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  1. Re:Illiterate troll? on Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under · · Score: 1

    Who cares, though? It's a nice looking pad, and samsung probably copied it. So What?

  2. Re:I dont think i help the arguement on Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under · · Score: 1

    ...and I think that's a good thing. You've learnt a particular way of interacting with the device, and Samsung are providing you with a familiar interface with a better hardware/software solution. I would not want the world to be any other way.

  3. Re:Illiterate troll? on Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under · · Score: 1

    Who cares?! It actually doesn't matter what the icons look like, for unprintables sake! It doesn't matter one diddley squat. It doesn't matter what it looks like, either. Apple spent a ton on telling the whole world what looks fashionable, and samsung have pulled the no-brainer and copied it. So What? If the Apple way of doing it made sense, then why change it? If people were used to the Apple way of doing it, don't force them to learn a new way. If every car makers came up with a new way of driving the thing we'd get pretty pissed with the situation. Apple set the trends now, they can't complain when other people follow. If anything it proves the success of their marketing that other companies will follow.

  4. talking about my generation on Is This the Golden Age of Hacking? · · Score: 1

    Could it also be the right generation - there is now a generation of "politically motivated" people out there who will have grown up with a computer+internet environment from an early age....can this reasonably be said of any other generation? Is this the reason so many hackers have been "created"? Other generations used other tools, ours will use the internet.

  5. Re:Hummm... What? on EU About To Vote On Copyright Extension · · Score: 2

    And I think that's the reason we can't really trust big pharma - would they really want to release a "cure-all" anti-biotic to which bugs never developed resistance?

  6. Re:Why? on Getting L33t Into the Oxford English Dictionary · · Score: 1

    Murdoch, adj 1. A statement in which the speaker derides a group of people for possessing a negative attribute, whilst simultaneously proving that he/she also possesses said attribute.

  7. Re:Why is TFA an image? on Getting L33t Into the Oxford English Dictionary · · Score: 1

    very good! thankyou! And it's a bloody interesting read, and that's the reason that l33t should be in there too - this is an historic document; a census of the most commonly used words "in our time" and their history, and anybody that says different is misunderstanding why this document even exists.

  8. Re:Err : "improve the overall RIDE QUALITY by 60% on Electromagnetic Automobile Suspension Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    I'm just going to use my imagination to answer that: couldn't you just drive it on a "uniform-bumpy" road at 30mph, and put an accelerometer in the car, weighted down on the driver's seat with 11stone of sand in a bag. Average the reading. Change the suspension. Do the same again... You can't directly measure something like ride quality, since there my be subjective factors - some people might like to "feel the road", others may like to drift along in ghostly serenity, but there are certainly proxies, like the one I've just imaginated for you.

  9. Re:"No consequences for violence" on Do Violent Games Hinder Development of Empathy? · · Score: 1

    GTA:San Andreas has an 18 certificate on it...how is this a valid example? I think kids will always find a way to be violent. If their model weren't provided by kung fu panda, or power rangers, they would still be hitting each other with sticks: it's not the specific way in which they exhibit that behaviour that's important. In some ways I think I've learnt from being overly violent - from the feeling of guilt and shame that followed - now I know more about the horrible consequences. Now when I play GTA San Andreas, I've a fully-developed sense of right and wrong (lol) and I can just enjoy speeding down the highway and crashing spectacularly.

  10. Re:What games? on Saving the UK Games Industry · · Score: 1

    not to mention the GTA series

  11. Re:What? No Feathers? on Flying Robot Bird Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that the permeability of the wing to air helps reduce the resistance on the upstroke, but I think that the twist on the upstroke allows the wing to cut through the air, whilst the wing is held parallel to the ground on the down-stroke, providing the lift. Importantly, forward motion may be provided by retaining an angle on the upstroke, so energy isn't completely wasted here. I'm sure that new materials will provide refinements on this model and your suggestion may well be one of them.

  12. Re:It's quite simple on UK ISPs Hatch Plan To Block the Pirate Bay and Other File Sharing Sites · · Score: 1

    I think that's because the people who aren't clever enough to: a)work a computer to download their music, or at worst stream from grooveshark/spotify b)not allow advertising to control their wants and desires are the kinds of people who are still buying music en masse and thereby controlling the charts and indirectly what gets played on mainstream radio stations. When you think about it, there's actually only one reason to base a chart solely on what people are buying: financial gain. Surely a better reflection of "what's popular" would be a chart based on grooveshark/spotify numbers...and a radio station based upon such a chart would probably be more popular(???)

