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  1. Re:Here's your roundup on iPhone 4 News Roundup · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is only my opinion, I don't speak for others, YMMV, etc applies.

    Why do we always feel obligated to put that at the end of our posts? Don't get me wrong, I do it all the time. But your entire most was I this and I that, you never once used the word "you". So of course its your opinion and you aren't speaking for others. But if you don't say it you risk people flaming back.

    I just don't get it.

    These are just my observations, citation needed, do not rely on this post for your school report, etc etc.

  2. Re:Left handed on iPhone 4 News Roundup · · Score: 5, Funny

    They couldn't justify cutting my Apps out of the market place. I had left-handed solitaire, left-handed minesweeper. I was starting a smorgasbord of left handed products. With no justifiable reason to keep me out, and with all the bad press lately about them selectively choosing their App store, they've decided to lock me out at the hardware level.

    Those dastardly fiends!

  3. Re:Nothing new on One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms · · Score: 1

    I don't see how a spinning mirror is really "faking" it though. Don't get me wrong, it is old, but essentially all a display has to do is look the park, right? Why would a spinning mirror not be a real 3d display?

  4. If you call that web developing... on Building a Homemade Nuclear Reactor In NYC · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HIs site has a few errors.
    For example This:
            if((Prototype.Browser.IE && (/MSIE 6\./.test(navigator.userAgent))))
            DD_belatedPNG.fix('.overlay-text .overlay-title');
            document.observe('dom:loaded', function(){
                    Menu.initialize('homepage');
            });
    Should say
            if((Prototype.Browser.IE && (/MSIE 6\./.test(navigator.userAgent))))
            window.location = 'http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/'
            });

  5. Re:So how does this work? on Skype Releases Open SDK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are they hoping for people to use Skype technologies everywhere, so that more people will start paying Skype for the commercial/paid offerings they have?

    Short answer, yes.

    Long answer, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

  6. Re:Stuck on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 4, Informative

    You know networking exists outside of the internet, right?

  7. Re:5.5? Feh! on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1

    Do you West Coast people have a plan to deal with 10 feet of snow overnight? No? Snow day perhaps?

    You're still expected to bring your kids to school here, still expected to get to work, -AND- you're expected to have your walk shoveled for the mailman, lest you get fined.

    So, I mean, you can call us a bunch of wimps when we get Earthquakes maybe once every 20 years, when we have to deal with crap you don't every damn year.

  8. Re:You big babies. It's 5.0, not 5.5. on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1

    Each step is 10 times stronger than the last, so a 6.0 is 10 times stronger than a 5.0. Pretty simple.

    The REASON why it makes front page news is that this isn't a techtonic plate shift like most in the California Region. So-Cal is PRONE to that kind of activity based on the geography underlying it.

    This here section of Canada, isn't along the edge of a tectonic plate. Last one to hit was about 20 years ago.

  9. Re:saturated market on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 1
  10. Re:5.5? Feh! on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, but it did happen on a major fault line that's been there some hundreds of millions of years.

  11. Re:Shaking in Ottawa on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't get touched, I'm in Alberta, but our Branches out in the Toronto Area felt it quite a bit.

    Latitude = 43.6325, Longitude = -79.6601
    Lat = 43 degrees, 38.0 minutes North
    Long = 79 degrees, 39.6 minutes West

    Our only Tech out there emailed and asked if our systems were capable of withstanding 5.5 Earthquakes.

      We emailed back "We don't know!!! Is everything running? Power okay? Any one sent in any IT Requests?"

    To which he responded, "Everything looks good. We're all fine by the way, thanks for checking."

  12. Re:how sweet and innocent of them! on Petaflops? DARPA Seeks Quintillion-Flop Computers · · Score: 1

    I think they want a faster way to preform a DOS attack. They plan to send so many pulses down the line at once that the ethernet cable vibrates so much it gets unplugged by your server.

    Don't believe me? Send a letter to mythbusters.

  13. Re:saturated market on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 1

    Oh it works for whatever your favourite MUD is too. Stop complaining :P

  14. Re:saturated market on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how reversing the order changes anything... isn't it just saying how A is like B in any given situation? (and thus saying B is like A works just as well?)

  15. Re:saturated market on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't he still a shareholder with +50% of the shares, so he essentially still has a say anyways? I thought I heard that somewhere, but I might be mistaken. Board of directors or something. Point is, Microsoft is not without Bill's Guidance, he simply isn't dealing with the hassles that come with being CEO.

