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  1. Re:I'm more interested in a video card on pcHDTV Card Available, Legal for Now · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is that DVI-D (i.e. digital) or analog DVI?

  2. Re:21st Century Workers Need Not Apply on U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001 · · Score: 1

    Canadian Airlines didn't get bought up by new smaller carriers. It merged with Air Canada - if I remember correctly it merged to avoid going bankrupt. It wasn't exactly a merger of equals granted.
    If you're going to go on an anti-union rant at least have your facts straight.

  3. Re:A film without heros or villans on Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film · · Score: 1

    Try a one handed climber pull up.
    Maybe he was weaker because he didn't "know" he was stronger.

  4. Re:Learn more about FPGA on Intel Delays TV Chip Launch · · Score: 1

    Bah. All I need is a floorplan editor and an LED to debug timing. I can read rise time and fall time from the flicker of the light....

  5. Re:Ah the French... on Vive La Loafing! · · Score: 1

    Two economists walk by a Porsche dealership. One eyes the cars inside and sighs.
    "I'd really like one of those." He says.
    The other economist pauses for a moment before replying
    "Evidently not enough"

  6. Re:sept 11th on Google Loses Domain Fight Over Froogles.com · · Score: 1

    Where did he say anything about watching it on TV?

  7. Re:How do they know what's child porn? on BT Blocks 10,000 Child-Porn Site Visits A Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    Something tells me it's not children who are downloading all the child porn.

    In fact it'd be safer if the children monitored their parents downloading habits.

  8. Re:Not at all on Oxford Students Hack University Network · · Score: 1

    Good idea. I think I'll try holding up my local bank to see how good their security is.

    After all I don't want my money in a bank with shoddy security. And I will write an article about it afterwards. I'm sure the police will understand.

  9. Re:Haha. Starbucks. on The Traveling Salesman Problem Meets Starbucks · · Score: 1

    In this messed up world we call north america "gourmet coffee" is described as coffee made from arabica beans. "Regular" coffee is from robusta.

    Gourmet coffee should mean good, high-quality coffee from a single-tree estate grown at a high altitude with good soil, processed with care and high standards and above all freshly roasted.
    Blending coffee is averaging down - it averages good coffee with poor coffee to create medicore coffee. Starbucks and any large coffee chain does it to maintain a standard taste to their coffee (the "brand" experience) and so as to not be dependant on any single vendor.

    A good Costa Rica La Minita Tarrazu is a good gourmet coffee. Hawaiian Kona is very trendy but not worth the hype. I'm a big fan of Guatemala Antigua and Ethiopian Harar is pretty good too. Had excellent luck with Mexican Oaxaca Pluma - and it's cheap.

  10. Re:They're going to get a lot of money on Google Files for IPO · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Two words: Moon Base.

  11. Re:Favourite qoute from a similar article on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 1

    To download an albums worth of music and burn it to a CD has a cost - the cost of the CD. And the record companies charge a tax on blank CD's.

    Likewise MP3 players and iPods have a tax depending on their storage size.

  12. Re:no way on Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    Bah. Ottawa in winter is colder than Moscow.

  13. Re:"New Ideas" die in boardrooms on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted · · Score: 1

    "The TV business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs." Hunter S. Thompson

  14. Re: OSNews on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And what if the compiler sucks/has no optimizations for 64-bit binaries?

  15. Re:similar scams on "Nigerian" Spammer Arrested · · Score: 3, Informative

    How it works is, you cash the cheque and send him the car and the remaining cash from the cheque. Then several days later the bank calls and says the cheque was a fake and you owe them back the money. So, you're out the money you sent him and the car. http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/briefings/june 2003.htm Bastards.

  16. Re:You left out: on Getting Law Enforcement Action for a Large-Scale Hack? · · Score: 1

    Ironically, since his problem appears to be Spyware that would have fixed the problem

  17. Re:No you were running spyware! on Getting Law Enforcement Action for a Large-Scale Hack? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only a terrorist would suggest something like that! You're in on it aren't you!!! Goddamnit, I knew I shouldn't have sent my tinfoil hat out to be drycleaned.

  18. Re:Here's the real issue. on NASA's Foam Test Offers Lesson in Kinetic Energy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, but if the foam fell off of the shuttle then wouldn't it be moving at the same speed as the shuttle?

  19. Re:Two words: Metered Bandwidth on P2P Bandwidth Hogging the Net · · Score: 1

    And they will go where exactly? To the mystical magical ISP's that allow infinite bandwidth for all at the same price as the regular ISP's?

  20. Re:Maybe I'm stupid enough... on Google Responds to SearchKing's Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    Well if they're defrauding you then why don't you ask for your money back?

  21. Re:Uh-oh, here come the digital bashers. on Improving Digital Photography · · Score: 2

    That canon 28-80mm lens is one the worst than Canon ever put out. Get the 50mm 1.8 or better yet the 1.4. If she wants the zoom then use the 24-105mm, but for the love of god get rid of the 28-80mm. That thing was only designed to sell in the crappy "kits" to people who don't know any better.

  22. Re:Noooooooo.... on Lab-Grown Steak · · Score: 2

    I thought it was wendy meat?

    And didn't StayHi end up marrying a wendy clone with a happy cloak brain?

  23. Just Say No to Asynchronous Designs! on Asynchronous Logic: Ready For It? · · Score: 2

    Dear god people, do you have any idea how impossible asynchronous circuits are to debug?!!?

    I spend several hours a day with a hair dryer and go through many cans of freeze spray debugging many many stupid little asynchronous designs that engineers think are "cool" or "sweet". Yeah, and they work on the FPGA on their desk and none other.

    Please please please, if you don't want to listen to me then goto http://www.chipcenter.com/pld/pldf030.htm
    and read what Xilinx's Director of Applicatons Engineering has to say.

    quote "Asynchronous design methods may ruin your project, your career and your health"

  24. Re:Nibiru on Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States · · Score: 1

    google "winged globe" egypt. result 5 seconds.

    http://www.premier1.net/~raines/disc.html

  25. I know! on Ballmer: "We'll Outsmart Open Source" · · Score: 2

    I know, we'll dig our way out!!!

    No stupid, dig Up!!!!