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  1. Re:5+ Years on $50 to Get XP On a New Dell · · Score: 1

    NASA certainly has shown that long term projects can have spectacular results.

    Big explosions?

    But seriously NASA certainly has had their ups and downs, it generally takes a change in management there to turn things around.

  2. Re:Further proof ... on The Accidental Astrophysicists · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yep, if you change Sociology to Philosophy you get a complete circle.

    Philosophy -> Physiology -> Biology -> Chemistry -> Physics -> Math -> Philosophy ->

  3. Re:Do what my grandparents do on Compressed VoIP Calls Vulnerable To Bugging · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Depends upon how you define "translators." One of my best friends just got out of the Army, he is a really good linguist and knows several langauges, but he flunked out of the Arabic program because its not just hard to learn, you have to learn hundreds of dialects even for Iraq. He could understand it well enough but to be able to go out on the street and translate you have to be certain you won't accidentally offend with a mistranslation. Apparently virtual no non native arabic speakers ever make it through this program. Anyways he go reassigned to listen to and interpret radio broadcast and other incoming information. Not officially a translator. The point to this story?? I don't know..

  4. Re:One wonders... on OS X Snow Leopard Details · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have a MB with 4 of RAM and a huge capacity HD with a 7200rpm drive

    Do what?

    My best guess translation.

    I have a motherboard with 4GB of RAM and a huge capacity 7200rpm harddrive.

  5. Re:stupid, confusing war on terror... on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    BTW, yes he completely missed the point.

  6. Re:stupid, confusing war on terror... on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well we didn't "declare war" in Vietnam either. But Vietnam certainly did declare war against us. The Prisoners we took during Vietnam though certainly were given POW geneva treatment. The prisoners Vietnam took certainly were POWs but may not have been treated following the Geneva convention, but that's a mute point.

  7. Re:Not a bad plan on Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org · · Score: 1

    The problem comes down to how the legislature is set up. The British parties are formed as a party representation, if 15% of the population votes for your party you get about 15% of the Parliament seats. Here each seat is based on geography instead of political identity. It made sense when we were a rural nation. Though some geographic representation still makes sense I think the best would be to change one of the two houses of Congress into party representation while leaving the other Geographic representation.

  8. Re:Okay? on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yea we do, the outer layers aren't much hotter than say the core of a nuclear reactor. Of course dissipating excess heat will be impossible so its not going to last very long.

  9. Re:Violating the Constitution is a good reason on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 1

    Its a circular problem really, the intelligence agencies were pushed to find a reason to attack Iraq, they stretched the truth. Bush then stretched that truth, and so on.

  10. Re:and piracy killed music on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm sorry you work in a slave camp. Sounds like moral is already in the tubes, no actual work is getting done so the company isn't making money. Its slashing cost to make up for this by not buying critical tools that allow development to happen. All the while the Managers are banging the secretaries and taking cruises on company money? Am I right?

  11. Re:and piracy killed music on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because its a stupid argument made by an uninformed twit who has never dealt with the management side of business in his life. If he had he's realize how stupid of an argument that was. You don't run a development company and waste time and moral because you don't want to shell out for a $200 tool. A $20,000 tool, you might have to think about...

  12. Re:and piracy killed music on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would the management invest $200 in saving you a week of overtime when they don't have to pay you for it?

    Why doesn't the company just give you pen and paper and tell you to program with them..

  13. Re:So...contracts? on iCall Brings Seamless VoIP To IPhone Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope, as mentioned on the site
    Apple has explicitly stated that VoIP is allowed, just not over Edge networks. Steve himself answered this question in the Q&A session after the last keynote speech.

    This is true, someone specifically asked if VoIP is allowed, they stated that as long as its not using AT&Ts network (Edge/ 3G soon) it would be fine.

  14. Test on WiMAX For Business Internet? · · Score: 1

    They won't let you try it out? Its not like they have to run any wires anywhere.

  15. Re:This seems to focus on how things look on Visual Communication in Digital Design · · Score: 1

    Well yea, thats what I meant.

  16. Re:This seems to focus on how things look on Visual Communication in Digital Design · · Score: 1
  17. Re:This seems to focus on how things look on Visual Communication in Digital Design · · Score: 1

    Actually I much prefer to be given pages that already look pretty and where I just need to add the functionality. Ok here is our car, now give it an engine approach.

  18. Re:This seems to focus on how things look on Visual Communication in Digital Design · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As a web-programmer who isn't "creative" I'd MUCH rather just work on the programming/functionality, then let a designer make it look good. I have no problem going back behind the designer fixing any bugs that cropped up in the making it pretty. But asking me to make it pretty while I create the functionality is simply a waste of my billable hours.

  19. Re:What about Realtors' conflicts of interests? on Internet-Based Realtors Win Monster Settlement · · Score: 1

    Well the idea is the buyer agent commission is supposed to be an incentive to show the home. When I listed my home my agent told me, ok we can offer the other agent 3% or 4%, 4% is more expensive but will encourage more buyer agents to show off your home.

  20. Re:Keep fighting, but be realistic on Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due · · Score: 2, Informative

    Trust me perfecting the art of programming/modeling and constantly updating yourself with the new tools of the trade is at least as hard as preparing to be an actor if not harder. Sure there are thousands of low level programmers out there just as there are thousands of low level actors out there, but the creme of the crop in both spent countless hours perfecting themselves.

  21. Re:Backwards compatibility is very important on Changes In Store For PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    Realistically its not a huge change, just removal of some insecure features. If you must keep these features stay with PHP4, no big deal really.

  22. Re:Interesting, very interesting...Answer me this! on Developing New Materials With Space Science · · Score: 1

    Earths magnetic field? Centerfugal (spelling?)

  23. Re:At what $$$ on Developing New Materials With Space Science · · Score: 1

    Mining of asteroids and the moon will have to be developed obviously.

  24. Re:Why use space? on Developing New Materials With Space Science · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The time to heat, mold, cool a new metal could take hours, no practical way to setup an hour long freefall.

  25. Re:$2/gal to produce = $3/gal at the pump on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1