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  1. Re:Police Academy on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Of course he was. Obviously, you used inferior RG-5 cables. Had you used better ones you might have avoided the intermodulation distortion which blurred your picture and made him look like George Gaynes.

  2. Re:Annnnd? on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 1

    Well, being under new ownership one might expect things to get better (or worse). I don't know, just a possibility. A lot of people have this software on their laptops and desktops so it might be significant.

  3. Re:Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    So you also agree that it's not *lack of* R&D. It might be the *wrong* R&D, or a change in design philosophy, or something else entirely, but not a lack of R&D.

  4. Re:Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    That makes more sense than lack of R&D.
    Making things cheaper, smaller, lighter all could do it.

  5. Police Academy on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 4, Funny

    Steve Guttenberg was amusing in the Police Academy movies (though not nearly as good as Leslie Nielsen), but why should I trust him for advice about audio gear?

  6. Re:Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only that , but how can a lack of R&D be to blame for a decline in sound quality?
    If audio quality failed to improve, you could blame it on lack of R&D, but there's got to be more to it than that for quality to *degrade* over time.
    With NO R&D AT ALL, at the least we should have exactly AS GOOD sound as "your dad's thirty-year-old stereo".

  7. Re:Outrage on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    Well, that is a hard habit to break.

  8. Rainbow moonbeams and orange snow on The Rain On Saturn Falls Mainly From Space · · Score: 1

    On Saturn, people live to be two hundred and five. Going back to Saturn, where the air is clean....

    Anybody know what song this is from?

  9. Re:Outrage on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    "Whomever" was used correctly the second time around, but there is a comma splice/run-on sentence.
    In any case, since the sentence in question began with "Gotta", I sincerely doubt the poster gives a rip about your concern.

    "Do no evil" , BTW, was not created by marketing people, or originally intended as marketing. An engineer came up with it as a replacement of a more complex set of rules about how to behave, for internal use at Google, and people liked it for its simplicity, so they adopted it. It took on an external role later, I suppose.

  10. Re:Not News on The Rise of Polymorphic Malware · · Score: 2

    Polymorphic and metamorphic malware.

    As for me, I prefer sedimentary software that accretes little bits of code over many years, or igneous software that erupts, molten and sulfurous, from a glowing fissure in the earth's crust, then freezes into brittle glass-like applications.

  11. Re:college drop outs on The Rise of Polymorphic Malware · · Score: 1

    When an individual does it, they are a deadbeat; when a corporation does it [they are also a deadbeat, but] they get a bailout and the CEO gets a huge bonus.

    Is more to my liking.
    As much pizza as I would like to eat, I still can't get up to "too big to fail" size.

  12. Re:Loss of mass on Heat 'Most Likely Cause' of Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 1

    kW are not proper units for momentum.
    In any case, the thing you're talking about is force, not momentum.
    F (of the photon flux) = m (of the spacecraft) * a (of the spacecraft).
    (I believe you know this, but for the sake of other physics-challenged /.ers...)
    My question is, why would the photon flux have a preferred direction? Is the RTG shielded asymmetrically?

  13. Re:But what if... on Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas · · Score: 1

    If you have to ask, you've just told us which one you are...

  14. Re:What a joke on Is the Master's Degree the New Bachelor's? · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you can make your own DS, maybe Nintendo will hire you!

  15. Re:Nuclear Iran. on Iran Forced To Replace Centrifuges To Stop Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    Dear UAC (uninformed AC),
    Siemens makes the PLCs, not the centrifuges.

  16. Re:Nuclear Iran. on Iran Forced To Replace Centrifuges To Stop Stuxnet · · Score: 2

    Where "very early 70's" means before 1979. A strange definition of 'very early'.

  17. Re:That could be very helpful. on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    Huh. Really. Just the other day I told a friend was in Springfield and couldn't come help him move, and he said "Where is that?" and I said "Just Google it, you lazy bastard!" That shut him up!

  18. Re:Burn the ethics committee on Hybrid Human-Animal DNA Experiments Raise Concerns · · Score: 1

    That's ridiculous. That negates any and all ethics by just making whatever heinous activity one can imagine into a scientific activity.
    I want to cut the heads off of live puppies as soon as they are born to study the effect on the mother's milk production. I'm curious about that.

  19. Re:Opportunity on Facebook Is Most Hated Social Media Company · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's not true. Maybe it was for a short time, but not anymore.

  20. Re:Burn the ethics committee on Hybrid Human-Animal DNA Experiments Raise Concerns · · Score: 1

    Ethics is an important part of Science.

    it shouldn't be.

    It is not PART of science. It is a separate and necessary entity that should guide what we do *in and with science*.

  21. Re:A silly submission on Android Catching Up In the Tablet Market · · Score: 1

    The second derivative of PCs sold over time is negative?

  22. Re:"Shipped"? on Android Catching Up In the Tablet Market · · Score: 1

    Don't even need to go anywhere. Just listen to the radio or watch TV.
    "INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE!" "WE'VE GOT TO MAKE ROOM!" "OUR LOT IS BURSTING AT THE SEAMS WITH NEW SUBARUS!"

    (All caps for the reason that they really are yelling)

  23. Re:Incorrect claim 100x! on GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon · · Score: 1

    It's even smaller than a 5 1/4" floppy to be precise, since CD format is 120mm / 25.4 mm/in = 4.72".
    Can you imagine?: "Please insert disc 372,685 of 399,999"

  24. Re:Checking your math... on Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices · · Score: 1

    Yes, but
    1.0+
    1.03 +
    1.061+
    .
    .
    +1.305 (1.03^10)
    =11.464

    which is more than
    1+
    1+
    .
    .
    (9x)
    +1.6
    =10.6

  25. Re:Jungle Gyms on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    Thing is, people, especially children, rarely die from broken bones, so "death machines" is hyperbole, at the least.