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Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1, Funny) 169

I'm pretty sure your reading comprehension and math sucks, not so much with my statement.

"by the year 2000" would be less than 2000 so yes it could be 1999 or 1940, and since I at no point said 2009 or 2010 then I'm entirely lost where you got "last year" from.

Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 169

Perhaps Linux will be ready for the desktop when we have flying cars?

I was promised flying cars by the year 2000. We have received no flying cars and I don't believe we're any closer to them as we were when they were originally imagined. The same promise is made of Linux every year I'm sure it's in the same boat(car).

Comment Good Riddance (Score 2, Informative) 327

I know JohnnyGuru went over there and he's a stand up guy. That doesn't necessarily mean the rest of the place isn't full of clowns.
I have a BFG 680i LT SLI board and it's possibly the shoddiest designed board on the planet. There's not enough shielding built into it so if I play a very resource intensive game the PCIE bus desyncs and causes a hardware failure BSOD. Even any game that uses the graphics card even a little can cause it to BSOD if there's a source of electronic noise near by. On the 3rd RMA I basically got all new hardware to put onto the new board, I even got a new PSU (using the JohnnyGuru forums for help, which was great) and a nice new UPS and it didn't help. So here I am today, with a box built for gaming that cant.

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Prince Says Internet Is Over Screenshot-sm 450

the_arrow writes "According to the artist currently known as Prince, 'The internet's completely over.' At least that what he says in an interview with the British newspaper Mirror. Quoting Prince: 'The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.'"

Comment Would you be interested in (Score 1) 241

I like the targeted ads that are a little too dumb, like you get targeted ads for the company you work for. It's like they say "Hey! We see you work for this company, would you be interested in buying products from that company!?"

The ones at Engadet are pretty bad, surf from like an apple store you get ads for apple products. Or you get ads trying to sell you internet access from your provider.

Power

Submission + - Solar-Cell Inventor Wins Millennium Prize

adeelarshad82 writes: The inventor of a new type of solar cell won the Finnish state and industry-funded, 800,000-euro ($1.07 million), Millennium Technology Prize. According to the foundation, Michael Graetzel's dye-sensitized solar cells, known as "Graetzel cells", could be a significant contributor to the future energy technologies due to their excellent price-performance ratio.
Firefox

Submission + - Today's MS Windows update modifies Firefox

An anonymous reader writes: Today's Windows updates from Microsoft include a surprising component... a "Search Helper Extension" that is automatically and silently installed into the user's Firefox application. I have no information yet on what this does or how Microsoft felt authorized to do it, nor have I yet seen any press coverage. Sure seems like it deserves some inquiry though. Here's a link to a forum discussion.
Software

Submission + - AI Astronomer Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies (singularityhub.com)

kkleiner writes: Scientists are teaching an artificial intelligence how to classify galaxies imaged by telescopes like the Hubble. Manda Banerji at the University of Cambridge along with researchers at University College London, Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, has succeeded in getting the program to agree with human analysis at an impressive rate of more than 90%. Banerji used data from Galaxy Zoo, a massive online project which has used more than 250,000 volunteers to analyze more than 60 million galaxies. The new automated astronomer will help with even larger analytical projects on the horizon, taking care of trivial classifications and leaving the tough cases to humans.
It's funny.  Laugh.

Submission + - The Geek Alphabet in Pictures (geeksaresexy.net)

An anonymous reader writes: Geeks Are Sexy presents the ABCs of geekdom, illustrating each of the 26 letters with Creative Commons photography. And when you read them all together, they make a really geeky poem!

Comment Roundabouts! (Score 1) 423

More roundabouts and less traffic lights. Roundabouts are way more efficient for traffic than stop signs and lights, though they do have the disadvantage of retards on the road failing to navigate them properly. We have one out side of our office and it's like the gong show during rush hour. The rest of the day the thing works really well except for the odd moron driving the wrong way or stopping for no reason at all.

Comment References etc etc etc. (Score 1) 170

I think it would be better to use Wikipedia as a source to find reference. You find what you're looking for on Wikipedia, then follow the references. If there arent any references then you should probably move on anyways because it's unsubstantiated. IMO this is what makes Wikipedia more useful than many physical sources, its facts are usually referenced and substantiated.

Comment Dark Ages (Score -1, Troll) 550

What if he doesn't use twitter? Do they expect him to make an account, get everyone in the crowd to subscribe (assuming they don't have some massive aversion to it like my self and refuse to go) and then update the twitter telling everyone to beat it?

This also some how assumes every single person in the crowd has some mobile twitter solution configured as well which is entirely ignorant. If the law officers don't understand anything even a little they shouldn't be allowed to take actions based on their ignorance. Thus they should be relieved of their duties as they cant possibly do their job by making such obtuse assumptions. What the hell is this? The dark ages?

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