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  1. Re:Nope. on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 2

    Ahhh, to have never been young and dumb. Sigh. I envy you.

  2. Re:Nope. on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ha ha ha, you won't know what she really wants until the day after you say "I do".

  3. Re:Nope. on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are correct, but you apparently have no experience in a typical marriage with typical women and children. If you want to live the simple life, you can, but you have to find a wife who also wants to live that way, and raise your children up in that environment from the start.

  4. Linux on the desktop? I suppose it's possible...

  5. Re:Economics 101 on New Mobile Plan Pools Data On Unlimited Devices · · Score: 1

    True, foregoing a data plan these days usually means foregoing a smart phone.

  6. Economics 101 on New Mobile Plan Pools Data On Unlimited Devices · · Score: 2

    They will sell their services at the greatest price which the market will bear. In other words, the price will only come down when we stop merely gritting our teeth and forego the data plan or switch to a competitor with a better deal.

  7. Re:U.S. Companies? on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 1

    I'm just suggesting that we take a hard look at these companies and if they are not providing a net benefit to the U.S. then, yes, let them go, because it's not like they were really "here" anyway. At the very least then congress would have a harder time cozying up to the corporations without the media exposing the "foreign" influences at work.

  8. U.S. Companies? on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We need a new standard for what a company has to be like to call itself a U.S. company and be eligible for any the benefits of such title. Multinationals with little U.S. corporate responsibility need not apply. If corporations are people, then let them take a citizenship test.

  9. Re:Perspectives on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    The consumer in me loves MSE because it is low drag and stays out of my face. I've heard that it may not be the most effective, but that is secondary -- If my AV solution takes over my computer to save it, then it has defeated the purpose.

    Perhaps standard AV in Windows would finally force the other AV products to improve the user experience. Maybe this will spell the end of the their current extortionist, upselling, machine-hogging crapware.

  10. Re: Wow, just wow. on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    So you like having your expectations jacked way up, and then replaced with utter disappointment?

  11. Re:ground water contamination? on Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If a consensus of scientists is good enough to declare AGW to be a problem, then why can't a consensus of geologists declare that a mine won't leak?

    BTW: It should have been obvious from that start that Yucca Mountain was Too Close to California to succeed.

  12. Open Source? on Calling BS On Unpaid Internships · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, this is *way* different from donating all your time to an open source project in order to get some experience...

  13. Re:I found this sentance odd. on Book Review: The Clean Coder · · Score: 1

    Your boss has already been to sales-, er, business school and is thinking "We're on it! We'll succeed!" from the git-go. If you don't say "We'll try", the boss will find someone else who will. But then I suppose a book on craftsmanship is mostly useful to those who are able and willing to target the "high-end" of the coding job market where, presumably, a person can have strong principles and employment at the same time.

  14. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    In my day, the meter was a stick in a jar in France, and the speed of light was how many stick lengths light traveled while your cesium atom wiggled nine billion times. Sometime later (probably still before you were born) the meter was redefined in terms of that which it had already measured. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!

  15. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    As I often say, no unit can be taken seriously unless it can be kept in a jar in France! However, I'm still trying to figure out where they keep that 300,000 kilometer long jar with the second in it.

  16. Re:.NET on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 1

    And pretty much none of those apps would be used on a Windows ARM machine, i.e. tablet or phone. Thanks for the list though, it's makes it clear that the desktop (or modern laptop) is not apt to die very soon.

  17. Re:True, for the most part... on HDMI Brands Don't Matter · · Score: 2

    Data point - A couple years ago I bought a pair of Newegg Nippon 50 footers for $50 each that have been working perfectly running the output of an HDMI switch and hub to a couple of HDTVs. You might pay that for a single monstrous 6 footer at the big box store.

  18. Shuji Sado on The Quake Through Eyes of Slashdot Japan · · Score: 1

    CmdrTako?

  19. Re:Perfect? on Comment Profanity by Language · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Erm, how did you know it wasn't doing what it was supposed to do if you didn't first know what it was supposed to do?

  20. Re:Toto...?! on Egypt Cuts the Net, Net Fights Back · · Score: 1

    Boy, those French, it's like they have a different word for everything!

  21. Re:SGU bad? on J.J. Abrams Promises 'Fringe' Will Die Fighting · · Score: 1

    They're trying to prove that they can write DRAMA, a skill with much broader demand than the ability to please a bunch of obsessive nerds. And as an obsessive nerd, I HATE IT. I just started watching SGU on Netflix and it's 85% contrived D-R-A-M-A. They have people whining and arguing in ways that are just completely incongruous for the characters and the situation. I am frequently staring at the screen going "WHAT??", and then I just go "Oh yeah, manufactured **DRAMA!!**". Sadly, however, I do enjoy the 15% that is basically a rehash of SGA.

  22. Re:Robonica on What Robots Do For Christmas · · Score: 2

    It's Robanukah, you insensitive meatbag!

  23. Re:Not ideal case for study on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    The most sensible post here. Please mod up.

  24. Transparency on US Supreme Court Expected Political Ad Transparency · · Score: 1

    ...they would have named him Cmdr Spellright...

  25. Ask your ISP what they think on Xbox Head Proclaims Blu-ray Dead · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking some serious infrastructure, download cap, net neutrality, and just plain money issues are going to need to be addressed before the masses can download all their HD content.