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  1. Re:This has already happened... on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    That's usually the case. There is a town not too far away from me physically, maybe 100 miles, but it's at least a 300 mile drive to get to it. It would take a pigeon about an hour and 20 minutes, while I would have to drive for 6 hours to get there.

    Welcome to the advantages of flight - you can go up and over instead of around.

  2. Re:Obligatory IP Over Avian Carriers RFC on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    There are CF cards small enough that I would expect a pigeon to be able to carry, which go up to 128gb.

    They aren't all that popular though.

  3. Re:oblig. Tanenbaum on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    Dictionary man. That's usually where you look if you don't know what a word means.

    They've got them on line now and shit, too.

  4. Re:Ping times? on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but upgrading is so easy - just slap a bigger memory card on the pigeon and bam! Instant upgrade!

    No messing with the cable companies, no paying extra for the service, so nice.

  5. Re:African or European? on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Chill out dude, bad mods almost always get corrected. Like you said, the people who don't get the joke are the minority here. The moderator may also have simply been tired of the meme, which case an opinion of "Redundant" is justified.

    Most of us like it though, so it gets corrected.

    It's nothing to start a crusade over, jeeze.

  6. Re:Wrong layer on Data Deduplication Comparative Review · · Score: 1

    Google luck on finding solutions to your problems that are based on logic and rational thinking, I doubt you can pull it off judging by your statements so far.

    I dunno, I found it pretty easy. I got some interesting results too:

    Critical Thinking - HowTo.Lifehack

    Virgo free weekly horoscope

    Actually that's pretty funny.

    Maybe you're right, maybe it is hard to google luck on finding solutions to your problems that are based on logic and rational thinking.

  7. Re:In other news on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yup. What makes it different is it is a combination of glucose and fructose in a single molecule, which means it must be broken down first. This ever-so-slightly moderates the effects of fructose, but not much. It's nearly as bad as HFCS.

    Even starches aren't that great, they are simply easy to break down chains of glucose, and ultimately do similar things in your body in large quantities. Starches are better than the others because they take slightly longer to digest, which means the effects are slightly moderated, and they contain no fructose, which has its own special nasty effects.

  8. Re:will believe when i see it on Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass' · · Score: 1

    Uh, 1920x1080 is the number of pixels, there are three times that many sub-pixels (the red, green, and blue).

    Adding a fourth pixel would mean 1920x1080 of those pixels.

    Duh.

  9. Re:will believe when i see it on Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass' · · Score: 1

    Why do people insist on asking questions without using question marks.

  10. Re:In other news on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sucrose is not good for you, the reason HFCS gets all the attention because fructose is noticeably worse. Sugar refiners deserve to have their names dragged through the mud almost as much as corn refiners have been.

    Frankly, I think the CRA should be sued for attempting to defraud the American public by selling a product known to be harmful under a new name for the sole purpose of deceiving said public into buying a product they do not wish to buy.

  11. Re:I 100% Agree with them. on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's actually "High Fructose Corn Syrup" currently. This is because it is a liquid sugar (sugar + water).

  12. Re:What the hell? on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 0

    Personally, I propose the name be changed to "Sweet, Sweet Death Syrup".

    That implies how sweet it is and is descriptive of what it will ultimately do to you!

  13. Re:probably not first post anymore on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1

    Nah, just call it "le BETA", it's all good.

  14. Re:Le Daily News - 9/15/2060 on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1

    Pompei is still Pompei even though it gets covered in lava every couple thousand years.

    I see no problem with continuing to call the burning crater France.

    Sure, the new French people will be nothing like the old French, but that's a good thing!

  15. Re:Oh well... on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1

    Heh, designer power...

  16. Re:pretty lame on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    I don't get it, how are measuring cups, soup ladles, rulers, and spiral bound notebooks made for right handed people? As far as I've ever seen, those are all ambidextrous.

  17. Re:Different perspective on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    He got it wrong with Atari, and for the rest of them those are all obviously left handed designs that somehow became the norm. We righties just learned to deal with it.

    Think about it - the directional joystick/pad always takes more dexterity and fine control than mashing the buttons, yet (except for atari) the joystick/d-pad is on the left and the buttons on the right. Who's been screwed all this time, lefties or righties?

  18. Re:Seriously? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    Actually the NES (and all Nintendos) put the operation that needs the most dexterity - the directional pad - in the left hand.

    Since when have lefties been left behind? It's us righties who have been screwed this whole time, yet we were somehow able to deal with it.

    Maybe this idiot needs to just shut the fuck up?

  19. Re:Impossible? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    That's because less than 10% of the population is left handed.

    You live in a right handed world. Deal with it.

    I'm not going to cater to you.

  20. Re:Impossible? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, no shit. They're almost as bad as the Democrats these days!

  21. Re:Impossible? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    Lefties make up about %10 or less of the population. If taking lefties into account costs more than the 10% revenue you'll lose without taking them into account, it ain't worth it.

    Generally speaking, if it's a small operation producing a low volume game, it just isn't worth the trouble.

  22. Re:WiFi on Apple's Developer Tools Turnaround 'Great News' For Adobe · · Score: 1

    You don't need to be a monopoly to have an anti-trust issue. You generally don't get much attention on them until you are close to monopoly level though. Apple and the iPhone/iPad (and really all software platforms) is a bit of an exception - nowhere near a monopoly as most people see it, but there is a monopoly on the platform, and that platform is popular enough to draw attention.

    The reason private api calls between Office and Windows was anti-competitive is because such calls are unavailable to third parties, and therefore represent a significant arbitrary advantage for Microsoft applications that their competitors have no access to. It's bad ju-ju to to artificially restrict a resource (the OS in both of these cases) to the detriment of your competitors. It's cheating, and it's bad for consumers on a number of levels.

    For traditional resources this generally requires monopoly control - otherwise competitors will just find other sources of the resource and there is no advantage. For software platforms, however, all you need is someone who wants to compete on your platform - you've already got the requisite monopoly on that platform to run afoul of anti-trust laws.

  23. Re:Just what we needed on King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV · · Score: 1

    How can you know the ending when the series isn't finished yet?

  24. Re:The last few books stink. on King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV · · Score: 1

    I completely disagree more. King likes to do weird shit, and that's what makes him popular.

    Frankly, Song of Suzanna has been my favorite so far, almost a toss-up with Wizard and Glass. I have yet to read the 7th book though.

  25. Re:GDI NOOOO! on King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't it be done as a series of R-Rated movies? There are also plenty of TV-MA series/mini-series on television.

    I'm not sure why you're concerned at this stage.