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  1. Re:Yeah on Facebook Photos Land Eden Prairie Kids in Trouble · · Score: 1

    No you dont, you just have to be in the same group, which in this case would be the high school.

  2. The response on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    The response really is a bunch of crap of course. If they're "protecting" your domain, then how come anyone can go register it within that time frame, as long as its from them?

  3. Another one to add to the list on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought I'd try it out: http://www.payupnetworksolutions.com

  4. Re:Only Because on Early Work on Homebrew StarCraft for the DS · · Score: 1

    Someone did that for Zero Hour as well and got very far on it before being forced to shut down.

  5. Re:They're different systems, just like the consol on PC Mag Slams Cheap Wal-Mart Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Same reason I got wii games for my xbox 360 this christmas, only with those I dont have to open up the packaging (thus making it unreturnable), and stick it in the drive to find out it won't work.

    Citing a better example, a budget game like bejeweled in the cheapo section is more likely to be the game in question.

  6. Re:Don't blame the teachers on Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave · · Score: 1

    When my dad was a borough assemblyman he recieved healthcare for his whole family that covered EVERYTHING. It was pretty rediculious - I got acutane (the name brand) for free, which is usually $120 per bottle and has a generic equivalent. Everything was very cheap. Teachers get the same government healthcare.

    But I supposed it depends greatly on which state you teach in. Its just like looking for a job, you can pick the one where you live, but if you want the best pay and benefits you have to be willing to move. Supposedly Alaska is up there with having the highest pay and best benefits.

    $1200 per family isn't even government subsidized healthcare. I'm sure you could go in for surgery and the hospital would put you on a payment plan that costs less per month. Thats pretty rediculious, I certainly can't afford that and I'm supposed to be making more per year as an engineer (level 1, but still)...

  7. Re:Don't blame the teachers on Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave · · Score: 1

    Teachers also have all summer off and get to retire earlier than a lot of other professions. Free health care and other benefits make a difference in the long run. My Aunt and Uncle retired at 55, and have taken vacations to expensive exotic locations twice a year. While they were working they took month-long vacations every year. Both teachers.

    I suppose it might depend on which state you teach in.

  8. Re:scared of hydrogen on Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record Rate · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the responses, I never thought about it combining with O2 in the atmosphere on its own. I suppose there is enough O2 that H2 + 202 = 2H20, rather than having any of it escape.

  9. Re:scared of hydrogen on Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record Rate · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the hydrogen is used to fuel your car / transported from point A to point B where my concern comes from.

  10. scared of hydrogen on Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record Rate · · Score: 0

    Is anyone else as scared as I am about this haste to produce hydrogen gas? Essentially we're turning water into two gasses, one of which isn't heavy enough to stick around in our atmosphere, meaning its lost for good. What happens if you repeat the cycle of:

    100% H20 -> 99% H2 + 1% H2 lost
    99% H2 + 02 -> 99% H20; 1% H2 lost

    an infinite amount of times? You run out of water. You know that gas pretty much always escapes no matter how you store it or transfer it. You just can't be careful enough, especially if your dealing with consumers and uneducated grunt workers.

    Water is essential for regulating the temperature of and cooling the planet. Oh yeah, its required for life as well.

    To paraphrase a quote from Jurassic Park: You spent so much time and effort thinking of whether you could, you never stopped and thought whether you should.

  11. Re:How to kill innovation on Former EA Chicago Employee Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    Other publishers dont abandon their software 3 months after getting it working as advertised, which is 8 months after it was released.

  12. Re:100% backwards on Microsoft Wants 360 To Have PS2-Like Lifespan · · Score: 1

    I dont think they break down on their own as much as they are easy to break. I know my girlfriend's little brother's PS2 died on its own, and its replacement ruin Guitar Hero II and also died (my suspicion is that he just doesn't take care of it good enough). My own PS2 got shifted within the shell while traveling with it, so I have to have two controllers and a memory card in it just to play.

    So I 100% agree that most PS2 sales are probably replacements.

  13. Remind me again... on Samsung Announces Fastest 64-GB SSD · · Score: 1

    Why do we keep getting Samsung only advertisements for flash products that are remarkably unimpressive? I'm pretty sure there is lots of ho-hum crap being released every day and that stuff obviously isn't newsworthy- why does something NAND related from Samsung suddenly become news? Its not like those densities/specifications aren't already being developed by their competitors...

  14. Re:Am i missing something? on MIT Offers City Car for the Masses · · Score: 1

    If you lived near one you could drive it to your destination then drive it back to the same parkspot you got it.

