Comment Re:He Won! (Score 0, Troll) 467
I interpreted PDS as to be the affliction tormenting those who are so deranged as to think that Palin is anything other than an idiot.
Comment Re:Cue in fucktard sopssa trolling in 3, 2, 1, ... (Score 0, Offtopic) 260
First, reading comprehension. He didn't say that Apple doesn't invest in R&D. He just stated some assumption about what Microsoft does, and said "Apple does nothing like that." I think that statement is probably false, and probably a troll, but what you said is demonstrably false. And a troll
Second, don't be a jackass.
Submission + - Followup: iPhone 4's display is about (discovermagazine.com)
The Bad Astronomer writes: "AT WWDC, Steve Jobs claimed that the iPhone 4's display has about the same resolution as the human eye — held at one foot away, the iPhone 4's pixels are too small to see. After reading an earlier Slashdot post about an expert disputing Jobs' claim, I decided to run the numbers myself. I found that Jobs is correct for people with normal vision, and the expert was using numbers for theoretically perfect vision. So to most people, the iPhone 4 display will look unpixellated."
Comment poor use of "or" (Score 1, Troll) 1213
"Is my company alone in wanting to stay in the 1990s or is Window 7 the way forward?"
Uh... yes? no?
The OR version of "or" that computer scientists creates a question for which the answer provides little relevant information. The XOR version of "or" that is the popular meaning in spoken english has similar problems.
Comment Re:what has the university to do with it? (Score 1) 167
No idea? Why don't you tell us. Is the answer one, and one?
Comment Re:what has the university to do with it? (Score 2, Interesting) 167
There is a University College that is part of Rutgers University. "University" and "College" are both words. They have meaning.
Comment It astounds me (Score 5, Insightful) 328
That this isn't done everywhere. With all the red light cameras everywhere (for safety), you'd think they could put a few out there that would make it so I don't spend 3 minutes every morning staring at an empty intersection.
Comment Re:"No image of a thumbprint is ever stored" (Score 1) 355
It's a hash. Clearly there are better hashes that won't have the same result for RivenAleem and RovinBaleeeem.
Comment Re:This crap gives science a bad reputation (Score 1) 542
We need a term to describe things which appear to be science but in fact which are not.
It's called FUD.
Comment Great - another niche brand (Score 1) 253
Just wait until all those humans start wearing the trademarked FRBR apparel.
Comment Re:Also: Jaundice! (Score 2, Insightful) 139
I hope you are not presenting your anecdotal evidence as proof of your claim... because...it's not.
Comment It's not that ugly people get harsher sentences... (Score 1) 256
It's that jealous police officers like to arrest attractive innocent people.
Comment Re:My Estimate ... (Score 1) 799
Sure....that's bad, but how many football fields is it?
Comment Re:Maybe I'm missing something (Score 1) 663
I would argue that a guy who writes code is a programmer. That is, someone who programs. Perhaps the term you're looking for is computer scientist?
Comment Re:Quantum computers aren't X times faster. (Score 1) 246
Problems in NP are problems such that there is an algorithm where the first step is guess the answer, and to then perform the verification in polynomial time. That is not to say that a nondeterministic algorithm necessarily does this. There is no reason to believe that quantum computers can solve NP-complete problems.
