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  1. Re: Credenza? on 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X? · · Score: 1

    Could one of those USB mini monitors be configured to do this in linux?

  2. Just like WSJ on NY Times To Charge For Online Content · · Score: 1

    Same here. Dropped the WSJ app at the start of the year and replaced it with bloomberg & reuters - both free.

  3. Re:looking around on App Store Piracy Losses Estimated At $459 Million · · Score: 1

    Ditto. Who are all of these pirates? Is this why geeks have been supporting the so-called talk-like-a-pirate day? Is there an app that will turn you into a pirate?

  4. Re:Useless on Palm Opens Dev Program, Offers $1M For Top App · · Score: 1

    Spot on - wrt marthons. This is a race where ultimately during the next decade billions of units will be shipped - half the people on earth will have a connected communication device, with half of that population cycling every two years ? Plenty of profit in third place, and over the long haul - way too premature to call time of death on the folks who invented this category.

  5. "Thus, I would choose to write the comment..." on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1

    "In most cases" That's the bottom line - just apply the same rule to comments you do to code; overly verbose is usually more confusing.

  6. This is a Ginormous Step Forward... almost on Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com · · Score: 1

    Interesting the Chrome spell checker doesn't seem to be clued into the validity of this word.

  7. Re:Information Technology (IT) on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    Exactly; information technology - whatever your team is building must be information related. Who cares what they call the department. Attract your talent by paying competitively, providing excellent benefits, good development hardware, and let them script their own specific title. So long as the content doesn't offend clients, your business, or others; i've seen guys with "may contain peanuts" as their official role. Dude codes like no other...

  8. "The diet coke of evil" on Dell Rugged Laptops Not Quite Tough Enough · · Score: 1

    "Not quite evil enough"

  9. Re:Lexis and Westlaw? on Open Source Effort To Codify America's "Operating System" Online · · Score: 1

    Let's hope so.

  10. Re:Question: on Carl Sagan Sings · · Score: 1

    Been playing John's mashup all morning. It is beautiful and inspiring. Thanks for the mp's...

  11. Re:Good job, too on StackOverflow For Any Topic · · Score: 1

    At a glance the site is a little crowded. Something more akin to visual thesaurus.

  12. Re:Easy fix on Google, Apple Joust Over Rejected Voice App · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yah - and the plethora of time-telling apps should all remove their clocks because that's redundant functionality too. Strongly encourage folks to ring Apple and demand release of the google version of voice. The web ui set as an app shortcut is at least a workable replacement, it doesn't come close to the functionality on display in the android version of the voice app.

  13. Re:Bail on Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin · · Score: 1

    If the real threat is his release, the practice should be to remand w/o bail; not set the amount so high its unreachable. At some point, someone who can easily pay 5 mil will be in the seat, and on the street? Bail denied. Next case.

  14. Re:Obvious on iPhone 3GS Is Number One In Japan · · Score: 1

    FELICA and similar systems will be free apps to help you spend more efficiently. Forward compatibility of Apple's phone is limited only by the i/o interfaces, and strap ons make even that limitation virtually meaningless.

  15. Re:Still not a Chrome user on New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 Video · · Score: 1

    Use the incognito window - sounds like a lot of folks at google must've had you in mind.

  16. Re:"duplication of functionality" on Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    So the core will allow 47 kinds of clock and 18 different flashlights, but Skype is the only alternative phone? Google voice rocks, and if Apple doesn't embrace it, they'll only add credence too Android...

  17. Re:Haven't seen anything like that so far on Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink · · Score: 1

    Noticed the white 3GS in one of the fa was a white 16GB. Have a blk 32gb here, and no heat problems (haven't used this as a driving directions device tho). Battery seemed a little short the first week, but is awesome for the past few days, and am using it more now than before. Its my first iphone (waited for disk exceeding my second gen 20 gb pod)... Its a gamechanger for sure. Had a palm VII years ago, jornada, etc... So awesome to have everything i carry on one device. Call me fanboy, but the pink picture looks like nail polish to me. Let the device fully discharge a few times. Make sure to fully recharge a few times. Battery maint is a user responsibility at this point given the extensive experience we have portable/rechargeable devices. I'd also not discount the notion that this problem is affecting 16gb devices, and not 32's... Thoughts?

  18. Re:Not cannabilisim on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: 1

    In ten years time, this thread will be referenced in an article detailing how human consumption was responsible for the demise of yet another specie of great ape. It probably won't even be ten years...

  19. Re:I'm not dead yet on Why TV Lost · · Score: 1

    "I don't want to go on the cart." - TV Fixed that for you.

  20. Ever hear of Flex and Air? on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 1

    Tfa fails to mention Flex - Adobe's answer to the dynamic web.

  21. Re:Following Apple on Microsoft To Open Retail Stores · · Score: 1

    Seriously - until they have some hardware beyond video consoles and... What's the name of the music player they recently announced eol on? They might do well with refrigerator magnets one day.

  22. Re:What's the next big DB? on Five Questions With Michael Widenius · · Score: 1

    I think the big fork is already available from Google. And with their investment in MySQL, it can't go away anytime soon. http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/downloads/list

  23. Sync'd With the Latest Release on Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users · · Score: 1

    Didn't they just do a banner blitz announcing how new and improved they were? Most things never change.

  24. Re:so, to summarize... on Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All · · Score: 1

    Windows forces you to navigate the group via "pull down", so NO its not the same at all. OS X opens all windows associated to the app right where they were if hidden/minimized, but one click gets you back to the application. Vastly superior.

  25. Sun Too on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 1

    Heard from staff that Sun will be announcing another RIF this week too...