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  1. Re:Bloody difficult. on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    nah, if the hunting is good they'll have pot bellies when they get "old" (which might be 30s). been there, seen it.

  2. Re:Bloody difficult. on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    that's not the way it is, look at people still living in primitive conditions and nomadic people,huge amounts of muscle mass are NOT the norm

  3. Re:Hex on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1, Insightful

    it's a particle that waves from a float in a parade

  4. Re:whiner on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 1

    of course they will, and iron and aluminum oxides are a natural form

  5. whiner on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, do that in your office and see how many minutes your job lasts once the fire's out

    charred corpses don't terminate jobs

    Plus, it's rather environmentally unfriendly

    data processing including the manufacture and operation of hard drives is already environmentally unfriendly, and oxidizing metals is one way to get them back toward the more natural state for this world

  6. Re:A true innovator on Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    not wrong, the question was of solid body guitars (and so position in which they are held is irrelevant) and I only pointed out a prior art not claiming a "first". Your boy Bigsby seems to have done his work in the 40s though, rather a while after the 30s which had a solid body guitar.

  7. Re:just marketing words on Chrome OS Designed To Start Microsoft Death Spiral · · Score: 1

    that's a lot of money to waste on something that's already been done

  8. Re:What, too soon? on Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    wonder if they've picked out the Paul bearers yet?

  9. Re:A true innovator on Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 · · Score: 3, Informative

    actually,George Beauchamp made solid aluminum body electric guitar in 1931 and sold them through the company Ropatin (we now know as Rickenbacker), intended for Hawaiian music that was popular during the 30s. Popularly called a "frying pan" because of round body.

  10. Re:I love these articles, seriously... on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 1

    hahaha, the shortest time period would be on the order of centuries in the most optimist case of having sufficient power to move large asteroids of the correct type.

  11. just marketing words on Chrome OS Designed To Start Microsoft Death Spiral · · Score: 1

    Chrome OS is just Linux with Google's feature-lacking Chrome browser slapped on it. linux has made no real significant dent in the desktop or notebook space, why would anyone think a few marketing words added to that would make any real difference or be any real threat to Microsoft?

  12. Re:Or or course you might go with close source... on CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    actually, Solaris 8 end of service life is March 31, 2012. OpenVMS is still alive, new releases coming out periodically, and patches being issued, and support of course available. SGI was bought by Rackable and becoming Silicon Graphics International and support for IRIX is until December 31, 2013.

  13. Re:Not doubling the infrared, but slowing by half. on Finally, a True Green Laser · · Score: 1

    bullshit, light can go at various speeds depending on medium. even zero.

  14. Re:revisionist crap on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 1

    the real explosion started about 1977, you can check units sold for the major "trinity" machines of the time, hundreds of thousands of units in the first three years.

  15. Re:revisionist crap on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 1

    and don't forget the Smalltalk and LISP compilers

  16. Re:revisionist crap on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 1

    My 1975 SWTP 6800 ran Robert Uiterwyk' Basic, all 8k of it from a tape. In the 1976 Personal Computing Convention in Atlantic city, none of the SWTP staff were allowed to wear their "Altairs Suck" T-shirts.

  17. revisionist crap on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 0

    the digital tsunami hit way before 1979, and plenty of us had been running BASIC (and better languages) on our microcomputers for years before that, and it wasn't a Micro-Soft product

  18. Re:Think it is bad now? on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he meant thinking the code into the computer, not any manual interface. The technology for that is being refined presently.

  19. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    If one is used to reading it, legible cursive can be read as fast as any other method. I'm of the generations (maybe the last one, b. 1964) that actually learned and used it to correspond.

  20. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 4, Informative

    not really, John Holt merely timed himself versus his class printing. Not a scientific study.

  21. Re:Summary is overrated on Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem · · Score: 1

    not even my I.T. friends post on slashdot, must take an exception level of lameness to participate here

  22. Re:The answer is "no". on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 1

    the planets orbit in a plane, and the origin of most comets is in the outer solar system. Therefore, over time, Jupiter has indeed cleaned up many comets for the Earth.

  23. Re:Summary is overrated on Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem · · Score: 5, Funny

    the traveling salesmen I know did a lot of fucking on their routes. You must be correct.

  24. Re:RMS is spinning in his grave on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 0, Troll

    he just smells like something long dead.

  25. he's wrong, tunnel vision on Free Web Content a "Myth," Claims Barry Diller · · Score: 1

    so, same as saying T.V. and radio is free for me too, aside from the cost of the equipment. Some is supported by advertisers, some by donations, some by government, and even some partially from paid subscription (we've a classical music station locally where program guide is there main revenue) . Internet sites are the same.