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  1. Re:Okay but... on Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook · · Score: 2, Funny

    Plone is a Content Management System (CMS) written in Python programming language for the Zope 2 Web Application server.

    Thanks! Now, what's "Zope 2"?

  2. Re:Okay but... on Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I know what you're saying. It's a shame there isn't some sort of, like, online dictionary where we can look these things up.

    Because god forbid anyone tries to communicate with another living person instead of relying on reference materials. Can you believe that people used to actually chat in the streets and provide information to each other, even though they had perfectly good libraries they could spend all day in looking up anything they wanted rather than have conversations?

  3. Re:hmm on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 1

    They fixed my ibook when the hinge flaw killed the connection to the monitor (happened to a lot of ibooks in that period). When the same flaw caused the same problem, I was out of luck. I do not trust Apple to put function over form.

  4. Re:small impact, android will trump on Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the power of the Apple marketing department,

    Indeed, remember those who doubted the Newton would succeed?

  5. Re:Goodbye Hulu on Subscription-Based 'Hulu Plus' Is Now Official · · Score: 1

    my own Hulu viewing has been severely curtailed by this development.

    You're angry that someone gave you something to free, now they're scaling back what they're giving you for free (yet still giving you something for free)?

  6. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    In most if not all states, the test for which parent gets custody is "best interests of the child," which seems a better method than "who cheated?"

  7. hmm on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 1

    That's why you should migrate from Dell to Apple. When all your Apple computers fail, you'll know it wasn't shoddy components, it was just a design flaw.

  8. Re:UK Weather is a BONUS for IT on UK Video Game Tax Cuts Sabotaged? · · Score: 1

    The majority of the US is below the 40 degree latitude line; I spent half a summer in London, and half in Miami and the difference was extreme...

  9. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except that in certain countries, such as the US, then your partner can use this as a motivation for divorce and get a larger part of the pie than if he/she simply asked for it without motivation

    Maybe in certain states, but those states that have no-fault divorce whether you cheated or not has nothing to do with how the marital property is divided or how alimony is ordered.

  10. Re:UK Weather is a BONUS for IT on UK Video Game Tax Cuts Sabotaged? · · Score: 1

    There's been non-stop sunshine in south-east England for the past couple of weeks. Being English, we've started to moan about it (garden could do with some water, fed up with the humidity and 28'C heat, etc).

    There's a big difference between UK sunny and sunny sunny. Trust me, the sunny you get there is a pale imitation of real sunshine.

  11. Re:They -buried- the reports? on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Parents won't sue Sega for a malady that they didn't know had been inflicted on their kids.

    Parents would sue Sega for releasing a product that they didn't release?

  12. Re:EBOOK PRICES on Prices Slashed For Nook, Kindle E-Readers · · Score: 1

    Didn't they apologize and promise not to do it again as well?

  13. Re:EBOOK PRICES on Prices Slashed For Nook, Kindle E-Readers · · Score: 1

    Thats the biggest issue I have with ebook readers. The price of the ebooks. I get a less usable book (can't really share it) for the same price as a real book. And a real book has more overhead to cover.

    I never really got this thing about "sharing books" being so important that it would choose your format for you. There is something about a physical object intuitively being worth more, but I have to say one of my favorite things about the kindle is the books you buy are stored remotely as well as on your device, so unless Amazon goes out of business (unlikely) you have the book forever. I can't keep track of how many books I've lost, read until they disintegrated, etc. The kindle book is always there.

  14. Re:Back to the drawing board on IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited · · Score: 1

    Yeah beat it pretty badly.

  15. Re:Not interesting. It's a consumer-grade processo on A Close Look At Apple's A4 Chip · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't that sorta like saying a Core i7 is just another x86 chip. It's a standard, general-purpose, consumer-grade processor. I don't know about you but I can't design an ARM chip and you discount the work of engineers who did the design work.

    Doesn't the article discount the work of ARM's engineers by pretending that Apple created this thing?

  16. Re:you're a freeloading parasite on In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat · · Score: 1

    The reason for gold prices to go down would be a good working economy and the government is doing everything to destroy a good working economy

    No, that's not the only reason gold prices could go down; let's take an extreme example, if someone figures out how to turn cheaper metals into gold, that could drop gold prices down to a thousandth of what they are now. A slightly more likely scenario: a mining company finds a huge new gold mine, and supply is increased dramatically. Another likelier scenario: an investing trend where investors just decide other commodities are safer, and try unloading their gold supplies. Look at the historical trends in gold prices, they have a tendency to rise and fall dramatically.

  17. Re:you're a freeloading parasite on In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat · · Score: 1

    Are you going to blame the government too next time gold prices plummet and wipe out your savings?

  18. Re:A Better Target on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    As amended. The original Constitution as drafted implicitly approved it.

  19. Re:A Better Target on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    So which parts of the constitution do you find is "out of date"?

    The implicit approval of slavery?

  20. Re:Those who can DO on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    What provision do you find complicated enough to require an attorney's help?

  21. Re:ruling makes sense on Federal Judge Limits DHS Laptop Border Searches · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's all nice and well, but the Declaration of Independence has no basis in law, and never has.

    Ehh...not really that simple. The Declaration has some weight in US statutory law.

  22. Re:Those who can DO on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    Can you point to an example?

  23. Re:Hmm... on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    Says a lawyer who meets plenty of women.


    (Yes, the AC post is mine too, forgot to log in).

  24. Re:Bet you didn't think of this on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was told by several women that they didn't like Drakkar, Gio, Polo, Givenchy Pi, Joop, Oscar de la Renta, Quorum, Paloma's Minotaur, and Boss.

    There's the problem, you're wearing them all at once. Believe me, women don't like that, I know from experience.

  25. Re:Those who can DO on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    You think the Congressional staffer drafting a law cares about how much some other lawyer down the street in a large law firm will make interpreting that law? Stop thinking there's a conspiracy.