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If doctors could establish your health status from excrement [...]

Are you really trying to dispute the utility of stool and urine analysis to medical diagnosis?

They made the right choice as long as they don't need to use what ever they get as a replacement. We still make the best planes over here.

Even the people at f-16.net appears to like Gripen more. The consensus seems to be that F-16 is a better at carrying loads at long distances but Gripen in better in direct combat or situations where maneuverability is of importance. In any training missions where both planes were used Gripen came out ahead.

The thing is that the designs are different for a reason. Gripen is designed to defend a relatively small airspace against intruding planes. The F-16 have sacrificed some of this ability to make it more usable as a medium range offensive unit.

So if you want to take out tanks in Iraq, go for F-16. If you want to defend yourself against F-16, use Gripen.

I don't know what you mean with "over here" but I'm pretty sure you don't mean over at Boeing.

Nonsense. Both aircraft are roughly equal in capabilities and performance. The F-16 is older but has a more powerful engine. This translates into faster acceleration and a higher ceiling for the F-16. The F-16 is slightly more versatile than the Gripen due to 40% more takeoff weight and can handle 31% more external stores than the Gripen. The Gripen can out turn the F-16 and has a greater combat radius. Personally, I would take both the Gripen and F-16 over the F-18 Hornet. Here is a comparison between the two aircraft. http://www.brighthub.com/science/aviation/articles/92292.aspx

All popular package managers, including APT, RPM and the FreeBSD Ports Collection, suffer from the problem of destructive upgrades. When you perform an upgrade -- whether for a single application or your entire operating system -- the package manager will overwrite the files that are currently on your system with newer versions. As long as packages are always perfectly backward-compatible, this is not a problem, but in the real world, packages are anything but perfectly backward-compatible.

(from http://archive09.linux.com/feature/155922)

We have all been bitten by this. It is not that prevalent on servers (what I use Linux for), but desktop distros definately suffers from this.

also:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/dependency-hell-233892/

http://fixunix.com/suse/265243-dependency-hell.html

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=289520&goto=nextnewest

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/52282.aspx

Dependency hell is real. Package managers help mitigate the problem locally, but software repositories are distro and version specific. Once you step outside of the official repository you risk stepping into dependency hell, as many of the above experienced. I fully concede that it *shoudn't* be a problem if every piece of software author did what they were supposed to do. It is the OSs job to provide a service and guidance so that authors do the right thing. Linux is not quite there yet, unfortunately. That's why you see the typical advice to install from the "official" distro and version specific repository. But that model is flawed.

http://www.brighthub.com/environment/renewable-energy/articles/65860.aspx 30% or fuck off. Also solar panels are not durable over time and are expensive to make and replace.

Just how much ZaRex do you have to drink (it wasn't Kool Aid they drank in Jonestown) to believe that dueling GUIs on the same computer is not a colossally stupid idea?

You mean a dumb idea like how some of us have both Gnome and KDE installed and can switch between them at boot-up?

If you look at the details, which would include the mass and velocity of the asteroid in question, you'll understand. The mass and fuel needed for such a "tug" satellite would be directly proportional and not possibly to launch, much less have extra fuel to maneuver over to the target, etc.

They asteroids in question only look small and slow because of the incomprehensible size and emptiness of the background. That is, lack of a good reference point.

http://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/64710.aspx

There are already such apps:

http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/iphone/articles/87215.aspx

Well here is a page doing some comparisons but sadly no hard numbers. From what I gather as long as the CPU doesn't hit 100% it doesn't matter because the video will play smooth. This page here was written by a guy doing 720p with a Geforce 7200 and AMD XP2600 CPU so if that combo will play 720p I have no doubt the 520 PCI with a Pentium D will play it no problem.

And from what I understand once its passed to the GPU that's it, there is no further interaction with the CPU. I know I've set up AGP cards with hardware decode and AGP certainly isn't feeding data back to the CPU and it worked great. So I still say the 520 PCI plus a Pentium D would make a fine box for surfing and watching videos. Both of my nephews are running Pentium Ds and they even play MMOs with it and never drop below 30FPS, so for something less strenuous like video I think it would work just fine.

