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  1. I'm fedup with this on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 0

    so many updates.

  2. Re:It's a meta joke on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    Not as good as Spherical Cow.

  3. Re:All I can say to that is... on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    Are you certain?

  4. Can I run Chrome inside of Chrome? on Google Brings AmigaOS to Chrome Via Native Client Emulation · · Score: 0

    A browser running in a browser would be even more secure.

  5. Most prisons on Watch Out, Amazon: DHL Tests Drug-Delivery Drone · · Score: 1

    Are already serviced this way.

  6. Re:4 years later on Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec · · Score: 1

    I would love to use a new codec. I am sick and tired of installing Adobe flash on Linux machines. My issue is that major players don't update. So much of the video content I need is on Youtube. It seems to be the go to place for companies to post their instructional videos. Even educational videos are either on Youtube or posted in obsolete software. I am amazed at how many are still in Quicktime and RealPlayer formats. I am being sarcastic since people keep promising me better and faster video codecs, and no one gets around to using them for years.

  7. 4 years later on Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec · · Score: 1

    Someone encodes something in VP9 that I actually want to watch.

  8. Re:COBOL on Google Doodle Remembers Computing Pioneer Grace Hopper · · Score: 1

    PL/I was the first programming language I actually learned, as opposed to picking up as I went.

  9. Re:Can somebody translate this into standard measu on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 1

    How many Olympic pool sizes would it take to fill its volume?

  10. Re:11 times jupiter? on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 1

    You're using old data. Once we started to find planets, we realized that they can be more massive than we originally thought. Planets go up to about 13 Jupiter masses. Larger than that are brown dwarfs, which go up to 70-80 Jupiter masses. I wouldn't call an 11 Jupiter mass planet a failed star.

  11. Re: fat? on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 0

    You forgot HPFS

  12. Re:Hey, Chicoms on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 1

    Microsoft should solve the XP problem by giving away free copies of Vista.

  13. Ancient Chinese Secret on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Keep using what works.

  14. Re:ReactOS on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only if it is ever finished.

  15. Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For the web, desktop, tablet or phone, PCs or Macs are where development happens. We often need more power than a laptop can handle, so we use quite a few desktop PCs. For the general public, tablets may fill the need, but for development there will always be desktops.

  16. It already is on Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump · · Score: 1

    isn't it?

  17. How did that change cause a problem? on Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript · · Score: 0

    I mean, they are kindergarten kids. Like they are going to recognize that the syntax was different? Or is this some kind of knock on Zuckerberg?

  18. Re:Obligatory on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 0

    I came to post the same thing. Too late.

  19. Re:Canada contracts some medical records to USA on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Read all their Blackberry messages in retaliation.

  20. Re:interesting though stupid comment on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    The contract was not with the US government.

  21. Re:While... on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    ...and there are people hunting them down.

  22. Re:Ah Ha! on US Military Settles Software Piracy Claims For $50M · · Score: 1

    Having been in the Army a long time, I can tell you we rarely know where the licenses for software come from, or whether they are needed or not. This includes the "professional IT program" people. Does FBCB2 need a license? I don't know. Does Blue Force tracker? Same. Did someone buy a license for us? Probably, but I would have know idea if they did or did not.

  23. What font did they want him to use? on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    Most people write with the default font of whatever word processor they use.

  24. Re:I have to agree on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    And they should be printed on 8 x 10.5 government size paper.

  25. Re:Apollo 13 on Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality · · Score: 1

    When they said that "Failure is not an option," they meant that giving up was not an acceptable option. He wanted them to work to develop possible solutions, and not just go through the motions because everyone felt it was a lost cause. I used to see that when I was in the military. Not because of expected failure, but because people thought the work was useless. When planning, you develop multiple options for a plan. Then you compare them to see which one works the best. One option always seems the obvious one, and the teams throw together a couple of other half-hearted ones together because they have too. Because you force them to think, many times these other plans turn out to be unexpectedly superior. Really good planning teams have the knack of developing really thought provoking options. In the Apollo 13 case, he was forcing them to plan, and striving to fight off the depression that was settling into the team.