Comment Re:WiFi (Score 1) 260
I have my Kindle now, and I do have Wikipedia access
Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 260
I like the idea, but I'm not going to buy any eBook reader until I can safely read it in the bathtub like a regular book. Crazy, maybe, but that's my criteria.
I read books on my netbook in the bathtub, carefully...
Comment Re:WiFi (Score 1) 260
Oh, and no Wikipedia surfing for you either.
And for all that, you get to pay more than in the US. Yay!
My Kindle is arriving tomorrow, so can't test now, but according to their site: Blogs and the experimental web browser are currently not available for your country. You will have free access to Wikipedia.
Comment Re:No tryptophan in TFA (Score 1) 286
I am the one slashdotter that reads TFA (the full article) before posting. I even did a search for tryptophan. Nope, it's not there. Maybe the submitter forgot a link, but tryptophan is never mentioned in the sciencenews.org article.
I always thought it was The Fucking Article. Guess my mind is just in the gutter
Comment Re:Lightweight! (Score 2, Interesting) 466
That's what I'd be worried about. Swaggering in to test the law on the couple of items you *do* have, and they find all the music and movies you *don't* have legally. Whoops!
Comment Re:Muscle atrophy? (Score 1) 226
I'm not overweight either (had never been), I weigh 75kg, at 1.78cm tall. So that's pretty ok.
I hate to break it to you, but 75kg is extremely overweight for someone 1.78 cm tall.
Perhaps he is Azazel... He's only 2 cm tall and very, very heavy
Comment Re:Suicide Rate in Japan (Score 1) 538
Most African nations do have shockingly high death rates, but that is due to murder. Suicide is quite uncommon in Africa.
That's just because you don't live long enough to kill yourself
Comment Re:I played the demo under wine but... (Score 1) 223
Perhaps it was in this case, but for Doom3 I emailed the guy who did most of the work on porting to linux and thanked him. I mentioned that it was the reason I bought the game.
He replied and said it was a pleasure :)
He replied and said it was a pleasure
Comment Re:Paypal? (Score 1) 223
Not seeing the sneaky method when I click the buy now button. Perhaps it's region specific?
Comment I played the demo under wine but... (Score 1) 223
I specifically held off buying the game until the Linux version was available.
I did the same with Doom3
I did the same with Doom3
Comment Re:Does it always produce true responses? (Score 1) 249
Tens of thousands lost their lives in Europe
Any reliable figures to that effect?
As a matter of fact, yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_Early_Modern_Europe#Number_of_executions
You're not Lee Strobel by any chance?
Comment Re:Does it always produce true responses? (Score 1) 249
The witch trials in Europe
Were the witch trials in North America much fairer?
Less deaths in North America. Tens of thousands lost their lives in Europe, so it's a better example purely because some people choose the argument, "Well only a few people died". (e.g. the awful apologist, Lee Strobel).
Comment Re:Does it always produce true responses? (Score 3, Insightful) 249
They were torturing for actionable evidence. They had people complaining of "spells" and "curses" being placed on them. They needed to find out who was doing these horrible things. They tortured innocent people until they confessed to being the ones responsible.
Now you have people complaining about terrorists. You need to find out where these terrorists are. You torture innocent people until they confess that they are terrorists, and tell you where their secret base is. How many people in Gitmo are innocent? How many have been released after spending a year or more there?
Now you have people complaining about terrorists. You need to find out where these terrorists are. You torture innocent people until they confess that they are terrorists, and tell you where their secret base is. How many people in Gitmo are innocent? How many have been released after spending a year or more there?
Comment Re:Does it always produce true responses? (Score 1) 249
do you have any evidence to back these assumptions? I'm not talking about another talking head saying the same thing, but I mean evidence pointing to several instances where a prisoner gave details that were expected and they turned out to be false.
I Personally doubt these methods are as ineffective as everyone likes to portray them.
The witch trials in Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials Unless you believe in witches I guess.
Submission + - Linux needs to try harder to catch Vista (interopnews.com)
AlexGr writes: "Jeff Gould has written an article in Interop News countering the prevailing view that Vista is really a dog and that Microsoft is only managing to make its numbers by jamming the new OS down the throats of unwilling customers. "Now I admit I don't use Vista and haven't spent a lot of time benchmarking it against Ubuntu or Mac OS X or any of the other non-Microsoft alternatives.
But I don't have to use Vista to know that it's a lot more than a dog of an OS. Microsoft's recently reported revenue and profit numbers for its September quarter amply prove that Vista doesn't say "Woof! Woof!" when you boot it up."
http://www.interopnews.com/news/linux-needs-to-try-harder-if-it-wants-to-catch-vista.html"
