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  1. Re:Lead on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: -1

    Correlation does not necessarily imply causation.

  2. Re:fertilizer? on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, don't forget t.

  3. Re:This is not a fair comparison on Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    So a phone that's half the price of an iPhone can keep up with it.

  4. Re:Dedicated hardware on Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? · · Score: 1

    sorry that link was ambiguous at best, the one I chose (though i'm sure the others are fine) was the Zoom R8.

  5. Dedicated hardware on Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? · · Score: 1
    After being in similar situation and trying a USB guitar/mic interface and various F/OSS and proprietary software on windows and linux for recording, I gave up in the face of instability, unreliability and glitchiness, and bought one of these.

    It records WAVs onto an SD Card. It doesn't crash or create glitchy artifacts in the middle of recording, it has a nice physical interface, and its output can be read by any multitracking software you like.

  6. Re:They are still damn overpriced on Apple 27-inch iMac With Intel's Haswell Inside Tested · · Score: 1

    it's pointless arguing build quality or reliability based on brand name

    Unless Quanta are building them to a price determined by the brand being represented.

  7. Re:So they are moving up the wiring eh? on Fighting Paralysis With Electricity · · Score: 1

    Take that 80's guy.

    maybe they can now cure his crippling boneitis.

  8. Re:Estimation on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    Add two what? Adding two drastically changes the estimate depending on what units you're working in.

    If I say a job will take 1 year, I double it to 2 years than add 2 years then double it, that's 8 years.

    If i say the same job will take exactly the same amount of time but express it as 365 days, double it to 730 days then add 2 days then double it again to 1464 days, that's 4 years and 2 days.

  9. Re:Well, yea? on LucasFilm Combines Video Games and Movies To Eliminate Post-Production · · Score: 1

    I found the 3D 48fps hobbit film an interesting experience - the CGI looked like solid real objects, absolutely amazing, but the photographed stuff looked wierd like watching Benny Hill even though the people weren't moving fast. I sat there for nearly 3 hours but the wierdness never quite wore off.

  10. Projectors on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    I have a 720p infocus IN21 projector that I bought second hand on a whim for £200 with a spare bulb. I have it projecting onto a 10 foot wide screen (i don't know what the diagonal is) and even at just 720p it's like being at the cinema. At our local multiplex the smallest screen is about twice the width of this and I can't see that it looks better. The picture is astonishing. god knows what a 1080p projector would look like. I got a cheap onkyo txnr-414 5.1 surround system and some cheap pioneer speakers and it's fucking amazing. I would never bother to buy a tv now. One day I might get a 1080p 3D projector but only once the price comes right down. But then I don't really watch TV, just movies and the odd computer game, and i have the benefit of a 20 foot x 10 foot room which can be lit gently at one end only if necessary.

  11. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    They aren't the same movie, they were just shot back to back. Each has it's own complete internal story arc and narrative stucture, and a completely disparate tone. 2 is zany and frantic with lots of funny jokes, and really clever interaction with the events of the first film. 3 is a plodding, cloying, uninspired shadow of the other two, with a boring straightforward plot and a bunch of unengaging new characters that have no interesting interaction with the other two timelines. In short it's a massive buzzkill after the chaos and inventiveness of the first two.

  12. Re:Neat idea. on Onion Pi — Make a Raspberry Pi Into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy · · Score: 1

    I have two Pi's and they are flaky as hell, in all the arenas you mention. It's such a shame. Is there any indication that they're going to revise future models to fix any of these problems?

  13. C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

  14. Re:Spin spin.. on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    it reminds me of this gem

  15. Re:WTF is Mint on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out · · Score: 1

    And they owe it all to the low entropy generated at the moment of the big bang. Well, that shortcut a lot of unneccessary development of that line of thought.

  16. Re:Spin spin.. on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    It's proton torpedoes. Photon torpedoes are from Star Trek.

  17. Re:Prosiner's dilemma on Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines · · Score: 2

    It's much more likely that your child will have a bad reaction to the vaccine than to actually get the disease.

    What bad reaction? What likelyhood? Which vaccine? Don't assume this dichotomy because as far as I'm aware, in 99% of the cases it simply doesn't exist. What little side effects there are are nothing you would concern yourself with, certainly not compared the consequences of getting the disease in question.

    from their individual viewpoint, there's a higher risk from the vaccination than there is from the disease

    A viewpoint established by misinformation and mass hysteria. That's not meant as an insult - these people are being misled by pernicious echo chamber of plausible sounding myths.

  18. Re:Six years is not a short term on LulzSec Hackers Sentenced To Short Prison Terms · · Score: 1

    More drama == more eyeballs == more revenue

  19. Re:Ads on YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week · · Score: 1

    when you can't make a substantiated or specific argument, just accuse someone of spreading FUD!

  20. Re:every time i see "Ender's Game" on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    We're all liars.

  21. Re:An unsatisfied hunger on TED Teams Up With PBS On Ideas For Education · · Score: 1

    If you base your assessment of what TED's appeal is on youtube comments then you're going to get a skewed impression of how people respond to the videos. Being anonymous unsolicited pronouncements, youtube comments are all about ego. You aren't getting any information about the people that don't leave a comment.

  22. Re:Ads on YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week · · Score: 1

    if you don't like the deal just don't go there.

    Which is obviously much more beneficial for them, because that way they get less ad impressions and less word of mouth.

    These sites give you content in exange for ads

    No they don't, they give advertisers potential sales in exchange for money. You are the product being sold to advertisers. There is no burden of responsibility on the user's part to purchase anything from the advertisers, or to look at the ads. It's the burden of responsibility of the site to give you a compelling reason to be their product. Bombarding the user with easily circumvented malware riddled spam every time they try to use their site is not a brilliant plan, yet it still seems to pay off even with the moderate number of people that sidestep this disincentive.

    There are other ways to associate a brand with your content in exchange for money. The kind of ads that are blocked by adblock are only blocked so trivially because they a delivered in such a disassociated, spamlike fashion.

  23. Re:Neat, a new updated Aptosid! on On the Heels of Wheezy, Aptosid Releases 2013-01 · · Score: 1

    Seems to me like the people you should be annoyed with are the people that were bullying your nephew. The word gimp has many meanings.

  24. Re:Energy Density on Robot 'Fly' Mimics Full Range of Insect Flight · · Score: 1

    could the power be transmitted to it wirelessly?

  25. Re: Dirty on Energy Production Is As 'Dirty' As Ever · · Score: 1

    By the logical implication of your passive aggressive snarking, nuclear bombs don't kill civilisations either.