  15. Corporate vs. Franchise on Netflix May Already Be Killing Blockbuster? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Back in Pullman, WA, I found blockbuster online really helpful. Everything about it was great, and the fact that NetFlix told me Star Trek V (for RiffTrax) was "soon available" and then a week passed without ever sending it didn't help NetFlix's case either. Then I moved to a larger city where all of the blockbusters were franchise within a 100 miles. Their "two night rental" was actually a "next day rental", they had late fees, they stopped accepting blockbuster online's coupons for free game rentals (7.50 to rent a game...), when I did have a free rental coupon, they wouldn't allow me to write down the code and simply present that to them- I had to print it out as well, and finally their selection was worse. When I asked why they were so crappy, they answered "Sorry, you probably were renting from a corporate blockbuster- and all the ones around here are franchise". I quickly canceled my blockbuster online subscription, mostly because I could no longer get a free game rental and because Red Box ($1/night) has come around and proven to both be superior to Blockbuster and Netflix when your primary interest is new releases.

    Sadly, within two weeks of showing up, Red Box put the local Movie Gallery out of business, which had been my blockbuster replacement for games. Now I'm not sure where to rent games anymore.

  16. Re:What about IOPS? on 512GB Solid State Disks on the Way · · Score: 1

    I dont understand where people go out spouting completely wrong information as facts and mods have to go and call it informative. Flash memory is called "flash" because it erases blocks in a flash- quite a bit faster than conventional hard drives. You just said its slow because of the slow block erase time which is 100% completely wrong.

    Im kinda tired of seeing wrong information on flash- here's the speeds of NAND flash in order of how fast they are:
    Erase (very fast)
    Read (kinda slow)
    Write (really slow)

    So please quit spouting misinformation.

  17. odd on World Series Ticket Sales Overwhelm Servers · · Score: 1

    wasn't this 100% predicted in the MLB article the said this was how they were going to sell it? I guess they didn't realize a lot of people had sick days to use in case they actually got a ticket.

  18. Re:40 deg C? on Inside Nvidia's Testing Facilities · · Score: 1

    My Inspiron 8000 would pull over 80 deg C often, and would commonly be above 70 deg C using a fan-hack I downloaded for it. It could be the sensor is simply inaccurate and the fans and such were all adjusted to compensate when they shipped this out, or maybe it was closer to the CPU and GPU than a thermal sensor typically is.

  19. 2 years later: the bill on Vonage Goes To Court III - The AT&T Suit · · Score: 1

    Damages from patent infringement - $35
    Attorney Fees - $550 million

    The lawyers win again...

  20. Re:Bad analogy? on Evolution and the 'Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, wikipedia is evolutionary- an incorrect edit will be removed, edited, or fixed while correct edits will be changed back to the way they were if they become vandalized. Essentially it's an equilibrium function because equilibrium is clearly achieved once everything is correct. Of course, its the kind of wobbly equilibrium you get when you try to hold your hand steady without support- but equilibrium nevertheless.

  21. Re:Low? 60k for web design? on First Ever Web Design Survey Results · · Score: 1

    $150k+ for "get" and "select" statements? Dude your way overpaying. I'm hoping by "sql architects" you actually mean "master web designer who works 12 hours a day constantly adding features and ensuring the servers are always up even if they get knocked down at 1 am and makes a massive spread-out database work fast with underpowered hardware" because it isn't that hard to write database queries. They teach it as a 3 hour class to hung-over business majors dude.

  22. Sooo... on Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad · · Score: 1

    Couldn't I, as a political candidate / organization, just trademark my name, then give nobody permission to use it, and thus nobody could create a political ad that mentions my name?

    I'm going to say however that this is probably google being lazy and didn't look at the ad or how it was used- just simply abiding to the complaint to prevent any sort of lawsuit.

  23. 40 deg C? on Inside Nvidia's Testing Facilities · · Score: 2, Informative

    40 deg C? So what is that, 104 degrees farenheit? Thats not very taxing at all. Doesnt my laptop pull in 80 deg C?

  24. Re:No confidence on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    Here in Europe, we have much more fuel efficient cars, yet amazingly do not live in mud huts.


    No you don't. You have cars that use diesel, a higher BTU form of fuel that gives off laughing gas as a by product. We reserve that type of gas for trucks. If my car used diesel it'd get more miles per gallon as well and waste more heat-energy per second as yours does sitting at a stop-light or in a traffic jam.

    And why do volkswagens have so many "common" problems that are so god damn expensive to fix?
  25. Re:Have they solved the longevity issue? on Alienware Puts 64GB Solid-State Drives In Desktops · · Score: 1

    Its more like 10,000 writes, unless you want to make a drive using more reliable but lower density parts. The longer the part has been around, the better it is, but you can't match up the quality of older parts with the density of newer parts.