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  1. Re:Funny Timing on The Nintendo DS Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    The Gameboy Advance SP is my preferred Pokemon platform. It can run Red or Blue or any of the old carts, and it's the perfect host for the best Pokemon version, Emerald.

  2. Re:Nintendo DS on The Nintendo DS Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    You can probably run a limited port of Tux Racer on your cracked Palm III. Or maybe on one of the WinCE PDAs that can run NetBSD (without display or touch-screen support. but YOU CAN LOG ON a TERMINAL session!)

  3. Re:Oh man, Red Bull totally knows gaming on The Nintendo DS Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    You make Red Bull sound like Apple.

  4. Re:Dupes on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 1

    The rest of us are gobsmacked at how the political left is so determined that they know exactly what everybody else wants and should just follow their lead.

    Those stupid motherfucker poor people. Don't they know we have their lives figured out for them?

  5. Re:You shouldn't need insurance for most things on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 1

    Or, for that matter, only-private food and nutrition. Food should be freely available at public dispensaries.

    And free internet. And poker, and hookers.

  6. Re:You shouldn't need insurance for most things on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 1

    I had left home, BTW.

    You probably shouldn't have been a runaway teenager. Clearly the demise of the cultural value of a nurturing family failed you.

  7. Re:You shouldn't need insurance for most things on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 2

    Your claim needs to be statistically demonstrated, not just rambling anecdotes. When health care is 'free' costs go up. But people still don't like to go to the doctor. The notion that people, any time they are feeling out of sort, should surrender themselves to a doctor who will 'make it better' is just as wrong as the notion that people will delay health care until near death. People need to take responsibility for their own health.

  8. Re:Camps mixed up on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Warren Buffet never coughs up a dime without being forced to. He just grandstands about the issue. Rhetoric is not action.

  9. Re:CP/M needs to buried ... on Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Apple II software ran on various other brands of computers. Which Apple vigorously sued those brands for and drove them out of the market. Apple has always been a company operated primarily by a team of marketers and their lawyers worried about the brand.

  10. Re:Why at a place of learning? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    So what you're advocating is strict partitioning? You want no talk of science or anything scientific in church?

  11. Re:The downside is on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Try telling T-Mobile that the updates come from Microsoft. My T-Mobile Nokia has a Windows 8.1 release but T-Mobile has been sitting on it, claiming it is still in testing, since this past Spring.

  12. Re: It's the OS, Stupid on Apple's Next Hit Could Be a Microsoft Surface Pro Clone · · Score: 2

    It's based on Mach, which is neither Linux nor BSD.

    Apple didn't develop it. They bought NeXT, which had adapted it from Mach.

    iOS is POSIX compliant? Don't be silly. There are whole chunks of the API not implemented. Sure, there are add-ons to make MacOS POSIX compliant. Just like there are add-ons for Windows NT.

  13. Re:It's the OS, Stupid on Apple's Next Hit Could Be a Microsoft Surface Pro Clone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It still needs to run a real OS, not gussied-up music player firmware.

  14. Re:Who wants to work for Google nowadays? on The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google · · Score: 2

    The term for it is 'Publicly Traded' and it has to do with a certain kind of person who scurries into an organization once it becomes a certain sort of organization. Happens to every company, always.

  15. Re:Analogy on The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google · · Score: 1

    It brings to mind Visual Basic, or *shudder* LabView.

  16. Occult and looney new-age books. on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 1

    Back when Barnes and Noble had a lot more retail locations than they do now, there was always a table somewhere in the store with 'visionary' type books at remnant prices. It usually featured the kind of speculative fancy that these days plays on the 'Discover' channel (or has Discover gone off the air? I see such little television...) Anyhow, there are usually big coffee-table books about Alestair Crowley, Blavatsky, and of course a few books with public domain drawings by Tesla.

    Tesla was a rigorous scientist in his younger years but a nerd not a businessman. He went slowly insane because of how he was treated. That doesn't mean his later ideas were 'repressed.' Reality has a way of repressing unfounded fancy.

  17. Re:Read Tesla's patents on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 1

    There are long range DC powerlines in use. They are effective in their implementation. There are also a lot of rabid rural types who rant about them and 'strange effects' that come from being near the lines. Almost batshit like Tesla in his later years.

  18. Re:Not a narcisisst on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 1

    It is easier to electrocute animals using AC. AC penetrates complex impedances much deeper than DC. There's a thing called reactance. DC shocks are still nasty and can be nastier actually since they ionize, but AC penetrates deeper.

  19. Re:Not a narcisisst on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably Edison's greatest invention was the modern Research and Development Lab. Before him, inventions were made by individuals working out of barns or the back room in existing factories. Edison pioneered the idea of having a staff of scientists and engineers working for one organization.

  20. Parrots Caught on tape on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 1

    Parrots caught on tape speaking 'doorbell.'

    Because the doorbell was near the parrot's cage and it 'learned' to make that sound.

    This is similar. Why do people treat it as so remarkable?

  21. Re:And if Mitt Or Rick were president... on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 2

    because big gov't == BAD

    Why did you use a test, and not an assignment operator?

  22. Re:The Conservative Option on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    There's this problem, you may have heard of, regarding people getting in the US without proper clearance.

  23. Re:RealPlayer? Sigh... on Apple To Face $350 Million Trial Over iPod DRM · · Score: 3

    You just described how many of us feel about iTunes today. My iPods are essentially offline now because I don't want Apple software on my PC.

  24. Re:Yes, but will it bend? on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 1

    It isn't an Apple product, so it wasn't designed by a team that fetishizes thinness (thin is the ' one button mouse' of the present day)

  25. Re:Battery life? on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 0

    The reason it's rhetoric is you seem to be describing Vista and older oses. Also it sounds like you have zero experience with current Windows on a tablet.