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  1. Re:Magic smoke on Companies Waste $2.8 Billion Per Year Powering Unused PCs · · Score: 1

    Well the heated water does come to play if they dispose of it when it it still hot, say in a River, changing the temperature of the river killing the wildlife and changing the echo system for miles. That said there are ways to cool the water safely without dumping it into an echosystem.

  2. Did anyone else read it... on MIT To Make All Faculty Publications Open Access · · Score: 1

    "MIT To Make All Faulty Publications Open Access"

    I guess it is the same thing for a lot of the Publications.

  3. Re:Bleeped on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    Simple. People can't say when they blow up someone that they learned it from Myth Busters. If they bleep it and do a 5 minutes Google search they can blame where they got the data from. But not Myth Busters.

  4. Biology... on Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule · · Score: 1

    How long does it take an Adrenaline to come down on your system. Enough to stop the fight or flight instinct. That mean time should be the proper period plus some response time.

  5. Re:Use the big vendors to assist on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 1

    I would also say that you don't push the Open Source Software as Open Source. There is no point. For a big company paying a couple of K for a license is no big deal. They want software that will get the job done, and can easily find people to operate them. Obscure software free of closed is avoided. Open Source Software sounds like obscure software and that is the problem. Show them the software get them interested in it, show that it is wildly used, find some major consulting companies such as IBM which can support it. Then you may be able to get it across. Once they get interested and ask how much. Tell them it is free Open Source, so you can just download it and run it for free.

    Make your sale first then show them the cost.

  6. Re:Magic smoke on Companies Waste $2.8 Billion Per Year Powering Unused PCs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well there where always be a group of people that you will not convince. However if you are going to get the general population, I think responsible environmentalism is the key.

  7. What is the point of R rated movies. on Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie? · · Score: 1

    Normally the R Rating doesn't help the story anything, and usually causes a loss to the movie firm as they cant advertise to a wider audience.

    Most of the stuff that the makes it from PG 13 to R are mostly visuals, and some language. There are many editing elements they can do to show the guy dies a slow painful death, or the hero is doing it with the lady. Which don't effect the story however keeps things clean.

  8. Re:Magic smoke on Companies Waste $2.8 Billion Per Year Powering Unused PCs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. Environmentalism will get more traction if they are honest about their data. We as a general population are use to hearing the doom conditions, as people are trying to push their agenda. So they do their computer models and give the results of the 4th standard deviation of the results.

    The more truth is the fact if we reduce our power consumptions for the long term then the power companies can lower their output, as there is less demand. However the fact that your PC is on last night doesn't mean you PC is the cause of so much Carbon in the air. As it would still be there if you turn it off.

  9. Re:No surprise on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 1

    Having BIOS level control of your virus kinda overrides having your harddrive permissions so you can do a raw write to the drive. So all you need to do is put some code to background download the larger flasher program to spread.

  10. Re:Laziness Rules on "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs · · Score: 1

    For the most part the Overhead of running a Real DB is usually made up over time.

    Small Apps tend to grow to big ones over time. Having Babbie Databases can become a stubmling block to your application. As well as for the organization. They may want to wharehouse your application data for making better business decisions and integration across apps. So you little 1 million record database will need to be integrated into a billion/trillion record database.

  11. Re:I thought I did. on Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Gasp. How dare a company who works hard to make a product Charge for their product to an other company who will use their software to make money. Its called Supply and Demand, So what if that $5k upgrade only cost them $1k to make internally, if it is going to cost you $8k to make it, there is still a value to it.

    Wasting money just to feel good is still wasting your money.

  12. Re:I thought I did. on Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps · · Score: 1

    This is what would happen. The Vendor will hold the price hostage say adding 5k to the price. 5k that is a lot OMG Ill hire a programmer to do it myself.

    The programmer if a consultant will cost say $100 an hour. Or you need to hire a full time employee, and you will need to keep them there for years, if you are going to be ethical about it. So say it takes 10 days at 8 hours a day to fix a small problem.
    8*10*1000 that is $8000 to fix the small problem. Vs. Paying $5000 for the Vendor... That is a $3000 savings. Or if you hire a full time programmer, you will need to find ways to keep him busy after solving the problem. For most companies there isn't a work load for programmers if they are not a programming company. Even if you have a development staff. You will need to take them off possible more profitable projects to fix this problem. So you may delay a program that can make you 1k a day. So you lost $10k of profits to save $5k.

    Working out the numbers you may find that being "Stuck" to close source is cheaper then Trying to Maintain Open Source code.

