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  1. Re:Apple owns a patent for screen rotation? on Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones · · Score: 1

    Rotation, scaling and translation are transformations.

  2. Re:Which Bono? on 8-Year Fan-Made Game Project Shut Down By Activision · · Score: 1

    Pro bono?

  3. Re:What was the algorithm? on IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm · · Score: 1

    They pushed the turbo button. Freaking interns.

  4. Re:Empty statements on IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Or the UEA version

    return "OMG, we're all gonna die from the CO2";

  5. Re:TFA is worthless on IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Pfft, next you'll be telling us that there's no "Override all security" command.

  6. Re:I'd expect this on IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think he gets his insults from moveon.org.

  7. Re:Lie down with the dog, wake up with the fleas on Microsoft, Amazon Ink Kindle and Linux Patent Deal · · Score: 1

    When I buy books, my plan is to exchange money for a bound & printed sheaf of pages. If I want to advance a cause, I'll devote effort and/or money appropriately.

    I also don't change my purchasing plans just because something has a pink ribbon printed on it. Riding on the coattails of charities to improve your profits is somewhat disingenuous in my book.

  8. Re:One has to wonder on YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13 · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If the browser doesn't matter, there's no business case to upgrade.

  9. Re:Who is the 'heavy' here ? on Copernicium Confirmed As Element 112 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Heaviest -> most massive, Densest -> most dense. No better wording needed. Especially given that it specifies "elements" and not "single element materials"

    You did remember to specify that your densities were at STP didn't you?

  10. Re:One has to wonder on YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13 · · Score: 1

    I use IE tab in Firefox for owa. I'm sure I used to get the full version of owa but recently it has only been offering me the light version. It's definitely an IE tab though. This is with IE6 on Win2k.

  11. Re:One has to wonder on YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13 · · Score: 1

    If it's anything like here, it's the upper management who are the first to scream when IT implements any content restrictions (Facebook, Youtube, ESPN) that IT implements (usually initiated by the request of, yes, upper management)

  12. Re:One has to wonder on YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13 · · Score: 1

    Yes, because running the latest cutting edge web browser (and the time and effort and risk and downtime involved in the accompanying OS upgrade) is essential to support running server applications whose codebase hasn't changed drastically in over a decade.

  13. Re:One has to wonder on YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13 · · Score: 1

    Even patched 2k servers (or workstations) are still limited to IE6.

    The only reason anyone on an NT based kernel isn't running IE7 or IE8 is Microsoft trying to strongarm people into OS upgrades. Too bad for them that Firefox has been working just fine for me for the past several years

  14. Re:Lie down with the dog, wake up with the fleas on Microsoft, Amazon Ink Kindle and Linux Patent Deal · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's why after seeing my wife's, other members of my family want them.

    I wouldn't mind one myself but I have other priorities.

  15. Lie down with the dog, wake up with the fleas on Microsoft, Amazon Ink Kindle and Linux Patent Deal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So long Amazon, it was nice knowing you.

  16. Re:OMG, Luke Skywalker is right! on Star Wars TV Show Tainted By Memories of Jar Jar · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it didn't have a clearly defined storyline. Moore was making it up as he went along and that's really why it suffered. He wrote himself into too many corners.

  17. Re:You know... on Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure · · Score: 1

    The ability to attract resources to assure a continued existence has everything to do with success. Generating revenue is just one option for that.

  18. Re:Eh wouldn't surprise me... on Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud · · Score: 1

    From what I can tell, UAC is largely based around the "user sitting in front of the console" paradigm that Microsoft has found it so hard to get away from. It wouldn't really fit the Unix paradigm very well. Which is not to say that the Unix security mode cannot be improved either.

  19. Re:Eh wouldn't surprise me... on Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud · · Score: 1

    +1

  20. Re:You know... on Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure · · Score: 2

    Nonsense. You appear to be talking from a very narrow perspective where Wikipedia is only used for academic research or settling debates. For the purposes I and others use it for, it's perfectly adequate most times.

    But then, the true measure of success is whether it can generate enough revenue to continue existing anyway. From the begging I've been seeing on the pages recently, I'm not sure if that's the case.

  21. Re:OMG, Luke Skywalker is right! on Star Wars TV Show Tainted By Memories of Jar Jar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only if you have the Batman writers and BSG production crew beat the BSG writers to death with baseball bats.

  22. Re:First and Last solution? on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    It would be nice. But the government would just start each year with a vote on renewing all laws previously enacted that would pass unanimously.

  23. Re:Importance of Competitive Choices on France Tells Its Citizens To Abandon IE, Others Disagree · · Score: 1

    I'm not "struggling" with anything but snideness duly noted.

    Given that some of what Microsoft implemented was genuine advancements in browser and web technologies but so, so much was just implemented to provide lock-in to a browser that could so dearly have benefited from that effort being put into security and stability first.

    After all, where did all that "advancing technology" go once Microsoft felt they had won the browser wars?

  24. Re:Is it just D&D ? on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 1

    And Bruce Springsteen. Please.

  25. Re:Rules 1 through 7 of using a Cell Phone on The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed · · Score: 1

    Most towns don't get heavy traffic. That's the point.

    I'm English living in Tennessee. I'd love to see more public transit but it's simply doesn't make sense except in very limited circumstances. Heck the population of Tennessee is comparable in size to the population of London alone.