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  1. Re:Music and movies likely headed for the same fat on Why Movies Are Not Exactly Like Music · · Score: 1

    Only if they fix their pricing. Pay per view movies on Dish Network currently cost $5, which if you know about Netflix is completely absurd (I suppose the immediacy is worth something to lots of people, but I can't imagine that $5 is anywhere near the revenue/profit maximizing price per movie).

  2. Re:Not the Death of Journalism ... on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 1

    They can glide pretty well, even sort of do "flying hops".

    (This applies to wild turkeys, domestic ones are probably too fat, or have their wings clipped)

  3. Re:Rupert Murdock... on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not really defending Murdoch, I'm pointing out that the problem is a little more pervasive than the guy who likes to make money from it.

  4. Re:Rupert Murdock... on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 1

    If people didn't watch or read it, it wouldn't be relevant, and Murdoch certainly isn't to blame foe what people want.

  5. Re:Also, Bittorrent on One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent doesn't really make use of error correction, it uses error detection, and when it finds an error (a hash mismatch), it just goes and downloads another copy of that data (of course, the error does get corrected, but it requires that someone be seeding a good copy of the data).

    From the perspective of a user downloading a large file, just downloading the bad parts of the file is a huge improvement over stuff like ftp or http, but without the network, it doesn't help in recovering data.

  6. Re:What files does a single bit error destroy? on One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption · · Score: 1

    I am the Accidental Expert.

  7. Re:What files does a single bit error destroy? on One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that is what the poster meant by "bad spot". If "Hitler" were altered to read as "Hatler", I'm pretty sure the meaning would still be clear from the context.

  8. Re:Electric car with problems? on Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start · · Score: 1

    Well, if you have fusion power that isn't particularly portable but is extremely cheap, you might not care. Batteries are still pretty expensive, and don't make for a flexible vehicle.

  9. Re:Electric car with problems? on Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start · · Score: 1

    I'm saying that you split water for hydrogen and CO2 for carbon and then store the hydrogen on the carbon. It makes a nice compact fuel.

  10. Re:$850 a month?? on Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start · · Score: 1

    Maybe he is $600 a month richer than the suckers?

  11. Re:Electric car with problems? on Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start · · Score: 1

    If your cold fusion plant is practical enough you can just start synthesizing gasoline out of air. Or maybe something simpler, like butanol.

  12. Re:I'm not surprised on Children Using Technology Have Better Literacy Skills · · Score: 1

    Zing!

  13. Re:Seriously? on Children Using Technology Have Better Literacy Skills · · Score: 1

    Well, see, the researchers in question graded their own research, see.

  14. Re:Cheap Printer? on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    My reading of the summary suggests that the guy got the new printer with the starter cartridges and extra full ones for less than the cost of refills for the original printer.

  15. Re:False economy... on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    I've already pointed it out to two of them so far, but since you noticed you were repeating the advice, I'll point it out to you to; it says "That so bad that I got a replacement printer that's just as good and spare ink for less" right in the summary. The notable part is the "and spare ink". The "for less" probably also adds meaning.

  16. Re:not a bargain on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    You should read the summary over and over until you understand why I would suggest that you read the summary over and over.

  17. Re:I Second this on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    There was a big slashdot thread on laser printers a few months back; the outcome was pretty much that brand only mattered a little bit as long as you went with a 'business' laser.

  18. Re:Cheap Printer? on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    It says right in the summary that the new printer and spare ink for it cost less than ink for the old printer.

  19. Re:Deliberately bad? on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    Does Al Gore buy them from himself?

  20. Re:OpenDNS and DynDNS offer more features on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 1

    Next up you can pimp a car with convenient impaling spikes on the steering wheel.

  21. Re:Comfort and Freedom are their Best Aspects on Novelists On the E-Book Experience · · Score: 1

    Cellular telephones and other wireless data transmission systems generally rely on a radio.

  22. Re:Comfort and Freedom are their Best Aspects on Novelists On the E-Book Experience · · Score: 1

    Much of his point is that it isn't a straitjacket.

    Your Droid is a terrible example for you to bring up, you are almost certainly locked out of the radio side of the hardware.

  23. Re:Who Doesn't Believe the Feds are Watching? on EFF Wants To Know If the Feds Are Cyberstalking · · Score: 1

    Using that example is a terrible way to make your point, the Stasi is generally recognized as government at its worst, not government at its most typical.

  24. Re:cheers on Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Not really a hypocrite, just not really principled.

  25. Re:I call BS on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    DUUude! Total burn!