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  1. Re:What's new? on The State of Open Source Hardware In 2008 · · Score: 0

    I give up. Just mod me down.

  2. Re:What's new? on The State of Open Source Hardware In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Forget I said anything. Once you RTFA you realize the summary is totally bogus. This is all just a bunch of Arduino micro dev boards.

  3. Re:What's new? on The State of Open Source Hardware In 2008 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not to mention 60 some-odd products is absolutely pathetic for an industry.

  4. Re:Immortality is scary on Scientists Identify a Potentially Universal Mechanism of Aging · · Score: 1

    I don't know that we're far enough past the real estate boom to say that rich old people are the rule rather than the exception. Many of these people made much of their money selling their old houses to baby boomers. That's not necessarily going to be the case going forward.

  5. Re:And yet, you're posting in English on Web Browser Programming Blurring the Lines of MVC · · Score: 1

    I've tried Esperanto, but the compatibility's abysmal.

  6. Re:What? on Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think he's arguing that we're looking at one gigantic false positive.

  7. Re:Break down the stereotypes! on Scientists Get Their Groove On On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Who says they aren't just bullshitting the entire thing.

  8. Re: gridlock in the sky on FAA Greenlights Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    We're nerds. Being insufferable smart-asses is par for the course.

  9. Re:Chick? on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 1

    Actually as far as fast food products go KFC does tend to look remarkably similar to it's pictures.

  10. Re: gridlock in the sky on FAA Greenlights Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We're talking the aviation market. There's a snowballs chance in hell of anyone charging a reasonable price for these.

  11. Re:Looking to test Bilski? on Apple Sued Over iPhone Browser · · Score: 1

    Forget that. Blazer has prior art from years before the patent was even filed! There's no way this patent should stand up.

  12. Re:addiction? on 90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted · · Score: 1

    Why, why did you have to mention that! Now I'll be stuck hunting down crysallids for the next week!

  13. The real best water purification technology. on Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery · · Score: 1

    For low incomes I thought the best was actually sticking water in discarded plastic bottles and slinging them onto the roof to cook out the nasties with free and plentiful sunlight.

  14. Re:So what was he *really* standing in front of? on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 1

    No, there are not. There are ways to use fancy linear algebra like genuine fractals or lanczos to get more pixels out of your image without making it look absolutely horrible. What they will not do is increase the resolved detail of the image. The data simply isn't there to find.

  15. Re:Laurel & Hardy? on Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA · · Score: 1

    Fear of open spaces.

  16. Re:So what was he *really* standing in front of? on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Funny, I've never seen that "increase resolution" button in photoshop before. Either the copy they got for comparison is degraded or we're looking at a different picture, possibly composed from multiple images, with the same pose. Either way the AP did a crappy job of making their point here.

  17. Re:Laurel & Hardy? on Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA · · Score: 1

    That helmet-cam footage is positively agoraphobia inducing.

  18. Re:its just a car. on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure. The light display on the Eiffel tower got copyrighted, so it might be possible to copyright a car.

  19. Re:SUSE laptops on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 1

    And a LOT of half functional GUI config tools.

  20. Re:SUSE laptops on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 1

    I always heard HP's linux inkjet drivers tended to be a little lacking compared to Epson's pretty much universal support. And your average consumer doesn't give a rats ass about the postscript support on the laser printers he never buys.

  21. Re:SUSE laptops on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 1

    Which is the problem with Vista: It works just enough different than XP in many parts to piss people off.

  22. Re:For what purpose? on Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like tracing typewriters to me.

  23. Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand on Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net · · Score: 1

    What the right wing does has no bearing on my point. I don't particularly like either of the big two right now.

  24. Re:Just in time on OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs · · Score: 1

    It's still cludgey and counterintuitive to have to remember to leave a window you're done with open while you start a new one. I have trouble getting into the habit. I do the same thing with Firefox 3 all the time now, closing out an old session and having to wait a few minutes for it to finish shutting down before I open it back up.

  25. Re:What's the point of this analysis? on On the Economics of the Kindle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It still costs more than a Palm T|X which is smaller and can be loaded with the software to read just about everything. Convenience factor is difficult to work with so it's easier to just write it off if you're trying to run numbers on something.