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  1. Re:I look forward to hearing about why this will f on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 2

    "5 billion transistors", also the number of square feet needed to use kinect?

  2. Re:A smart watch? on Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Watch-Like Device · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The tablet / touch laptop market hasn't been going so well for them, they need a new form factor to botch for Window Blue.

  3. Re:16KB storage on Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting for the 128K model.

  4. UN Retaliates on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 0

    UN retaliates by saying the same of the US.

  5. My experiences with Snow Leopard vs Lion

    Dropped:

    • 2D array of spaces, replaced with 1D. Like remembering exactly how many screens away your work is when using multiple screens?
    • Tiling all windows in one screen so you can easily pick out the app window you want to access, replaced with ability to see all windows of one app at a time. Like working with only one app?
    • Ability to easily reorganise windows with one guesture, then a single click per window, replaced with a three step process per window. Say I have 10 windows I want to move, first move to the screen with the app window I want to move, then open mission control, then drag the app window to the screen you want it in.

    Seriously, why Apple?

  6. Re:Can't wait on Xbox 360 Reset Hack Yields Unsigned Code Execution · · Score: 1

    There's a few emulators out there already, I know MAME runs on the 360. There's even an instructable on how to get earlier fat models to run unsigned code -http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-JTAG-your-Xbox-360-and-run-homebrew/

  7. Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 on Sony Delays PlayStation Network Reactivation · · Score: 2

    Has anyone heard what Capcom has to say about people who would like to play their games?

  8. Re:"Ski Lifts CAN COULD Help?" on Ski Lifts Can Could Help Get Cargo Traffic Off the Road · · Score: 2

    An anonymous reader writes with this except

    Aww, I was looking forward to reading the article...

  9. Re:Yeah, sure... on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    Pie.

  10. Obligatory Simpsons quote: on Chicago Using Coyotes To Fight Rodents · · Score: 2, Funny

    .... No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

  11. Re:Better go after those pirates on Halo Reach Leaked To Filesharing Sites · · Score: 1

    They're stealing potential profit! It's almost as bad as competition between businesses, or a consumer informing other consumers about a bad company/poorly made product. In all three cases, potential profit is being stolen.

    We must stop these people from hurting our businesses. Also, this clearly wouldn't have happened if there had been super powerful DRM installed with the game!

    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the business which is going to be suffering the most impact from this leak Bungie? AFAIK Bungie isn't doing anything more than running their own business, not hurting others.

  12. Re:Bizzz.... WRONG! on The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg · · Score: 1

    +1 to your line of argument.

    My 2c: it depends on your definition of "egg". The way I'd put it the egg as in anything that could be defined as an egg in the biological sense predated the chicken by hundreds of millions of years. The first egg would have dated from around the time of the first life defined as animal. The egg came before the chicken.

    On the other hand: an egg as in a chicken egg, ie. something produced by a chicken would have to be produced by the first chicken which had evolved from something that is not quite a chicken. The chicken egg came after the chicken.

  13. Re:A couple of things on Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State · · Score: 1
    From the article:

    The state first started using the machines in a limited trial during the last state election in 2006. It appears as if the machines were used for voting for the vision-impaired, as well as for military personnel.

    Yeah, I'm in Victoria too and I've never seen an electronic voting machine. Maybe next election...

  14. Re:Payback period? on Fuel Cell Marvel "Bloom Box" Gaining Momentum · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're forgetting about the seller listing & paypal fees

  15. Re:Metric Everywhere on Astronauts Having Trouble With Tranquility Module · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's also useful for conversion of units - 1,000 cm^3 is equivalent to 1Litre(of water) which weighs 1 Kilogram, 1 Joule = 1 Newton over 1 Meter = 1 Watt Second etc.

  16. Re:Mock ups on Astronauts Having Trouble With Tranquility Module · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or for that matter did they not think to try testing the actual module on the ground prior to launch?

  17. Re:Can an Australian brother... on Google Rejects Australian Censorship Proposal · · Score: 1

    Basically... our prime minister known here as K-Rudd is enforcing the "Won't someone think of the children?!?" act. IMO the way this came about is that our current PM who's party is by far the more liberal of the two main powers (interesting fact, the conservative opposition party is actually called the liberal party) got elected into government because he campaigned for the same issues as our previous conservative PM but with a more modern, less "old fuddy-duddy" & slimy political appearance. The swinging conservative voter helped elect him because his policy didn't conflict with their ideals and the youth of Australia helped elect him because he wasn't a drooling 80 year old with a speech impediment who went for a daily "jog" in the countries national colours for the media. Basically our old PM had will and enforced it. Sure, it made the average Joe's life hell and his CEO schoolmates life easy and that was his downfall - there's more average Joe's than CEOs. In reality the only thing that's changed in Australian politics is the work place relations, and even that's been a slow ongoing process. Meanwhile we're still trying to dig ourselves out of being a technological backwater...

  18. Sorry but how? on Gun With Wireless Arming Signal Goes On Sale Soon · · Score: 1

    At the end of the day how is this a bad thing for the people of New Jersey? Any person except the owner of said gun is unable to use it (yeah, unless you steal his watch as well) - children and home intruders included. Worst case scenario: there are less handguns in New Jersey because of the price of these new weapons. Sorry, I really don't see the downside here.

  19. Re:racist on Scambaiting Gets Comical; Internet Scammers All Dressed Up · · Score: 1

    Creepy sure. Racist? Maybe if they were impersonating a member of another race for comedic value. Oh wait, one of them was...

  20. How the hell? on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How are Verizon getting away with calling a plan with a 5GB cap unlimited? Where I'm from there are laws against that. What, unlimited as long as your credit card is unlimited too? That dog won't hunt mont senior.

  21. Impressive on Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube · · Score: 4, Informative

    Only uses ~8% CPU on safari vs ~30% for the same video through the safari flash plugin.

  22. Re:Overpopulation on Plowing Carbon Into the Fields · · Score: 1

    Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  23. Re:Coal fire power plants on Plowing Carbon Into the Fields · · Score: 1

    It's a good idea but I think the practicality of building / maintaining a glass building of that size would make it economically unfeasible.

  24. Re:Only fair on Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You're not suggesting that:
    • The internet is an invention
    • Penicillin is under patent & wasn't developed for medical application by a German & an Australian as well as an English man
    • Non-Australian inventions aren't sold for profit (often paid in part to the patent-holder of said invention)

    Are you?

  25. Re:What stupidity. on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 1

    Usually, when most people use the term "animals", they mean "mammals". Unless they don't.

    I'm writing that one down.