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  1. Re:QQ on MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month · · Score: 1

    Really?

    It would surprise me if truly 50% of the population were using it (though I imagine it spreads past China).

  2. Re:Grow up on Page Can't Turn Back Clock At Google · · Score: 1

    rather than be a 45 year old with a faux-hawk and skinny jeans.

    We call that "Old in the face, stupid in the hair"

  3. Re:Well... on Should Smartphones Be Allowed In Court? · · Score: 1

    Not reading the article, but smart phones save judges time.

    Judges make ridiculous deadlines (as in not possible without a team of lawyers collaborating distantly) for briefs, lawyer at office makes brief while lawyer in court argues other crap, brief gets emailed and things are saved a half day.

    Jurors get to go home a half day sooner (on a long trial it adds up), lawyers get to bill for a whole team, and judge can move more cases, everyone wins. If the smartphone was banned, it would be very bad, I've worked on trials like that (technically it was camera phones, but everyone had them at this point, as BlackBerry is the only company that makes nice non-camera phones, and nobody wants that crap if they're paying out of pocket, and things are not as smooth.

    Jurors are a different situation, but I say the fact that the ones breaking the rules are easily caught is a plus, not a minus, or am I to believe they followed the rules pre-smartphone?

  4. Re:Check the date! on Java Creator James Gosling Hired At Google · · Score: 1

    I thought 1.6 was quite usable.

    Even 1.5, but the inclusion of an on-screen keyboard, and free navigation software certainly made a HUGE leap forward.

  5. Re:The Big Bang on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    Doesn't big bang theory basically say "magic" for that first instant though?

    I think the fact that he is sussing out a new theory is good, and quite possibly correct, but the hole, not enough time for carbon I don't quite buy, as again, "magic" (for example one, then two dimensional space).

  6. Re:less than free? on If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat · · Score: 1

    Isn't the millions/year it gives to Mozilla the most obvious less than free?

  7. Re:"If we litigate, we have a chance to win.'" on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 1

    Agreed, you can fewer snows or less snow.

    I was going to give an example of a word being either or (i intended to use soil).

    To be fair to the original misuser. I always use less, never fewer.

  8. Re:"If we litigate, we have a chance to win.'" on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 1

    Please read your link.

    I'll summarize though. If you can say "two [plural noun]" it is a count noun (can be counted).

    An example of a mass noun would be snow (you can't say "two snows").

  9. Re:GPL is not the problem. on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    If I had to guess the GPL3 issue is Apple TV, and Tivoisation.

    It could also involve wanting to keep open the option to sue other GPL3 projects wrt patents (I think that causes a license loss under GPLv3).

  10. Re:Let's hope they don't screw it up. on Utah Works To Repeal Anti-Transparency Law · · Score: 1

    Well, in the way that he used it, it doesn't make sense.

    It makes total sense to me.

    If you make it a serious problem to hire illegal residents, then only wholly illegal enterprises will hire them, giving up a lot of taxes.

    My argument against it would be that, at least within the realm of people I know, people doing the type of work that hire illegal immigrants don't pay anything resembling their taxes anyway, so it will be a very minor reduction. Also, it's mostly contractors (house help, day labor (which you don't even need to check for in any circumstance), and other trade grunt work). I've run into a couple W-2 type people that were illegal (e.g. under the table dishwashers), but the vast majority are essentially independent contractors without employers.

  11. Re:Because This is Important on Japanese Chip Shutdown Causing Shortages · · Score: 1

    It is quite possible that the failed ability to get shit built kills people too you know.

    Not saying it's happened yet, but ,ere things are capable of saving lives, and their absence can cause endings to life.

    I know a few people that couldn't of survived without silicone wafers.

  12. Re:Why would I want an electric plane? on Big Buzz For $60,000 Electric Flight Prize · · Score: 1

    No kidding?

    I thought the entire point of this thread was kidding.

  13. Re:Why would I want an electric plane? on Big Buzz For $60,000 Electric Flight Prize · · Score: 2

    I'm more concerned about what your Light Sport Aircraft at 30,000 feet, you'll find the fueling station infrastructure at lower altitudes is quite fine.

  14. Re:Seems a bit excessive on Hacker Posts His Crime On YouTube, Lands In Jail · · Score: 1

    Considering he is the type to go to DDoS "rival hacking groups" (I actually thought waring hackers were invented by Hollywood, and surprised to see it's real), I am not so shocked he is also the type to post a video of his "skills".

    is it titled "y0 d0g 1'm 1337, cHeCK my MAD S1llZ"?

  15. Re:I wish they would... on 37 Android Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Lawyers would love it even more, imagine how much they could charge.

  16. Re:Legalese into obvlivion? on 37 Android Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 2

    I think a lot of corporations are horrified about the open nature of android. It is dangerous specifically because it is generally not open to the end user (rooting, and a few models from google aside).

    The fact that it is open allows companies to really modify it (blur sucks, but sense is good), and do so cheaply. Generally the end-user does not care about openness, they can't code anyway, but the OEM that is trying to sell a locked product gains much from the openness. The open platform on closed hardware is new, and could really kill some margins, and it is in a market where the openness has true impact for the consumer (being the OEMs).

  17. Re:Flash on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Android For Development? · · Score: 1

    Works fine in Chrome.

  18. Re:So... what? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    Is it actually more efficient to step down DC current then to step down AC and then convert to DC?

    Also, I like to have more than one device on a circuit (though maybe not, because then i would never blow a breaker).

    I actually find spot heating with space-heaters is a very good way to save energy (keep house 3-5 degrees cooler, heat bedroom and living room with a space heater each), and they kick out a constant 1500w when in use.

    Also, at least in my house there's a lot of 15A circuits, but maybe that's due to age.

  19. Re:this is the weirdest story ever on How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    I would bet the low-end smart phone (later in G1 cycle, various mytouch phones) coupled with the cheap data plan does gelp Tmobile a lot. G1 specifically peobably not so much (I've seen very few of them in the wild).

  20. Re:this is the weirdest story ever on How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    Especially since T-mobile was smart enough to recognize the value of the sidekick, which at that point was getting old.

    Until the spectrum auction only a crazy person would pair Tmobile with th iPhone I would think (as in better developed AT&T collapsed in many areas due to the weight).

  21. Re:The Solicitor General is full of Shit on US Gov't Sides Against Microsoft In i4i Patent Case · · Score: 1

    I don't think entirely that's true.

    I've sat through a few trials where key parts of the jury instructions used "clear and convincing"

  22. Re:Will it deliver? on Chicago's Willis Tower To Become Vertical Solar Farm · · Score: 1

    They are http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/01/sears-tower-retrofit-to-reduce-energy-use/

    The solar windows appear to be an afterthought, or more likely, they were replacing the windows anyway, and this just became possible.

  23. Re:How much offset? on Chicago's Willis Tower To Become Vertical Solar Farm · · Score: 1

    According to an article about projects started in '09 to reduce it's usage 80% reduction in power is 52 million kWh annually, putting its total usage at 65 million kWh annually.

    this gets me at 2000 ish days of pure sunlight (at 2MW, when I say pure, I mean 24 hours of it) to completely meet its annual demands (divide all numbers by 365 to get your daily number).

  24. Re:This sucks on Why the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Is Bad For Consumers · · Score: 1

    Yes, for plans over a certain value TMO will give you $20 month discount for non-subsidized phones (I pay $80 + tax for unlimited everything).

  25. Re:Don't Like on Why the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Is Bad For Consumers · · Score: 1

    Do you have a phone that gets decent 3G on both networks?