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  1. Re:The status quo on Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    Area of Sweden: 450 000 km^2
    Population of Sweden: 9 000 000 inhabitants

    20 inhabitants per km^2

    Area of US: 9 100 000 km^2
    Population of US: 300 000 000 inhabitants

    32 inhabitants per km^2

    The united states has roughly 1.5 times the population density of Sweden and far worse internet connectivity. It has nothing to do with the United States being so large and everything to do with politics.

  2. Re:The status quo on Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nonsence.

    I pay approximately 17 USD a month for an unlimited 10/10 Mbit/s up/downstream (upgrade to 100/10 for 33 USD a month). I don't even think there is any provider selling limited broadband in Sweden.

    As an answer to grandparent, yes I regularly reach topspeed but I guess it would be harder if you have a high bandwidth connection.

  3. Re:ARM vs x86 on Dell Considering ARM-Based Smartbooks · · Score: 1

    Even if wine ran on arm it would be useless as the windows binaries you want to run are compiled for x86. In order to get the desired results you would have to run an x86 emulator.

  4. Re:This just in... on Dell Considering ARM-Based Smartbooks · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would you program RISC machine assembly. The instruction set is made to be compiled from a higher level language.

    Your friend might have been a bit mislead.

  5. Re:Funny idea of average on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    Ofcourse anecdotal evidence will vary wildly, the variance of the intelligence of two year old children is humongous. Some two year-olds are capable of fluent speech with several thousands of words while some are not able to speak at all.
    It is also generally accepted that you get smarter as you age, the brain gets more neurons and a higher calculative capacity untill you max at around 27, after that the brain simply aquires more knowledge.

  6. Re:OK on Amazon US Refunds Windows License Fee, Too · · Score: 1

    How is parent flamebait? Mods on crack or something, that was clearly troll.

  7. Re:Windows 7 should be 64 Bit on Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook · · Score: 3, Informative

    The intel atom cpu is 32 Bit. Shipping no 32 bit whatsoever would eliminate you from this very popular market.

  8. Re:Check my math on Company Claims Potential Magnification In Bio Fuel Production · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gallons of oil in a barrel = 44 Barrels used per day in U.S. = 20,680,000 in 2007 Barrels user per year = 7,548,200,000 Gallons used each Year = 332,120,800,000 Gallons per Acre per year for this process 20,000 Acres required to meet U.S demand for a year = 16,606,040

    Acres in the U.S. = 2 000 000 000
    Part of U.S. acres needed to meed demand = 0.7%


    Just throwing around big numbers does not an argument make

  9. I can't trust greenpeace on Greenpeace Decries Lack of Environmental Progress From Console Makers · · Score: 1

    Whenever greenpeace says anything I simply cannot beleive them because of their practice to make shit up.

    It is possible that consoles are hazardous and that it is a real problem but when greenpeace says so, I simply do not beleive them. Had this come from a coherent not-making-shit-up-routinely organisation then I probably could have listened. So far though, no such organisation has spoken out.

  10. Re:Can't say I'm surprised.... on Windows 7 Pre-Orders Top Vista's In Just 8 Hours · · Score: 2

    The obvious answer is that he is more interested in microsoft topics than non-microsoft topics. Or are you trying to insinuate that he is doing something else perhaps planting fake grass?

  11. Re:Canada eh! on Incandescent Bulbs Return To the Cutting Edge · · Score: 1
    Lightbulbs are quite innefficient at heating a house, warmth rises. Think about it this way, how many heaters have you seen affixed to the roof, even though that would be an area where they wouldn't be in the way?

    It also assumes that you are using electricity to heat your house, quite wasteful to begin with.

  12. Re:You don't say... on The Circus Widens In Aftermath of Pirate Bay Verdict · · Score: 1

    It's a silly descriptor a more informing sentence would be: The Pirate Party is now the fourth largest party by member count surpassing four other parties in the Swedish riksdag.

  13. Re:It's *money* which is the Ponzi scheme on Ponzi Schemes Multiply On YouTube · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, because economy is a zero sum-game.

  14. Re:Yes on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    Only in formal French, when you use it informally, as I would imagine programming in french would be, you use it in the form [expression] pas or pas [expression].

  15. Re:Can be counterproductive on Body 2.0 — Continuous Monitoring of the Human Body · · Score: 3, Insightful

    After all, I have a 0.056% chance per year of getting lung cancer (169,400 cases per year, 300 million US citizens, easy math).

    In other news shooting yourself in the face only increases chance of death by 0.1% per year. (6 million cases per year, 6 billion people in the world, easy math)

  16. Re:No on Body 2.0 — Continuous Monitoring of the Human Body · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You mean beating children is not illegal in your country? Wow, what kind of third world country is that?

  17. Re:How on earth did this get past the Firehose? on Microsoft Office 2007 In Linux With WINE · · Score: 1

    On my (swedish) keyboard layout, the one with the question mark is backslash and the one without it is slash :).

  18. Re:Don't focus on money! (OT) on More Indications Windows 7 Is Coming In 2009 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really, my MSDNAA license says nothing of the kind. Perhaps this is a regional thing (swedish here).

  19. Re:So what? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    That's an awfully big number, I have no idea about the mechanics behind the UK-lottery but I still doubt it's correct.

  20. Re:correction on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    The problem is that Gazans are, in reality, responsible for the mess they're in. They'll literally kill every last Gazan in order to get to the jews and all other considerations are secondary.

    Gazans literally throw babies (LITERALLY) in the path of bullets, just to get good shots for the media (and baby's are plenty there).

    It's just reality. The socialists used to kill Jews themselves. Hitler and Stalin alike. Now they pay others to kill Jews and cry foul when they defend themselves. Crying foul when the Jews defended themselves is something Hitler did too, of course.

    I'm always annoyed by people using literally when they mean figuratively.

  21. Re:Warning, Y2.1K bug. on The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's just silly, readability trumps over using modulo a thousand times. Always, with no exceptions.

  22. Re:Windows 7 on Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs · · Score: 0, Troll

    You'd think that after install 3/3000 you would have fixed an install for that particular configuration.

    But more likely you're full of shit.

  23. Re:California is a at will state on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1

    That's an odd standpoint.

    By that logic I can't argue against anything because that would mean I have a hidden in favor of that which I am arguing against?

    Secondly since when did aknowledging the existance of racism or laws against racism imply the beleif that 'straight white people ROCK[sic]'?

  24. Re:Communism on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    Communism doesn't hand it out to various large corporations, communism hands it out to government owned institutions.

    Personally I would prefer communism to corporationism(tm).

  25. Re:BSOD on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 0, Troll

    Paranoia
    Function: noun
    Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, madness, from paranous demented, from para- + nous mind
    Date: circa 1811
    1 : a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations
    2 : a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others