It looks like the Droid SDK has an emulator. http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/google-android/articles/66317.aspx

Even if you do live in such a place, if you eat any amount of seaweed, iodized salt, deep sea fish, or meat regularly you have enough iodine to protect your thyroid. Heck, if you have any sort of well-balanced diet and eat whole foods instead of just doritos, twinkies, and Mt Dew, you'd have nothing to worry about.

http://www.weightlossforall.com/foods-rich-iodine.htm
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=69
http://www.brighthub.com/health/diet-nutrition/articles/45140.aspx

Besides, the amount of iodine you would need even if the worst case were to occur is minisule and easily absorbed through a balanced diet. Check out the radiation emergency section of the following article:

http://www.drugs.com/mtm/potassium-iodide.html

Why not spend the trivial amount for potassium iodide? Because unless you really, really need to take it (because you were within range of a criticality event, are working in a damaged reactor, are within fallout from a severe Chernobyle-scale accident which cannot happen with these Japanese reactors, etc) the risk to your liver is much higher than the risk of incidental radiation. Besides, you get exposed to more radiation from the TSA's crappy full body scanners than you would from the fallout from the reactors.

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isj/news/118092749.html
http://www.9news.com/news/article/187711/188/Radiation-fears-Who-needs-nuke-pills-and-who-doesnt-

Crick is mentioned in every single page of the first page of results that I get.

He is mentioned first on the following pages on the first page of results:

http://www.experiment-resources.com/who-discovered-dna.html

http://www.brighthub.com/science/genetics/articles/13872.aspx

Although the parent's claim that people usually say Crick first is obviously wrong, it doesn't look to me like many people only credit Watson.

Not that I remembered either name from my schooling. It's been way too long since I took biology.

Try that with Windoze.

build in Vista/7, takes 5 minutes to set up, you can easily do incremental backup of OS/APPS and DOCS to any destination device of your choice. http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/53645.aspx don't randomly post anti-"windoze" crap; research before you start posting inaccurate statements.

One of these would solve the problem I suspect-ECM against the govt tracking.

http://www.jammer-store.com/gps-blockers-jammers.html

But are jammers legal? Fox News has the article GPS Jammers Illegal, Dangerous, and Very Easy to Buy but in Are GPS Signal Jammers Legal? Bright Hub says the FCC has "only taken action against one individual who has sold GPS jamming devices."

For those who want a GPS jammer, and have the skills to build one, Phrack explains how.

Falcon

Any other reason? Perhaps they are a bit cheaper?

I do think he has a point that a degree in anything doesn't mean you're going to be any good, and I learned a heck of a lot of programming back in the 80's on my own, in my basement.

But, the motive here seems to be cost, not anything else.

And Zoho products show it. They are poor quality knock-offs of other, more commercially popular packages.

The are the Rodger Corman of software.

(Apologies to Mr Corman)

I call bullshit on that. I've never used Zoho or other online Office type apps much but from all the reviews, reactions etc. that I've read... Zoho seems to be doing pretty well. The irony is all the more acute since the most frequent comparison point for Zoho apps is the google docs suite (with their army of Phd's)... and pretty much every review I see comes out favoring Zoho's functionality, easy of use etc. etc. I won't quote each and every review here (you can do a google (hah) search on "Zoho vs google docs" and check for yourself). But here's one recent review as a "for instance": http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/54291.aspx

Yes they are illegal. First, tethering is not inbuilt in all phones (are you in the EU or something? this entire story doesn't apply to you if you are) if it was there wouldn't be fine articles like http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/google-android/articles/42679.aspx telling you how to enable usb debugging and use rogue applications to do it.

Even if it were included in every phone here in the US it is illegal to use a carriers network (or any device attached to it) in a way that they haven't authorized. If AT&T hasn't sold you tethering, it is illegal for you to tether a device attached to their network. And when I say illegal, I mean criminal, not merely a breach of contract. You will go to prison if prosecuted.

I think maybe it's something like this: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/43400.aspx

But since he's so mysterious about it, perhaps it's not.

Same thing happened when the Iranians overtook the US Embassy in 1979.

