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  1. Re:HTPC is the answer on Microsoft Taking Heat For Five-Figure Xbox 360 'Patch Fee' · · Score: 1

    People buy consoles because even a 7 year old 360 will play, for example, Max Payne 3 at better quality and better frame rates than a 7 year old PC will lay the PC version. If you think the issue has to do with the UI, you've missed the forest for the trees.

  2. Re:Bigger != Better on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    No one is saying choice is a bad thing. And TFA nowhere says that big smartphones shouldn't be made and sold. It was just the author opining if consumers at large wanted larger smartphones.

  3. Re:Are there any age restrictions? on ESA Summer of Code In Space 2012 · · Score: 1

    Yes. You have to be at least 18.

  4. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 2

    Because that means ALL blacks did so for that reason, right? You do know that the last three white Democrats got 88% in 2004, 90% in 2000 and 95% in 1994, right?

  5. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    No, it's just the fact that blacks vote heavily Democrat. At worse, Obama maybe got 10-12% more than Kerry who got 88% in 2004. Gore got 90% in 2000 and Bill Clinton got 95% in 1994.

  6. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They are also idiots.

  7. Re:Newsflash: Stupid people think color matters on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    Yes, all facts that can be found with 10 seconds of Googling. But apparently it's easier to parrot the race line than look up the historical facts.

  8. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 2

    And that evidence takes into account that Kerry got 88%, Gore got 90+% and Bill Clinton got 95% in 1994? So it's like 2-3% more than Clinton got, less than 10% more than Gore got and at worse around 12% more than Kerry. Blacks vote heavily Democratic anyway so o claim ALL blacks voted based purely on race over party affiliation is flat out false when you look historically.

  9. Re:Prejudice, for the win! on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    And in 1994, 95% voted for Clinton. It was because he was black, right?

  10. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    It's less than 10% more than what he last two white Democrats got in 2004 and 2000. So, it's not really much ut-of-whack.

  11. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So in 1994 when Bill Clinton got around 95% of blacks to vote for him it was because he was black?

  12. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And blacks voted 88% for Kerry, 90+% for Al Gore, and in 1994 around 95% for Clinton. Last I checked they were all white.

  13. Re:Newsflash: Stupid people think color matters on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is overrated snce you're repeating a ridiculous line claiming blacks only voted based on race which is silly. In 2004, 88% of blacks voted for white guy John Kerry and more than 90% voted for white guy Al Gore and nearly 95% for Bill Clinton. So, yes, while the jump for Obama is noted, it's not that much bigger when you look historically. It's not as if a large proportion were gping to vote for McCain regardless. So, it's much more likely that the vast majority vote based on pltical affiliation not race when you look at he last couple f elections.

  14. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And you assume that all blacks ignored everything but race based on what evidence?

  15. Re:Fantastic Reliability on Verizon To Begin Offering "Text To 911" Service · · Score: 1

    Yes there is. Pretty much any carrier these days has delivery notification for SMS.

  16. Re:Too bad his other ideas are bad on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    So he says after being called out. It must be true since politicians have a longstanding history of never lying.

  17. Re:Too bad his other ideas are bad on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can think of nothing wrong with the repealing of an act that ended the widespread discrimination of minorities wanting to register to vote, reallowing racial segregation of schools, reallowing 'whites only' facilities, and ended gender discrimination practices. But, then again, it's easy to talk about repealing ths when one wasn't part of the group who was historically doscriminated against.

    And, no, I don't benefit from quotas and that's an absurd argument since the act explicitly disallowed them.

  18. Re:Too bad his other ideas are bad on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 2

    Wanting to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

  19. Re:Sad Day on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Many of his ideas aren't common sense. Yes, he has a few decent ideas but there's more chaff than wheat in the mix.

  20. Re:Five sided screws on Botched Repair Likely Cause of Combusting iPhone After Flight · · Score: 4, Informative

    What trouble in sourcing a screwdriver? You can buy one here for $5. And there are others that are easily found with 5 seconds of Amazon searching.

  21. Re:I fail to see on JavaFX Runs On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    The only patent and copyright issues are from other implementations of the language. Not from programming in the language. Absolutely no has or will be sued for using OpenJDK. Also, no one writing Dalvik apps is being sied. Only Google is being sued over their own reimplementation of the JVM and associated libraries which Oracle is claiming copyright and patents on.

  22. Re:Don't worry... on JavaFX Runs On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 0

    Oracle hasn't sued anyone for 'using Java'. THey have sued someone for making a reverse engineered JVM and library. There's a world of difference.

  23. Re:A poll on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    The GIMP people themselves and the summary are the ones claiming it rivals Photoshop so whining about people pointing out that it's still behind in features of versions of Photoshop from 20 years ago is only fair.

  24. Re:The Name on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    'Gimp' is a perjorative for disabled people.

  25. Re:Here comes the complaning... on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 3

    Well the summary is claiming it rivals Photoshop so it's only fair game to point out it's still missing features that Photoshop had in the early to mid 90s. Hell, even Paint.net has high-end features that The Gimp doesn't.