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  1. Re:Private Enterprise... on Astronomy Portfolio Review Recommends Defunding US's Biggest Telescope · · Score: 1

    Yeah, does anyone know what the operating costs of this telescope are per year?

    Second link says $10 million a year.

  2. Re:Private Enterprise... on Astronomy Portfolio Review Recommends Defunding US's Biggest Telescope · · Score: 2

    Ok, so how exactly do you make money off of this?

    This type of research is funded by the government because there is no incentive for private enterprise to do something like this because there is no way to profit off of this.

  3. Re:Blah.blah..marketing..marteting..blah on AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs · · Score: 1

    From his post he says that he used Tango because his friends used Tango.

    Why his friends used Tango, who knows, but they did, so he did.

  4. Holey Hell Has Frozen Over Batman!!!!! on AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs · · Score: 1

    Slashdot has in the summary a link to an Original Source!

  5. Re:Blah.blah..marketing..marteting..blah on AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are oddly enough some apps that don't have a good equivalent on the PC side.

    A good example is Torque Pro, an amazingly awesome OBDII app for $4.99 . Does things stand alone OBDII readers could never do, even ones costing thousands of dollars can't do the things this little program can. And it is easy to use.

  6. Re:Article says get rid of them ASAP on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 1

    Just because they are really good workers, that doesn't mean they should be making management type decisions once things get beyond their ability.

    It's not so much that the person should be fired, just have their duties relaxed.

  7. Re:Why Are They Jerks? on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 1

    But that is not how it is applied in regards to killers.

    If they kill plural "people" they are a mass murderer.

    If they only kill people who fit a certain criteria (pattern) then they are a serial killer.

    Micky and Malory Knox were mass murderers.

    Dexter is a serial killer.

  8. Re:Do unto others on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 1

    Naw, tried joining the Army, tried Joining the Air Force. Although I had great test scores I was a complete fuck up so they said no.

    They were also concerned for some odd reason with me being born in Canada. /boggle

    Then again this was back when Clinton was in office and the military was being shrunk.

  9. Re:Article has it Right on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 2

    Intelligence and knowledge are two different things.

    Just because someone is smart, that doesn't mean they are right.

  10. Re:The Jerk on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Agreed. Jerk has always been a way to call someone an asshole without swearing.

  11. Re:Do unto others on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 4, Funny

    as you would have them do unto you.

    There are things some people want done to them that I do not want done to me.

  12. Re:Been testing Windows 8 on Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely · · Score: 1

    Yes, all too often fanbois have been called shills, but the posts that happen at the very same moment that one could post, those are always shills.

    No one goes and creates a new account to post in a story and writes the entire post in under a minute.

  13. Re:Ever closer to Idiocracy on Promoting Arithmetic and Algebra By Example · · Score: 1

    We could even use the useless ones as food!

    That would be hugely inefficient. The amount of meat you get out of a human body vs the food that goes in is a horrible ratio.

    You might get a week or two worth of meat from a body, but that body needs tons of food throughout its lifetime to create that little bit of meat.

  14. Re:I dont trust Google with my documents on Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats On Oct. 1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't trust Google with my documents anyways. Who knows what they will try to do with that information!

    Display relevant ads?

  15. Re:Shouldn't have used HOSTS file on Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats On Oct. 1 · · Score: 1

    Hey I understand trolling is fun and all, but can you change the address to one that doesn't actually exist?

    I understand that the APK fellow might be a first class dickwad, but now you are acting like him.

    Do you really want to be like APK?

  16. Re:And 90% of the reason to use Google Docs... on Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats On Oct. 1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I read the article correctly you can still create documents in MS Office formats, you just can't download them in those formats. So your customers will still be able to open the files you send them, but you may not be able to open the documents they send you.

    this means that the search giant will still support exporting into these Microsoft formats: Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), and PowerPoint (.pptx).

  17. Re:Been testing Windows 8 on Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely · · Score: 4, Informative

    The shills create a new account for each story and they tend to drop that account rather fast.

    For proof, check the posting history of the person being accused of being a shill.

    He has only posted in this story and that account will never be used again.

    Also he posted the very minute that the story was available to post in even though that account is not a subscriber.

    This is the common MO of shills on /. , new account, only posts in this one story, first post at the same time story was available to post in. You see that situation and you will know that that person is a shill.

  18. Re:No OS is ever truly an OS on Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely · · Score: 1

    To complete the fractured thought you have posted.

    No Windows OS is ever a truly completed OS until at least the first service pack, and some need more than one service pack.

  19. Re:I can only imagine.. on Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely · · Score: 2

    There are a number of programs that I can get to load on Windows XP and Windows 7, but not Windows Vista.

    Vista has a lot more problems than just drivers.

  20. Re:Don't on Ask Slashdot: Ideas and Tools To Get Around the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    But I don't plot and scheme for how I can drive at UK speeds - I follow the US speed limits

    Why follow the US speed limits?

    It's not like we do. There are a few states that you can maintain your speed over 100mph and still just be keeping up with traffic.

    I recommend a good radar detector and a good map (the closer to civilization you get the slower you go).

    The reason for the low speed limits is probably linked to our laughable requirements for getting a drivers license so just stay away from the other cars as much as possible.

  21. Re:The Parking Garage on Ask Slashdot: Ideas and Tools To Get Around the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    Googled Parking Garage before posting, but the wiki on it just mentioned them being lost in a parking garage and how unusual it was since the episode did not take place in the apartment.

    Nothing about people in chinese prisons.

    Never did watch the series so /woosh

  22. Re:Hi, I'm visiting the US soon... on Ask Slashdot: Ideas and Tools To Get Around the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:The Parking Garage on Ask Slashdot: Ideas and Tools To Get Around the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    Why, my dad just returned from a 14-year stint in a red Chinese prison...

    Mind providing more details regarding that?

  24. Re:Hi, I'm visiting the US soon... on Ask Slashdot: Ideas and Tools To Get Around the Great Firewall? · · Score: 2

    And although I will be going as a tourist, I still need to be able to regularly import large quantities of heroin and cocaine. However, this isn't allowed according to US law, so can anyone suggest how I can circumvent this law largely because I don't accept it and want to carry on with my massive heroin and cocaine habits while there...

    I can't help you with large quantities, but otherwise I recommend FedEx.

  25. Re:Breaking laws on Ask Slashdot: Ideas and Tools To Get Around the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    I would actually rank the Philippines higher on my list of countries to not fuck up in vs China.