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  1. Not even for small businesses on Microsoft's Office365 Limits Emails To 500 Recipients · · Score: 1

    One of our clients has about 60 employees and averages over a thousand emails a day outside of the company

  2. Re:Opera Support on Google Reader's Social Features Merging With Google+ · · Score: 1

    I'm running the latest version of Opera on 3 different PCs and get the same thing each time. When I log in, I get "Your browser is no longer supported. Please upgrade your browser" and then links to Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari. You may have it set to identify as a different browser.

  3. Opera Support on Google Reader's Social Features Merging With Google+ · · Score: 1

    If this means I can no longer read my RSS feeds in Opera, then I'm off to find another RSS reader. I'd use G+ a lot more if it would work in Opera without having to tell G+ it's Fx or IE

  4. Re:Yay! It's getting nice and warm! on Northeast Passage Becomes Viable Trade Route · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Coastal cities seem to be the ones with the largest populations of undesirables... look at NYC, they're the reason the rest of the state is forced to vote democrat every election >_>

  5. Re:But fear the nukes! NOT! on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    It's a lot easier to lob something on a ballistic trajectory than it is to send into space and bring it *safely* back down

  6. I thought... on We Finally Know Why Oil and Water Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    I thought it was to make me exercise more when trying to make my Amish bread every two weeks... the oil always takes extra long to mix in

  7. I want to see this grooved disc skimmer

  8. Re:My thoughts on HP Rethinking Wisdom of Spinning Off PC Division · · Score: 1

    I work for an "HP Certified Reseller" so all of our clients get HP clients and servers. In general, their clients and workstations are total crap, their business notebooks are pretty mediocre for the price but I haven't had any major issues with them, their servers are also mediocre. HP monitors are some of the worst pains in the ass I've had to deal with, mostly due to issues with the monitors' firmware. However, I will admit that I really like HP printers and that's the one thing I would buy again from them, although I'm beginning to see a lot of printers with equal or superior capabilities (but quality unknown) from other vendors for half or a third of the price.

  9. Re:And? on Linux Kernel Developer Declares VirtualBox Driver "Crap" · · Score: 1

    Most people here are familiar with VirtualBox... regardless of whether they run it on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris or your mom. For all others, there's www.virtualbox.org

  10. Re:TFA (-1, wrong) on Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB · · Score: 1

    Depends on if they're talking about just the female port or the male jack too... I bet there's a billion USB keyboards and mice alone not to mention every laptop, desktop, netbook, some tablets, phones... the list goes on for USB (not just SuperSpeed)... even a lot of monitors these days have USB

  11. Re:50,000 a day? on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 1

    I got a Nook Color a few months back, very similar specs to the Kindle Fire. In my case, I needed an easy way to do light web browsing, email and a few other very basic things when traveling. I opted for the $200 Nook Color to replace my aging laptop. It's not always a case of getting an additional device... I would have gotten a laptop or tablet anyway and this fit my needs just as well (better in some cases thanks to the small screen) as a laptop.

  12. Before this, I only knew of the Intro to AI course... might try the DB course too.

  13. Re:The importance of being Ernst on Judge Rules Boss's "Firing Contest" Created a Hostile Work Environment · · Score: 1

    In short: Yes

    I believe that part of the taxes employers pay goes towards paying out unemployment benefits (tax is per-employee). I believe if an employee loses their job through no fault of their own (IE: layoffs, fired, etc) then the employer has to continue paying for them as long as that person qualifies for unemployment. Laws vary from state to state.

  14. Re:in nazi Germany peopl rated others out and this on Judge Rules Boss's "Firing Contest" Created a Hostile Work Environment · · Score: 2

    Do they rate them on a scale of 1 to 10? Maybe QC Mart also has an Employee Hot Or Not contest going on. I'd rate them all!

  15. Re:and salvation is in da cloud on The Nine Circles of IT Hell · · Score: 5, Funny

    For large companies, their IT department *is* 72 virgins

  16. Nook Color on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    It's pretty clear it was aimed to compete with the Nook Color... comparing it to the iPad/iPad2 is just stupid. http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-fire-vs-ipad-2-vs-nook-color-numbers/

  17. Re:I dont know how true that is on Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? · · Score: 2

    I got a Thinkpad T61 through my college about 5 years ago. Swapped in a 320GB 7200RPM HDD and upped it to 2.5GB RAM and it run beautifully with Windows 7. Without the ability to upgrade, I would have had to junk it by the second year of college because I would not have had enough memory for virtual machines, etc - nevermind Windows 7 and Office 2010.

  18. Re:UltraDefrag (fail) on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    The defrag tools built into XP and earlier were utter crap. When they worked, they worked... but they were extremely prone to crashes, hangs and took forever. This is what gave rise to the belief that you need a separate defrag program. Fortunately, all that got fixed with Vista/ Win7, but most people are stuck on their third party defragger or don't know it got fixed.

  19. Apple on ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) · · Score: 1

    So does this mean I can use iTunes to control a nuclear power plant now?

  20. Now does this cover all turtle attacks, or only specific kinds of turtles? Are there subcodes for teenage turtles or mutant turtles or, heaven help us, ninja turtles?

  21. Re:Hmmm. on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    I've had hearing aids for 18 years. I'm 23. Fortunately, my parents insurance covered them up until I finished college two years ago... not sure where I'm going to get the money to replace them in a few years. On the bright side... my current pair is somewhat geeky. There's a wireless link between the two.

  22. Re:ban politicians from talking to anyone. on Missouri Hedges On 'Teachers Can't Friend Students' Law · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, some people actually are friends with their teachers, especially in smaller schools.

  23. Reverse scope creep on Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    The article I saw last night said 350,000 people... now its down to 35,000. I bet tomorrow they'll change it to 3,500. And then 350. Eventually, it will just be a polebarn in the desert.

  24. Re:Will the file copy/move crash.... on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can copy files in Vista? I've never had the system stable long enough to try that.

  25. Re:Wow... on More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    My graduating class was 64. When I graduated, the 7th grade class size was expected to be in the low 50s if there was a 100% graduation rate. I know of some schools within 50 miles of here that don't even have a graduating class every year in spite of school districts covering hundreds of square miles.

    What I would like to see cut costs the most is consolidation of districts. We have two districts that average 50-75 people in a graduating class with the schools (K-12 in one building) within 10 miles of each other. Although the districts are quite large geographically, the buildings themselves are both near the same edge of where they border each other. You could easily designate one a primary school and one a secondary school, eliminate a lot of duplicate administrative positions (superintendent, elementary principal and high school principal alone would save $300-$400k)