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  1. Re:Some has to do it on Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library · · Score: 1

    Sure, Google has a great brand when it comes to internet search. That doesn't mean Microsoft will be unable to make money providing a similar service (who knows if that will happen or not, but Kleenex and Bandaids both have competitors that must be making some money, even if they supply a generic, watered down alternative).

  2. Re:Some has to do it on Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The ad program was to make sure you knew what Bing! was, not to make sure you use it. They obviously succeeded (though you are likely someone who would have encountered it anyway).

  3. Re:A: Also, it triggers incessant whining. on Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library · · Score: 1

    Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line irritating?

  4. Re:More than 4mm thick on New Logitech Dark Field Mice Operate On Glass · · Score: 5, Informative

    Any time I have ever encountered anything resembling a glass table, it has always been a freaking slab of glass, not 4mm of it.

  5. Re:What is this, Harry Potter? on New Species of Worms Found To Release "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    You need to put a 'native' or something in your second paragraph, you can't simultaneously exclude yourself from and include yourself in the same general group.

  6. Re:take a stand on Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase · · Score: 1

    I'm not running NoScript (though I do have the classic comment system turned on; it seems that they are not actively maintaining it, but some changes to the new system leak through (but this is only a guess)).

  7. Re:take a stand on Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase · · Score: 1

    That's alright, it shows me the ads even though I do have that box checked.

  8. Re:The short story on Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They all meet the definition of 'blisteringly fast' when compared to my current disk, but they also all meet the definition of 'cost more than I want to pay'.

    I guess it is still useful to figure out which one provides the best value.

  9. Re:$800? on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    Unless you happen to buy one of the netbooks with such functionality, or can share your phone's connection over Bluetooth.

  10. Re:$800? on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 2, Informative

    They don't subsidize the cost of the phone, they build it into the monthly payment.

    It would be accurate to say that they are helping the buyer finance the phone, but they aren't doing it at a loss.

  11. Re:It's not open source. on ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So says OSI, but they haven't actually managed to establish legal control over the term 'open source', so at best, the definition is contested, at worst, there are multiple meanings.

  12. Re:Worst case! on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    So don't get cut. My POS cell phone works great as a phone today, why would anyone choose something that is worse?

  13. Re:Just to add a bit of dystopia to the thread... on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 2, Funny

    I initially read it as "Will Smith" and was expecting something like
    "Now, this is a story all about how
    My life got flipped-turned upside down
    And I liked to take a minute
    Just sit right there"

  14. Re:Fun, but pointless on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Well, unless Bell or one of his various competitors happened to be posting.

  15. Re:meh... on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Humorless mods.

  16. Re:just like magazines in Harry Potter! on A Video Ad, In a Paper Magazine · · Score: 1

    You are going to look like a real dill-hole when you make fun of the guy that flies to Mars using an energy drive and you mock him for getting beat to it by Star Trek.

  17. Re:The key question on A Video Ad, In a Paper Magazine · · Score: 1

    How pedantic are you?

    If only a little, you could use the Entertainment Weekly as a stool and you would be all set.

  18. Re:So what toxic materials are in it on A Video Ad, In a Paper Magazine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are very serial. The "I loves the planet" angst juxtaposed with the karmic self-obsession is pretty good though.

  19. Re:Mini-computers on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like this, but I really don't want to have to plug it in. And I'm not sure I want to have to carry around the intelligence and the storage, it would be nice to be able to pick up (or sit down at) a random device and have it configured the way I want it, with easy access to my data (this process does not have to be mindlessly automatic, just straightforward, so let's not talk about what a security nightmare it could be).

  20. Re:Speculation schmeculation on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work that way, there is nothing implying a way to do directed measurements (so you can end up with a record of opposite flips on either end, but you can't push on one end and read the result on the other).

  21. Re:Spectrum? Limitless, except for the State... on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, he is an actual libertarian ideologue.

  22. Re:Spectrum? Limitless, except for the State... on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I'm a cheapass. I prefer the situation where my existing TV and radios continue to work to the one where you can blow even more money twiddling your widget.

  23. Re:Death Star on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Apparently, creating a Bose-Einstein condensate requires the extreme vacuum (presumably because stray atoms would heat the atoms in the condensate, ruining it). The light slows down in the Bose-Einstein condensate, not in the vacuum surrounding it.

  24. Re:the list Before a karma whore can... on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    I wasn't trying to classify their contributions, I was pointing out that they are active in high end hardware, so they have good reason to be contributing to Linux (perhaps I could have said more, but I figured the Sparc connection was enough).

  25. Re:the list Before a karma whore can... on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    They spent a long time partnering with Sun on Sparc related stuff.