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Comment: As someone taught creationism in school (Score 1) 544

by Loopy (#46087673) Attached to: Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching

I'm struggling to figure out what teaching it had to do with my understanding of science? Creationism isn't science. I consider myself a Christian but I do not ever conflate matters of historical faith with how fast carbon decays or how electrons move or how likely the next jet I'm on is to fall out of the sky.

Knowledge of the bible has precluded rational scientific theory in exactly none of the self-professed religious people (e.g. Christians, Jews, Catholics, etc.) I've ever known.

Comment: Re:Protecting the arts and artists (Score 1) 442

by Loopy (#44009667) Attached to: Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages

I'm glad someone is pushing this topic (finally) and this is the perfect example. It's one thing to protect artists but the never-ending copyright extensions doing nothing of the sort. They ensure the media companies can generate recurring profits but, by and large, provide limit benefit to those actually responsible for the work. Oh wait...corporations are people now too.

It's funny how you snark about the "corporations are people" thing when it comes to this cause. I'm guessing you don't feel the same way about similar application of consequences/requirements when it's going in reverse (e.g. corporate tax rates)?

Comment: So the elephant in the room... (Score 1) 262

by Loopy (#43596745) Attached to: Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study

...is that voice-to-text software is so remarkably unreliable that nobody uses it without proofreading the output before sending. I think most people could have told you this without an official study.

And just for the obtuse, it isn't that it completely misunderstands everything you say, it's that when you're sending texts, the things it tends to fail to translate properly tend to be things that get your text posted to one of those autocorrect-joke sites. Or get you in trouble with the wife/husband/parents/boss.

Comment: Diminished experience? (Score 1) 274

by Loopy (#43485427) Attached to: Google Forbids Advertising On Glass


Funny, most of us have been saying that about our computers/browsers for years and Google hasn't listened.

Comment: Re:Windows has been "over" for me for years (Score 1) 863

by Loopy (#43464537) Attached to: ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over"

Agreed. My office was primarily an Ubuntu shop for our productivity and development machines. As soon as 11.x hit, everyone who needed to upgrade or rebuilt a machine just jumped ship straight to Mint. A few holdouts are still on Ubuntu 10 LTS but those are machines that really can't change without potentially breaking a bunch of dependencies.

Comment: Re:Is this a blow against sexism? (Score 1) 1145

by Loopy (#43241835) Attached to: SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes

I'll give up mod ability to reply.

Anyone ever heard the phrase "hostile work environment?" If anyone is ultimately to blame here, it's the ambulance-chaser segment of the legal profession. If companies didn't have to worry about getting sued for _not_ taking notice of this, stern looks would have been all that came of this.

Comment: Outsourcing (Score 5, Insightful) 101

by Loopy (#42552811) Attached to: GM CIO Says HP Hiring Probe "Not the Best Use Our Legal System"


Comment: Re:Ubuntu Mobile ... (Score 1) 535

by Loopy (#42478725) Attached to: The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software

Microsoft locks people into proprietary licenses because they know that, after a few years of using the OS they buy from them you will need a new computer and a new system, either because your old one broke or because an associate wants to do the same things as you do already. Normally, if you were allowed your natural right to copy things you own, you would just be able to copy the old one and that would work fine.

You are allowed to transfer your license as long as you wipe it from the old machine first. That doesn't mean an old OS will actually work usably on new computers, though. In fact, the odds are against it even being able to boot if the OS is more than a few years old.

My nieces' P67 chipset and NVidia 530 computer that still runs Windows XP (11 year old OS and working quite well, thank you very much) would beg to differ.

Comment: The memory thing... (Score 5, Informative) 241

by Loopy (#42332529) Attached to: Whose Bug Is This Anyway?

...is pretty much what those of us that build our own systems do anytime we upgrade components (RAM/CPU/MB) or experience unexplained errors. It's similar to running the Prime95 torture tests overnight, which also checks calculations in memory against known data sets for expected values.

Good stuff for those that don't already have a knack for QA.
