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  1. Re:My guess on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 2

    Their Skin color has nothing to do with it.
    Their choice of language spoken has nothing to do with it.

    The fact that many come here illegally has everything to do with it.
    Legal immigration is fine. Sneaking across the border is not.

    I know many people of Latino decent who are really annoyed of people who did not come here legally. They say it give them a bad reputation. They have a point.

  2. Re:Oh yes, software on America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware · · Score: 1

    And without hardware software is pointless.

    One needs the other. Either on its own is useless.

  3. Re:H3s are lame little pieces of shit. Get a Unimo on A Planet Literally Boils Under the Heat of Its Star · · Score: 1

    The H2 is a chevy blazer with a different body, tires, and suspension. Like the H2 is a suburban. They share the same frame.

  4. Re:Magic on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 1, Troll

    Maybe some people do not like Apple due to the fact that people believe the hype. Many Apple users tell me that they can surf the web and open any email attachment without fear of ever getting a virus/malware. That is not true. If this was true I would have to be rebuilding Apple machines that are infected. Granted the users let the virus/malware be installed in the first place. They entered in their password when prompted without a second thought. That is the problem. The Apple users think they are totally safe, so any password prompt is fine since that are on an Apple machine.

  5. Re:Sweet on Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    Cloning and a way to transfer memory from one human to the next. Sort of like how memory was transferred in the movie The Sixth Day.Then someone could go there. Well their clone anyway.

  6. Re:Dull Specs, but battery life? on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    Additionally having a device that supports 1080p, even if the display has a lower resolution, is nice since you don't need to resize videos to work on your phone.

    If the phone's display size is smaller, how can it display the 1080p without resizing? No resizing needed for external display, fine. But on the device itself with a non 1080p screen? It has to resize to display.

  7. Re:Command line on Diablo 3 Coming To Consoles · · Score: 1

    Actually there was a diablo mud for a while. The Cane there was not little kid safe. It got shut down. Seems someone didn't like it too much even though it had a few hundred people on it all the time. Remember this was a mud. Long before WOW came out.

  8. Re:Please no on Google Merges Google+ Into Search · · Score: 2

    If Google keeps on giving me crappy search results, I will be looking for a new main search site. I had to go 9-10 pages deep to find out what I was looking for the other day. The first 8 pages were all shopping ads for the laptop. I did type in laptop+issue. Tried two other search site and got issue related results on the first page. I been fining this more and more with Google. I think they get more revenue from the sales sites then the fix it sites. Which would explain the number of sales site before the fix it sites.

    For me mapquest just worked. Then again I was printing off the directions. I did not use a tablet or smart phone to display those directions. I also liked the old mapquest look better then the new one.

    As for as no one is being forced, the same could have been said for the antitrust case against microsoft. That didn't hold water then either.

  9. Re:Yes! on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    The ribbon is not new. Ask any Lotus 123 user from way back to look at the ribbon in Excel. They should see things that look very familiar.

    The "make it look and work this way" attitude that many designers have doesn't fly. Most designers only care about how it looks. For things to work you need both. Depending on the item form or function should take the lead. When you totally go one over the other, you fail. Designers have this "I know better they you" complex as well.

    There are too many people who only care about form or how things look. Discounting function will burn you no matter the field.

  10. Re:Overpowerful. on AMD Radeon HD 7970 Launched, Fastest GPU Tested · · Score: 1

    There are many people who can tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps when playing a game. If the game changes fps while playing it is more noticeable. If the game is constant 30 (everywhere) you would not notice. That is the issue. There are fps changes. If you can get a GPU that keeps the fps around 60 you will have a better playing experience. The fps will drop in the really intense areas, but they will still be smooth to your eye. If you get a GPU that drops to the mid to low 20s in intense areas, you will notice this. That can affect your game play. The thinking is keep it around 60 fps everywhere. So if it drops a little, we will not notice.

  11. Re:Why don't they just ... on New Kind of Metal Theorized To Be In the Earth's Lower Mantle · · Score: 1

    If your gonna use a laser, just make a bunch of holes in a circle (or the shape of the hole you want) and let the pressure of the magma push the plug out*.

    *If you do this, please make sure that you are far from any other city, person, etc. The lava and plug might be fun to watch shooting from the ground, however it will be totally dangerous to all living things. Unless you are a lava creature then by all means get close.

  12. Re:Its the compiler, stupid. on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    The PAE switch worked better at install time then after the fact for me. XP 32bit ran odd with greater then 4GB with the PAE switch. Windows server 2003 32 bit ran better but would shudder at times. I used server 2003 as my gaming machine for a while. It was faster the XP on the same hardware. Getting a 64 bit OS has just mad things easier. Still server 2008 is faster then vista or win 7 on the same hardware for me in what I do. Server's file handling beats the desktop OS hands down. Then again is is supposed to be a server OS, so it should beat the desktops for file handling.