    Microsoft's tanking* is completely independent of Bill's situation. They laid this path before them long long ago. You might even say it's Bill's fault they're in this mess.

    *As a humorous anecdote, Tanks are a very important component to group play. I like to think of Microsoft as that big guy in the heavy armor who takes all the hits and soaks up all the damage, because it doesn't mean much to him anyways. I also think of Apple as the DPS, and if they keep critting too much with all their successful products, they'll eventually pull Aggro and end up getting all the criticism Microsoft recieves. And I think of *nix as a good healer, silently standing far away from everyone, keeping everything running nominally with their superior networking capabilities and low resource requirements. See? You can relate anything to World of Warcraft. I dare you to come up with something I can't.

  16. Re:This is good news on Sunshine Writer Joins Logan's Run Remake · · Score: 1

    I couldn't even bother myself to watch it. My room mates had it on, and it was towards the end the movie, the climax, and I walked in. One of my room mates likes to pick apart movies for flaws, like plot holes and such. He didn't enjoy the movie because very little of it was based upon any science. He said it was more like Science Fiction to those who haven't gone to school yet.

  17. Re:Operative words on Fifth of Android Apps Expose Private Data · · Score: 1

    What they are saying is that 2400 apps can make phone calls without the user, and 960 can send out text messages - so its likely a couple in there are malware designed to deprive you of your money.

    And then they go on to say "Dozens of apps were found to have the same type of access to sensitive information as known spyware does". My My, DOZENS you say? But not hundreds, to suggest more than 100 of the 48 thousand apps available.

    Now, how did they get this information I wonder? Is it because some of the Apps are open source? If its open source, is it really a threat?

  18. Re:Let me get this straight on Is the CodePlex Foundation Truly Independent Now? · · Score: 1

    More people code in .NET than even use Linux at all.

    First and foremost, he never mentions Linux. He mentions Open Source, but surprisingly, open source is not limited to Linux. *GASP* I know.

    And if you are going to compare, at least pick something comparable. Like .NET to Java like he does. I've met a lot more people who know Java than .NET - Though on top of that, I've seen even more C#. But that's just me.

  19. Let me get this straight on Is the CodePlex Foundation Truly Independent Now? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An organization that wants to make open source products based off Microsoft will only get more Open Source Cred if they separate from Microsoft?

    It seems like Microsoft is stuck in a position to make no concession. You don't like Microsoft. You'd like it a bit more if it were friendlier to Open Source. Microsoft starts an Open Source Initiative. It doesn't quite live up to Expectations. Now, the only way this new initiative can redeem itself is to become independent of Microsoft.

    Wouldn't then Microsoft NOT have an open source initiative, and put them back at square one? Does becoming independent of Microsoft allow them to better work on Microsoft code?

  20. Re:I love flashblock on How HTML5 Will Change the Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think I'll just put the canvas tags right besides the body tags and save myself a lot of work instead of dealing with this whole Aech Tee emm Ell thing.

  21. Re:They're no bugs in Apple products! on iPad Left Vulnerable After Record iPhone Patch Job · · Score: 1

    They have said this. Not in some press release or an interview from Jobs, but in other adverts like radio. They have a Mac commercial airing right now that says Macs are virus-free. If I can get a recording of it I'll host it and link it.

  22. Re:Okay, point me to an exploit. on iPad Left Vulnerable After Record iPhone Patch Job · · Score: 1

    *Points to article*

    ???

    There were clearly exploits? Are you trying to say there weren't any there?

  23. Re:403 is odd? on Google Voice Opens To All · · Score: 1

    Which is actually why its open to us.

    Alberta does so much business with the states - it's surprising. You'd think something like Toronto that is right on the boarder might have some sway, but its all the oil businesses in Alberta that want in on Google Voice. Anyway to save money for long distance to Imperial Oil.

  24. Re:They're no bugs in Apple products! on iPad Left Vulnerable After Record iPhone Patch Job · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I know! How can they talk about how Apple Products don't suffer from viruses or other Malware when they are patching record numbers!

    The only time I saw more than 65 windows updates in a single download is an XP that was still on Service Pack 2.

  25. Re:The RIAA are not people on Court Takes Away Some of the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    I don't think that word means what you think it means