for myself, to replace the 94 Cavalier I'd driven for 15 years. But, my wife didn't want to ever have to drive it. So then we looked at a new Fit which was comparable price. But, it was red and why should I have the "pretty" car. So for a little more I bought a new Civic Sport cause I was tired of dealing with the hassle and wanted something I liked. I would have looked at the Hybrids more but one was white and the other was tan. My preference was gunmetal.

  18. Re:Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    The Civic Hybrid used to be comparable to the EX (mid range) for features. Now it is the LX with all the options. Apples to apples you should compare the Civic LX to the Hybrid, not the base model manual transmission Civic.

  19. Re:expectations on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I get about what I expected from my wife's 2005 Hybrid Civic. Only negative really is the lifetime of the batteries. We lucked out that they failed just before the warranty ended. However, when I was looking for a new car I didn't get the hybrid as the long term cost of a Hybrid is higher and in the current market I've got to make some cuts somewhere. What I would like to see is 100% battery powered vehicles where refilling worked like propane tanks. I just stop by and they yank out the batteries and give me a fully charged set. If a battery goes bad they take care of it and the cost of replacing / recycling batteries is spread among the cost of everyone.

  20. Re:Math on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 1

    The measurements are all based on colloquial measurements, although most of them seem to have increased in size.

    Inch: About the width of your thumb
    Foot: About the length of your foot, with shoes
    Hand: Width of a hand, only used for horse height atm.
    Fahrenheit: 100 is about as hot of a day as you'll normally see, 0 is about as cold of a day you'd normally see.
    I don't know the sources for volume measurements or care to look them up

    Most of the measurements we brought from Europe. For some reason we just won't switch to metric although I'd guess something like 50% in favor, 35% don't care, and 15% are to busy arguing against evolution to respond.

  21. Re:So basically we have no more sci-fi on TV? on Stargate Universe Cancelled · · Score: 1

    What makes the ghost hunting stuff even worse is that none of it is authentic. Ghost Hunters in their early days were about finding the real causes, and 95% of the time it was something mundane, 4% of the time it was nothing but rumor, .99% of the time it was a hoax, and the last .01% was something unexplainable. But Syfy kept pressuring them for more unexplainable and exciting. Eventually they had to follow orders if they wanted to continue getting paid, which isn't much.

    The other "ghost" shows were never real in the first place.

    Unfortunately my wife and I actually enjoyed SGU although there were some silly parts. But we actually got emotionally involved enough to get really pissed off that Eli's girlfriend got killed.

  22. Re:Dag-nabbit. on Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Watching the news a few days ago they had a video of it. They're sitting they're talking about how they don't know what it is. I'm watching the video with red and green alternating lights wondering if idiocracy is already here.

  23. Re:Uh.. on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Makes sense to me.

  24. Re:So? on Selling Incandescent Light Bulbs As Heating Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And some incandescent lights are already specifically sold for heating purposes. Just head down the reptile section of your pet store and you'll find heat lamps.

  25. Re:E-Readers in a phone on HTC Launches HD Phones and Updated Sense UI · · Score: 1

    I already use my EVO as an e-reader. I use Aldiko and with it I can read books from feedbooks. Lots of public domain classics that I never got around to reading. Now I've finished off a huge chunk of Kipling, Wells, Emerson, and several other authors. It is quite nice when I have time to burn and nothing else to do.