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  1. Re:They could kill it. on Oracle Bid to Acquire MySQL · · Score: 1

    You left off the last step:

    Oracle sues Novell/redhat for taking it's people. They *are* US companies.

  2. Perfect on MS Unveils Office 2007, Multiple Versions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because that's what I need my malicious script friendly word processing software to be - network aware and readily capable of "sharing" with the rest of the corporate environment.

  3. Maven 2 on New OSS Doomed In Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Maven has come quite a ways in the past year as well. If you're looking to ditch your overly complicated ant build scripts for organized simplicity with reports, take a gander:

    http://maven.apache.org/

    I'll go out on a limb and say it will be more important than eclipse in 2 years.

  4. Re:And the other half? on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 1

    [attempt to squelch future attempts by summarizing all known jokes that were carried out long past they were funny]

  5. Not a challenge at all on Pittsburgh Professors Challenge Darwin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please, stop with the sensationalism.

    All this means is that the size of a step in a particular direction an animal can take can be large to accomodate a large environmental impulse. But most environmental changes are gradual and therefore most responses are as well. Otherwise there would be big oscillations, e.g., an ostrich has a parakeet which has a penguin, etc.

    Control system 101. The guy just thinks the steps can be greater than we imagine. Makes sense since we don't get many opporunities to experience significant changes.

  6. So....conclusions? on 20th Century Warmest In 1200 Years · · Score: 1

    So is global warming a bad thing or a good thing? People are always complaining about cold weather and heating bills.

    So long as we are tapering off and eventually switch to cycling CO2 from the air instead of digging up - an inevitability since we're running out of cheap preformed hydrocarbons to burn - what's the problem?

    We lose some coastlines to the water level increase making the atmosphere more wet because of the surface area increase. We are forced to get better at farming since the food supplies get less diverse. But we don't live in forests any more and if we don't blow eachother up, we're probably going to survive the regional climate changes.

    After all, we aren't rooted to the ground.

  7. We'll see. on Oracle to buy JBoss (and others) · · Score: 0

    If this happens, I'm ditching JBoss. Period. Oracle is lousy at software. I've used their license of Orion before and at 10k versus 1200, they are shady at best.

    They cannot seem to drop a piece of code. They just keep adding and adding and adding until they are shipping you a stack of CD's two inches thick.

    So someone, tell me, what's the next open source EJB server in the line?

  8. Re:I must complain on No Time Travel, Sorry · · Score: 1

    They're busy right now.... fishing.... in the mountains...

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-461526667 6615092514&q=brokeback

  9. Re:Good News and Bad News on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    No, heard about this as well. It's just that one of them went on a trip to Antartica and was so moved by his personal experience (sound familiar) that he's jumped on the movement bandwagon and brought his "friends" with him.

    Forgot the guys name. Anyway, if the global warming theory had been anything else that agreed with his experience, he would have jumped on that. At least that's what I got from his interview. Nothing to do with determining if it's real or just that we're in a warming cycle natural to the earth.

  10. Re:First Gammar Nazi on Apple Switched Chips Too Soon? · · Score: 1

    correct. It prompts the question.

  11. Re:Balance the argument on NASA Science Under Attack · · Score: 1

    them used as opposed to the goofiness of him/her.

  12. Re:How to market!? on Solar Energy Becoming More Pervasive · · Score: 1

    Seems like you'd enjoy reading up on Personal Rapid Transit. The hypothesized system would have no wait times for a vehicle, show up right at the door to your office (assuming big office = station).

    http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/prtquick. htm

  13. Re:Balance the argument on NASA Science Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Legend. The legend of God.

    It's not even a Hypothesis, because that would require testability. I suppose one could jump off a cliff into a pile of rocks after asking God to save them as a test, but then they would never finish the final report.

  14. The future... on Google to Create a Private Internet Alternative? · · Score: 1

    Anyone else think they are pre-staging themselves for Internet 2?

    May as well get started early and correct a lot of the current problems before the ball gets rolling.

    Like the DNS .com/.net/.org fiasco, more backbones, etc.

  15. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong on US Missile Shield already Defeated? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Keep reading more documents. The actuals were closer to 9% for any interaction at all.

