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  1. Re:Interesting on Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript · · Score: 1

    No Windows version. Four years old. No wireless. Lame.

  2. Re:Beginning of the end of exponential growth on AMD To Spin Off Fabrication From Design Work · · Score: 1

    You can say it's due to both, rather than technology alone, but you can't say it's due to capital alone, with no new technology. It is evolution of technology, mostly, not breakthroughs, but it's advancing technology just the same.

  3. Re:My friends on Can Static Electricity Generate Votes? · · Score: 1

    I thought they should have dropped it. It just polarizes the country further.

  4. Re:Don't worry on Toxic Fumes From Mac Pros? · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, are you disappointed that the world didn't end yet due to the delay in the LHC ramping up? You do realize that what you've proposed is akin to a huge matter/anti-matter annihilation.

  5. Re:Windows version still lagging. on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1
    It's *there now. I just got it.

    *Link to GIMP for Windows on http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

  6. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I discovered that recently when I used The GIMP (I think the "the" makes the name even worse, but there it is) to convert from one image format to another. I don't know why they made it default to 72 dpi. Bad idea I say.

  7. Re:Wrong Tool on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or use them together: Use RExcel and RCommander.

  8. Re:Yay! Truth Mines! on Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics · · Score: 1

    No, but I once watched an episode of BJ and the Bear, with Greg Evigan. Does that count?

  9. Re:Professionalism... on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    No, but "passion lose firm" is a anagram for professionalism.

  10. I heard the interview on Achewood Creator on NPR · · Score: 1

    I thought it was interesting that the interviewer made a comparison to Bill Watterson and Gary Larson and then asked if he was going to quit anytime soon like they did. Doesn't he need to gain widespread recognition first? Kind of like comparing Michelle Wie to Annika Sorenstam (no, maybe more like Jack Nicklaus) and then asking if she's going to retire soon.

  11. Re:They will trun it back the day after the CUBS w on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 1

    Flamebait? Sheeesh, lighten up mods. Well, one mod in particular, I suppose.

  12. The message from HAL9000 on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" isn't quite an error message. It might be called a bug, since it was an unexpected consequence of HAL's gaining his own volition, although even that is arguable. It may be considered a natural extension of HAL's programming aimed at protecting the mission. But it certainly wasn't a canned response to an internal error.

    2001 is one of my all-time favorite movies.

  13. Re:The actual text on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did "read" really have those single quotes around it? That would have been pretty 'suspicious' to me. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

  14. Re:Sure those are pics? on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...the last part that is the most impotent, the re-naming.

    A-ha. A Freudian spellink error. Vut ve have here is a vish that Microsoft vill fail.

    I think ordinary people see problems with Vista, not just power-users. I don't think Microsoft is so stupid as to think that they can fool the majority of people by just tweaking or re-branding Vista and expect it to succeed, "Mojave Experiment" or not.

  15. Well, what other country on US Responsible For the Majority of Cyber Attacks · · Score: 1

    ...has so many people with computers, and too much free time?

  16. Re:This is evidence of life. on Naphthalene Found In Outer Space · · Score: 1

    ...and URINAL PUCKS. Yay.

  17. Re:The reason why this is important on Naphthalene Found In Outer Space · · Score: 1

    Drake equation, or just guess.

  18. Re:Classic problem. on Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? · · Score: 1

    No, he didn't indicate that until he replied to my comment. Go away.

  19. Re:The best tool... on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 1

    actually, I think darts would work fine without Newton's Third Law.

  20. Re:Malcom Gladwell poppycock on Software Spots Spin In Political Speeches · · Score: 1

    No...it's spin!

  21. Re:Classic problem. on Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? · · Score: 0

    I'm surprised that you thought that P-chem was "lite" compared to Organic. Many of the people I knew who took both would disagree. I got A's in both btw.

  22. Re:Except... on National Car Tracking System Proposed For US · · Score: 1

    Seems fair. Compensates for the fact that radar detectors are illegal in VA.

  23. Re:Relative risk on New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Bad canning techniques really. It's just that no one was ever tempted to put their stewed homegrown tomatoes in a Tupperware container and set it on a shelf in the pantry and pull them out and eat them six months later....as far as I know.

  24. Re:Relative risk on New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Using glass jars never caused food poisoning. Improperly using glass jars caused food poisoning.

  25. Re:crimes like this will have to become legal soon on AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets · · Score: 1

    Who knew? Apparently, Americans like Chinese products with Japanese names.