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  1. dupe? on Bombardier's Embrio: Sexier Segway? · · Score: 3, Informative

    deja /.

  2. Re:It's funny that college kids.... on Swedish Student Partly Solves 16th Hilbert Problem · · Score: 1

    this thread is making me feel old, sad and dumb :(

  3. Re:Plone on How to Set Up a Gift Website? · · Score: 1

    I was just using the photoalbums and kept adding pictures to them. I had no idea I had to worry about filesize. Besides, if you set it up right you don't have to worry about it.

  4. Re:Plone on How to Set Up a Gift Website? · · Score: 1

    That's what I did, wish someone had told me about the 2gb zodb filesize limit.
    Yes, I know it's technically not Plone's fault, but I bet I'm not the first person to encounter it needlessly. A simple warning in any of a number of places would have been appreciated.

  5. Re:Great! on Wal-Mart to Offer Wal-Mart Notebooks · · Score: 1
    Made in China?

    As opposed to all those US made laptops?

  6. Re:IT matters to shareholders on Does IT Matter? · · Score: 1

    It's called progress, people will find new jobs. Machines have been automating tasks for well over 200 years now.
    If you don't want to be on this ride go live in the woods without electricity, grow/hunt your own food and be merry.
    I'd rather stay here and enjoy the benefits of an evolving society. I want strange foods from all over, the ability to travel, good doctors, cheap cars, crap TV and whatever else money can buy. In a few years I might want visit your house for a little throwback oldstyle themepark experience. Though you'd better hide the computer you posted this on, not quite the authentic wilderness scene I'm willling to pay for.

  7. Re:one move on Kasparov Draws Game 4 and Match Against X3D Fritz · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not a chess player, I'm an impatient gamer all around. I used to get my ass beat by a chess computer back in the early 80s.

  8. Re:Linux or Java? on Sun Announces Linux Deal With Chinese Government · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Having visited the Santa Clara site the way things work at SUN with access to your desktop from any computer within the organization and the flexible office spaces etc. is just neat.
    It's not revolutionary, and you could do it using non SUN stuff but it just works. Your sales people should just invite decision makers from other large corporations to your offices and have potential buyers look around the place.
    However, the SUN people I deal with still use Excel and Word rather than the Star office equivalents.

  9. Re:This is good... on Windows Program Enables MP3 Downloading From iTunes · · Score: 1
    Read that last line there. If that doesn't constitute butt-kissing, I don't know what does.

    You're right, you don't have the foggiest.

  10. Re:wierd dimensions on Replace Your Music....Again · · Score: 1

    cubic sounds cooler than square, has more of a buzzwordy feel

  11. Re:No - SIASL was inccorrect on Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over Asteroid Claim · · Score: 1

    You grok rightly my brother, may you never thirst.
    off topic warning, Why'd VMS have to go martyrize himself? The world has had plenty of martyrs before, wouldn't he have made more of an impact by healing himself in front of the angry mob and cameras?

  12. obligatory slingblade quote on Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    "not funny haha, funny queer"

  13. Re:This is really annoying on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1

    I felt the same way when I read the original screenplay for Gigli

  14. Re:I don;t know about 9 on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    I think you're right for the most part but i think there are a few owners out there who just want to win whatever the cost. They'll gladly operate at a loss for a few years for bragging rights for life. Either way there are fewer people who could do the job of a pro athlete than those who could have successful carreers in baggage handling and longshoremen office clerkship.

  15. Re:The high activity may repeat in two weeks on Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded · · Score: 1
    that old English lim turned in to lem in Swedish of today. Are limbus and limit related as well or is that just a conicidence?
    It seems online at least they're and their are confused more than their and there.

    Yeah, we're offtopic leave us alone.

  16. Re:Is anyone worried about this? on Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    Do you really believe that scientists know exactly how every type of star will behave at each stage through its life cycle?
    There are gazillions (technical term) of stars and I'd bet no two are equal.
    We can't even predict tomorrow's weather here on earth with very good accuracy and though I predict that there are more meteorologists than solar phycisists you're confident the sun is just having one of those weeks.

  17. Re:The high activity may repeat in two weeks on Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    Can you explain the term "limb" on a round object? I saw the same on space.com.

  18. Re:What's with all these flares? on Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    surely it's God's wrath concerning the end of the internet tax moratorium

  19. Re:Give whatever you feel they deserve. on Christmas Bonuses? · · Score: 1

    bad comparison, let's say you're in charge of taking out the garbage, would you be excitied by a new shiny corrugated metal garbage can?

  20. Re:Partials on Christmas Bonuses? · · Score: 1, Insightful
    $75,000 a year and $1500 is like debating the sun roof option on a BMW

    I'm guessing:
    A. you're still in school
    B. you don't live in a US Metropolitan area
    C. you don't support a family
    D. all of the above

  21. uuuhhh on Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "A research team funded by NEC and RIKEN, Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, are the first to demonstrate a Controlled NOT (CNOT) quantum gate. The CNOT gate when coupled with a rotational gate would create a universal gate."
    <butthead>uuuuhh what?</butthead>
    <beavis>yeah yeah cool</beavis>

  22. Re:How long would we last? on Yet Another Big Solar Flare · · Score: 1
    theoretically we (we=our species not all 6 billion of us) could build nice domes or underground structures and stay warm on nuclear power and live happily ever after (assuming no change in gravity from the sun). The thing is that to prepare for something like that would cost a bundle and take years and years of preparation.

    If the sun just went dark one day without warning we'd be done. Wonder how long it would have to be dark for our oxygen to run out? Think the only survivors would be those things that hang out around the vents down on the ocean floors and don't rely on oxygen.

  23. Re:aurora alert... on NASA's Earth Observatory Shows Solar Flare · · Score: 1

    we got dark skies all right, dark and cloudy.

  24. Re:I bought a laptop last monday from Dell... on Ban On Internet Sales Tax Ends Saturday · · Score: 5, Informative

    From The electronic commerce associationThe Supreme Court blocked the states in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992). In Quill, the Supreme Court held that, because state sales and use taxes are so complicated, a state cannot require a remote seller to collect sales or use taxes unless the seller has a physical presence, or "nexus," in the state.

  25. Re:Everything is far in RI.... on Best Online Mapping Site? · · Score: 1

    Newport rocks, is the jai alai still open?