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  1. Re:Advantage Surface on Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? · · Score: 1

    You'll just have to wait for the Windows 8 surface early next year.

  2. Re:Umm, no on Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? · · Score: 1

    That's the iPad 2 -- they've moved on.

  3. Advantage Surface on Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    iPad 16GB no keyboard -- $499
    Surface 32GB no keyboard -- $499
    Advantage Surface

    iPad 32GB no keyboard -- $599
    Surface 32GB with touch keyboard -- $599
    Advantage Surface

    iPad 64GB no keyboard -- $699
    Surface 64GB with touch keyboard -- $699

    And the released Surface includes Office 2013RT.
    Advantage Surface

  4. More chip players on Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business · · Score: 1

    Amazon taking charge of OMAP could leave rivals Barnes & Noble in a tricky situation.

    Apple just announced that it's going into the chip business. Why not Microsoft too?

    The new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, which will build on the history of innovation in digital reading technologies from both companies, has not been named and will be referred to as Newco.
    http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Microsoft-Invests-300M-in-Barnes-and-Noble-Settles-Patent-Flap-555788/
     

  5. Ban Orange Juice Too on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OJ has about 15 calories per ounce.
    Coca Cola has about 12 calories per ounce.
    In each case it is pretty much all from sugar but there's nothing in the law prohibiting large servings of orange juice.

    Morons.

  6. Big Bird and the morons on Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV · · Score: 1

    It's been a tough week for Big Bird.

    From the article ...
    Sigman goes further, suggesting no screen time for the under-threes, rising gradually to a maximum of two hours for the over-16s.
    I'm sorry Mrs Jones. I couldn't finish my history report because I spent my two hours of screen time on math and biology.

  7. Re:It's a model on Greenhouse Emissions Drop Less During Economic Downturn Than Expected · · Score: 0

    Your comment is Off Topic. This discussion is about rates of CO2 emissions. It is not about AGW or AGW models.

  8. Re:It's a model on Greenhouse Emissions Drop Less During Economic Downturn Than Expected · · Score: 2

    It's "rate of release" vs. "rate of reductions in carbon dioxide emissions." Translates to "rate of release" vs. "rate of reductions of release." The second is the first derivative of the first which is not a valid comparison.

     

  9. It's a model on Greenhouse Emissions Drop Less During Economic Downturn Than Expected · · Score: 2

    It's a model. A model is a hypothesis. The "results" are correlations and as we all know, correlation is not causation.

    Meanwhile, can someone explain what this means ...
    York revealed that the rate of reduction in carbon dioxide emissions was slightly more than half the rate of carbon release when the economy was booming.

  10. The solution ... on Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco · · Score: 1

    The solution will be to require certification in spreadsheet design, creation and use. All others will be issued pads, pencils and adding machines.

    Certification will require six months of coursework, an eight hour test and a fee.

  11. What's Best? on Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    From the ANA letter signed by companies such as General Motors Corporation, GE, IBM, and Coca-Cola:

    Default policy choices should be set by looking to what is best for society as a whole ...

    So, we should leave it to General Motors Corporation to decide "what is best for society as a whole?"

  12. Electronic Democracy on MPAA Boss Admits SOPA and PIPA Are Dead, Not Coming Back · · Score: 4, Insightful

    'There were eight million e-mails [to elected representatives] in two days.' That caused senators to run away from the legislation.

    So, now we know what to do to prevent or get rid of Dodd-Frank and other pieces of idiotic legislation.

  13. Greasing the wheel on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    So, instead of one big quake releasing energy built up over a long time, we have a series of small quakes. This is a good thing.

  14. Why? on Scientists Want To Keep Their Research Work Out of Court · · Score: 2

    Why should these scientists be treated any different from government or corporate employees or private citizens with respect to court orders to release private documents. Everybody needs to learn that all written communications, lab notes, memos, emails, pictures, videos and audio recordings are fair game and should be created with that in mind. If scientists don't like it then change the laws for everyone. Meanwhile, don't do dumb stuff.

  15. Great writing on Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm · · Score: 3, Funny

    renowned Johns Hopkins
    a revered reconstructive and plastic surgeon.

    I hope it's just an oversight by the poster rather than the revered doctor that has left the "ear" implanted under the skin of her forearm.

  16. Re:Sprawl? on High Tech Companies Becoming Fools For the City · · Score: 1

    The incorrect spelling of "je ne sais quoi", which in French literally translates to "I know not what". It is often used to describe something of an unknown yet appealing quality.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=je%20ne%20sais%20qua

  17. Sprawl? on High Tech Companies Becoming Fools For the City · · Score: 1

    Define "Sprawl."

    Is it perhaps the commute or the schools or the restaurants or the parks or the entertainment or the museums or the cost of housing or the type of housing or the transportation or the opportunities or the je ne sais qua that determines where one wants to work?

  18. The under five mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) in Mexico (2010) was 17. In the US ... eight.
    http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011_Final.pdf

    Comparing quality of care between countries is difficult but I know where I'd prefer to start a family.

  19. Interesting that they don't mention what this is costing the taxpayers. Maybe it's in the body of the paper which I can read for just $31.50.

    Probably not.

  20. Attention Kmart Shopper on When Flying Was a Thrill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You too, could travel like Elizabeth Taylor.

    If you had Elizabeth Taylor's money. Today, if you have Elizabeth Taylor's money, you charter a jet.

  21. Good Job on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    The TSA is doing such a good job that they've also prevented hijackings and bombings in South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.

  22. Public vs. Private on Australian Agency Rules Facebook Pages Responsible For Comments · · Score: 1

    You simply can no longer have two-way conversations with your customers.

    You simply can no longer have public two-way conversations with your customers.

  23. More than a dozen reports ... on Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets · · Score: 1

    ... of Buckyball swallowing in about six months.

    Football, one of the most popular sports in the United States, is also the leading cause of sports-related injuries. During the 2005-06 season, high school football players sustained more than half a million injuries nationally.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070815154430.htm

    Makes Buckyballs look pretty safe and the Consumer Product Safety Commission look pretty misguided.

  24. Both ... on First Look: Microsoft Office 2013 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    although those are thankfully optional and not mandatory

    One without the other would have been a disaster.

  25. Don't lie on Apple Yanks Mac Virus Immunity Claims From Website · · Score: 0

    ... stating something is perfect when it isn't is ultimately bad for PR and company morale.

    And it's a lie.