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Comment: Re:This is how our start-up handles it (Score 1) 203

On top of that we introduced various bugs and weird failures to the open source version, which would mean that the open source users would call our premium priced support telephone number. We needed to fine tune this over the year a bit , as we didn't introduce enough bugs in the beginning. But later we would start getting lots of support calls for bugs and it made a good amount of money.

Where's the +1 Trolling mod when you need it?

Comment: Re:Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit are ABOUT Engl (Score 1) 516

by Monkey-Man2000 (#39530597) Attached to: Why Are Fantasy World Accents British?
Well Star Wars is easy; except for Obi-Wan, all the British are the bad guys while the Americans are the American-speakers. Star Wars can obviously be described as an allegory of the American Revolution. After all, this was made by an American with an American-mentality (Americans vs. British or as Rebels vs. The Empire). Alec Guinness slides just because he's a royal bad-ass and can do what he wants and George was lucky to get that kind of A-list star-power at the time... Best, An American

Comment: Re:Ok, how many more are there? (Score 1) 234

by Monkey-Man2000 (#39359075) Attached to: Possible New Human Species Discovered In China
This is an excellent point, and all depends IMO on what is considered a species. Colloquially, I think species are generally distinguished by their inability to breed with another group. Hence why all the different breeds of dogs are still Canis lupus familiarias, yet can look drastically different from one.

But there are big exceptions to this colloquial definition such as the parentage of the mules. Similar to a mule, this species-conundrum would also fracture our definitions if the Neanderthal/homo-sapien hybrids prove true as predicted by recent studies.

So, what is a species, and is a definition at this point useful to distinguish how REAL cross-breeding phenomena occur realistically?

Comment: stupid (Score 4, Informative) 442

This was a really stupid thing for Dr. Gleick to do because it diminishes his cause substantially. For example, he was the lead author of the recent Science paper that everyone was making a big stink about having so many National Academy members on. I'm no (anthropogenic or not)-climate change denier, but this is bad. On a similar note, he also wrote this Forbes piece that mysteriously did not mention he was the lead author of the Science paper.

Comment: Dupe! Dupe! Dupe! (Score 2) 114

by Monkey-Man2000 (#38564334) Attached to: Google Leaves App Inventor In Limbo
Oh wait, this was a different story whining about how Google was dropping a FREE service. If this is indicative of the hot, daily Google news we get here, is there some way of filtering it out? Or better yet, is there a more succinct way of teaching people that Google drops projects left and right seemingly on a whim (i.e., business case) and should not be trusted with anything important (like the coursework for the Spring class you'll be teaching).

You mean you don't want to watch WRESTLING from ATLANTA?

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