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  1. Re:what? on Google To Shut Down 411 Service · · Score: 1

    You can google all Google services at google.com.

  2. Re:My question on Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' · · Score: 1

    "this is the way the world is going, we'd better at least pretend to get with the program," or is it more like "we need to do a better job with PR of covering up our continuing efforts to break and absorb every platform that isn't ours?"

    It's more like: "See what Oracle is doing? We would never do like this."

  3. Re:Real Ratina Display on iPhone 4's "Retina Display" Claims Challenged · · Score: 1

    The iris, well, irises.

    Plural for iris is irides.

  4. Re:Seriously? on First Non-Latin TLDs Go Online Today · · Score: 1

    Maybe he was trying to be funnier then his parent... I don't know. On the other hand was moded insightful. Ade moderators trying to be funny today too? Or nobody knows that Homer was Greek? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer

  5. Re:This meets all of Apple's requirements except o on Flash Comes To the iPad Via RipCode · · Score: 1

    Flash needs to talk to the browser to fetch the video.

    What Flash? The story is about iPad not being able to run Flash.

  6. Re:Linux is more Secure than Windows on No JavaScript Needed For New Adobe Exploits · · Score: 1

    Xpdf and Okular on Windows aren't vulnerable either. Adobe PDF Reader on Linux is vulnerable.

    With only the difference that Linux comes with Xpdf and Okular, so Linux users rarely bother to install Adobe's product, while most Windows users won't even know about existence of the secure alternatives.

  7. Re:A proven technique on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    You should ask how old his kids are first.

  8. Re:Heisig's technique on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    Speaking of these books, one should mention that there are free PDF samples provided by authors (there are two authors for the Remembering Hanzi books: James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson). The samples include first 60 pages of the books, which is all introductory material and first 108 characters. Although not everyone likes this approach, most people, including myself, find the books of a great use. http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/miscPublications/pdf/RH/RH%20Simplified-sample.pdf http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/miscPublications/pdf/RH/RK%20Traditional-sample.pdf http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/miscPublications/Remembering%20Hanzi%201.htm

  9. Such love for Flash all of a sudden on Google Acquires Online Image Editing Tool Picnik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I recently came across this: http://editor.pixastic.com/ All it needs is a browser with canvas support. I think it's pretty cool and that's what Google should be considering.

  10. Re:Makes sense really on Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Still better than the CRIA on Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Wow! This deserves its own story on Slashdot. Or there was one but I missed?

  12. Re:Why? on Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service · · Score: 1

    These days I just avoid all of these links.

    Oh, you almost made me believe that there is no Firefox extension to handle this problem. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13140

  13. Re:Ask a silly question... on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    What sort of name would we call this new star,

    I think you are late with your idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(star)

  14. Re:What? on Newspapers Face the Prisoner's Dilemma With Google · · Score: 1

    a really transparent (no sign-up, no login) micro-payment system.

    You mean when they take your money and you don't even know about it?

  15. Re:Black holes are fiction on Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you were modded as troll, but you do need to use different formulas when you are talking about speeds close to speed of light. Please start reading from here, it should explain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity-addition_formula#Special_theory_of_relativity

  16. Re:Metric only on Rosetta Fly-By To Probe "Pioneer Anomaly" · · Score: 1

    Right. From now on seconds, kilo seconds, and mega seconds only please.

  17. Re:Interesting thought on The Tech Aboard the International Space Station · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Point 1; the ISS completes an ENTIRE orbit in 90 minutes. That means that if you had an antenna pointed straight up, and say you used a moderate gain antenna with a 5 degree beam, you will get just over ONE minute of access before you need to adjust the antenna. You would need a pretty sophisticated ground tracking mechanism to have any hope of keeping the connection alive for more than a minute.

    That would be true if you looked at the orbit from the center of the Earth. From the surface your time window would be in the order of 10 seconds.

  18. Re:Link Warning! on Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Because it's the best program (that I've found) for windows ...

    You're the one who installed Windows...

  19. Re:I hate [T]CSH on BASH 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the only [t]csh users out there are those who used it back in the day before there were other options, or those who are so embedded in the C/C++ world that they thought it a good idea to use a C/C++ -styled shell.

    FWIW C shell syntax isn't even remotely similar to C. In my experience people using C shell and derivatives are coming from IRIX systems, where csh was the default shell.

    That's fine, use that shell. DON'T write scripts in it though.

    That's the problem. If people use tcsh as an interactive shell, there is no way you can convince them to use bash for scripting, because tcsh is all they know. And of course here we have all those problems described in the article you've mentioned.

  20. Re:Can someone calculate that for me? on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can get an address for every friggin cell in my body.

    Finally missing piece of the puzzle. When IPv6 was first planned it suppose to give enough addresses for every cell phone, but apparently due to miscommunication, they made it large enough to give address to every cell.

  21. Re:The real target: MS Office on Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome · · Score: 1

    there's nothing to stop Firefox from incorporating bits and pieces from Chrome wherever it makes sense.

    There is nothing to stop Microsoft to take the whole browser licensed under BSD license, re-brand it and release as the next version of IE.

  22. Re:The tag is stupid on Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support · · Score: 1

    Yeah! And while we're at it, what's with all these em, b, img, table, h1 tags? All we need are span tags with CSS! In fact, just blank object tags with CSS will work just fine.</sarcasm>

    Didn't you mean:
    <span class="sarcasm">Yeah! And while we're at it, what's with all these em, b, img, table, h1 tags? All we need are span tags with CSS! In fact, just blank object tags with CSS will work just fine.</span>?

  23. Re:Is it really 13.4-in diagonal? on The Development of E-Paper Technology · · Score: 1

    Holy cow the math works out. It's funny you say that, because diagonal of A4 is 14.3" (not 13.4")
    sqrt(210^2+297^2)/25.4 = 14.32
  24. Re:time to innovate on Space Station Toilets Poop Out · · Score: 1

    A human passes out in around 13 seconds when the air is drawn out of the lungs by the vacuum So you can jump out, very-very quickly pee and jump back...
  25. Re:Not peer reviewed. on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    OK, we more or less know what we are going to launch till 2015. What about later on? It doesn't really matter. According to current predictions, the asteroid will pass about 50 to 100 thousand km above Earth. There are no useful orbits at this range. Geostationary orbit is 36.7 thousand km, junk orbit is few hundred km above that, apogee of molniya orbit is 39.5 thousand km, apogee of tundra orbit is 47 thousand km. There is no much reason for satellites to be above that altitude.