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  1. Re:So... on Power To the Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    Because small dicks are bad, and we haven't managed to fix that yet?

  2. Re:Huh? on A "Never Reboot" Service For Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if it's truly a critical service you're talking about redundancy and probably a set up where you can afford to take down one server at a time every few months to reboot/clear the gunk. If you've only got one machine, you're already fucked. You just haven't noticed yet.

  3. Re:I really hate the GIMP UI changes. on GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI · · Score: 1

    Honestly, you're in the minority, most people found the Gimp way of doing it back in the 1.x days to be really irritating, lots of windows to get lost or misclicked and a rather bizarre philosophy of usability. There's a reason why gimpshop was created. That being said, I haven't used Photoshop at all in many revisions, so I don't know what it's like at present.

  4. Re:Smartest workflow move ....ever! on GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI · · Score: 1

    Single window mode is a step in the right direction compared with previous versions. But from the looks of it I'd say that multi window is far more effective than it was previously. The ability to dock all your tools in one window, keep the drawing surface on the other screen and probably have an over view of the image on the screen with the tools seems like a significant improvement over using just one window.

  5. Re:DOOMED I say... DOOMED! on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's a trick question, congressmen never go out at night. They're too busy frequenting prostitutes and lobbyists.

  6. Re:DOOMED I say... DOOMED! on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Far more knowledge? They still can't find my address on their service search site. I'd be curious how they expect to track down or stop any of the /b/tards.

  7. Re:Online gambling is a bad idea. on Push To End Online Gambling Ban Gains Steam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Electronic gambling is a lot worse than the more traditional methods, even if the game is the same. It's not a coincidence that casinos are trying to switch to electronics wherever possible. They want to speed up the process as much as possible because over the long term, the house always wins, and the more hands a player can play, the quicker and larger the profits are. On top of that without the tactile handing over of chips players lose out on the feed back of how much their really wagering making it feel a lot more like play money than money that could be used for things like rent or food.

  8. Re:Why should I care? on Silicon Valley VCs and the Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    I couldn't help but notice the complete lack of supporting information in the article. The argument read like since there's a significant discrepancy then there must be sex discrimination. We've seen the same argument made previously about the supposed pay discrepancy that supposedly unfairly hurts women. It's basically just another instance of trying to use fluff to justify discrimination in favor of women.

    These sorts of intellectually atrophied arguments go a long way to reinforcing the idea that women don't yet have the capability of competing on a level playing field. (And yes, I do realize the author of this particular article is a man, but I've seen this sort of thing way too often from women)

  9. Re:If you don't like it... on The People vs. George Lucas To Premiere At SXSW · · Score: 1

    I've said it many times, and it continues to be true, in the 70s and 80s, George Lucas just didn't have the technology to ruin Star Wars. The effects being bad by today's standards was part of what made the original trilogy so fun. It deliberately deviated from what most people know about science to make an interesting sort of campy story. Nobody in the 70s or 80s seriously expected to be able to go around all those weird planets without space suits or at least ventilators and parkas.

  10. Re:Notes? on Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking? · · Score: 1

    I strongly disagree with that. A good instructor gets you interested and keeps you focused, but that still doesn't get you out of having to take notes. Some people don't need to, but they typically never need to. For most people, it helps to focus the mind on the important concepts, retain it and figure out what one needs to ask questions about.

    Even the best instructor isn't going to be able to reach all students in a lecture equally, nor will they always be able to get information to stick. Hence the point of taking ones own notes. I tried to follow an instructor's advice to just use her class notes one quarter, and it didn't work out at all.

  11. Re:At Law School... on Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, you can't. I type far faster than most of the populace when I want to, but part of the point of pen and paper is that you have to think about what it is that you're writing. In order for me to crank out text at the highest rate, I have to pretty much skip the step of analyzing the material I'm trying to get down on paper. Sure I might get more information down, but it's less likely to be useful and more likely to include errors.

    End result, you may very well have gotten more information total, but it's far less likely to be the information you need. Additionally, you've just pissed off the people in the lecture that are more respectful of their classmates. I paid for the class, I don't see why I should suffer so that somebody else can type during my class time. There's also the bit where a huge number of specialties actually require some degree of drawing. Even in law classes, there's sure to be times when a neatly drawn diagram can better explain what's going on than a large amount of text.

  12. Re:right... on Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills · · Score: 1

    The drills really aren't that bad, assuming that the dentist doesn't botch it. No new technology can be expected to solve poor technique or accidents.

