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  1. Re:Goddammit! on What Will Life Be Like In 2008? · · Score: 1

    So you want a means of personal transportation that you can take off, fly and then land anywhere? Those are not called airplanes and I am pretty sure Cessna can not set you up with that.

  2. Re:Goddammit! on What Will Life Be Like In 2008? · · Score: 1

    More like:

    Driver punches in his destination and flying car refuses to take off due to not having enough fuel. The cars are going to be 99.9% automated, except maybe for special sports models that will probably require a full pilot license to fly.

  3. Re:Overhead, look at cereals in your grocery store on Must a CD Cost $15.99? · · Score: 1

    ...and often times don't sell as well as promised, ending up being over stock and sold way under value. Food at least has a fairly consistent turn over and it is pretty well known how popular carrots are going to sell.

  4. Re:The breakdown on Must a CD Cost $15.99? · · Score: 1

    Id say the retail overhead is due mostly to the one hit wonder crap that ends up being peg warmers and discounted to well below cost before being land filled.

  5. Re:Hmm... do we need either of these studies? on Beer-Drinking Scientist Debunks Productivity Correlation · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think what you refer to is known as the "Ballmer Peak" shown on this graph:

    Here

  6. Re:Hyper-V is what now? on Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold · · Score: 1

    At least that was my understanding. Citrix bought Xensource and then worked with Microsoft to make windows the DomU on that Hypervisor.

  7. Re:Microsoft is using old rules in a new game on Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold · · Score: 1

    Actually it's based on the Xen Hypervisor, which is a stripped down micro kernel. Windows is just vertualized and becomes the primary control host, or DomU in Xen terminology.

  8. Re:Why is this surprising? on Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold · · Score: 1

    MS Actually sees VMWare as a huge threat. That is why they are rushing Hyper-V to market with little to no real features and offering one license to cover all VMs in the host.

  9. Re:shooting selves in foot on Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And looking at VMWare's new beta 3i product it gets rid of the host OS completely and loads nothing but the vmware hypervisor. It's designed to be only 16M and fit in a flash chip.

    Have a VMWare cluster setup with vmotion and you want to upgrade hosts. Slap in another 3i box, pre-configured, turn it on and let VMWare rebalance the hosts.

  10. Re:Hyper-V is what now? on Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a conglomeration of tech from Xen's Hypervisor and work done by citrix and Novell to make windows the DomU in Xen.

  11. Re:What's new on Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    You forgot some perspective to your zealotry example:

    Later June 5 2005: Intel increases performance and power of x86 chips while PowerPC loses support of Motorola and stagnates.

  12. Re:4 pledges on Lessig Bets On the Net To Clean Up Government · · Score: 2, Insightful

    3. Support publicly-financed campaigns

    I never understood this one. Put the people worried about getting re-elected in charge of giving out money to their opponents? No room for corruption there huh?

  13. Re:There is a simple solution to such a problem. on Most Spam Comes From Just Six Botnets · · Score: 1

    This sounds great. Finally Windows will have something to allow different people to do different tasks as Administrator as needed. Where is the config so I can allow my backup admins to run backup software as admin and my programs to debug as admin but not give out the admin password?

  14. Re:It's 1963 all over again! on NASA to Test Emergency Ability of New Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    But an airplane in space is way cooler than a round coffin^H^H^H^H^Hapsil.

  15. Re:What is Patentable on "Bilski" Case May End Business Method Patents · · Score: 1

    Don't know, the word 'possibly' means it also includes possibly doesn't deserve protection.

  16. Re:This happens everywhere on Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution · · Score: 1

    no, no, v is lowest pay, but dv/da is highest pay.

  17. Re:Nobody's expecting it to game on AMD's Hybrid Graphics Unveiled, Tested · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in history criteria 1992ish:

    Nobody with any kind of experience with computers and mathematics would, in their right mind, even expect any sort of integrated FPU to excel at floating point, so why even mention it? What, because it gives the summary and article an extra bit of filler to make it look longer?

  18. Re:Who Benefits? on Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy · · Score: 1

    That's just because here in AZ nobody wants longer days. Especially in the summer.

    I wish we had daylight removal time.

  19. Re:They need to earn foreign exchange... on Comparing the OLPC, Classmate and Eee · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they had bulldozers in Julius Caesar's day. That was built using hundreds of thousands of starving and beaten slaves. I suppose we could do it that way if needed. Otherwise a bulldozer will be needed.

  20. Re:Do you trust the government with your idenity? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    Yea, for that task you need a voter card.

  21. Re:Which Gallon? on VW Set To Release Diesel Hybrid · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think I like that idea actually. I do remember reading about the measurement in the past but never really thought about it. Think of L/100km as I need to go 'x;km, I'll ned 'y'L of fuel. vs. MPG, I have 'x' Gallons of fuel I can go 'y' Miles.

  22. Re:It's not "mis-targetted" on Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    If I purchase a business I have a reasonable assumption as to what that business has done. I didn't purchase my being born. I was not and am not a part of any slave traders or force land acquisition. Nor were most of the people that are claiming restitution of such.

  23. Re:Not everyone is a lifelong learner... on Correcting Misperceptions About Evolution · · Score: 1

    Which reinforces religions role in the world. Used to explain the unknown until a better explination is found.

  24. Re:Not everyone is a lifelong learner... on Correcting Misperceptions About Evolution · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except that there really isn't that much diffrent between evolutionary theory and intelligent design. People seem to equate intelligent design with pure creationism and it all happend in 6 days and the 7th day god rested. Only real diffrence is that evolutionary theory suggests that everything is completely random and the best pops out as successful. Intelligent design just says that a god pushed the specis to be successful and it wasn't completely random. Backed by the evidence that there is no clear path of evolution between species and the fact that you can't breed a cat from dogs no matter how many cat like features you breed into the dogs.

    For people that belive in a god this seems pretty fair and in the end wont mess with tracking the origins and evolution of creatures on earth.

    I'm an athiest, but I don't hate people that belive in god. I do think it was pure natural selection and there was no other worldly assistance. But in the end the pure philosphical idea that it happend by chance or by intervention doesn't really matter to the science or data.

  25. Re:It's not "mis-targetted" on Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    They could have a song and everything, "We're whalers on the moon, we sing this whaler tune...."