Comment Schizophrenic (Score 4, Insightful) 209

by uncle brad on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:53PM (#46120909) Attached to: The Schizophrenic State of Software In 2014

I do not think it means what you think it means.

Comment Re:Orson Scott Card (Score 2) 732

by uncle brad on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @03:57PM (#45348223) Attached to: Movie Review: <em>Ender's Game</em>

Card has probably had is payday already, whether you see the movie or not.

by uncle brad on Thursday June 27, 2013 @04:09PM (#44125741) Attached to: Node.js and MongoDB Turning JavaScript Into a Full-Stack Language

He was trying to say that its only twice as slow.

by uncle brad on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @04:33PM (#43603837) Attached to: Firefox OS Phone on Display at LinuxFest NorthWest (Video)

Quite the opposite, Mozilla/Firefox has had to become leaner and meaner to run (acceptably) on these devices.

by uncle brad on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @02:31PM (#43475071) Attached to: Higgs Data Could Spell Trouble For Leading Big Bang Theory

Could this have happened already? Would the Big Bang look like this to anyone in the resulting meta-stable state?

by uncle brad on Thursday August 30, 2012 @01:29PM (#41180195) Attached to: Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them

You don't own a baby, they own you.

by uncle brad on Thursday May 03, 2012 @11:30AM (#39878847) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With?

Get some action figures and play superheros. That way you control the narrative.

by uncle brad on Monday April 02, 2012 @04:24PM (#39552923) Attached to: GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor

Now to get that 8-bit microcontroller emulated on a Turing machine.

by uncle brad on Monday March 05, 2012 @12:36PM (#39249081) Attached to: Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish

At least the children of Lake Wobegon have something to look forward to,

by uncle brad on Monday March 05, 2012 @11:30AM (#39248043) Attached to: Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish

to know when a study is required.

by uncle brad on Thursday February 09, 2012 @06:00PM (#38988645) Attached to: Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers

My kingdom for some mod points.

by uncle brad on Friday January 27, 2012 @06:03PM (#38845587) Attached to: Bill Gates Gives $750M To AIDS Fund

For all the M$ bashers out there, ask yourself whether Linux has ever saved a child from malaria.

Well not directly, AFAIK.

by uncle brad on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @05:54PM (#38656562) Attached to: Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire

If Oracle had been in charge of COBOL, businesses would have used RPG.

Businesses *did* use RPG.

by uncle brad on Friday November 04, 2011 @03:18PM (#37951032) Attached to: Apache Harmony Moves To Apache Attic

Yeah, that's exactly what it was.