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  1. Re:And yet? on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it's the crappy state of both kinds of audio on Linux. that's the only place in the GNU/Linux realm where having choices don't seem to be a good idea (when they're both bad)

  2. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong.. on Record-Breaking Galaxy Found In Deep Hubble Image · · Score: 2, Informative

    the universe was opaque to radiation until 400,000 years after the Big Bang, that's the very last time most of the CMB photons interacted with matter.

  3. Re:What???? on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    they'll look funny after the fourth or fifth Viagra

  4. Re:Plenty more on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: -1, Troll

    the USA that is now nothing but a bankrupt shell has another one and a half billion of them.

  5. Re:One way? on NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program · · Score: 1

    you'd just need to change your mindset, on mars you'd be the essentially the multimedia blogger for site with millions of visitors.

    you'd still be able to do news and forums such as slashdot from Mars, with proper setup.

    as for MMRG, latest versions could be streamed to you, just set up a LAN party with your fellow colonists.

  6. Re:One way? on NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program · · Score: 1

    i did mention that bit about nympho disorder....but if she can fake it for 45 years that's ok too

  7. Re:wrong OS? on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    well, the guy sitting next to me has a $2500 laptop for gaming

    I see these "gaming PC" with 8 - 12 GB RAM, quad or six core, good motherboard, going for $1400 and up without the monitor

  8. Re:One way? on NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program · · Score: 1

    there are plenty of healthy people who would volunteer for one-way mission, if supplies were sent periodically. heck, if most slashdotters were told their companion would be beautiful woman with bit of a nymphomaniac problem in need of frequent TLC, most would volunteer.

    And the rest of slashdotters would volunteer if told companion would be beautiful beefcake with a bit of a Satyriasis problem......

  9. Re:wrong OS? on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    info is just old coverage of interview: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Updatable-Operating-System-for-Wii-37467.shtml

    note is this quite different from "Linux" to mean a distribution or entire OS, this is just kernel.

  10. Re:wrong OS? on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    well, there's also the Gaming PC: $2000 Console: $190 argument.

    I'm glad I burned myself out on video/arcade/pc games over twenty five years ago. My PC is a $400 frankenstein

  11. Re:Not a fan of the UN on UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I propose a simpler project, get the UN off of Earth. And the IMF and CFR. They are threats to freedom, democracy and national sovereignty.

  12. Re:wrong OS? on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 2, Informative

    funny slashdotters always talk about gaming when complaining about desktop Linux. most people I know don't even use their PC for games, they have dedicated game appliances. Some of the most popular game appliances in the world don't even run windows, imagine that. A WII, for example, uses customized Linux kernel....

  13. There are 2 Billion Desktop GNU/Linux Users on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    The two billion people hooked to the internet all use GNU/Linux.

    This is the 21st century, we deliver applications to the desktop through the browser and other client wares. Google, eBay, Facebook, Twitter, smtp mail....

    Everyone on the 'net uses Linux. What a colossal failure indeed.

    Off the desktop, mobile computing is the big thing now, yeah what a failure.

  14. Re:Processing power on Supercomputer Sets Protein-Folding Record · · Score: 1

    since each of the 512 chips has six two-way links, one-way being 50 GBit/sec, we have roughly 6 * 50 * 512 Gbit/sec through each chip, or 154 Tbit/sec or about 19 Tbytes/sec.

    If the printed LOC is 10TB, then almost two Library of Congress' worth of data being processed per second.

  15. Re:Godzilla on Five Times the US Almost Nuked Itself · · Score: 1

    well, it scared me to death. I didn't know there was no fire and no Godzilla and that it was you instead of me.

    people here at slashdot shouldn't be making such light of these near-nuclear detonations and near-Godzilla attacks.

  16. Re:Correction to your post. 0.00...1 is a number on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    not additively, but by repeated multiplication - 2 ** aleph-zero = aleph-one

  17. Re:Smart water? on Putting the Squeeze On Broadband Copper Robbers · · Score: 1

    no, had never heard of him. So basically Emoto has wasted his life on stupidity, and convinced others to do the same. sad.

  18. Re:Olde Saying on Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ · · Score: -1, Troll

    How true, Bjarne Stroustrop has managed to set back software development by at least 20 years with that bloated obscuring crap. And Java is just another C++.

  19. Re:Correction to your post. 0.00...1 is a number on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    There most certainly are things "after infinity", the infinity you know about is actually the smallest infinity.

    The cardinality of the natural numbers is the infinity called aleph sub null, it *smallest* infinite ordinal. The cardinality of all real numbers is aleph sub one, which is a bigger infinite ordinal.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number

  20. Re:This is second place on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    I had an answer for my teacher who asked that.

    my usual way of writing an overscript dash isn't working in the slashdot interface, but let's say 0.9_ represents the 9 with a bar over it for the repeating digit notation.

    In between 0.9_ and 1 is 0.0_1

    Tada!

  21. Re:Wow, do any of you people have jobs? on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 1

    if they're any good at all they can find out who I am and contact me.

    I'm waiting.

  22. Re:Wow, do any of you people have jobs? on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 1

    +5 insightful??? please do tell how the copier distinguishes between the copy of the medical record for the insurance company, and the one going out the door to the identity thief.

    your assertion is nonsense.

  23. Re:Just thought I would point out... on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    yeah, but my date is cooler. way way cooler. oh, the cool.

  24. Re:Shotwell instead of f-spot, almost Yay on Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available · · Score: 1, Funny

    I know of another OS that claims to be ready for the desktop, where the developers of some software hard code C: for name of hard disk. some software only allows serial ports named COM1 to COM3, etc.

  25. Re:Typo? on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    I saw that as Needling compression yokes are original and hilarious. but you know, sometimes a hypodermic needle is just the thing to force the valve open, you shouldn't make fun of improvisers.