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  1. Re:I Guess That's About All That's Left on Star Wars To Air As Animated Sitcom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well if you took off the nostalgia blinders you can see that episodes 4,5,6 were bad too. Campy acting and a basic storyline... Heck I would credit the fall of the empire not to Luke Skywalker but to Admiral Ackbar for his keen military leadership.

    Part of the problem is after people became nostalgic to Star Wars the new stuff just didn't seem up to par. Jar-Jar wouldn't be so bad if R2D2 and C3PO wasn't there. Also I think if Anakin Skywalker was more like Kirk in the new Star Trek movie, (where you can sence a dark side but you still root for him)

  2. Re:Good Grief. on IBM Breaks Open Source Patent Pledge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No if that was RMS GPL 4.0 will go out soon where there are modifications where it is worded that it is OK for IBM to do this.

    Just like the "TiVoization" exception in the GPL 3.0 where it doesn't say IBM in particularly but words in a way the IBM and a few other companies can safely abide to.

  3. Re:Hmm on Scrabble To Allow Proper Nouns · · Score: 1

    Of course you can play scrabble with whatever rules you want. There is no penalty to playing a game with agreed rules. The official rules are just so if you play with a different group you can have the same baseline.

    If the people who will play scrabble with you wants to play by the rules and you act like an arrogant prick , they will probably not play the game or other games with you. Remember most of the time the reasons that Geeks are not popular isn't because they are smarter then everyone else, but because they are just a jerk.

  4. Re:Right things, not always right reasons. on Stallman On the UK Digital Economy Bill · · Score: 1

    Well put. Everytime RMS talks and rants he seems like he is playing for the people who will give him donations. Just like right wing religious makes some hard line sayings... Not to convince the general public but to keep their hard liners who will pay them the most money. RMS had some good ideas but he is now just hunting for more and new rants to fight after. If a Rant didn't help with donations he will go onto the next one.

  5. Re:Rate of inflation on 2010 Salary Survey Highlights IT Woes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not really...

    If your pay goes at the same rate as inflation it means your value in the company even after an other year of experience hasn't increased. Normally you should expect a 10% increase in your pay per year until you reach 15 years of experience then it will slope down as your years experience is having a slower rate of return.

  6. Re:Duh on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Smarter people have more options then dumb people after they leave high school.

    The following are available with a high school deploma.
    Low paying job where you will be struggling for the rest of your life.
    Military where you probably still won't get paid well but at least you get room and board.
    Religious vocation (But still for most major religions you still need to go threw serious schooling (equivalent to a 4 year degree))
    Speciality training where you can get a decent job at a good rate but you are first to go when the economy goes down.
    Start your own company. (But without chances are if you are unwilling to work for an education you may not be too successful at you own job)

    The military option isn't that bad of a choice if you don't have what it takes to go threw school.

    Now the smarter kids have more options... First they can get a college degree and if they do choose to go to the military they can be an officer which is much better position, as well as many more jobs.

    You bet the recruiter is going off of the ones who weren't too bright. If they were on top of things they would know that going to college there would be better options later on. But these kids probably will end up with hum drum lousy life and the military is a better place for them, and give them the kick in the butt they need when they get out.

  7. Trends on Postgres Project To Go NoSQL · · Score: 1

    Granted I know this is an April Fools joke. But...
    "PostgreSQL project is caving in to recent trends" How about the trend of Hand Made file IO that is on the rise too. Or other methods of storing data. The fact is that is a lot of programmers are idiots when programming in SQL and code it the wrong way where it ends up hindering their overall use.

    Sure NoSQL has some advantages over SQL but it has its disadvantages too. It is a tool you can keep in you cap but I don't see why it needs to be replaced.

  8. Re:Same old... on MIT Finds 'Grand Unified Theory of AI' · · Score: 1

    Bah. I had True AI for years... I just haven't got a computer powerful enough to run it.

    AI.c
    #include "magic.h"

    int main(char ARGC, char **ARGV) {
              return 1;
    }

    magic.h
    #include "magic.h" /* Behold the power of Recursion */

  9. Re:This may be the biggest experiment of all on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    Then you need to find the Anti-God Particle. Which you can use them to create explosions that will destroy time, I will stop 9/11 by destroying time between 2000 and 2008

  10. Numbers don't lie but they are vague. on Good SAT Scores Lead To Higher Egg Donor Prices · · Score: -1

    Aka correlation != causation

    People with High SAT scores often get into good colleges... People who get into good colleges get the top choice of jobs... High Egg Downer prices for woman who are more successful over all.

    However I am sure person with a high SAT score who dropped out of college flipping burgers is not going to get so much.

  11. Re:Adobe should be worried... on Adobe Not Worried About the Future of Flash · · Score: 1

    How do you do it on your track pad...
    A finger down is a mouse cursor. A Tap is a left click... Two finger tap is a right click. Two Finger Drag is a scroll.

  12. Re:Oh great... on 15 Years of Microsoft Bob · · Score: 0

    Apple needs some humility, too.
    Like the..
    Newton,
    Apple ]I[,
    iTV...

    Apple has plenty of screw ups.

    I think Linux zealots really need some humility far more then Apple or Microsoft ever does.

    Any failure on their part they will blame...
    Stupid Users, Closed Source Drivers, Microsoft Evil All powerful dominance, Hardware manufactures, the Government of X state/country.... All but the fact that in a lot of areas linux is pathetically lacking.

  13. Re:OK, so now... on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 1

    With the exception of course is the fact that people need food to survive. You don't need drugs. It is hard to quit doing something that you need to do to survive.

