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  1. Re:That guys name does my head in on iPhone Not Running OS X · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's a secret love child.

  2. Re:Aqua (2001-???) on Apple's Illuminous (Aqua v2) to Compete with Aero · · Score: 1

    Who cares? NeXTSTEP 3 was doing 4096 Colors when MacOS and Windows were limited to 256 Colors.

  3. Stefan-Boltzmann's Law on Global Warming Debunker Debunked · · Score: 1

    Is being butchered and misrepresented. The constant varies with the medium upon which it is measured. This varies from the Quantum to the Relative Laws. For a solid understanding of it's application please download Heat Transfer Textbook by Lienhard IV/V at MIT. As a Mechanical Engineer the state of transition we use with the notion of a black body allows one to empirically measure [put bounds], on the integral energy measurement, that a material medium emits when concerning monochromatic emissive power. The point of a black body aides in the determination of the material medium's possible levels of transmitted and reflective radiant heat flux, in relation to the theoretical maximum absorptive value of the material medium. What purpose does it serve to mention this crucial law when it's not even understood?

  4. Fiber across the US back in the 80s on Copper Wire As Fast As Fiber? · · Score: 1

    ...or so they promised Congress and more. These pricks don't want to spend the money and are hoping this "stop-gap" will appease the lawmakers. They are allowed to consolidate and they do less than they guaranteed. Typical.

    US Telcos--all talk and no action.

  5. Hold off on the writers for a moment: Consider... on Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent? · · Score: 1

    The Reader. Today's average reader is leagues below just twenty years ago, let alone one hundreds years prior. As has been mentioned, people do not consume the varied literature of their parent's generation and grandparent's generation. It It iss a verifiable fact.

    Well-written essays on any subject matter threaten today's consumer. Reality Television is one example of the lack of concern people have for content and context.

  6. Re:*sniff*.. *sniff*. on "DVD Jon" Reverse Engineers FairPlay · · Score: 1

    What device does Jon's company produce? It doesn't develop it's own MP3 Player.

  7. 3 Million Bands? Who gives a rat's ass? on Myspace to Sell MP3s From Unsigned Bands · · Score: 1

    The talent is 99% dog crap. That's the music world. Most of these people can't carry a tune let alone become successful music stars. More power to them, but let's not delude ourselves that the next Queen, Judas Priest, Madonna, Prince, etc., are sitting on MySpace.

    Hell many of the mainline bands have a presence on MySpace just to sell more of their discs.

  8. No surprise that Dvorak thinks this is possible on Google CEO Joins Apple's Board · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NeXT and SUN do not have fond ties. Steve in his own words, "SUN is no Apple." If you think Steve is going to let someone else fuck up the momentum he has created you need to check yourself into an asylum.

  9. Re:Leopard on Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word · · Score: 1

    Leopard supports G4. Don't fall into the hype that it doesn't.

  10. LoudEye? on Nokia the Next to Try an iTunes Killer? · · Score: 1

    They survived? Having interviewed with them back when they were "big" in media distribution nothing in their facilities struck me as "wow." I admit I'm biased having worked at NeXT and Apple but damn they just reminded me of what BSquare reminded me -- a knock off building from Microsoft.

  11. Re:Isn't this an issue for the CFO on Apple Announces More Options Troubles · · Score: 1

    That assumes you exercise your options, correct?

  12. Re:Pretty hard, I guess.... on OpenGL Spec Now Controlled by Khronos Group · · Score: 1

    Is it hard to do because Jesus nor God are factual or because you believe in the Holy Smoke and that to fuck himself would be amazing? If he were the Holy Smoke he could do it with ease.

  13. What was the book written in? on A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    Word? The random choice of fonts, and crappy layout makes it clear that this highly skilled engineer, "Doesn't know LaTeX!"

  14. Re:4x4 is an inaccurate name... on Intel Stepping Up to Combat AMD's 4x4 · · Score: 1

    Rear Axle, and Front Axle with represent 2 CPUs. Each CPU has 2 Cores/Wheels. Hence 4 x 4.

  15. Engineers cannot joing unions? [WRONG] on Engineers Working Harder for Their Paycheck · · Score: 1

    All mechanical, materials, structural, electrical, chemical engineers, etc., who work for BOEING are PART OF A UNION.

