Comment: Re:RIM gives up (Score 3, Insightful) 90
I stopped reading after the first three words. Just like they should have given up three years ago.
Just remember -- they were saying the same thing about Apple 15 years ago.
Things can turn quickly.
Comment: Well, at least Slashdot is consistent... (Score 4, Insightful) 191
Wow, another Slashdot hatchet job on RIM. Heavy into Apple stock, are we?
RIM certainly has issues, and it may not survive. But it seems the Slashdot editorial staff wants to make sure.
Comment: Re:Folks, It's Galen Gruman... (Score 1) 260
There's nothing wrong with pointing out weaknesses -- of course the Playbook has some. The question is, do these weaknesses make it "unusable"?
My point is that the "review", as is apparently the case with much of his writing, is an overstated rant designed to provoke responses and reposts. After all, how many other (positive or negative) reviews of the Playbook have been posted to Slashdot? This one was because it was sufficiently rabid to provoke discussion, which is after all what all blog sites are all about.
I mean, come on -- "homeless guy who plays air guitar"? Perhaps a better metaphor would have been "instead of an insightful review, we got turgid prose".
Comment: Folks, It's Galen Gruman... (Score 1) 260
It should be kept in mind that this review is from an author given to overstated screeds -- so take with a grain (or a saltshaker) of salt. This is an author who knows how to write things that will be reposted.
Isaac Newton, Alchemist->
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Pickens writes "It wasn't easy being Isaac Newton because he didn't like wasting time: Newton didn't play sports or a musical instrument, gamble at whist or gambol on a horse. Newton was unmarried, had no known romantic liaisons and may well have died, at the age of 85, with his virginity intact. But, as Natalie Angier writes in the NY Times, it is now becoming clear that Newton had time to spend night upon dawn for three decades of his life slaving over a stygian furnace in search of the power to transmute one chemical element into another. "How could the ultimate scientist have been seemingly hornswoggled by a totemic psuedoscience like alchemy, which in its commonest rendering is described as the desire to transform lead into gold," writes Angier. Now new historical research describes how alchemy yielded a bounty of valuable spinoffs, including new drugs, brighter paints, stronger soaps and better booze. "Alchemy was synonymous with chemistry," says Dr. William Newman, "and chemistry was much bigger than transmutation." Newman adds that Newton's alchemical investigations helped yield one of his fundamental breakthroughs in physics: his discovery that white light is a mixture of colored rays that can be recombined with a lens. “I would go so far as to say that alchemy was crucial to Newton’s breakthroughs in optics,” says Newman. “He’s not just passing light through a prism — he’s resynthesizing it.”"
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Comment: Re-Architecting English (Score 3, Funny) 165
The Atom N450 has been re-architected
Wow -- I guess it was waaaaay too advanced to merely be "re-designed".
Comment: Troll, n. - Someone who disagrees with me (Score 0) 1164
Look, ID isn't scientific but that doesn't mean that anyone who speaks in support of it is a troll. Taking ideas you've learned in class and defending them in a public forum is a good thing. A troll (IMHO) is someone who's in a discussion primarily for the conflict. These students obviously aren't -- they're there at best to learn, and at worst to get through a class (who hasn't been there?). I suspect that anyone who thinks this is a bad thing is more closed-minded than any ID/Creationism/Insert-Your-Hobby-Horse-Here partisan.
Comment: Re:What is treason? (Score 1) 99
More Iraqis have died since the beginning of the Iraqi war than under Saddam's reign.
Er, documentation? And since you're no doubt including all fatalities, including those inflicted by enemy forces, be sure to include the deaths from Saddam's futile war against Iran.
Comment: Yeah, right... (Score 2, Insightful) 393
...just like email killed faxes.
Comment: Blacklist? (Score 4, Insightful) 292
According to the original article, this is a routine annual report listing who we are happy with or unhappy with concerning copyright and such. There's also no mention of DMCA. Evidently, countries come and go off these lists all the time. It's just a way for the USA to communicate what it does and doesn't like about other countries behavior. It's called diplomacy. How does anyone get "blacklist" out of this?
By the way, it mentions that North Korea was taken off the bad-boy list. Does anyone really think North Korea instituted a DMCA-like law?