  13. Re:OK, dumb question after reading the article on Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps · · Score: 1

    You don't. It just RMS trying to stay in the news and make himself seem current. As people are caring less and less about Applications installed and running on your computer and moving more services base applications. Open Source/Closed Source software is becoming less relevant as Data not the application is more of the main advantage.
    Say you took All of Goggle's code, you still wont be as good as Google as you don't have the data to make yourself useful. And being that We have Services based software we are less reliant on waiting for patches and versions as the code is constantly updated.
    Having Open Source code for the server side is not that big of a deal, as you can change the code but your service may not use it anyways.

  14. Re:No surprise on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Them Old Time Viruses ran with a lot less then what modern BIOS have, so I wouldn't focus to much on size to save us.
    When the Virus initially runs it is probably in the Hard Drive to the RAM which can can fit a LOT of configurations to break into a lot of BIOS manufactures.

  15. Re:Yep, No Reason Other Than The RRoD... on Increase In Xbox 360 E74 Problems · · Score: 1

    All that for $100 less then the PS3. In business the winner is rarely the most technological advanced but the one who finds the best balance between price and performance. These devices are strictly designed for entertainment, I know some grammes base their lives around this, but to be realistic these are designed to play games. Most of the population who buys these products want to play the games more then drool at the graphics, sound, analyses the story plot etc...

  16. Re:Misdirection on Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't see where you can honestly say you pay an extra $500 for the logo. Every time I check prices of Apples vs. Other brands out there and match them spec for spec EVEN THE SPECS THAT I PERSONALLY DONT NEED I find the cost difference is about +/- $100 - $150. I may be paying $500 for hardware features that I don't need but I am not Paying $500 for the Apple Logo. Spec for Spec Apples prices are comparable to Dells, Lenovos, etc...

  17. Re:G2 on Dell's Smartphone Rejected — Too Dull · · Score: 1

    umm.... You forgot a major factor. Cellphones/Smartphones are carried by people. So they need to look good, in many ways that is more important then any technical detail. When the iPhone was released it is much slimmer and sleeker then the other smart phones out there. If it was a big block even with more cool tech and still had good battery life it wouldn't sell. If you cary it with you it becomes a fashion accessary too, so it has to look good.

  18. Re:whew... untheorized... on Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle · · Score: 1

    May not have found the God Particle but we found the Devil Particle.

  19. Isn't price the issue. on Tai Chi Scooter Promises Fun and Falls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the main issue with the segway wasn't the handle bar or its size. But the fact that it was 10k Too expensive for the average Joe for what you get from it. I think they should but engineering into making it cheaper Sub 1k and run well.

  20. Re:Suprise? on Phenom IIs, Core I7-920 Win Out In Value Analysis · · Score: 1

    Not always Back in 2006 Intel Core 2 Duo chip actually beat AMD.

  21. Re:Were nerds here... use the f'ing metric system on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 1

    Well If you live in an area where you can get both temperatures 0F and 100F Those are actually well known difference in temperature.

    0F and Below Is cold enough to hurt. Going out with a Tee Shirt at 0F is very painful. At 0C You may feel chilly but you can do it without a lot of pain and you don't start heavy shivering.

    100F is too the next extreme, even if have no clothing on and no doing anything you are still overheating. If you are healthy enough and keep well hydrated you can probably make it to night with limited stress where you body can cool down again. But still it is excess stress on the body.

    32F-77F or 0C-25C is Chilly to Warm But well in range for human survival.

  22. Re:Use that waste heat! on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 1

    Now, if they put in hot tubs ....
    You didn't think that threw did you...
    Espectially with the off balance between men and women IT workers.

  23. Re:Best attribute on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 1

    Yea but with DOS FTP it doen't have the Tick option. You just have the obnoxious hash option. It is nice to see how fast your download is going and how long to wait.

  24. Re:Best attribute on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 2, Funny

    Besides having to get up. Go to the store find the box. Pay a fair chunk of money. Go back and install it on your PC. Vs. Downloading it in 30 seconds for free. I don't know I think we actually have improved the process a bit.

  25. Re:"Release early, release often" on It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux · · Score: 1

    Well the case of Birthday for things that were note born is always a fuzzy idea.
    Just like the Abortion debate of when does human life begin.
    Conception when you just a couple of cells, or in terms of software when you started coding
    1st trimester when it is starting to grow and become more then a bunch of cells however indistinguishable for all other vertebrates. or in terms of code, it doesn't work but you got the data layouts sets and some proof of concepts sections working.
    2nt trimester When Human distinguishable features begin to form however it cannot live on its own. So in software it would be like an early alpha pieces are in place things are running but not necessary well with each other.
    3rd trimester When Parts are starting to work quite human and can survive with a lot of maintenance outside the mother. So this would be the Beta Period of the software it works but expect things to fail.

    Finally Birth or the Version 1 release.

    We like discrete time frames for things but the truth is that there is a huge gray scale of events that goes on. We like to break things up so we can classify them. But for the most part it is quite fuzzy.