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  1. Re:thrive on Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad's $500 Pricetag · · Score: 1

    I'm not amazed, at how out of touch we all are. I'm amazed at how some people think the entire world should think like them.

  2. Re:That's because the "tablet market" doesn't exis on Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad's $500 Pricetag · · Score: 2

    Have you ever considered that there are jobs out there where you don't sit behind a desk?

  3. Re:one other reason on Apple Too Big For the Dow Jones Industrial Average · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs retired and Tim Cook took his place as CEO of Apple 24th August 2011.

  4. Re:Here's The Real Reason on Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps? · · Score: 1

    Apple fanbois will buy anything Apple that releases

    Sounds like an emotional argument from someone who hates Apple with a passion. In another post you call Steve Jobs Fuhrer. You also remind me of the mainframe people when the home computer came out. Why would I use a less powerful home computer when I can use a more powerful mainframe? It is also the old Android defence of it doesn't sell well because tablets are gimmicks. If Android tablets suddenly start selling well what does that mean? Are tablets gimmicks then? Or does it only suit you when bashing the iPad?

    Also I work in a job where you have no place to put a netbook, but still needing a computer I use a tablet. The fact that you don't have such problems with your job doesn't mean that others don't. Some people need a desktop, others a netbook and others need a tablet.

  5. Re:...what? on Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board · · Score: 1

    It's a thing that I can use to create another thing.

  6. Re:Glad I am not a kiwi... on US Offered To Draft NZ 3-Strikes Law, Fund Copyright Initiative · · Score: 1

    So does this mean Australia will be sending troops to liberate nations such as the US and spreading democracy and freedom around the world?

    Why would we bother?

  7. Re:Before we start the flame wars on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This kind of ignorance is dangerous and baffling. It's not as if he's arguing against anthropogenic global warming using science. Hell, maybe he believes in global warming and that it really is man-made. But he refuses to accept what will happen because the Bible says otherwise. What. The. Fuck.

    He actually misunderstands the scripture he references. God says "never again will I curse the earth because of man...". This entirely precludes man himself doing it.

  8. Re:British Power Supply on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    cleverly designed arms

    Pantographs.

  9. Re:Just what we need... on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always wanted to be a locksmith but I don't know howto break into that industry.

  10. Re:Available now on Ballmer Promises Microsoft Tablet By Christmas · · Score: 1
    Hanvon BC10C Touchpad
    http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Ebooks-and-Digital-Pens/Ebooks/HATOUCH

    I've seen one too, but didn't try and touch it.

  11. Re:Easier for denialists on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. It's because you suffer from cognitive dissonance, and any evidence that clashes with your current world view merely reinforces it. In other words, you are walking case example of neuroscience at work.

    Hi I'm the Cognitive Dissonance Troll. I'm here to point out that you are incorrectly using the phrase "Cognitive Dissonance"

    Cognitive Dissonance does not mean that people reinforce their current world view because of conflict with a new evidence. What it does mean it that you feel discomfort because there is a clash between your current world view and the evidence the world presents. What a person does with that discomfort is not related to the dissonance, the dissonance is the discomfort.

    Thank you for your time

  12. Re:Ultimately this wouln't go well. on Microsoft Shows Off 'Milo' Virtual Human · · Score: 1

    That demo looks cooked.

    It looks so good because it isn't actually developed by Microsoft. It is from the famous sim developer Peter Molyneux. He's been working on this stuff for decades.

  13. Re:Hope they do it right this time... on Sunshine Writer Joins Logan's Run Remake · · Score: 1

    Runaway with Tom Selleck

  14. Re:This will not end well on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: 1

    What pansies try getting bitten by a blue ring

  15. Re:huh? on Why Beatrix Potter Would Love a Digital Reader · · Score: 1

    Benjamin bunny.

  16. Re:It's ADSL though on BT Gets Exclusive Rights To OnLive In the UK · · Score: 1

    OnLive Cloud Steam Rolled, Film at 11.

  17. Re:Valdez leaked 11 million gallons... on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Engineers are working on a dome-like device to cover oil rising to the surface and pump it to container vessels, but it may be weeks before this is in place. It is feared that work on sealing the leaking well using robotic submersibles might take months. BP is also working on a "relief well" to intersect the original well, but this is experimental and could take two to three months to stop the flow.

    From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8651624.stm

    So basically it will exceed the Exxon Valdez oil spill amount before it is fixed.

  18. Re:Won't somebody please think of the children!?!? on Australian Government Delays Internet Filter Legislation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you are a Christian and oppose to this maybe you should apologize and then fight it. That or leave the religion.

    That doesn't make any sense, the filter is not mandated by any Christian doctrine or authority. I understand the apologise bit because our Government apologised to the Indigenous people, but the problem is that although I support such an apology there is no reason for me personally to apologise since I personally did nothing wrong. Consider a Muslim who lives in New York, should he apologise for the WTC attacks just because they are of the same faith? If you don't support someone's actions who has similar beliefs as you, you don't need to apologise for their actions.

    Please note the difference between similar beliefs and the same beliefs.

  19. Re:Oh yeah? on Media Industry Wants Mandated Spyware and More · · Score: 1

    cartridge with it's own processor

    Not processor ROM.

  20. Re:Fact check on Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation" · · Score: 1

    Note that is 200m little m which means 200milli people 10^-3. If it had said 200M that would be 200Mega people which is 10^6.

  21. Re:Um..no on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    Australia seemingly came out from the so called permanent dry as severe floods have traversed the area.

    That is actually a change in weather not climate. The flood/drought cycle and its length is the climate. And talking of weather, why did it occur? Because we had several TC's that turned into TD's inland. Why did we get so many this wet season? Change in the weather?

  22. Not what we want on Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self · · Score: 4, Funny

    We keep on asking for Conroy to shut up but this is not what we meant :(

  23. Re:Crazy DRM and Phone home games on A Look At How Far PC Gaming Has Come · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Supreme Commander", highly hailed as innovative, came out and it turns out it's an almost 1-to-1 copy of the old "Total Annihilation"

    Both games are by Chris Taylor. SC is the spiritual successor to TA. So it is similar because the gameplay in the original worked, and you don't fix what is not broken.

    The other grand "evolutions" have been the not releasing of demos anymore, the crazy DRM + phone home features, the rise of the "major game publisher" and the death of the small independent software house.

    DRM has been a problem but demos are still released for software. Crysis, Bioshock, Portal etc had a demo. The death of small independent software house is just ignoring the huge indy game scene.

  24. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    "H1N1 appears to be more contagious than seasonal influenza," the WHO said in an online statement released today. "The secondary attack rate of seasonal influenza ranges from 5% to 15%. Current estimates of the secondary attack rate of H1N1 range from 22% to 33%." (The secondary attack rate is defined as the frequency of new cases of a disease among the contacts of known cases.)

    http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/may1109severity.html

  25. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    > Are you aware that getting the seasonal flu vaccine increased your chances of getting H1N1?[1]

    This is from an article that has this article as a link
    Vaccines cause autism: Supporting evidence

    The actual article has this as its first paragraph
    (NaturalNews) To hear it from the vaccine makers, their vaccines are perfectly safe and have no side effects. A person can receive an unlimited number of vaccines (10, 100 or even 1000) and have absolutely no ill effects, they claim. This is the quack science mythology upon which mass vaccination policies are currently based. But new evidence is emerging that people receiving a seasonal flu shot are made more susceptible to H1N1 swine flu as a result.