  14. Re:Why I am not surprised ? Oh... on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 1

    Of course this is an unrealistic experiment. He made some rather silly assumptions.
    1. He will take a Super Sized if the teller asked him. Which is rather stupid for 1 I doubt most food service workers are that good at sales to really sell people food that they don't want. 2 if you are not that hungry you will say no.
    2. He ate the food even when he didn't feel like eating it. Even when someone likes to eat unhealty food they get tired of it and will try to eat something healthy just because their body is out of balance.

  15. Re:FOSS Contributions on 10% Tax On Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Normally you hire custom software developers to write software that solves a particular itch. If you can fine someone who will wast their time writing free software that will only solve your problem go ahead, but software developers need to eat too. So will probably find it difficult to find someone who wants to write a program that solves your particular issue.

    In FOSS Software there is still a payment. Ego and Popularity amongst peers. If you write FOSS to solve a unique problem your software will not be popular or get any care. So you will work long and hard and get nothing except for the satisfaction that a company is making a lot of money off your code that you gave away for free (it is like rubbing salt into a wound).

    Sure there are a bunch of FOSS programs that do solve these problems but they are usually written by the person who needs the itch to be scratch and wants to share it to the community. But if you don't want to code it yourself good luck on getting some one else to do it for free.

  16. Re:Reminds me of kids. on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be my approach to Israel and Palestine problems with Jerusalem Just say no one owns the areas... No residences are allowed but you can visit it for the history and religious pilgrimages. Perhaps the UN will make sure everyone plays fair in the area.

  17. Re:You know what's really sad? on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if you were not a child, you look back to the past with some blinders and 20/20 hindsight.

    First you have blinders where lot of your daily worries are cleared from your memory and the emotion attached from it is gone. Do I feel Stress about that project I did 10 years ago. No I go back and laugh at it. That and if I go to analyze problems in the past I can go back with much more advanced thought process then I had at the time, As I know how it will end. During the beginning of the Iraq war, Most americans believed that they were WMD even during the Clinton Administration we thought that. Now with our 20/20 we can see how flawed our thought process was. Where Iraq kept the WMD as an ambiguous issue just so it can poster itself from countries that border them that are not so friendly.

  18. Re:What About The Parents? on Later School Start For Teenagers Brings Drop In Absenteeism · · Score: 1

    Actually it would make it easier for the parent. As the teens will just sleep late. Or just be walking around a like a zombie (probably without the eating brains part) That and the kids going home later allows them less time at night to cause trouble.

  19. Re:They are both platform agnostic. on Recommendations For C++/OpenGL Linux Tutorials? · · Score: 1

    I didn't know windows c++ allowed you to run
    #include

  20. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Democracy or not. If you don't do what the people want your project will not succeed. Just today I got a back a rather snide response to a bug I put in 6 months ago (expecting to know what package was causing a problem on all my applications). My response was after upgrading to Windows 7 it seem to fix all the problems.

    Which is true, After going to windows 7 I have been having a lot less problem then with Linux. Linux has been falling behind and it is mostly due to the key people not wanting to listen to its users. Either expecting them to be idiots or whiny.

  21. Re:Freedom on Nexuiz Founder Licenses It For Non-GPL Use · · Score: -1, Troll

    To insure that people are using the GPL correctly we should make a program to insure our licence is being validated so we can assure that our Digital Rights are appropriately Managed and no one infringes on our rights to release free and open source software.

  22. Re:They can't be done separately on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    You prove my point...

    Now that I broke it to individual issues you can point out and debate a problem with an issue... Now you solution may not be the only fix. Perhaps a more hybrid approach may help the problem.
    For example except for everyone to join in. But if a company offers health insurance the employee will need opt in unless they show that they have insurance elsewhere.

  23. Re:Thats ok , as an XP user on Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP · · Score: 1

    As a Mac User I havn't found many sites that will not run off of safari. The ones that do not work in safari will work with firefox.
    I havn't ran into an IE Only page in years.
    I have ran into some pages which render better in IE. But it is usually some very small minor details.

    If strip your browser too much say you are on an Anti-Flash campaign, Or anti-Javascript even add blocking you will see more problems but those are self induced problems not an IE only thing.

  24. To Big on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it is too big. Being able to do a large bill is good politically but not for the american public. There are a lot of things going on in big bills. Almost everyone has something they don't like about it. So by passing a bill you really kinda force pass a bunch of bills, with no real debates on each section.

    Smaller bills will be much easer to handle.
    Laws to prevent insurance companies from denying coverage based on medical reasons. Probably an easy pass.

    Laws to require everyone to get healthcare a difficult slim pass and probably will take some extra time to perfect.

    Laws about funding for abortions as part of the plan. Probably will be filibuster out. However filibusters take a lot of work and filibustering everything will probably literally kill a party. So they will not overuse the filibuster allowing passing for other details.

  25. Re:Wait, what? on Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal · · Score: 2, Informative

    Spoofing the caller ID doesn't mean you are untrackible. But it does mean the person who answers the phone gets the wrong impression who is calling.

    For example if you work from XYZ company and you call out their Caller ID may get the main line number while your number is "Spoofed" as it is a legit use for it. That is why they don't stop it.

    However if you spoof your own line with just fake information then the person will need to dig and get the information back. Usually being to much effort to be worth it.

    But now with a bigger fine if someone spoofed a caller ID to Horass then you can double wammy them back. A slap on the hand and a year in jail.