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  1. Re:Not Bill Gates' Microsoft on Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store For Open Source Developers? · · Score: 1

    no, windows is only the best for those who don't know any better. I use MacOS at work, since it is a "Unix" it has many commands built in for dealing with text, for automating tasks, for having a unified view of the filesystem (insteead of silly dirve letters), for running open source softwares. I find certain Linux UI to be better designed and simpler for keystrokes and clicks required to perform common tasks (osx multi-finger chorded command are too numerous)

    so:
    1. GNU/Linux with Mate, KDE or Cinnamon superior
    2. MacOSX - ok and usable
    3. BSDs - remember, this is for desktops - some loss of open source functionality, not able to run everything and driver support often an issue
    3. Windows - crippleware

  2. Re:Oh No! Not another Relativity Paradox! on Purported Relativity Paradox Resolved · · Score: 1

    no, you only make the mistake of using a "simplified" version of Lorentz "contraction", actually there is a rotation in 3D toward the observer, no contraction as in the 1D-only consideration. problem solved, totally provable with either Maxwell's Equations or Special Relativity (the two are equivalent and one provable from the other)

  3. Re:uniformly accelerating particle radiate? on Purported Relativity Paradox Resolved · · Score: 1

    what are you babbling about? of course a unformly accelerating (one case of which is going in a circle at constant angular velocity) electron radiates, turn on a motor or start a generator to prove.

  4. Re:Surprise on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 1, Interesting

    you commit the fallacy of "asserting the consequent". Overwhelming evidence? you mean like the claimed "record high temperatures" in Australia which actually are just a cyclical repeat of 1972, but for a fraction of a degree difference that is only due to more sensors and heat islands? Or the temperature rises and melting in western antartica which are more than offset by the increased formation in the MUCH LARGER east?

  5. Re:I can see both sides of this on Unemployed Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks To Factory Jobs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    we have no such problem, the percentage of world's poor is shrinking

    http://www.economist.com/node/21548963

    technology and economic growth, bitch

  6. Re:the only thing Microsoft and others can do is.. on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 4, Informative

    didn't work for the japanese, because no possibility of resupply, reinforcement, or retreat. Defeat thus assured. About 21,844 killed, 216 survivors taken prisoner. A horrible bloodbath and yes 6800 american soldiers killed, but it didn't "work"

  7. Re:Get the piece of paper. on Ask Slashdot: Job Search Or More Education? · · Score: 1

    nonsense, I have friends with AA pulling down serious monies. experience and accomplishment are much more valuable than the sheepskin.

  8. Re:Or... on Ask Slashdot: Job Search Or More Education? · · Score: 1

    or porn star, if in possession of suitable appendage

  9. this is 21st century, let me update that for you on Ask Slashdot: Job Search Or More Education? · · Score: 2

    A lot of the companies that develop in Java like to hire graduates without formal CS degree so they can mold the programmer, you will be working on older bloated Java EE servers such as websphere, but its not going anywhere in a couple senses of the phrase. Java, the COBOL of the 1990s, still around.

  10. Re:I'm a Neanderthal on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1

    you've been slotted for another experiment further back in the timeline. here's your female chimp, try to finish before she rips your limbs and other appendages off.

  11. Re:What would Morgan Freeman say? on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1

    are you sure? the Romans had continuously flushing toilets, but the average life expectancy was low. maybe it's clean city water that did that, or better medicines?

  12. Re:No he's not on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Pretty sure we know on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1

    ...and so some native americans had green and blue eyes when the europeans rediscovered america

  14. Re:But...Unity. on Canonical Could Switch To Rolling Releases For Ubuntu 14.04 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    and it pays VERY well.

  15. Re:We've been down THIS road enough on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    ,you haven't seen the state of the art then, the softwares can now design processors in complexity beyond human comprehension

  16. you don't know what the goal is on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? · · Score: 1

    the goal is to remove as much money as possible as soon as possible from customer's pockets and to put it in the pockets of your senior executives and stock holders. now shut the fuck up, quit jacking off on company time whining on slashdot, and get that shit shoveled out the door!

  17. Re:You have to start somewhere. on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    never worked in large corp with cubic yards of dingbat MBAs eh? never seen an empty suit in charge of technical people making absurd technical decisions? haha, it's not only close, it's reality. and let's not even start with the politicians....

  18. Re:You have to start somewhere. on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    I think you're 3/4 right. silly with a warped perspective from a life of bizarre experiences. yes. and it's been great. mistakes? can't think of any. I wouldn't change a thing.

  19. Re:Because there's already an LTS Ubuntu: Debian on Canonical Could Switch To Rolling Releases For Ubuntu 14.04 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    no, while Debian outstanding for servers it lacks polish and attention to configuration detail for the desktop. things won't "just work", they'll take hours of forum time and twiddling configs. I've made Debian desktops work well, but I've 15 years experience working with GNU/Linux distributions...."normal" people aren't going to have the patience like some of us

  20. Re:So, they've given up on stability. on Canonical Could Switch To Rolling Releases For Ubuntu 14.04 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    that only need change a library in a package, that's no reason nor call to have an unstable distribution. any LTS or solid distro like Debian can support a Facebook API from a repository of such similar transient unsteady wares

  21. Re:But...Unity. on Canonical Could Switch To Rolling Releases For Ubuntu 14.04 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    you don't get it, do youj? Canonical doesn't spend time refining a good UI to be the default of their wares, instead they dissipate energy polishing a turd. so they are abandoned.

  22. Re:You have to start somewhere. on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    that's how the world operates

  23. Re:You have to start somewhere. on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    wrong, that piece of sheepskin passes for intelligence for years...

  24. Re:Common sense on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    plenty of 9mm rounds are designed not to overpenetrate. some cycle quite nicely in a carbine...

  25. Re:We need gas control! on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    the more irrational the arguments made by the anti-gun nuts, the easier it is to band together to defeat their bills. please, keep it up.