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  1. Physical Violence on How To Help a Friend With an MMO Addiction? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why not just kick his ass already? The only thing wrong is that he might be used to it.

  2. Re:The answer isn't that obvious on Russia To Save Its ISS Modules · · Score: 1

    I've had DVD players that have broken on me, but I still have two VHS players that work, one from '88 and one from '93, so thats my anecdotal counterpoint.

  3. Re:Screw Flash on Major League Baseball Dumps Silverlight For Flash · · Score: 1

    That's what you get for being a sox fan.

  4. Worst part of the Mac OS X on Major League Baseball Dumps Silverlight For Flash · · Score: 1

    The worst part of OS X is its flash implementation. I can't have my Macbook Pro on my lap if something using flash is running. I think it's time for Adobe to optimize its products for OS X and Linux.

  5. Re:Start=Pause, DLC $5.99=Unpause. on Sony Charges Publishers For DLC Bandwidth Usage · · Score: 1

    Last night I purchased the new Call of Duty map pack, practically solely for the new zombie level. At $8, it was pretty pricey, but I know we'll play it enough to justify it. But you can't just get $8 worth of Microsoft points, you have to get $12.50. Bullshit.

  6. Re:How bad will Best Buy will be with no competito on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    I worked for Best Buy two years ago, and even then Circuit City was not our competition (what our managers told us.) What Best Buy is worried about is people going to WalMart and Dell. Circuit City stopped being competitive a long time ago.

  7. Re:Main mistake they made? on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    I bought a tube of thermal compound from BB two weeks ago. You might wanna ask someone next time you go to the store.

  8. Re:Cancer on Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple · · Score: 1

    True, but Steve Jobs wasn't in Roadhouse. That drops his odds significantly.

  9. Re:I'm Scared on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 0

    In Soviet Russia, ass wipe YOU!

  10. Re:I call Bullshit on TrueMotion Game Controller a Step Up From Wii Remote · · Score: 1

    How can you be certain?

  11. Re:It is NOT a fourth basic component on New Memristor Makes Low-Cost, High-Density Memory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The GP was commenting on the fact that a memristor is not linear time invariant element. So it isn't as basic as the other 3. The other three can be analyzed using fairly simple analysis, while the memristor seems to introduce state to a circuit.
    Circuits that are time linear, and time variant are more difficult to analyze on a broad scope than those that are LTI.

  12. Re:What web browsers support the Windows 7 Beta do on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 1

    I've been periodically checking my MSDN AA site, but it hasn't been put up yet. I was considering using it as the OS on the machine I just rebuilt for my non-technical brother, but I ended up using Vista. I hope the UAC things annoy the shit out of him, as he does me ;).

  13. Re:OS analogy on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 1

    He must be using the new Macbook Wheel.

  14. Quite simply... no. on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    There ought to be a more diversity in the mathematics curricula that exist. Spending the first 8 years of mathematics on arithmetic is a waste of time. Too much emphasis is thrown on algebra and stupid concepts in geometry (shape names etc.) It's time to start teaching kids that there is more to mathematics than y=mx+b. Introduce them to boolean algebra. Why do all studies have to be of continuous time systems? There should be a survey class of different areas of mathematics, which doesn't emphasize the right answer per se, but emphasizes the right tools for the question.

  15. Re:This is SO stupid on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: 1

    The increase in tuition wouldn't be so bad, if it stayed in education. I go to a SUNY school, and we're getting a $300 tuition hike from the state next year, and something like 10% of that stays in education. Then they cut the budget by 5 million. This guy is robbing us... blind?

  16. Re:Corporate Asset on What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? · · Score: 1

    I recall a year or two ago, the group at www.modtheater.com had tried to contact EA to get the game source for the game. EA responded saying that they would happily oblige, but they no longer had the code, or they didn't know where they kept it. Whether that was just a bunch of BS, who knows, but it looks like they shit can stuff too.

  17. Linguistics on Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    I think all these strengths with no real interest in pursuing mathematics or science may lend to her being interested in linguistics.

  18. Re:GooB sale? on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    They use Firedog to prevent firesales.

  19. Re:Sound rough on Memory Molecule Identified · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that's not a Spore trailer?

  20. Re:Oh just stick a 2-axis accellerometer inside on "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical · · Score: 5, Funny

    They sell them at Home Depot between the perpetual motion machines, and the objects of mass m.

  21. Re:Quantum Leap! on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 1

    Oh boy!

  22. Re:customizable physics textbook on Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook · · Score: 1

    This generally means rearranging the chapters and sections to coincide with the curriculum designed. My professor did this, and it was a huge favor to all us students. Because its a custom edition, you cannot sell it back, because it lacks national resale value.

  23. Re:OT: Article submitter links to fascist rhetoric on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    Damn I wish I had some mod points, this definitely should have a +5 Interesting on it.

  24. What about... on Best Way To Distribute Video Online? · · Score: 1

    putting it on VHS?

  25. Re:An iPhone screen for a trackpad? on MacBook Updates Rumored To Include Glass Trackpad · · Score: 1

    I think it would be kind of cool to have a screen there, or even just along the bottom of the glass, that had the dock replicated in some fashion. You could just tap on the application and bring it up.