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  1. BS. Don't just easily obfuscate foul play with the way it's supposed to be.

  2. What happens to your friend now?

  3. Re:Car Dealers should ask why they're being bypass on Court: Car Dealers Can't Stop Tesla From Selling In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    I'm in northern California and visited several dealers when I was going to buy my Subaru. Eventually I got a quote in the first email response from a dealer's internet sales department -- and the price was better than the price I could get haggling hard in their store. These days some things change. BTW, Eyesight is really a good reason to buy a Subaru...

  4. Re:hahaha on Court: Car Dealers Can't Stop Tesla From Selling In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    So true. What I do is getting a loan pre-approval from my bank with a sound interest rate I can get before going to a dealer. The dealer either beats my bank's interest rate or earns no interest from me. Monthly payment is an outcome of the variables (price, down, interest rate), not a variable itself.

  5. Re:Does it have to? on Skype: Has Microsoft's $8.5B Spending Paid Off Yet? Can It Ever? · · Score: 1

    You are obviously neither a CPA nor an MBA. The general rule of thumb is that an investment must have a ROI of less that 7 years max, and ideally under 3 years. Otherwise, you are much better off making a different investment choice with 8.5 Billion dolars.

    That's why they are CPAs or MBAs, not school dropouts that created MS and Apple.

  6. Re:American priorities on Only One US City Makes "Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide" List · · Score: 1

    To some extent, I would say. Filtered/censored info is better than nothing at all -- unbearable speed is a filtering itself...

  7. All-caps is standard to many official documents on How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score · · Score: 1

    Not I like to read all-caps, but it's standard to many formal/official/government documents. Birth certificate, DL, etc etc. Standard USPS address format is all-caps. Even the name on credit cards is all-caps. During loan application they often ask one to put exactly the same info on your formal documents. Oh maybe they're saying they themselves are credit worthless, which is true to some extent...

  8. Re:Power? on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    The last time I mowed it was hard for me to operate two mowers at the same time...

  9. Re:Simple business decision on Apple Renews Contract With Samsung Over A-Series Processors · · Score: 1

    What I said about "expand" might not be very accurate. What I meant was they want to expand into the pure-play foundry business. While Samsung's smartphone business is earning a lot, it's semiconductor wing's profit is very thin or at the brink of losing money with its huge capacity. In the meantime, the pure-play market is still in the state of greater demand than supply. Samsung Semiconductor wants that market. They stated that in their own brochure. And that's why they poached TSMC's former R&D chief. They are still far behind in the pure-play business, and it's natural they lower price in pursuit of bigger market share, as what they have done in the very beginning of their other businesses. Though I have to admit I'm just doing educated guess...

  10. Re:Simple business decision on Apple Renews Contract With Samsung Over A-Series Processors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reality may simply be Samsung offered a very low price that Apple cannot refuse. TSMC, while maintaining a 40%+ profit margin, doesn't have to lower its price; customers are well queued in line. However Samsung wants to expand their foundry business badly.

  11. Re:Math & Science isn't hard, other subjects a on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    Pre-meds NEED an A in general chemistry for a reason. They will be responsible for lives of human beings. I wouldn't want someone who got 16/100 in general chemistry to be my doctor...

  12. Re:Pre-Science (Not To Be Confused With Prescience on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    Sounds not a good idea in practice. After those pre-nursing, pre-med, pre-law, you get into med school, law school, and earn a professional doctorate. Following the pre-science track, you then get a bachelor of science that gets paid 1/3 of those professional doctorate...

  13. Re:like anything else.. on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    When they couldn't understand the idea of variables, it seems to me they didn't have a grasp of basic algebra. They were simply extremely unprepared, as many previous posts suggested.

  14. Re:This thought crosses my mind a lot. on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of one profession that will still be there: patent lawyers. I'll sue you for your fembot having those round-cornered XX...

  15. Re:Impact Factor on Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? · · Score: 1
  16. Re:What am I missing? on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 1

    Depending on the professor's figure and the exact condition when this happens, he might need to look downwards or gradually upwards. Training in FPS helps.

  17. Re:Dubious story, dubious subject... on How LinkedIn's Project Inversion Saved the Company · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have even gotten (plenty of) LinkedIn requests from people that I have never met and never talked to. Another thing that bothers me (a lot) is from people who know absolutely nothing about my professional capability endorsing my professional capability...

  18. Re:Summary on Salesforce, a Pillow Maker and a $125k AmEx Bill · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with an anti-christ?

  19. RTFA. I blame the summary. Raising H1B salaries is to keep them from undercutting domestic unemployment.

  20. Re:Gimmick media story on Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice · · Score: 1

    I don't have the numbers, but how much did it cost when they first got those cables to homes? Inflation adjusted, I doubt today's fiber is any more expensive than coax cables decades ago.

  21. Re:Gigabit connection on Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice · · Score: 1

    Population in the Bay Area is not that dense, even in San Francisco. The only really dense city in world standard in the US is probably NYC.

  22. Re:talent! on H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad · · Score: 1

    Many PhD professors, non-STEM, earn like $40K-60K. They may be the close to the top of their fields, but salary is still supply and demand in a free market. Companies want to reduce cost, that's how it is, unless they can really make a lot of profit.

  23. Loom on Disney Closes LucasArts · · Score: 4, Informative

    IIRC, there's this classic Loom.

  24. Re:Tipping point ... on Electronics Arts CEO Ousted In Wake of SimCity Launch Disaster · · Score: 1

    What's NFL?

  25. NVIDIA's Own Console on Nvidia Walked Away From PS4 Hardware Negotiations · · Score: 1

    Does anyone remember NVIDIA's own console announced a couple months ago? There may be reasons NVIDIA didn't want to spend resources on PS4...