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  1. Re:Swype is really awesome on Swype Beta For Android Is Open, Temporarily · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oops, I take that back. Its actually Motorola Droid X, that comes with swype. I got my version numbers wrong.

  2. Re:Swype is really awesome on Swype Beta For Android Is Open, Temporarily · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not sure how long ago you checked, but Droid does come with swype.

  3. Re:PDF files will render as seamlessly as HTML? on Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome · · Score: 1

    I myself use the FF extension. This has been my primary PDF/DOC/PPT viewer for awhile now.

  4. Re:PDF files will render as seamlessly as HTML? on Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually google already has an excellent online PDF viewer, it seems to display PDFs as an image, but still manages selection of words, searching and copying. Here is a sample IRS PDF I wouldnt be surprised, if the same code was converted into a chrome plugin.

  5. Re:I have only one question... on IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited · · Score: 1

    what is 41+1?

  6. Mod parent UP!!! on Can Transistors Be Made To Work When They're Off? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent UP!!!

  7. Re:Jump to conclusions? on Activists Worry About a New "Green Dam" In Vietnam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And there no other oppressive regimes other than communist ones? If there others, then the adjective you are looking for is "oppressive" (or dictatorship or fascist) and not "communist".

  8. Re:Jump to conclusions? on Activists Worry About a New "Green Dam" In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    What does communism have to with this?

  9. Re:Why it's wro oo, a comment field on Hooked On Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price · · Score: 2

    Cant wait for you to find what the cancel button does!

  10. Re:"Washington" is a US State on Washington Wants 10,000 Web Surfers · · Score: 3, Funny
  11. Re:More Than Cows on iRobot Demonstrates New Weaponized Robot · · Score: 1

    Goats cover much lesser ground than cows. So you will have to carry more goats than cows.

    And in my previous post, I forgot the cost of retrieving the cows back vs retrieving the robots back.

  12. Re:More Than Cows on iRobot Demonstrates New Weaponized Robot · · Score: 1

    Actually I wont be so sure. Cost of robot + cost of robot in terms of time/effort taken to transport (which is negligible) vs Cost of Cows (which is not negligible, if the the numbers of disposable cow required per unit time is high) + cost of cows in terms of time/effort required to transport (which is actually costly).

    Seems to be pretty close.

  13. Re:Trains? on Man Builds His Own Subway · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the infrastructure (roads) required to handle the cars.

  14. Re:IBM is headed that way too on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    Looks like you worked there too long ago. There has been a linux version developed in parallel with the windows version since NS7. I had used it since 2007, and I am sure it existed atleast an year before I started using it.

  15. Re:easiest way to get involved on Getting Started Contributing Back To Open Source · · Score: 1

    and submit bug reports!

  16. Re:f.lux on Your Computer Or iPad Could Be Disrupting Sleep · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since you have been using one, I have a question about the muffle-sound ones. If the sound and light have been muffed, how do you know when to wake up? (I assume alarms, sunlight both dont have any effect).

  17. Re:60 percent? Really? on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    Actually must have been his elder sister, Dee Dee. Right Dexterr?

  18. Re:Problem with surveys on 10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive · · Score: 1

    You still can. For a better accuracy, use a 1000 monkeys instead. And to make sure it is *only* the cell phones that could cause the cancer in the monkeys, build a highly controlled environment, and feed carefully controlled food that is guaranteed not to cause cancer.

    And there you go, you could easily spend millions for such a setup.

  19. Re:Should we open a betting pool? on Biggest Detector To Look For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    I bet you both are wrong. I bet gravity waves are sometimes seen, sometimes not.

  20. Re:What do the British call real torches? on Intel Shows Off First Light Peak Laptop · · Score: 1

    The British refer to 'the a big stick with fire burning at one end' as a 'burning torch' or sometimes simply as torch..

    You are welcome.

  21. Re:An Opportunity on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Duh, Use a live cd and remove your hard disk. No traces left (the RAM would hopefully be erased by the time the try to get to you).

  22. Re:They need something to do on FAA Says No More Minesweeper Or Solitaire In Cockpit · · Score: 1

    Pretty nice example? Mmm...
    Northwest Airlines Flight 255: plane crashed during take-off and was not on auto-pilot (afaik, no auto-pilot can handle take-off or landing)
    Aeroflot Flight 593: they accidentally turned off the auto-pilot and hence the plane was not on auto-pilot.

    The point of discussion, if you had read GP's and GGP's post was how good Auto-Pilot system was and how well it can handle things without pilot intervention and how well it can notify the pilot when something goes wrong (despite the pilot being distracted).

  23. Re:Math is hard. on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    Naa, better to round off .66 to 1.0

  24. Re:Go for Hardware implemented Caching on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Modern harddisks already have DRAM for buffering (also referred to as disk cache) and a dedicated "chip"/embedded processor exclusively for cache management should be cheap.

  25. Re:Go for Hardware implemented Caching on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Mmmm, interesting. I guess I my understanding about how these 'hybrid drives' work is wrong. That makes me wonder why isnt a completely hardware implemented ssd cache available? Is there a technical reason why this is not possible? Wouldnt this be faster than a software implemented one?