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  1. Re:"Steven Salzberg, your blog sucks?" on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    Because that's not really what's happening. The new polytechnic university and this move at UF have nothing to do with each other. The timing was just a coincidence.

    Furthermore, the new polytechnic university wasn't really needed and the state can't afford it. It was the brainchild of a moronic state senator who wanted to make a legacy for himself on his way out the door due to term limits (he also has a road to nowhere project in the budget) by converting a satellite branch of USF in Lakeland (not Tampa) with a couple thousand students into a full fledged university. Furthermore, by ramming it through the state budget instead of going through the plan laid out by the State University Board of Governors, it will take several years for this new university to get accredited, so they will have trouble actually attracting students.
    Meanwhile, they've cut the budgets to the other 11 state universities by a combined $200 million this year, with FSU, UF and USF taking the biggest hits.

  2. Re:Commercial vs. Academic focus in the badge on Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming · · Score: 1

    The requirement is about learning to comparison shop (an actual life skill), yet actually making a purchase is not part of the requirement.

  3. Re:Oh dear on Studying For Certification Exams On Company Time? · · Score: 1

    My wife's company paid for her MBA (well, actually reimbursed tuition and books) on the condition she stay with the company for a certain amount of time after she graduated from the program. I can't remember how long it was, but at least one year. If she left before the time was up, she had to repay everything. Of course, she had to take the classes and do the related classwork on her own time, but at least we didn't have kids yet.

  4. Re:State beauracrats are usually idiots.. on Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads · · Score: 1

    Florida doesn't have an income tax.

  5. Re:This crew on Crew For Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission Selected · · Score: 1

    Not really. Many astronauts get assigned that sort of managerial duty between flight assignments. You gotta keep them busy when they aren't training for a flight. Three of them are recent/current residents of the ISS.

    As for science, it's not a science flight. In fact, the last science flight was STS-107. It's a final delivery flight to the station. So the crew composition makes sense for the tasks.

  6. Re:Flawed interpretation of the study on Blu-ray Adoption Soft, More Still Own HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Despite the doom and gloom, the adoption rate is on par with that of DVD when it was at the same point in its release cycle. It might even be a percentage point higher.

    Not including PS3 numbers is misleading. I know more people who use a PS3 as a primary Blu-ray player and own movies on Blu-ray Disc than who own a standalone Blu-ray player.

    And the firesale of HD-DVD hardware and software at mega-clearance prices probably had some impact. Doesn't really mean much in the real world as the percentage isn't going to increase since players aren't being manufactured and discs aren't being produced.

  7. Re:I work in he rental industry on Blu-ray Adoption Soft, More Still Own HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Price.

    I've never rented a Blu-ray from national blue-shirt movie rental chain because they charge too much. So many times I've been tempted and then I look at the rental price and just put it back on the shelf.

    Heck, I won't even rent new release DVDs because of the price. I wait until they go to 5-night rentals.

  8. Bad HTML on Nintendo Announces New Mario Bros, Mario Galaxy, Metroid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The title of the submission is missing a closing em tag after the word "Metroid", causing any non-styled text below it to appear italicized. This affects any page containing the title.

  9. Re:Stupid on Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable · · Score: 1

    That defeats the purpose of having dead space in between keys to prevent fat-fingering.

  10. Re:Yes you are on Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search · · Score: 1

    Take a look at a list of countries using their actual names. You will find that generally the country and its people are commonly referred to by the part that comes after the "of" in the name.

  11. Re:This is a year late on Grokking SCO's Demise · · Score: 1

    Probably because TFA was posted a year ago. It had a timestamp of 18/08/2007 16:02:00.

  12. Re:Market Isn't Even Ready on Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray? · · Score: 1

    Low bandwidth 720p. How quaint.

  13. Re:Market Isn't Even Ready on Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray? · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing population and households. There's about 2.5 people per household in the U.S. 25% of households would be closer to 30 million, not 80 million.

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

    Yes, but that's just in the short-term.

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

    You think you're not paying property taxes when you rent? Not only are you doing that, but you are paying someone else's mortgage plus a profit.

  16. Re:Toshiba Fell Victim To The Xbox Demographic on Toshiba Execs Declare HD DVD Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Toshiba did their share of payola as well. They just weren't as successful.

    That said, Blu-ray was a multi-corporation project, of which Sony was just a part. Most of the major CE manufacturers were involved from the start.

  17. Re:Apple sells cool. on Apple Stores Demonstrate That Retail Still Lives · · Score: 1

    ...and that includes Hooters.

    Hooters is just a restaurant. What's the big deal? Living 6 miles from the original Hooters, I've never understood why people in other states make more out of the chain than it really is.

  18. Re:[AC]Oh Come On. on EFF Lands a Blow On DirecTV · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've often thought a good defense against the DMCA would be the US constitution itself. You know, that part about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    That's the Declaration of Independence.

  19. shouldn't it be trianglecode? on Microsoft Finds a Home For Barcode · · Score: 1

    The color barcodes, consisting of red, green, yellow, and black triangles

    How exactly is this a barcode if it's not made up of bars?

  20. Re:Scouts Honor.... on Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating · · Score: 1

    Based on TFA, I don't think this is a merit badge at all. Rather, it's just a patch that Boy Scouts can earn from the MPAA, kinda like you can get a patch for hiking through St. Augustine, FL and answering some questions.

  21. Re:grow a pair on Shuttle to Launch Despite Objections · · Score: 1

    Actually, Challenger was STS-51L, the 25th mission. Columbia was STS-107, the 113th mission. The most recent Discovery flight was STS-114 (114th mission) and the upcoming flight of Discovery is STS-121.

    As for the numbering being screwed up, not really. The mission numbers (with the exception of the 10th through 25th which used the alphabet soup method) are assigned based on the order in which the flights are created, not the order in which they actually fly.

  22. Re:Idiotic test, they INSTALLED it on Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims · · Score: 1

    I had Windows 95 running on a 486SX-25 with 12 MB of RAM for about 2 years and it was very usable for my needs. Then again, I was only surfing the net, checking email and writing papers for college.

  23. Re:To know God's reasons? on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, forgot to include the sarcasm tags. I'm not one of those people you refer to that tries to call polytheism monotheism. My ancestors "got it first-hand" as you put it, and that's what I go with too.

  24. Re:To know God's reasons? on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    It seems like a lot of ID/Creationist supporters - especially the hardcore - prefer a weak, limited God, whose limitations are not unlike their own.

    Sounds like Jesus if you ask me. He lived and died just like a non-omnipotent/omniscient human, right?

  25. Re:What was that? on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's the APU exhaust vent.