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  1. Re:Eh, I bet Big Red begs to differ.. on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    That's one of the downsides to unions that require you to participate in strikes when they happen. If you are out of money, you have to find other ways to make the money.

  2. Re:99 cents is too much these days on New RIM Streaming Music: $5 For 50 Songs? · · Score: 1

    Back in the 1970s, 99 cents is closer to $6 now. $6 was a decent chunk of change back then.

  3. Re:Both sides should stop. on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    First of all he wasn't a science teacher, it wasn't a science class, and he should not be lecturing students on his personal views of religion. He's being paid to teach a class in a public school. Keep to the subject material. Just like I don't want teachers teaching creationism in science class, I don't want teachers going off on their own little personal rants against religion either.

    I don't think creationism has any place in the classroom except courses related to religion unless you are in a private school run some religious institution. However that doesn't mean teachers should be telling students what religions are "nonsense" or not, especially when it has nothing to do with the class.

  4. Re:Restocking fee is N/A, and fee was eliminated. on HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices · · Score: 1

    Even still, there's restrictions on price match that limited quantity and/or clearance items are exempt from price match, which means he's probably stuck with a $400 tablet for $400 instead of the $149 he's hoping for.

  5. Both sides should stop. on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    Teachers should not be giving their person opinions on religion either for or against it. Teachers shouldn't be calling religion nonsense and they shouldn't be preaching it to be true either. Stick to teaching your subjects, not giving students your personal beliefs.

  6. Out of Stock already on HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices · · Score: 1

    Was going to buy one, but they're already out of stock.

  7. Re:Microsoft is Fixing the Problem on Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' On MSN · · Score: 1

    Your analogy makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

  8. Re:Shrugs on Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' On MSN · · Score: 1

    I don't think they care if you don't believe them to be honest.

  9. Re:If you don't like it here then you can leave on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 2

    Uh, no. If you bothered to read the article you'd see that almost everything technology related carries this sort of price hike over there.

    As for why they're singling out Apple, you gotta start somewhere to find out why they're all doing this I guess.

  10. Re:Warning: Bad Viruses! on UCLA Engineers Create Energy-Generating LCD Screen · · Score: 1

    You picked a good subject to troll with. Every time I hear those commercials I cringe.

  11. Re:Give me a break on 27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple · · Score: 1

    So because the carrier has this information, we should just let everyone else have it too? I mean why not, the carrier has it!

    Give me a break.

  12. Re:Give me a break on 27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple shouldn't have this data.

  13. Re:going broke on 27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

  14. Re:Google+ on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/~Mig55/comments

    Are they still paying you to shill for Facebook? You'd think they'd at least try to break in their new accounts with rambling about other topics to at least try to hide their objective.

  15. Re:At least it's in no trouble of dying... on C++0x Finally Becomes a Standard · · Score: 1

    C# isn't going anywhere. Their lack of support for this newfangled interface in Windows 8 does not mean they're dropping it.

  16. Re:nice, but still missing... on C++0x Finally Becomes a Standard · · Score: 1

    Coroutines does not mean multithreading.

    I would certainly love for coroutine support to show up in more programming languages.

  17. I've never really gotten the hype on The Death of Booting Up · · Score: 1

    I've never really understood the hype about booting up within 30 seconds, 10 seconds, or whatever the hell we're aiming for this time. Mind you I'm referring to personal computers either at home or at work, not servers.

    Sure, people at work can get started working that much faster or people at home can fire up their lolcats bookmarks immediately but are people really in such a hurry to get plugging away that they rush in guns a blazing right when they sit down? Surely their bosses want that to happen and if you add all the boot times per year it gives you some crazy figure like a day of "wasted time" but I've never seen people so motivated to jump right into work that their boot times are affecting them. I've always generally accepted that at least the first 15 minutes is going to be a rather slow "getting in the swing of things" period where people aren't really their most productive, and booting your box isn't really throwing your productivity down the tubes too far unless you're prone to tons of system crashes during the day.

  18. Re:Dear Valve: on Valve Announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive · · Score: 1

    Team Fortress 2 is far better than the original. But that's just my opinion same as yours.

  19. Re:yikes, another version jump? on Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons · · Score: 2

    Really? You're actually trying to make an argument using product names as version numbers? You do realize that all those operating systems have actual version numbers, right?

    3.11, 4.0.950, 5.0.2195, and 6.1.7600 respectively.

  20. Re:Uh oh on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Good good I wish I had mod points right now. I nearly lost my coffee.

  21. Re:Yes, it's radioactive on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    I would say regarding the chemical toxicity, gasoline would be in the same ballpark. :)

  22. Re:Stay Put on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Where is that? That actually sounds like it could be a real problem for experienced people desperate to find work but can't find someone willing to pay their minimum wage.

  23. Re:$85 million in royalties on Why Google Needs Firefox · · Score: 1

    Well that's perfectly fine but in the end Chrome isn't meant to displace Firefox or anything of the sort. Chrome was meant to spur innovation where Google felt innovation was lacking. I don't think Google wants to gouge Mozilla or anything silly like that.

  24. Re:Scroll Lock! on Review of IBM's Original Personal Computer · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I wish more programs would include Scroll Lock support. The intended functionality is actually rather handy if you don't want to or can't use a mouse.

  25. Re:No, that is not the question.. on Why Google Needs Firefox · · Score: 1

    I liked when the author stipulated that Mozilla could charge whatever it wanted, instead of just $85 million.