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  1. I kind of get it on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I have experience as a programmer, project manager, business analyst, software infrastructure architect, server and my current assignment is to create a new software department. You can call me an IT guy, but that doesn't describe my level of expertise. I graduated college as an Engineer, which doesn't describe all that either.

    You wouldn't plainly call a building architect the "construction guy" or the CFO of a bank "a finance guy". Sometimes you need to make the distinction to prevent people from thinking that you have a simple job. If you are proud of your qualities, you can call it whatever makes you feel good.

    I generally just tell people, that I'm a nerd.

  2. Perhaps also good for headtracking on NVIDIA Offers 3D Glasses For the Masses · · Score: 1

    Well actually, because these NVIDIA glasses are already using an infrared connection to synchronize the shutter glasses with the monitor, you could also implement the head tracking solution as demonstrated by Johnny Chung Lee with the Wii-remote

    If you were living under a rock around 2 years ago, for more information visit his website

  3. Re:I think we're already there on Chrome Helping Other Browsers Out, Says Opera CEO · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize it at the time, but even my dad asked me if he should be using Chrome somehow... I had not even heard of it myself (I was on holiday for a few days)

  4. Re:Loading time... on Adobe Intends To Move All of Its Applications Online · · Score: 1

    Actually, this could mean that the applications will run even faster. You don't require a powerfull machine, just a fast internet connection. The rest of the work can be done by powerfull servers. Just loading the screens will probably be faster then loading an entire Adobe application.

  5. Re:One of my soulseek folders reads on Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music · · Score: 1

    Unless people downloading it don't speak English...

  6. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" on Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms · · Score: 1
    The quote says: "The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it." If you look purely at the language (and not the fact that the person might have meant to say "the average female in comparison to a muscular man") this means that besides any man with muscles, even women can beat it. As if all men are stronger then all women.

    But I just asumed these are just poorly chosen words, and the spokeswoman (!) doesn't think all men are stronger then all women. No reason to make a big deal out of this.

    I mean, if I say "People hailing from Western Africa have darker skin than those from Western Europe", is there anything wrong with it? Of course not. It just becomes a problem when I add, "and so we can subjugate them." I leave it up to you to decide
    who "we" are and who "they" are. The problem is that there is no rule on how to read your sentence. You can read it both ways:
    - "People hailing from Western Africa have darker skin than all those from Western Europe"
    - "People hailing from Western Africa have darker skin on average than those from Western Europe have on average"

    That's why it is PC to make sure you make it clear which one you mean.
  7. P.D.F. on Japan To Adopt Open Software Standards · · Score: 0, Redundant

    [quote]... open software standards (PDF)[/quote]

    Last time I checked, PDF was not an acronym for "Open Software Standards"

  8. Re:Oh really now? on Researchers Claim Pheromones Trigger Brain Cell Growth · · Score: 1

    If you train your muscles in the gym... you tear them first, before they grow bigger
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_contraction#Ec centric_contraction

    So you may not be far from the truth.

  9. Re:Hang on for a second... on Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any system where you allow people to interact with eachother though electronic message can be used to send spam. When there are more users to a system, spam will be an attractive marketing method. Unless every message goes though an administrator who has to approve them, you can't stop ALL of it. But you can stop most of it, which is what they did with the latest patch... and automated administrator checking messages based on keywords and spam-reports.

  10. Re:A LOT of catching up to do... on Space Race Heats Up in Asia · · Score: 1

    I just hope that there won't be some alien race we have to crush to get there. Think about the intergalactic lawsuits and casino's at the end of the galaxy that will follow.

  11. Re:Are we still in the middle ages? on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1

    The earth can be the center of the solar system, but we would have to start thinking about gravity in a different way. Now we regard the object with the most mass as the center around which the rest revolves. We can most likely create a whole new way of look at physics by using the earth (or timespace-location of the experiment) test as the middlepoint of the universe. But that would contradict our normal way of thinking of "big is better".

  12. Cost of maintaining Wikipedia on Wikipedia On the Brink? Or Crying Wolf? · · Score: 1

    I would think that the cost of maintaining Wikipedia would eventually be reduced to a minimum. Because the cost of bandwidth becomes cheaper every day and although the usage of Wikipedia is still growing, this will eventually stagnate. If Wikimedia wants to start up new services like Wikibooks and Wikiwhatever they should give proper priority to the original Wikipedia.

  13. Re:Quite accurate actualy... on Predicting the Internet in 1995 · · Score: 1

    Well it's working flawless here.

    "What is the population of Fiji?" or "How far is Saturn from the Sun?"

    And the source-sites don't even have these exact sentences written down.
    Pretty intelligent if you ask me.

  14. Re:It would still take 6 hours to get there on Space Plane to Offer 2 Hour Flight around the World · · Score: 1

    I agree, but that doesn't make it less spectacular. The most correct (don't read: profitable) way to advertise this would be: "This will take off 12 hours from your trip" or "Is 7 times more comfortable to people with claustrophobia".

  15. Re:This is bullshit. on Social Network Users Have Ruined Their Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    As the younger generations start to take back this world it will become a better place to live...

    This statement has been proven wrong so many times. The people frmo younger generations think they can do it so much better, but in the end the are still human and most of them lose their ideals when they get families and things are getting tough. And it will get tough one day... and the change of heart then seems to help them out in so many other fields that they'd rather not be so idealistic anymore, but rather take care of their families.

    I just believe that the evolution of mankind isn't going so fast, that humans become completely different beings in just a few generations. And as long as we are human, we will be freakishly religious... even the ones that think they are not (they just don't see it, because it all seems so normal to think like that)
  16. Re:Developmental Flaw? on Two-headed Reptile Fossil Found in China · · Score: 1

    This is what I would call a mutation. It isn't evolution until this mutation causes the species to be selected by nature for being better able to reproduce. All because of advantages to it's environment.

  17. Re:GPL is a little tough guy on Court Rules GPL Doesn't Violate Antitrust Laws · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it should be called CSL, the Common Sense License

  18. Re:What utube should have done on Utube Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    What YOU should have done, is contact someone at utube directly about this idea and perhaps gotten some kind of reward for a brilliant idea. Now somebody else will take credit for it or even worse, they might never hear about it...

  19. Re:Stability on Element 118 Created · · Score: 2, Informative
    From TFA

    Element 118, the heaviest element yet found, was produced through collisions that fused together Californium and Calcium atoms. Although element 118 is too unstable to detect directly, the presence of daughter elements resulting from the decay of element 118 gave clues to its fleeting existence.
  20. User Interface on Google "Office" Released · · Score: 1

    I think I like it better with the old Writely GUI

  21. When asked for a reaction... on Firefox Crop Circles Prove Intelligent Alien Life · · Score: 1
  22. The smartest people here ... on Idea Stock Exchange · · Score: 1

    The system recognizes the need for harvesting ideas from the entire company instead of just one or two "idea-men" in a stock-market-esque idea exchange. From the article: "We're the founders, but we're far from the smartest people here,"

    I'm having an Enron flashback

  23. Re:as for me on First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity · · Score: 1

    "It opens up a new means of investigating general relativity and it consequences in the quantum world."

    well ... I'm even more scared!

  24. Re:Youtube video link/mirror... on The Simpsons Come to Life · · Score: 1

    Do you really think Marge is driving that car?

  25. I just realized on Is Microsoft Still a Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    why I like Google so much ... not just because it is good for searching or has lots of 'innovative' products. But because they are starting to become a monopoly on the internet-ad market. And got there in a way that ads have become invisble for me.