  13. Re:This is why on Does Mega Media Control 90% of Content? · · Score: 2

    Which is why I DVR the TV shows I like and watch them later while skipping the commercials. One hour TV shows are like 40 minutes (and getting shorter) now. I would add in commercial skip, but it messes up sometimes. I"ll edit the commercials out for the shows I want to keep.

  14. Re:Why now? on Apple Transfers Patents Through Shell Company To Sue All Phone Makers · · Score: 1

    Unless your computer is an entertainment device that occasionally does word processing. In that case, who cares about backwards compatibility?

    That still matters for entertainment devices. Blue-Ray players can play DVDs. If they could not and one needed a separate DVD player, I could see even fewer Blue-Ray player sales.

  15. Re:denied with costs? on Apple Loses Tablet Battle In Australia · · Score: 1

    And to the everyday person, the edge around the screen that the screen does not display in is called... wait for it... the bezel! That may not be what Apple calls it. That my not be what you call it. But that is that regular people call it.

  16. Re:Java == Training Wheels on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 1

    I remember when java was just starting. The java programmers all excited about not having to do memory management anymore.

    I asked them how do you know that things are being cleaned up correctly? How do you know that a different memory algorithm works better unless you try it?

    They were like, why should we care? We can always add more memory if we need it.

    Give today's java programmer a computer from the early 1980s and tell them to code on it. Could be funny.

  17. Re:what a load of on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 2

    You have never seen a cat play with a mouse (or other small creature). It plays with it. Then kills it. Then walks away. The cat does not eat it.

  18. Re:The stupid! It hurts! on Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents? · · Score: 1

    No one claimed prior art? Someone got paid off big time. Measuring something in people's blood (or other places) then changing the dosage of medicine has been going on for decades. They are measuring one chemical. So do a lot of other tests that have been going on for decades.

    example: All the people who measure the sugar levels in their blood then give themselves (or have someone give them) a shot.

    Many things are measured in people to determine the amount of medicine they should be getting. This is not new. Or even innovative. Patents are supposed to be specific. Like the gun patents were in the 1800s. How many gun patents are there? A change to the trigger mechanism or the way the barrel moves, new patent. A whole lot were thrown out since they were not different enough from existing patents (if I remember that history channel show about guns correctly). This patent was written as broad as possible. That alone should be reason to have it thrown out.

  19. Re:Escalate on Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? · · Score: 1

    You might want to check out who was on board with those decisions before pointing out all the flaws. If management was on board with those (bad) decisions, you might find your self in hot water with them. Now if you can go right to the top (CEO, company owner), you might have a chance. That is if that person takes you seriously.

    If your predecessor had the backing of management, you might be signing your own pink slip. I have worked for places that upper management dedicated how IT was going to do things. Not just what equipment to get, but which programming languages to use, how to code, how to load the data, no use of automation, this is how long tasks take, etc. This was happening due to the marketing group making deals with people (in the places where I worked). The marketing group had management's complete attention. We got things done and on time, but at a huge cost to the well being of the people in IT. That place had 5 IT people and 74 marketing people. The marketing group called the shots. One example: At 4PM on Monday we were told we had to get this new store of 30 million items from 15 different sources up and running by Friday's 9AM showing to some company. New website, new database, new conversions from all the sources fixing all the data in 3 days. The marketing person set all the deadlines. We did it. Then 3 days became the new how long it takes to get a store up and running from nothing time. To this day I still do not like marketing people.

  20. Re:UEFI doesn't have MBR on Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated · · Score: 2

    Plus it looks like it needs physical access to the machine. If you have physical access you can boot it anyway you want. If this was a remote hack I would be more impressed.

  21. Re:Cool! on Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator · · Score: 1

    You might wan to re-read it yourself. They state that nuke isn't precise enough. They uses 'excited' isotopes for a bigger boom, bot not a nuke itself in the bomb.

  22. Re:Cool! on Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And if your country is attacked, who would you look to to save your collective assess?

  23. Re:Recording on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tablet/App Combination For Note-Taking? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe because faculty do not want to be recorded? When I was in school I did ask to record the classes. Most of the faculty were against it. This was 20 years ago (dam I am old) it might be different today. I would ask before recording class.

  24. Re:they should have a lower cost CPU that works X7 on Intel Launches Sandy Bridge-E Series Processors · · Score: 1

    I have 3 TV tuners in a system. I record all the TV I want to watch. Then watch it when I want to. I have found the on demand services to be lacking for the show that I want to watch. They also forced me to watch on their schedule. The show would go away after a while. I record them and watch when I want to. it is great to not have to wait for all the 2 part TV shows unless it is a season ending cliff hanger.

  25. Re:Vulnerable in 20 years on Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the beer and hookers