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  1. Re:Performance? on Parallax Completes Open Hardware Vision With Open Source CPU · · Score: 1

    It's an eight core microcontroller and, based off the stats on wikipedia, each core seems to have similar performance to an ATmega2560.

  2. SICP on Summer Programming Courses Before Heading Off To College? · · Score: 1

    Get through half and you are a better programmer than most. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

  3. Re:Hope it's not windows 8 on US Military Signs Modernization Deal With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Pretty standard for most DoD projects. Managers like "catchy" names.

  4. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Unrealistic budget on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I neglected to read the last sentence of the article.

  6. Re:Unrealistic budget on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 2

    As a general contractor, assuming you are doing things(paint, flooring, maybe light fixtures and blinds) to the entire 3000 sq ft, your budget that remains purely for tech is going to be approximately zero. Its doubtful that budget would even allow for much of a kitchen/bath update depending on what part of the country you are in.

    Not if they do most of it themselves. I've redone the floors, moldings, painted, replaces lights and door hardware for less than 4000 in my 1000 sq ft condo. Once you start talking major appliances it gets much harder to save money, but cutting out labor saves a ton of money and you'll learn some useful skills.

  7. Re:Obligatory question on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Creationism is not a scientific theory, it's rote dogma. Intelligent Design is also not a scientific theory as it posits that things that are unlikely are less probable than a magic person creating from whole cloth. They belong with other religious dogma. Neither have a hypothesis, testing protocols, and a method for modifying hypothesis based on results.

  8. Firebug on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Firebug is a great tool for working with JS in all situations.

  9. Re:OK, so... on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 2

    Mathematics are specifically not patentable in the US. See Gottschalk v. Benson.

  10. Re:Explaining LOGO is easy on 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C · · Score: 1

    It's also a LISP and was a teaching language at Berkeley. I don't know if it's still used there but the books are online at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html

  11. Re:Does anyone else find the summary comprehensibl on Developing StarCraft 2 Build Orders With Genetic Algorithms · · Score: 1

    In a "crinkled" search area you are more likely to find local min/max and have to plan for that but that isn't the same as chaos. I could be misunderstanding your meaning though.

  12. Re:I must be missing the point here on Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize that the Evil Dead / Army of Darkness films were obscure. Am I overestimating their popularity as cult classics because of my love for them?

  13. Re:Wild Guess on Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem · · Score: 1

    That's Ant Colony Optimazation. Why would bees stoop to such levels?

  14. Too bad on Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter · · Score: 1

    this wasn't on purpose. I could get behind a candidate that has a sense of humor.

  15. blah on Google URL Shortener Opened To the Public · · Score: 2, Interesting
  16. Better Quality + Lower Price = Fix (sorta) on Toei Animation Thinks Mobiles Could Save Anime · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the way to achieve this is to pay the fan-subbers to use their translations. IMO normally they're better, lack censorship, and are already out there. I bet most would be ecstatic to be paid AND do what they love. And the price should be low, say $1 or $2 since the subs are out already. Some money is better than none.

  17. Re:Is it just D&D ? on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 3, Informative

    It took me until the end of the comic to realize it wasn't a joke. WTF?

  18. Re:unamerican! on Winning (and Losing) the First Wired War · · Score: 1

    The parent is obviously a joke. I know I laughed when I read it. Ass.

  19. Next MasterCard commercial on Medical Data on 365,000 Patients Stolen · · Score: 1
    Crowbar - $5
    Ski Mask - $3
    Running Shoes - $50
    Thousands of stolen medical records -

    PRICELESS