  13. Re:USA #1 on AT&T Cracking Down On Unofficial iPhone Tethering · · Score: 2

    Virgin charge nothing extra - you pay for your data plan, it's your data to use how you like, through which ever device you like

  14. Re:Apples and oranges... on New Hardware Needed For Future Computational Brain · · Score: 1

    and here fits my car analogy... the worlds fastest production veichle, the bugatti veyron, is rubbish at getting up stairs

  15. Re:I don't think it'll be cheap on First Cell Phone for Dogs · · Score: 1

    both should be spayed or neutered

  16. Re:Ecological Sanitation - way of the future on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    so you prepose a network of plastic pipes to supply a countries toilets when the country cannot even maintain a network of pipes to supply people with water to drink? and I use the word drink very loosely. do you really think they're gonna be able to do this? there are solutions - such as the earth toilet discussed above. salt water is not gonna help.

  17. Re:The Origin of Species and peer review on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that the peer review process you're talking about and the scientific peer review process for journal publications are one and the same.

  18. Re:Ecological Sanitation - way of the future on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    right yeah but full of salt so it can't be used in piping. ever been to india or china? I can tell you that in Goa (which, unlike the mass of india, is right on the beach) the pipes are so poorly laid that there are water shortages pretty much all the time. Even more so in the monsoon rains when the pipe beds are undercut leaving the pipes exposed. how did you score 2? fool

  19. Re:Pee in the Sink on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    no he's right. that's why I have to keep my piss in the fridge if I don't want it to go off.

  20. Re:Yup! on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 0

    "...knowledge is only true and valuable when you pay lots of money for it and distribute it to a limited group." Unlike /. where you have to pay money to make sure your [ones] knowledge is distributed before everyone elses and the first ones to review are a limited groupd of people who pay money to do so. oh and yes, /. makes a good living by this inequality.

  21. Re:What's to prevent it? on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 0

    yeah there's nothing to prevent anyone publishing anything on the web which is why it's full of shit. the amount of times I've come across articles on wiki which are just crap and craply written to boot. You want good writing and good science? Pay an editor.

  22. Re:My previous post on this subject on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 0

    "The fact that reviews are blind means that they are also unaccountable, which fosters even more bias." I disagree. A review should be judged entirely on its content and it would be unscientific to ascess the bias of the review by the author. Scientists, unlike egoists, can change their tune. They have to if they are to be considered scientists - a scientist must accept current thought. This is why we're laughing at the kansas board of education. If, by scientific reasoning, current thought is challenged, then a scientist must concede. An egoist would refute scientific reasoning on no basis. Darwin refuted Lord Kelvin's thermodynamic proof of the age of the world. Kelvin said that the earth was 100 million years old. He measured the cooling of earth and calculated how long it would take to achieve its current state. Kelvin was wrong, he didn't know about radioactive material, but it was unscientific of Darwin to refute Kelvin. It was unscientific of Huxley to defend Darwin when he had no scientific PROOFS. It was not unscientific of Huxley to be Darwin's FRIEND. It has nothing to do with his [Huxley's] name.

  23. Re:My previous post on this subject on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 3, Informative

    Darwin did submit a paper on the origin of the species for peer review alongside Alfred Russel-Wallace. this was published in 'transactions. 'Origin of the species' was intended for the populus. Darwin was working on a far more scientific publication, full of footnotes, throughly arguing his point, but did not publish at the time (1844) because another "evolutionary" publication ('vesiges' - annamous, but later it was found that William Chambers (of W&R Chambers of Edinburgh)) was not well recieved.

  24. lacking on Firefox Plans Mass Marketing Drive · · Score: 0, Redundant

    yeah i use firefox. it's better than ie. but it does't seem to run on a user account. don't know why. does anyone have a fix for this? maybe 1.5 will work. yeah firefox crashes, so does ie. firefox also has this annoying way of removing the address bar when you're browsing. ie doesn't do this. still have to wait and see what microsoft do to curb firefox useage. does Gates care that people are using firefox?

  25. Re:Awesome on Einstein's Biggest Blunder That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    no he didn't. vacuum enery was one of his greatest thought experiments. all fans of einstein are familiar with this one. this fudge business is a load of poo