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  1. Re:ECS K7S5A on How to Build a Mainboard: ECS Production Tour · · Score: 0, Troll

    ECS are great boards if you can deal with kinks. For example, I had random freezes after I upgraded from an Athlon 900MHz to a Athlon XP 1800. I found a site that outlined how to solve the problem by soldering on an additional resistor

    This is why their competitors use skilled male technicians. Quality control suffers when you're applying make-up and don't pay attention to the conveyer belt.

  2. Re:IMBlaze a blatant violation on GPL Violations of Miranda IM · · Score: 1

    It's actually pretty streamlined now, particularly when you bear in mind that justice is often more highly valued than mere swiftness.

    Pardon, but we are presently trying a Mississippi klansman for murders committed 40 years ago.
    "Streamlined justice" is a hard label to apply to a system with electioneering on one end and grassroots IT on the other.

    That's simply ludicrous.

    I'd say "optimistic." Ludicrous is monochrome machines in the courthouse that need half a minute to perform a search query.

  3. Re:Wrong question on Editorial Wiki Debuts At LA Times · · Score: 1

    I think that it will not, because the predominant circles active on the internet today fall pretty nicely in line with the LA Times readership, so there are not that many dialogues between the rivaling parties. But add a editorial wiki to a bible belt newspaper, and there will surely be dialogue going on indeed.

    Speaking from the bible belt, I disagree. If people on well water even have access to broadband, they don't use it to read / watch news. Supposing they did, there's still no debate--our Democrats are more conservative than California's GOP.

  4. Re:yuck... on Nanotech Trojan Horse That Kills Cancer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    something about the process makes me feel uncomfortable.

    Try having cancer.

  5. Re:So is this movie actually good? on How the Batsuit Works · · Score: 1

    You'll kick yourself if you don't see this one ASAP. Trust me.

  6. Re:When spreading malware becomes this obvious on Russian Firm Pays to Infect PCs with Adware · · Score: 1

    The owners if iFrameDollars should be killed, publicly and very bloodily as should anyone who works for the company.

    I'll give you six cents apiece.

  7. Re:Next To Go: '+' Sign on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 1

    Anyone who thinks having a masters of ANYTHING means your smarter than a person who doesnt is smoking on the DR pole.

    Don't know what you mean by "smarter," but the extra two or four years of learning mathematics, not to mention what you learn doing research, makes you more qualified to teach the subject in every way.

    Pure math is by definition not the real world, so I'm not sure you have a point.

  8. /grammarnazi on WA Governor Race Ends · · Score: 1

    Republican Dino Rossi decided last night to not appeal

    Yes, but who decided to split the infinitive?

  9. you LOSE! good DAY sir!!! on Microsoft's Slap at Samba · · Score: 1

    the proposal specifically precludes the information from being used in a free software implementation

    In other words, if you're going to improve our code, we reserve the right to purchase you in the future.

  10. Re:Next To Go: '+' Sign on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I dissagree. Very few people in real world situations EVER need to know how to do this, and most people know the easy ones like .5, .3, .25 etc.

    If you can't figure out that .5 is 1/2 because it stands for 5/10, and generalize that reasoning to other numbers, you don't need to pass your 6th grade "algebra" class. Having taught the calc sequence a number of years--and this isn't "college math" in any way shape or form--I can tell you that at least half of non-engineers do not recognize .125, and have no idea what to do with it.
    College students don't have problems with slope and volume. They balk at fractions.
    An engineer's mindset, where the concepts are so easy pen-and-paper is inefficient, is one thing. Your average bio or business major with no idea why arithmetic works is a whole other ballgame.
    Of course, you'd be hard-pressed to find a middle school teacher with even an MS, which is half the problem. People teach math without knowing much math.
    When Einstein said never memorize what you can look up...he wasn't talking about fractions. Whether you ever use mathematics in real life, you will have to deal with numbers.

  11. bring your diazepam on DARPA Announces 2005 Grand Challenge Semifinalists · · Score: 1

    There's a zillion ways to destroy a heavy vehicle, or parts thereof.

    SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!