The difference was that the Iranians only had to piece together strip cut shredded documents. Not .8mmx4mm (level 6). From what I can tell, this is still the highest standard of shredding used in the USA. To piece that together requires completing a 19k piece jigsaw per page, something I tend to doubt that you are going to do by hand - each page is going to take longer than 30 days for a family to complete. http://www.worldslargestpuzzle.com/hof-010.html - that's what it took for a family to complete an actual jigsaw without having to use stereoscopic microscopes or use tweezers.

I would think it more likely that they would somehow scan the pieces in and have a computer algorithmically complete the puzzle. See here: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/enterprise-security/articles/882.aspx

The funny thing from the latter piece is that the most common form of document reconstruction is for the 1/4 inch strip shredded documents - the cheapest possible method of shredding. Why am I not surprised.

on a phone. Here are the things I did want:

- Phone + Google + Evolution + Mac OS calendar, all synced, automatically, all the time
- GTD system task manager that syncs automatically to a web-based GTD system (Toodledo)

I Googled GTD Blackberry
First result: http://www.isaacbowman.com/gtd-blackberry-productivity but it doesn't sync... so
I Googled toodledo blackberry and, low and behold, the first result:
http://www.taskjot.com/

- A rapidly accessible text + voice + photo notes system with tagging that syncs automatically to a web-based interface

http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/blackberry-platform/reviews/35220.aspx
Another first result

- No more "event" syncs (i.e. put in dock/plug into USB, have to remember to sync), all syncs immediate and transparent

http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=default
First result, again

- The REAL web of non-"mobile" pages, including AJAX capability

http://www.opera.com/mini/
fi.... oh fuck it, you know...

- Flexibility to grow in capabilities

Ability to develop my own apps and not need RIM's blessing before use. Oh, and... thousands of applications and games available to me.

I also got along with it:

- A kindle (with Kindle app)

Blackberry kindle app is in dev... I can't imagine doing any serious reading on that screen (or the iPhone screen), though.

- YouTube anywhere

Built in. Visit http://www.youtube.com/ from the BB browser and yes, you can watch the videos.

- Great GPS integration for nearly every app both for consumption (shopping, dining, directions) and production (contextualizing input data)

Built in. No, really, it's there, and it works.

iPhone gave me all of this. I tried Palm and Blackberry and they never came close to what I wanted. The iPhone is actually the first technology device in a very long time that I'm absolutely fully satisfied with. No complaints, no qualms, no niggles. That never happens, but it happened with the iPhone. You'd have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

I don't know about Palm, but you must not have owned a BlackBerry for more than an hour, or you'd already know it can do all of this. In fact, it can do all of it AT THE SAME TIME.

Can you do that on the iPhone? Sorry, there's no "app for that".

My primary device is a BlackBerry Bold. I also have a 2nd gen iPhone that I use primarily for testing layouts and web features in Safari mobile.

I seriously don't know why the hell people bow down to the iPhone. It's just a damned phone, and a fair bit less capable than my primary device, which is why it's my secondary.

It's very sad that you're essentially handicapping yourself by being so meek and accepting.

And a one-legged man has in fact, climbed Mount Everest.

http://www.distant.ca/UselessFacts/fact.asp?ID=129

Here's a double-amputee who did it:

http://www.brighthub.com/education/special/reviews/38900.aspx

Even when we try and fail, we at least tried. You don't even care to do that. I feel nothing but pity for you.

Funny, Debian dims my laptop screen just fine. What on earth are you doing with it?

Here's even an article on disabling auto-dim: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/blog/archive/2009/05/01/adjust-or-turn-off-inactivity-screen-dimming-in-ubuntu.aspx

So - I'm going to go with "have you tried"?

Here is one site I found yesterday with templates, white papers, articles, etc. http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management.aspx

Not to mention the horrible grammar inside his article:
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/enterprise-security/articles/868.aspx

"But until consumers starting taking responsibility for their problems, [...]"

"[..]traditionally spend large amount of money[...]"

I didn't bother looking for more because I can't bring myself to reread that article.

Good points, Ben, but we'd take you more seriously if you actually bothered to use some form of spell-check in your articles.