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  1. Re:Hawaii, Where All the Action Is on Fingerprinting Slow Earthquakes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm confused, did I learn the wrong thing from all those old science clips that show Pangaea breaking apart and the Atlantic ocean forms as the Americas separate from Europe/Africa?

  2. Re:Convert? on Time Warner Cable Won't Compete, Seeks Legislation · · Score: 1

    Revenue from selling the services?

  3. Re:Not necessarily on Game Retailers Hurting Themselves With Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    Basic exchange rate: ¥100 ~ $1.00 I don't care to be exact, I'm just glad it's a power of 10 unlike the pound an euro.

  4. Re:Of course we don't need running shoes on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, that's about the only way any of these guys will be in a relationship... Some girl will pound him over the head and drag him back to her cave...

  5. Re:In my head while driving. on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 1

    Truly. I've rewritten plenty of code in my head just to forget half the changes by the time I'm in front of a computer again, or how I was going to use that thing to do that one piece... Frustrating.

  6. Re:Webmonkey on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    so anywhere from $.29 to $1.49 per hour

  7. Re:Funny or an idiot? on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    damn it, where's the obligatory xkcd link? blocked at work for me :(

  8. Re:THIS IS A BRIDGE?!?!?! on Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout · · Score: 1

    They don't want them CEO's looking over the side and seeing fewer and fewer cars on the freeway?

  9. Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    Knowing a few German words (very few) and using Ubiquity translate command, I'd have to agree that Dutch is closer than French, but we can still blame the French for the awful spelling and vowel sounds, right?

  10. Right question? on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 1

    Alright, I want a ~15.4" widescreen with 4+ hours battery life while playing dvds or games (ignoring availability on a specific OS) or browsing the web, what do I get, seriously?

  11. Re:1st Amendment? on Senator Proposes Nonprofit Status For Newspapers · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't see anything wrong with invalidating the law. Gets rid of tax-exempt status... what? Oh they're just going to get rid of the provision about endorsing candidates, what a bunch of crock

  12. Re:And will be unavailable anyplace else.... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    Actually if you read the original article posted here (I'm too lazy to look), it mentioned that many people were traveling on mopeds and motorbikes with multiple passengers including young children. This is not an attempt to bring transportation to the country; it's an attempt to bring "safer" transportation. As always, it's relative.

  13. Re:Hard field to transfer into on From an Unrelated Career To IT/Programming? · · Score: 1

    Well, shit I got lucky then. No "experience" to speak of, no degree (48 semester hours mostly gen-ed, most of it done while I was in high school). I had only read several books on various languages - Java, C++, Python. But I still managed to land an entry level programming job at a industry leader (some 200 developers). They just gave me the books to learn the languages they were using, which I blazed through in 2 weeks. My manager remarked on how quickly I was able to start contributing to the development team, so yea. Yes, there is much more to programming than language syntax, but so much of that can be picked up on the job with just a point in the right direction... and google. I've been here a year and man has the time flown by.

  14. Re:RTFA on Computer Science Major Is Cool Again · · Score: 1

    I'll certainly vouch for that. When I was comparing course curriculums for some colleges I looked at. The CS degrees had a tendency to be "easier" so to speak.

  15. Re:Where do we even begin? on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 1

    For antivirus software, it depends on the service and the base. Mostly it's either Symantec or McAfee

  16. Re:Weekend Warriors on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you got the bullshit "we can't transfer you because we'll lose the billet" response. My unit is in constant need for more reservists and if we don't fill a couple in short time, we'll lose the billet to some unit going abroad.

  17. Re:Badly... on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 1

    The Navy indeed has such a policy or at least a heavy preference for varied commands during a member's service. It's one of the things that my Chief's were always telling the lower ranks about.

  18. Re:Not THAT bad. on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Same here, for an StoreKeeper in the Navy it's all paperwork either way though...

    I had a short term (15 months) on two supply ships (same class, different deploy schedules) where civilians outnumber military 4:1, but they did 5 times the work.

    I'm actually doing more work on the weekends in the reserves than I did in 2 weeks active. I program at my civ job and kick boxes (full of computers) on my weekend a month. Not to mention, I'm the computer advice guy for the unit.

  19. Re:or music on Concentrate Better By Doodling · · Score: 1

    Huh, so that explains why I get more work done listening to the Japanese tracks... Now I don't know whether I want to learn the language or still be able to concentrate at work

  20. Re:What about Nokia and PyS60 ? on Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers · · Score: 1

    Could it be because Nokia isn't a big name in the US and they always seem to have really lame phones? No comment on the N-Gage... So what phones use Symbian 60 that are comparable to the iPhone or G1? Which ones are compatible with PyS60? I'm seriously interested at any rate, as a Python developer.

  21. Re:I hate to say it... on Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal · · Score: 1

    Long before my time, but wasn't there a period of time when theaters were the only place to see movies?

  22. Re:I hate to say it... on Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal · · Score: 1

    Sadly, my first thought was the daystar virus, which actually makes just as much sense

  23. Re:Fight back on How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure? · · Score: 1

    Provided you are using a respectable distro, you can explain that these "good samaritans" are also working to protect their own systems as well as their customer's systems.

  24. Re:It won't help fix the core issues. on WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband · · Score: 1

    There is a big hole in this argument because everything you buy is already taxed multiple times before you get it. The most obvious ones being payroll taxes and corporate taxes.

  25. Re:These "other countries" should start to lag beh on WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband · · Score: 1

    You mean education?