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  1. Re:0 for 275? on Righthaven Loses Again · · Score: 2

    You mean if a huge corporation comes a long, sues you, trashes you with their huge legal team, now your stuck paying for it?

  2. Re:whatever on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 1

    the humble bundle guys got it. plenty of the linux games are a single download, whatever distro your using.

  3. Re:Missed the point on The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake · · Score: 2

    Java's String implementation is: char array, offset, length. That way when doing a substring, the resulting string uses the same char array.

  4. Re:I thought that was the iPhone on Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? · · Score: 1

    don't the make the new stuff unusable in the old? and give some way to convert from old to new?

  5. Re:So.. on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    not just powerful people. plenty of joe sixpacks do sleazy stuff too. the only difference is the amount of resources involved.

  6. Re:Solution on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 1

    Works for some stuff. theres talented people most places, plenty of idiots too. I'm in latin america, and was, as you put it. The double whammy. It takes a lot of work to coordinate properly with people spread across us, latin america, india, and god knows where else. it CAN be made work, but it aint easy, and it needs people dedicated to making it work. i.e. people whose job is to keep all teams in the same page. Otherwise you get a clustefuck of duplicated work, conflicting emails, and ping pong communication across several days. Can't say out setup was perfect, plenty of hopeless idiots in every shore, both on client employees and outsourced. No I'm no longer double whammy, just offshored. I think it's better. No overhead from the "two bosses, one pays me and evaluates me, the other on can fire me" situation, and more cash obviously. Is it actually cheaper? Hell if I know. All I can tell you is we did get some work done, and it's nice being able to say "offshore will take over from here" when it's late and there's a problem that needs working on.

  7. Re:Am I getting old? on Ars Technica Review Slams Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    After 40 years, only the best of the 70's has survived, or the "so bad it's funny" So that's what people remember, or in my case, heard of, since I wasn't alive on the 70's. I don't hear, hence never look into the random crap that was there. But there certainly is a lot of crap from the 80's and 90's at least, I just don't go out of my way to watch it, I look into the good stuff.

  8. Re:Supervise your own kid on Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? · · Score: 1

    True enough, it's hard. but it was your choice, you could have had no kids, had only one. you could've adopted a five year old. It was your (as in you and your wife's) choice. Just as it's the other poster's choice if he get's to old age without a family. Could just as easily die young, by choice or luck.

  9. Why wouldn't NYT be able to get a correspondent in Alaska. Put an add in craig's list and you'd probably have the documents in a couple days. Scanned even... It's silly.

  10. Re:Not true. In fact they're cheaper than Skype. on Google WebRTC: Can It Replace Skype? · · Score: 1

    You can call from the US to the rest of the world. But from the rest of the world is not available, unless you VPN and come out from the us or something similar.

  11. Re:Malaysian Silliness on Man Ordered To Tweet 100 Times For Defamation · · Score: 2

    I think it's reasonable. I mean, if the guy really did screw up, a retraction is in order, at least the same size as the smear. The size is easy enough to figure out on, say a news paper. Just make a retraction the same size the screw up, in the same page so as to keep the same visibility (though that hardly ever happens.) It's arguable if 100 tweets is justified, but really, it's not like he's charged per tweet.

  12. Re:In Japan the old say on Senior Citizens Lining Up to Tackle Fukushima · · Score: 2

    In the first world perhaps. Plenty of places the old don't really have much at all.

  13. Re:Delaying Release on Samsung Wants To See iPhone 5 and iPad 3 · · Score: 2

    still, having only apple's counsel look at stuff gives them unfair advantage. I mean, they can make whatever claim they want about what they had planned for future devices.

  14. Re:The cross-platform .NET? on Miguel De Icaza Forms New Mono Company: Xamarin · · Score: 2, Informative

    it is compiled bytecode designed to run in a virtual machine, it does automatic garbage collection, and it appears to be the premier platform for MS development.

    He's a troll. At most he can complain about you using byte code, MS calls it CIL Common intermediate language. They have their name for their VM too. But that's like saying "I'm not riding a vehicle, I'm riding a car".

  15. Re:Advert for the verizon network? on Verizon's Challenge To the iPhone Confirmed · · Score: 1

    you can also get unlocked phones (or unlock a phone) in the us. and just as in europe, they tend to be more expensive. Honestly, it's not much diferent.

  16. Re:-1 Paranoid on Wi-Fi Direct Overlaps Bluetooth Territory For Connecting Devices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is not someone taking over the keyboard . It's wireless key loggers.

  17. Re:Hmmm. on Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network · · Score: 1

    "Panem et circenses" Can't really keep someone locked up if all they have to do is think how to get outand try it out. they're going to succeed eventually

  18. Re:That is why... on Gamers Are More Aggressive To Strangers · · Score: 1

    And they also say wars between brothers are the bloodiest. Mostly refering to civil wars. They, after all, know most about you, can hit you where it hurts most

  19. Re:Is a game that important on Using a Treadmill and Wiimotes To Run and Fly in Aion · · Score: 1

    Well, could be below freezing, Or over 45C, or raining. Or spring just arrived and you've got horrible hay fever. Plenty of reasons why someone wouldn't want to be running around outside. I always thought that's why gyms have treadmills and the like.

  20. Re:Avatar first-impression: on Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate? · · Score: 1

    Didn't ferngully have some sort of treecutting mech?

  21. Stop making stuff up on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 1

    the PDF's are FAQ's on hiring international students. Why? probably because enough international students and companies asked the college what were the implications of hiring an international student. In other words, the schools are doing their job, helping students get into jobs and internships.

  22. Re:Bullshit on Smile! Urine Candid Camera! · · Score: 1

    It's mostly to keep employees from shoplifting the stuff they are supposed to be selling. nothing more.

  23. Re:Mineral? on Lots of Pure Water Ice At Mars North Pole · · Score: 1

    It's not undrikable, but yes, but the human body does use minerals in water. Which is why your not suposed to go about drinking the distiled water.

  24. Re:Less than I'd hoped for. on Club Nintendo Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Yeah, hopefully it will pick up. A few years ago they gave out a zelda collector edition disk for I think three games registered. that was a pretty good deal. the disc contained the two nes zelda games and the two n64 zelda games.

  25. Re:Well, here we go on Ballmer Admits Google Apps Are Biting Into MS Office · · Score: 1

    I run xubuntu, a few days ago i downloaded the new opera deb package. I click on the file, i see a window "Package installer - Opera". Tells me this package is The opera web browser. tells me I have an older version. An shows me an install. button. click. done. Whats the big deal?