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  1. Re:Has anyone corrected for sex? on Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly · · Score: 1

    No.
    And for sentence two, point by point - "wrong" "wrong" "wrong" "did not do the research" and "evolution doesn"t work this way"

  2. Re:How long can they fight it on Swedish Authorities Attempt Pirate Bay Shutdown · · Score: 1

    But if you share, there's not much stealing, since stealing implies depriving of something, not of a hypothetical gain from the something which the originator still has :p.

  3. Re:We've been here before.... on Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off · · Score: 1

    Android is Windows/PC

    That would be Symbian...

  4. Re:There is no such thing on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 1

    If stone, clay and paper survived so well, we wouldn't be wailing about lacking data that much in classics.

  5. Re:Biased source on Blizzard Answers Your Questions and More · · Score: 1

    My mother told me she had that for weeks after she made a dash for 100% completion on the original legend of zelda (I think the summer after she finished grad school) - mostly she dreamed of the bombs going off.

  6. Re:Morton's Fork on Anti-Spam Lawyer Loses Appeal, and His Possessions · · Score: 1

    Lawyers aren't just court lawyers - a good chunk of what used to be done by notaries is now almost entirely done by lawyers, for one.

  7. Re:Marketing trumps Quality on Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off · · Score: 1

    These whiners also get regularly told to stop complaining, they're the quick adopters with too much spare money apple tends to use as testing grounds/overcharge lots before rev B comes out at 2/3 the original price - the hardcore base of Apple's market is only a vocal minority of it - generally the "pro designers" or people who used to have macs when apple was still peddling MacOS classic and who, at the time, also whined about having the baby Powerbook as part of the PB lineup (the opinion people have of it nowadays is a mix of revisionism, sais whiners being told to shut up and revisionism) - the growth of apple's market has mostly been with students and geeks in term of macs, and I doubt there's much correlation wrt to ipods and iphones as they sell much more of the two.
    The calculation for most people who I know who have macs (and that's mostly professional geeks) came down to either support (I need *nix but oem whine about linux - some people have had warranty requests shot down by ignorant bean counters because they switched the OS on a dell), required applications (e.g. - a friend of mine in film studies has been looking around for tech jobs in the movie industry, even sysadmins are expected to have a cursory understanding of Final Cut, so he keeps both a mac and a linux box (for cinelerra and blender) - it's not standard but I'm pretty sure it exists a bunch of times), or familiarity, and the hardware is actually okay for the price compared to some other oem, especially when a) a 600$ Dell is a piece of shit and b) against retail, they've very reasonable and many people still won't buy online or can't (I've only bothered to upgrade my credit cards over 1.000 because I wanted to have enough to be able to replace my computer online if something catastrophic happened to it)- the OEM pricing to compare with is Dell's XPS line and Thinkpads, the macs come out of the comparison looking still a bit pricier, but it's a matter of 5-10%, and these lines have the same internals in the end. The problem is the lack of a low-end offering (ironically, seeing the Nokia netbook, I thought it was a "macbook mini" mock up until I saw the windows desktop), and for now, Apple says they won't do it.

  8. Re:Well in Canada... on Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off · · Score: 1

    The Dev G1 is only 400$, unlocked, USD, sure, but with the CAD at almost parity, it's nowhere near 600$.

  9. Re:Since sometimes people refuse to read on Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely · · Score: 1

    er - replying to self, forgot the end of the sentence
    I was pointing out that the statements made by you and wampus to do as though linux-on-the-desktop was an insignificant speck when it's in the tens of millions was absurd, and erroneous, nitpicking.

  10. Since sometimes people refuse to read on Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely · · Score: 1

    It feels a bit pointless to reply
    The poster you replied to extrapolated about 30 million (or maybe 3) linux computers - someone stupidly replied as though it was all the linux systems in the world.
    However, the statistics generally place the server market at somewhere between 25 and 35% Linux, the rest being Windows, the BSDs, and UNIX. Thus, assuming there's only about 30 million linux computers, total, smartphones, servers, embedded and all included, there's at most 100 million servers in the world. I was pointing out that the statements made by you and wampus to do as though linux-on-the-desktop was an insignificant speck when it's in the tens of millions.

