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  1. Re:I can see the historians now on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 1

    Hatoyama isn't prime Minister anymore. It's Kan now.

  2. Re:Firebird is better on PostgreSQL 9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Thought there is a dump all for postgresql too.

  3. Re:"Great leap forward" on PostgreSQL 9.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The fact that mysql still lets me insert "0000-00-00 00:00:00" into a datetime field is just crazy. But even more horrible and wrong is if you enter a wrong date into a datetime field and it accepts it and sets it to 0000-00-00 00:00:00. This is just plain wrong and horrible. How can a database do no integrity check. It feels like using varchar for everything.

  4. You won't see anything anyway on Airbus Planning Transparent Planes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What do you want to see at the bottom? Boxes and boxes and more boxes ... and on the top. cables, cables and more cables. See-through-fuselage-my-ass I say.

    I see this more a too early 1st April joke ... Unless they magically add some lights, call buttons, etc and make the floor where the seats are connected and the boxes and the boxes contents (aka luggage) transparent there won't be anything more to see anyway.

  5. Re:Impossible? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    yeah, sorry. totally mixed that up ;)

    if you drive in right side driving country, the gear box is to your right, in england (and other left side countries), the gear box is to your left.

  6. Re:Impossible? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 0

    Not in England or Japan, I have the gear box on the right side. So this is an advantage for right-handers like me.

  7. Food volume to blame. on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 1

    From my personal experience, if I play video games I eat nothing, and smoke nothing.

    Watching TV on the other hand is dangerous, idle hands make a good eating tool.

    Without having much insight into the american social life, I would just blame the volume of food that is eaten there, sold there and consumed. If I make a strong contrast to Japan, all packages you buy here are way smaller. This might be traced back to the fact, that japanese people go shopping every day. Back in my home country (in Europe) I went shopping once a week, but here in Japan I buy on demand. I buy what I cook on that day.

    But back to the volume of food. The biggest cup at McDonalds here is probably the smallest cup you could get in America. There is not so much soda consumed here anyway. Most people drink tea or water at home.

    If you go out eating, food is shared between all people and you end up eating less.

  8. Re:Consumer upgrade #4231844 on The Joke Known As 3D TV · · Score: 1

    I guess Criterion is more than willing to take old film stock, clean and rescan it for their Blue Ray releases.

  9. Re:Why really does Apple behave this way? on iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    The difference was that for a long time PC board had USB and PS/2 connectors. And for a long long time a lot of people never bothered with the USB connectors.

    Apple just removed any old connectors.

  10. Re:Big science plot hole on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    And more accuracy and easier to target as a crossbow or a bow. Plus the ammunition is much smaller compared to an arrow. So you can carry more of it.

  11. Re:Read-only, if that, and nothing more. on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 1

    More than once I had that. A hardcoded URL with the dev server domain name. Hard to catch if you just click-test.

  12. Re:Crap on Canon Abandons SED TV Hopes · · Score: 1

    10bit is doable with display port and proper graphics cards. But this is more or less only on high end machines.

    And Joe average won't see the difference anyway.

  13. Re:And... on The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed · · Score: 1

    I run PostgreSQL servers since 2002 and I never had big problem with upgrading from one major version to another. Just install it parallel and then you can test and see that everything works.

    In place updates like MySQL would scare me.

  14. Re:how long before kids fake it and buy bear or sm on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    For the beer vending machines you need a drivers license and for the Cigarettes you need a TASPO card. Not that easy anymore.

  15. Re:False assumption on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    I on the other hand hate people who use spaces. It never looks right, it never works. It is shit.

  16. Re:False assumption on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    sure is fun to press space 8 times ... and count ... 8 times only to find out that you counted wrong and then you have 9 spaces.

    tabs is the only way.

  17. Re:it's more expensive on Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push · · Score: 1

    Joe Average doesn't.

    But there are some people that do. I do. I prefer a movie with a story and not for the effects.

    If I want effect I rent the DVD and watch it at home.

  18. KDE 4 is really useless on KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing · · Score: 1

    I used (yes past) Linux on my Work desktop for 10 years. I always used KDE. I know it from the first version until know.

    Until KDE 3, KDE really improved, but KDE 4 was a horrible start. I actually didn't start to use it until 4.2, and still it didn't have all the features for KDE 3.5. And it felt slow. Really slow. On the same machine I just suddenly had 15~20% x.org/kde cpu usage. And when I updated to 4.3 and so on it became even worse.

    At the end just focus move the mouse took about 3~4s. Well, I ditched, I now work with OS X. It is not perfect, but at least I can do my work compared to KDE 4 which didn't let me do it all.

  19. Re:Ever been to Tokyo? on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 1

    Don't we all love flash!

    It's like undressing a woman and than realize she is an ugly bitch.

  20. Re:didn't ask the right people (was: Re:Yes) on Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens? · · Score: 1

    Okay, from that point of view it is true. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

  21. Re:Ever been to Tokyo? on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The longer you stay here, the more you ignore it, or your brain makes you ignore it.

    When I open those webpages, I just see a normal web page. I am way too used to over cluttered web here, that my brain automatically filters what I need. I probably feel very lost on a simple designed western web page. Like, where is all the content?

  22. Re:didn't ask the right people (was: Re:Yes) on Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens? · · Score: 1

    If they are so much better than why does none of the real high end monitor companies sell glossy monitors? Show me an Eizo or NEC or Mitsubishi top of the line monitor (the ones for designers, photographers, etc). They are all matte.

  23. Re:didn't ask the right people (was: Re:Yes) on Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens? · · Score: 1

    Apple displays are 100% not the best you can get. Eizo/NEC/Mitsubishi make much better monitors. I have a high end NEC at home and this is like day and night compared to the crappy Apple display I have at work.

  24. Already working? on Google Tests Multiple Account Login · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I have no tried to use it with different google mail accounts, but I use it with two corporate accounts and a normal private one and I have no problem. I do this in Safari, Firefox and Chrome without any problem. So what is new here?

  25. Re:Hmm.... on Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums · · Score: 1

    Facebook doesn't force you to use your real name.