  16. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong on US Missile Shield already Defeated? · · Score: 4, Informative

    sure:

    Here's one about how one got progressively more inaccurate.
    http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm

    Here is a degradation of the original claim of 25%:
    http://www.fas.org/news/usa/1992/59740945-59743599 .htm

    And here's a more accurate final assessment:

    http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/docops/rp911024.ht m

    better?

  17. Re:That's unpossible! on Poor Spelling Beats Google's China Filter · · Score: 1

    No seriously, you call this flamebait, but if you look at rankings of the US education system, even within that system alone the falloff rate of whatever index is used is drastic. The handful of highest ranking schools is far better than next group.

    Here's a 1998 ranking of western or western influenced nations. Look where the US is:
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/1998/02/25/MN54903.DTL&type=printa ble

    Granted it's old, but you're not paying attention if you believe the US is getting better not worse.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/13/national /main838207.shtml

    If you're not convinced, come to the US and talk to a random person on the street. Ask them a question not related to television and football.

    Heck, ask them where Tikrit is for that matter.

  18. Re:That's unpossible! on Poor Spelling Beats Google's China Filter · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Are you suggesting that the US population should be considered educated?

  19. Actually, Microsoft is Stupid on Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations · · Score: 1


    This is a reaction to a more well-thought out idea. Microsoft is responding with a throwback to the Timex Sinclair & Commodore 64 days where you plug the computer into your telivision and play with it. Do tell, if you are so impoverished that you cannot afford a $100 computer, are you going to take the time to dig up an extra TV and a network connection for this?

    The computer isn't the thing that will empower these people. Information is. And if a computer isn't hooked up to a network, it's just a paperweight waiting to happen.

    Even if it is in the shape of a cell phone.

    But 3 cheers for the handful of African kids who tinker with this enough to learn something cool about computers, even if only for a little while and even if it is a business driven microsoft improvisation.

  20. Re:They mispelled stupid. on Obesity Contagious? · · Score: 1

    I included this as calories expelled, not calories excreted.

  21. They mispelled stupid. on Obesity Contagious? · · Score: 1

    University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that certain human viruses may cause stupidity, and by extension make being severely idiotic a contagious condition. 'It makes people feel more comfortable to think that stupidity stems from lack of control,' the lead researcher says. 'It's a big mental leap to think you can catch stupidity.' But other diseases once chalked up to environmental factors, like bad breath, are now known to stem from infectious agents.

    And I suppose that bicycling to work is now a controlled drug requiring FDA approval since it's so potent at curing obesity?

    Face it. Fat people are fat because of math: calories in >> calories consumed + calories expelled.

  22. Re:Wake up Americans on More Bad News About Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, cause Germany never did such a thing. And please try to recall that the US is only 200 years old! Do you seriously suggest that the lions share of destruction is propogated by a country that hasn't been around more than 1/3 of a milleneum?

    Go find some history books.

  23. Re:Oh, no hot air, I see... on The New Boom · · Score: 1

    The point is, the price of the stock is a poor indicator of anything. The change in price or ratio to various other details about the company are more significant.

  24. Re:Oh, no hot air, I see... on The New Boom · · Score: 1

    Actually, Google is starting off profitable and share price means very little. One stock split and your whole argument is right out the window.

    But look at what is different thus far. There isn't a myriad of companies covering every little idea, no matter how ridiculous with a blanket of wires. Instead there is a large amount of idle cash slowly being pushed into companies with existing stability and obvious growth paths.

  25. The article source is garbage. on 7 Myths About The Challenger Disaster · · Score: 1

    Anyone who takes this article or any other mainstream writing seriously to review the link at the bottom of the page to another article this cheeseball wrote:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872105/

    This "NBC News Space Analyst" is merely amusing himself with alliterations rather than writing with any substance. As an armchair quarterback attempting to draw conclusions in an extremely complicated and ongoing area of science spanning decades, his writings do nothing more than cater to the overall knee-jerk hand-waving that has become the mainstay of mainstream "news".

    I invite those of you who are more technical, more inquisitive, and deeper than the target audience of this "Space Analyst" to skip the gyst of the article. It's simply inflammatory garbage.