    Look it up some time. When I graduated from WSU in Mechanical Engineering the first thing they asked was, "Can you program fluently in C and write software for us?" I went back to study Computer Science. I'm now trying to bring back my M.E. skills and marry them with my CS skills. Otherwise, I'll become even more obsolete.

  16. Re:4x4 is an inaccurate name... on Intel Stepping Up to Combat AMD's 4x4 · · Score: 1

    Not much of an off-road person I see.

  17. Let's cut to the chase... on IT Careers in 2010 - Learn a business · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We want to hire one person not only to do the tech skills of four but we now want you to be our point of sale and make it all happen. We'll pay you for the talents of 1.5 employees while we keep costs down by 3.5 employees.

  18. Open Standards doesn't mean LINUX only on Open Source In the National Interest · · Score: 1

    OS X, the rest of the BSDs, Solaris, Linux and others will fight for contracts; and they will all offer various cost/benefit analyses while adhering to the open standards requirements. Microsoft has the most to lose.

  19. Re:Buran [Cue new Slogon] on Space Shuttle Gains Remote-Control Landing Capability · · Score: 2, Funny
    NASA: We're always looking for a few good Monkeys.

    And this time they could mean it!

  20. Re:OS X on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which Community? Last time I checked there were many Communities in this "FOSS" World.

  21. Re:reading comprehension - massive rewards on Apple Pulls Out of India · · Score: 1
    Hold the Phone. Read your 10-Q next time. He returned those shares to avoid the taxes which would occur. Look it up.

    296 Million in taxes on 4.6 Million shares.

    CEO Restricted Stock Award

    On March 19, 2003, the Companys Board of Directors granted 10 million shares of restricted stock to the Companys CEO that vested on March 19, 2006. The amount of the restricted stock award expensed by the Company was based on the closing market price of the Companys common stock on the date of grant and was amortized on a straight-line basis over the three-year requisite service period.

    Upon vesting during the second quarter of 2006, the restricted stock award was net-share settled such that the Company withheld shares with value equivalent to the CEOs minimum statutory obligation for the applicable income and other employment taxes, and remitted the cash to the appropriate taxing authorities. The total shares withheld of 4.6 million was based on the value of the restricted stock award on the vesting date as determined by the Companys closing stock price of $64.66. The remaining shares net of those withheld were delivered to the Companys CEO. Total payments for the CEOs tax obligations to the taxing authorities were approximately $296 million. The net-share settlement had the effect of share repurchases by the Company as they reduced and retired the number of shares outstanding and did not represent an expense to the Company.

  22. That's one way of pissing on my birthday on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't even gamble but this stupid law makes me sad to be a resident of Washington State. Sometimes the greed in our State government knows no bounds. They weasel their way into raising our tab fees after we voted them down and they screw us on our road bills where they say roads will be paved with high grade concrete only to be stripped and replaced with asphault, guaranteeing more idiots working the roads and less efficiency in our state funds going to improve more infrastructures. Vote Libertarian and force these pukes to follow through and put the money where they proclaim it will be put and no more.

    Let the idiots who become addicted to gambling shrivel up in their own miseries for being weak. Re-privatized our Liquor stores that presently force everyone to drive to the reservations for reasonable prices. Good for the reservations and their exemptions but come on! Stop screwing your residents. Fix out power grids with a joint private venture so we are less susceptible to power outages and real jobs are created instead of the various strip mall retail service ilk.
  23. Re:Underpowered Little Machine on Understanding OS X Kernel Internals · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps if those applications actually leveraged Cocoa's AppKit Frameworks, Core Data, Core Imaging, etc., then you'd see drastically smaller app bundles and more shared use of built-in Cocoa Frameworks.

    Since they are Carbon based expect them to be bloated.

    When Apple replaces Finder and other critical sections of their application base with pure cocoa applications then perhaps we'll see more improvements as we should have seen.

  24. Re:The relevant quote... [Apple is NeXT with...] on Microsoft PowerShell RC1 · · Score: 1

    An Apple brand. It shouldn't surprise people that they know UNIX and Objects. Unfortunately, NAppleXT has spent an awful lot of time making that legacy happy. Let's hope this diminishes greatly with Leopard.

  25. Note on Dual Boot :: Think CAD/CAM on Apple Announced 17" MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    If one needs to run ProE, Catia, AutoCAD, etc., they will want to dual boot since none of these OpenGL intensive applications have an OS X port and no the virtualization convenience is no substitute for native performance.