  13. Re:Already done on Code Review of Doom For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    The point is that somebody already did the work involved with the 3D vertices, if I'm getting it right. Yes, OpenGL ES is somewhat different, but if I'm understanding it's not really that different and the biggest architectural changes had to already be made anyways.

  14. Re:Exactly. on Sony May Charge For PlayStation Network · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because previous versions of the PS3 had it as a way of artificially increasing the catalog size. And they didn't really advertise the crippling of the hardware on the box either. Sure you could find the information if you looked for it, but you should be able to assume that a console can do anything that the other versions can. There shouldn't be any need to research a particular revision because the manufacturer was dickish enough to change the specs.

    From a gaming perspective the various gameboys wer completely compatible as were the GBA and GBA SP.

  15. Re:Baguette on Europe's LHC To Run At Half-Energy Through 2011 · · Score: 1

    He's been upgraded to a full sub.

  16. Re:right, so it doesn't matter in terms of sales on Game Industry Vets On DRM · · Score: 1

    But what is easy to prove is that using DRM increases the number of copies that have to be sold, just to break even. If you can't demonstrate that you're better off for DRM, then you're definitely not better off. Paying large sums of money on the notion that the snakeskin oil will decrease piracy is just bad business practice.

  17. Re:Crack when there is no DRM? on Game Industry Vets On DRM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But, the game presumably doesn't run if you don't have the disc in the drive, right? That's DRM, you can't run the copy on your laptop if you forgot the disc at home.

  18. Re:We have more stuff to do! on Why Time Flies By As You Get Older · · Score: 1

    That's most likely it. More time doing things you don't want to do, means more time not being bored for nothing to do. If time seems to fly for me now, it's mostly because I haven't the amount of free time I used to have.

  19. Re:Is there the checklist for why this won't succe on Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery · · Score: 1

    But, it actually does work. I've got nearly a thousand messages in my junk mail folder and very few false positives. All of the false positives are mailing lists which can be easily whitelisted when I feel like it. And there's been no spam getting through. That's a result that demonstrates the effect it has.

    Additionally Google crowd sources the problem, when one user places the spam into the spam folder, any and all identical messages also get placed into the spam folder in other accounts. Meaning that the spam only gets seen one time, even though Gmail may have many thousands of copies in various accounts.

  20. Re:Its not the Super Bowl, it's "The Big Game" on Will Your Super Bowl Party Anger the Copyright Gods? · · Score: 1

    Um, no you don't. There's a fair use exception in place when you use a trademarked term to refer to the item it trademarks. There's reason why MS can't sue Apple out of existence for use the term "MS Windows XP" at places in manuals that talk about support for their products on Windows and it's not related to antitrust regulations.

  21. Re:Can't copyright a term on Will Your Super Bowl Party Anger the Copyright Gods? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which is completely unenforceable, since you're allowed to use trademarks for the purpose of referring to the item. Meaning that they might get upset about you calling it a "Super Bowl party" but if you have a party where you watch the "Super Bowl" there isn't really anything they can do about it.

  22. Re:Spell Checking on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    When I was in school, they spent huge amounts of time on spelling, and basically none on grammar. I didn't really learn grammar, apart from during Latin, until senior year of college when I took a community journalism class. I'm not sure what it's like now or in other parts of the world, but it's not really fair to expect students to know something that the teachers didn't have time to teach.

  23. Re:I noticed this problem almost half a decade ago on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    Dude, I've tried that and it greatly reduces the ability to communicate in chat. Sure you don't need to condense it all the way down to "dood r u OK?", but using IM demands a specialized version of English grammar, the way that writing in science or creative fiction does.

  24. Re:Really? on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    Because you can confound people with the subjunctive? (Had to bring it up since people seem to often think that because can't start a sentence. And the ironic misspelling of English.)

    Spelling is something that is to a large extent overrated in English, however grammar really isn't. You can simplify things quite a bit and steer clear of the subjunctive whenever possible. But it greatly limits the ideas that you're able to express. Sure in the modern age you can show things with a video or create drawings. But for many more esoteric subjects, it's just not possible to express without a substantial understanding of grammar.

    You really don't have to get it exactly correct, however it should be close enough to easily understand. Obsessing about using can't rather than cannot has never been really that important to anybody's understanding of the ideas.

  25. Re:Loan guarantees? on Obama Budget To Triple Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees · · Score: 1

    Considering that the Australians are some of the biggest supporters of the US in the world, it's a much, much better deal to work with them than most of the oil producers. And on the upside, there's plenty of things we have that we could basically barter them to keep things moving smoothly for both parties.