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  1. What advantages does Opera have over Firefox? on Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use · · Score: 1

    Honestly asking. Is there anything they offer which is noticeably superior to Firefox?

  2. Re:Free as in beer on Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use · · Score: 1

    As a beer person, I can tell you that many a brewery won't give away their house yeast strain nor will they give you exact details on the recipe. But you still get a beer.

  3. Re:Opera missed it's chance on Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use · · Score: 0

    Many a girlfriend has learned this lesson as well. Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free. Or browser. Whatever works for you.

  4. Is this in the Techmo league? on Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Or is this for a battlebot show?

  5. Is there a causal link w/ money and broadband? on Getting Broadband To The Bayou · · Score: 1

    Are they poor because they don't have broadband? Or is it more likely that rich people can afford broadband?

  6. I've sold used books through Amazon... on Interview with Jeff Bezos of Amazon · · Score: 1

    They take a cut which seems reasonable to me, and they give you some money for shipping.

    The people selling used books set the price, which in my experience, is almost always lower unless it is rare. Read: supply and demand; you can't get it anywhere else except used anymore.

  7. WTC is different on Business Under Fire · · Score: 1

    The World Trade Center has special signifcance as a target in the way a random office building in Israel does not. That's why the occupancy rate will be lower.

    And that's why the WTC has to be rebuilt anyway.

  8. Re:I believe on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    This is not the best forum for marshalling and discussing evidence, but yes those arguments can be marshalled. Granted, if you under the misconception that you can set up a science experiment to prove Napolean existed or God exists, that is beyond the ability of science.

    Atheism, and I will speak boldly here, is a psychological crutch for people who want to be left alone. Their bias is great.

    The mere fact that you have an objective view of morality shows that deep-down inside you believe in God.

  9. Re:I believe on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    You are reaching with that conclusion. *No* physical evidence. How about the Big Bang? Bias is on both sides. Atheists want nothing more than to live their lives without God so they can live a life without any ultimate consequences.

  10. Re:I believe on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    Inteligent Design does not require that one cease believing in the evolutionary model. It is just saying the atheism is untenable when looking at the information found in nature. Obviously, the arguments are more involved than that, but your characterization (whether you agree or not) are wrong.

  11. Can't Get Metrics For Prevented Disasters on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 1

    Can you determine how many lives are lost because the FDA's approvals for drugs are too lax? Yes.

    Can you determine how many lives are lost because the FDA's approvals for drugs are too stringent? No.

    Without a time machine it is really impossible to answer this question.

  12. Regarding Microsoft Outlook... on IDC Proclaims Linux Is Now Mainstream · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you can move over the Calendar appointments I think businesses would be willing to change that app.

  13. Dan Rather on Blog reading up 58% in U.S. · · Score: 1

    The whole CBS fake-document situation gave a big boost to the blogs and made many realize that Old Media has tons of problems. It's best not to rely on them for your sole source of information, given their idealogical slant. I would also say that's a good idea given other problems besides the political slant you get from them.

  14. The Natural Pattern of Capatilism on Why Microsoft Should Fear Bandwidth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is commodization over time. FOSS is just the software version of that.

  15. Re:If they have to say they aren't worried... on Microsoft Not Worried about FireFox · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking of automatic updates and other hooks which many companies become dependant on which work with Active X/IE. But then again, as I said, I'm not exactly sure why Microsoft wanted to control the browser market.

    But it had to be for some reason, right? If they don't care any more, the reason is now overcome by events. If they do care, it has to be for some reason.

  16. Re-release Defender of the Crown and 3 Stooges on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    That's just my 2 cents.

  17. If they have to say they aren't worried... on Microsoft Not Worried about FireFox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they are probably worried.

    Having an IE monopoly is a lynchpin in their designs for server-side control. Unless I'm completely off-base.

  18. Re:Don't forget ... on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    I even remember DEC machines.

  19. I found the reference on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0275 95904X/104-8458105-6263935?v=glance

    Inventing the Flat Earth.

    You have to admit that it is just a tad ironic that out of ignorance some people claim others are ignorant.

  20. Re:Don't forget ... on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    If memory serves, very few scientists even in the Middle Ages believed the Earth was flat. Columbus didn't. So I'm not sure where you are getting your history about what Christians believed at whatever time, but I'm pretty sure you shouldn't be getting your history from there.

  21. Those Wishing Gov't Solutions on Two Reviews of Yourdon's 'Outsource?' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Should take note of the history of such solutions. The government usually makes things worse because laws made of political expediency don't think through all of the ramifications. Nor do most of us.

    Do you want to get rid of insourcing? Those Toyota and BMW plants in America?

    Outsourcing allows some companies to add more workers in other areas or even stay afloat.

    Do you not think that other companies (overseas or otherwise) will not avail themselves of that labor market?

  22. Re:This is long overdue on Prime Obsession · · Score: 1

    Maybe he will have something on matrices for his next book.

  23. Could WP have achieved the same goals more cheaply on Washington Post Buys Slate From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    From Jeff Jarvis' blog:

    Howard just called to get react from the two-headed hydra I am as Media Man by day and Blog Boy by night. I said it's a good thing for both; they fit well together, not unlike Dow Jones and Marketwatch. Kurtz said the Post's rationale is that it will bring them more traffic while they bring Slate better ad sales (and thus the first taste of profitablity, they hope).

    But I also said that the Post could have met the same goals without the cost and without the risk by establishing with a network of citizens' media, selling ads on and getting traffic from and extending their reach through the best blogs, which can then stay independent.

    That requires thinking in a distributed way and that's hard for the old centralized marketplaces to do.

  24. I will worry about it after... on Study Links Cell Phones to DNA Damage · · Score: 2, Funny

    I peel myself off of the monitor or the computer on my lap.

  25. And Its Net Economic Benefit Is Even Greater on Linux To Ring Up $35B By 2008 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linux allows companies and individuals to use their money in other areas as well. This helps the economy overall. Cell phones on Linux will be cheaper, etc.

    Also, companies can use that money in other areas, which I would assume would make them more productive.

    A lot of this revenue is probably for services I would assume.