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  1. Re:unreal on Cannabis Smoking Makes Students Less Likely To Pass University Courses · · Score: 4, Funny

    I found out during high school that I couldn't do Calculus while stoned; it was something I had to work around back then. Eight hours of sleep would clear it right out... Not so much a problem anymore; and I still do Calculus daily. :)

    Well, if you'd lay off the cannabis, maybe you'd finally pass calculus :)

  2. Re:Dubious premise . . . on Intel To Rebrand Atom Chips Along Lines of Core Processors · · Score: 1

    You just need the right benchmark. I'm pretty sure that an X3 will deliver good performance in comparison to my netbooks' N270s.

  3. Next up: on Physicists Make a Mobius Strip From Beams of Light · · Score: 1

    A Klein bottle

  4. Re:Advanced Workings.... on Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Those old 029 card punchers were no luxury

  5. Re:Looking back ... on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Companies Won't Be Around In 10 Years? · · Score: 1

    Tucows is still with me - as my cell phone service provider. I don't mind the aimlessness, as long as they're providing a useful service

  6. Re:Like in the Family Guy theme? on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    5th grade as 1965 for me. Don't recall ever having Funk and Wagnalls in the classroom in any grade - always Thordike-Barnhart. My lawn is currently buried beneath a couple of inches of snow. You can play oin it it you'd like.

  7. Re: haven't been following... on Behind Apple's Sapphire Screen Debacle · · Score: 2

    I've got some carborundum sandpaper ... In all fairness, you did say "pretty much"

  8. Re:I used to want something kind of like this on Intel Planning Thumb-Sized PCs For Next Year · · Score: 2

    Basically, a minimal PC that you would plug into all the I/O hardware, so that you could bring it anywhere, plug it into someone else's hardware, always have all your files and programs there.

    This is what I want in my phone (in addition, or course, to the phone actually working as a phone)

  9. Re:Geology on Researchers Discover Ancient Massive Landslide · · Score: 1

    Knowing the geology is good; but I'd like to see us work on effective ways to use that knowledge.

    In this case, it's easy. Don't build (or buy a building) on or immediately beneath a slippery slope.

  10. Re:If this were ten years ago, I would have on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 2

    Personally, as someone who doesn't have the latest and greatest in terms of CPU horsepower in my desktop PC, I like the idea of a lightweight desktop, and my current favorite in this regard is LXDE. I'm hopeful regarding LXQt http://lxqt.org/ but I'm not holding my breath. My ideal DE would use the same toolkit as the graphical apps I use (file manager, web browser, IM client, terminal, text editor, word processor, spreadsheet, graphical ftp client, image editor, image viewer, package manager, pdf viewer, media player, CD/DVD burner), but not bring in a whole lot of extra crap I don't want. Mixing Gtk2 and Gtk3 apps is as bad as mixing Gtk and Qt as far as I'm concerned.

  11. Re:If this were ten years ago, I would have on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 1

    Actually, LXDE likes Qt so much they're moving forward with LXQt.

  12. Re:Gnomeification? on KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity · · Score: 1

    My first thought on reading the summary was "gnomification." I don't use KDE (or GNOME), but I hope the KDE folks aren't trying to follow in GNOME's footsteps.

  13. Re: Don't google it. Bing it! on Court Rules the "Google" Trademark Isn't Generic · · Score: 1

    googol = 1e100. And, yes, I googled it to ensure I got the spelling correct

  14. Re:INB4 ... on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    Transparent alumina - there's a difference.

  15. Well, this is interesting... on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 1
    from TFA:

    ...open source guru Richard Stallman...

    I am familiar with free software guru Richard Stallman, but who is this other guy with the same name?

  16. Re:So long as it is consential on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 1

    I have to agree. I, personally, would not trust parents (as a group) with the job of approving education curricula or methodologies without some type of appropriate outcomes measurements (i.e., standardized tests). Given the backlashes to both No Child Left Behind and Common Core (not to imply that either program is the be-all, end-all it claims to be), and the difficulty in finding one or more enlightened despots to determine appropriate standards, I'm at a loss here.

  17. Re:So long as it is consential on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 2

    "Improvements" should be optional. Improvements should not be. The question is, how do we distinguish the former from the latter?

  18. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    But I do think university courses are too heavily focused on theory, and not enough practical application.

    If you don't want to be a computer scientist (or, at least, educated in computer science), don't go for a computer science degree. If you want to be trained to be a programmer, find an institution that will train you to be a programmer - it may not be a university.

  19. Re:They won't on Microsoft Dumps 1,500 Apps From Its Windows Store · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've never had a problem setting my Linux Mint search provider to Google, or DuckDuckGo, or Wikipedia (I haven't tried the others. Click on the down-arrow in the search window, select "Manage Search Engines ...", then click on the "Get more search engines ..." link. Google should be one of your choices.

  20. Re:Same folks who made my LED flashlight? on HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard · · Score: 1

    10a. Further investigation will reveal more about their nature Those were the days.

  21. Re:begs FFS on Entire South Korean Space Programme Shuts Down As Sole Astronaut Quits · · Score: 1

    I actually do care less.

  22. Re:And who the fuck will maintain it? on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    So do some real analysis...

    I took two quarters of real analysis as an undergraduate, but I never took complex analysis.

  23. Re:Also illegal, so far... on Why The Korean Government Could Go Open Source By 2020 · · Score: 2

    I do believe the current president is a her

  24. Huh? on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    Swift also makes extensive use of variables whose values cannot be changed. These are known as constants

    What am I missing here?

  25. Re:List of NSA employees on NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images · · Score: 1

    I'll start. There was an undergraduate math major at UCLA named named Larry (I don't recall his surname), class of 1976, who had accepted a job offer from NSA.