Posts by scarshapedstar

Re: It's like the bike

If you made a version of Android that went straight to the app tray and didn't let you do anything else, it'd pretty much be iOS.

Re: The laws of physics will be different in the encroaching bubble.

To your limited perception.

It's always been even sillier to believe that humans could possibly influence it, either. I mean, the Bible says it can't happen.

Re: Medical researcher finds that medical people are wonderful!

This is perhaps the most spectacularly ill-informed comment... ok, never mind, this the internet.

Nevertheless:

1) GPs are paid less than specialists.

2) Specialists do the same thing every week. That's why it's called a specialty.

3) Psychiatry is actually both well-paid and repetitive...

Re: JSTOR needs to be

"free preprint servers for their research, copious free materials, lecture notes, etc., for everyone in the world to access?"

Maybe this would make sense if PloS didn't exist...

Re: So too much ozone is bad....

Next they'll tell us that too much salt is bad for you and too little salt is also bad for you. I mean, both can't be true. It's science.

Who's throwing stones? Apple tossed a boulder when they KICKED GOOGLE MAPS OUT OF THEIR STORE, and it rolled right back downhill into their glass palace. "Killer app" is supposed to be figurative, not "the app that could conceivably leave you dead in the desert".

Ahem

Some of us unleash torrents of dross fo' free, thankyaverymuch.

Re: Life is increasingly like

Ha, yeah, the Crypt came to mind instantly. Actually, Kim probably read the book, too.

Re: They are only less balanced

"None of the better known sceptics (e.g. John Christie, Roy Spencer, Anthony Watts, Steve McIntyre, the Pielskes, Jeff Condon, etc.) questions warming over the last 200 years."

I call Orwellian bullshit on this. Even the top-tier skeptics regularly argue simultaneously that:

A) There's been no climate change whatsoever since the Industrial Revolution

B) Even if there is, there's nothing we can do about it

C) Even if there is something we can do about it, we can't afford it

Obviously they're putting more emphasis on C nowadays, since nobody takes flat denialism (A) seriously anymore, but that doesn't mean you get to toss it down the memory hole.

Re: Pft.

Who gives a fuck about a disc? Discs get lost and ruined. I can't even remember the time I opened up my DVD drive because optical discs are obsolete.

Your fetish is straight-up fucking dumb.

Meanwhile, since I don't try to cheat or some stupid shit (the real reason people bitch about Steam accounts) I could throw my computer off a bridge, buy a new one, and have my whole game collection restored in about a day. I know, I know, you're going to say that I could sit there popping in 200 DVDs instead. Have fun with that shit...

Apple Logic

Cars before Steve Jobs was born: Model T

Cars after Steve Jobs was born: Tesla Roadster

Speaks for itself, doesn't it?

Re: Before diving head first, check there is water in the pool

Patenting regex 'on a mobile device' is a joke.

I had a high school comp sci homework assignment to write a program that picked out phone numbers from text.

High school.

Re: Tab2 @toadwarrior

Wow, what a fraud. Why did they pull up the app tray on the Galaxy Tab? It is kinda fitting, since iOS is nothing more than a glorified app tray, but it's hardly fair or honest.

I'll invent those words

"Bring back Lewis Page!"

Re: Try that with mythology (aka Religion)

"it should be plainly apparent to all but the most ignorant, that the real questions with which religion deals are moral and existential, and that the issues which agitate human society and civilization are moral and existential, and have little to do with science, and in which science is powerless."

Leaving aside the fact that science is hardly 'powerless' to address the origins of human morality (hint: it existed long before people wrote down Sky Fairy Tales on magic tablets), are you aware that over 50% of Americans now reject the theory of evolution solely on the basis of religion?

Sorry to be so smug as to point that out.

Re: Apparently the iPhone 5 has "cleaner UI" and "auto-updating apps"

I hear that Siri is also about to retroinnovate™ straightforward voice commands that are actually useful, e.g. "navigate to 2200 Main Street".