  11. Re:Just curious on First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Most of the network is taken by spam, not p2p, so the point is kinda moot and it's a big lie to justify playing cop/judge/executioner when the content providers are unhappy with local laws regarding their "IP"

  12. Re:Net neutrality is a myth on First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I may be repetitive, but yes, city/town/district or cooperative wires ftw!

  13. Re:Argentinian ISPs on First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I fully expect a hypothetical panamerican union to do the complete opposite of the EU and just suck up to corporate cartels in telecomms :p (Canada, we just discovered 50mbps, and by we I mean "our ISPs' advertising drones just discovered they could sell these rates without actually bothering to provide anything close" - and Quebec's cable, publishing and media monopoly (same corp) is given a blank cheque by 2-3 provinces by now, out of 10).

  14. Re:It's supposed to be difficult on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1

    Yup, and you typically don't have anything but the police, transportation of goods (or of people in group) and the post on horses inside a city with the old buggy and horse. With sometimes the upper class (who like the post tend to have a horse alone, so more like a motorcycle than a car) - your point again?

  15. Re:Big news... on Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely · · Score: 1

    I find your lack of reading skills more disturbing:
    30 - 3 = 27
    Assuming a linux server market share at 27% (which iirc is supposed to be a tiny bit above that and it depends on how you calculate), that gives you 100 million servers in the world.

    Also, assuming Netapplication's survey is in any way reliable (the methodology was bad enough in the first place), assuming only 3 million desktop linux boxes means there's only 300 million laptops/desktops connected to internet in the world, which considering there's been over a billion connected boxes for the last 5 years will come as a surprise to a lot of people.

  16. Re:Big news... on Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely · · Score: 1

    And I mentioned two companies that regularly work with Linux, it's not my problem if LPB decided to go for suckers as a market - I dont buy games religiously, and I especially don't pay 10 times the price of a game that runs perfectly fine in wine just so I can claim to have a linux native game.

  17. Re:Big news... on Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely · · Score: 1

    If there's only 30 million linux computers, and we assume only 3 million of these are desktops, that means there's only roughly 100 million servers in the entire world, you're being stupid for the sake of being stupid at this point.

  18. Re:Big news... on Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely · · Score: 1

    Linux games publishing sells games from years ago at the prices they'd cost these years ago. In british pounds. No kidding they get issues - you might want to check the amount of DRM involved in Frictional and Introversion's games for linux.

  19. Re:Great idea on Twitter Developing Location-Based API · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I thought you were crtiicizing the existence of twitter in general, not just this app, which I agree seems a bit absurd, except maybe for the fact that some people's updates seem mostly to be of the "okay, I'm there" type.

  20. Re:Nerds? on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    Summer, lacking access, the first one who suggested it was Magnus Hirschfeld but most of his work was burned by the nazis.

  21. Re:An opinion from mexico on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've only done locally grown drugs (barring the legal stuff which, due to Canada's climate, has to be imported), and I'm not afraid to be jumped by growers, dealers (esp. as the person I usually go to is a close friend) or, for that matter, junkies (excuse me, but if the people want the drugs to come, it means they're the stoners you're tarring with a broad brush) - most people who do drugs do them on an occasional basis besides.

  22. Re: Chasing them away? on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    No, Palestine was a subprovince of Syria, and most of Lebanon was part of the province of Phoenicia. The only part of Egypt in there was the Sinai, the roman extension in Jordan was part of it, and Arabia was never as part of Palestine but as part of Syria until the reorganization of the 5th century.

  23. Re:And the solution...? on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    Researching social mobility says it's usually a rounding error.

  24. Re:Gender isn't sex. on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    With the number of people who have it detected as teens and adults, I call bullshit, it's a coin toss.

  25. Re:real problem is not enouch choices on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    It's less than 99% and may even be as low as 90, not even including cases where it might be strictly brain/id-side.