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  1. Re:Twice as fast... on Ruby 1.9.1 Released · · Score: 1

    It means that people who rely on PHP can no longer use speed as a reason for continuing to use it.

  2. I see where this is going... on Toshiba Launches Laptop With Three GPUs · · Score: 5, Funny
  3. Re:Deleting lines on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    VGd will accomplish the same thing with less keystroks.

  4. Re:Need a way to un-highlight on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    You can accomplish the same thing more simply with
    map <F4> :set hlsearch!<CR>

  5. signed? on Microsoft Tries a New Ad Agency · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What does the "signed" tag mean and why is it on so many articles?

  6. Re:WTF on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    Catching them would be impossible if they didn't try.

    Not true. He already has the bullet with the person's name, so he could just read that and then try to track down that person..

  7. Re:Lawsuit! on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is true. The founders believed that we have inalienable rights, which means that they are granted by God, not the government. The government is not allowed to try to take them away.

  8. Re:Lawsuit! on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this was a talking point invented for some political reason at one point

    The reason is that the Roe v Wade decision rested on the idea that we have a right to privacy and anti-abortion laws violate it.

  9. Re:spotted owl? on The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used · · Score: 4, Funny

    ya rly

  10. Re:Stupid question on Practical Django Projects · · Score: 1

    Why use mod_python over mod_wsgi?

  11. Re:And finally... on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm hoping that next they'll add some gin.

  12. Re:Please on W3C's Role In the Growth of a Proprietary Web · · Score: 1

    "Undermines the purpose of the web"? When I'm paying for my bandwidth and computer, I'll use it for whatever purpose I please.

    How would you react if I told you that you are a bad person for buying books with pictures in them because they are subverting the purpose of literature?

  13. Re:Photographic and tactile memory on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can print and bind a book at Kinkos or throw it in a three-ring binder for well under $100.

  14. About time! on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem isn't just that they are expensive, but that the publishers are trying to bilk the students. They include CD-ROMs they know are useless as an excuse to charge higher prices and they come out with a new "edition" every year that changes the page numbers and exercise numbers so that students can't rely on used textbooks.

    They got too greedy and pushed too far and that is what will actually give people the motivation to push back.

  15. Re:Please don't call it Open XML on Microsoft Releases First Open XML SDK · · Score: 1

    I imagine it's pronounced "Mooks 'em all" ?

  16. Re:C/C++ is dying! on Are C and C++ Losing Ground? · · Score: 1

    VB is dying a painful death. "Classic VB" doesn't even exist in Visual Studio anymore. MS wants everyone moving over to .Net .

  17. Re:For those of us in New Zealand... on Windows XP SP3 Released To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    That's what "early summer" always means coming from Microsoft.

  18. Re:And then there were N..... on Microsoft Sets Three Week Deadline for Yahoo! In Public Letter · · Score: 1

    you must be new here

  19. Re:How about ... on Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would also make the manufacturer of the peripheral furious (and probably litigious) when customers got furious with them for their device no longer working.

  20. Re:Prepare yourself on Should Wikipedia Sell Advertising? · · Score: 1

    I donate time and effort by editing articles. I would not do so if wikipedia carried advertising. By keeping content contributed by people like me and adding ads alongside it, it is wikipedia who would be trying to have their cake and eating it too.

  21. Re:Least bad choice? on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Huckabee's support base is Evangelicals who support him because he is "one of them". There is no way that in his absence they would be voting for a Mormon.

  22. Re:Rock and a hard place on Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break · · Score: 1

    No, you move one piece at a time as necessary. They've already moved much of their R&D out of Redmond and up into BC because the US wouldn't let them have as many H1-Bs as they wanted. Even if regulations aren't "the deciding factor" in choosing location, there is a certain point where they place a large enough burden to be worth moving.

  23. Re:US, welcome to the world on iPhone Forcing Open Wireless Networks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    When people say Europe in this context, they are usually talking about Western Europe which is much smaller than the number you quoted.

  24. Re:Draft OpenISO.org "Problem Report" entry on RTF Vs. OOXML · · Score: 1

    The real question is how did "O Penis O" ever seem like a good name for a site?

  25. Re:Oh just jump to 64bit already MS on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 1

    64-bit windows already exists. If laptop makers want to put in on their machines, they can. Apparently, they (and their customers) don't want to do that right now. So you are upset that MS isn't somehow strongarming them into buying a version of their OS that they don't want? Isn't that exactly the sort of stuff they get in trouble for when they try it?