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  1. Re:And the winner is... on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    Gadgets are cool, but with decent QA, less is more.

  2. Re:Wouldn't it be easier to just TAG THE KIDS? on Tracking Sex Offenders via GPS for Life · · Score: 1

    A case of to many rats in the rat cage?

  3. Re:They took yer job! on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 1

    "so, brain, what are we going to do tonight?"

  4. Got Your SQL Server 2005 License Yet? on The Future of Databases · · Score: 1

    Actually folks, this article is in timing with SQL Server 2005's release. One only need do the math to see that Rational Rose has a m$ smack light on it. SISS is DTS with more "Lower CASE" handling. There was no tie in with the Visio/UML solution; I figure its just around the corner. Other businesses that make money off of SQL Server were overheard grumbling at the Anahiem conference about the SQL Server 2005 release. M$'s BI,(Business Intelligence), interface can do some matching with Fuzzy, and Nueral logic; Along with 3 other methods of "Best Guessing". I give mySQL/apache/perl/firefox/openOffice about a year to catch up on what the 2005 product is doing.

  5. 2 to 3 Hundred Years? on Mars Rover Stuck in a Dune · · Score: 1

    So, what else do they have to do in the mean time? I just can't help but wonder if NASA isn't going to buy AAA's priemium service next year?

  6. Re:Vlad the Impaler... on Microsoft Wants Sit-Down With OSS Advocates · · Score: 1

    Maybe if the villagers of redmond just went and opened sourced their stuff it would be some kind of news?

  7. There is a Way on Ex-Microsoft CTO Checks In On Patent Reform · · Score: 1

    I find the duality of his words a bit misdirecting. But I seem to remember a young upstart doing legal battle with the guy who held the patent for horseless carriages; I believe this upstarts name was Henry Ford.

    To this day I've held that patents can be defeated, all one has to do is "Show the Difference".

  8. John C. Dvorak Editorial is Simplistic on Dvorak Trashes Modern Gaming Industry · · Score: 1

    After reading the doctors comments, I found myself disagreeing with his fundamental definition of game types. Gaming is the projection of ones self into a pseudo environment. This "gaming" environment currently branches into 2 main gaming types, "Reactive", and "Strategic". There is a third gaming type that is morphing from the "Reactive" branch of the tree. NASA and the Military-Engines use this gaming method to pilot their drones. What makes this gaming method different is that the damage points are real, and the logistics of game piece survival and repair are real. The day is quickly approaching when if you wish to go down to the bottom of a real volcano and "6 Sense It", you will just rent some time on an available game piece. I think what will be a real money maker is when the game masters allow renting of towing services for those pieces that cannot make it back to the docking station.

  9. Re:You don't just list one factor on Wal-Mart Parody Site Censored by DMCA · · Score: 1

    Was there a mirror in the back of the parody walmart site?

  10. Re:Cashing in on ... on Gates Calls for Increase in Tech Labor Supply · · Score: 1

    You have my unending envy. What is the name of this fine business you work at?

  11. Re:So use another operating system for scanning on Microsoft States Full TCP/IP Too Dangerous · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I believe that the elders of redmond are not foolish. If they allow cracking, virii, worming, and root kitting; then it is because it is not in their interest to consider it. They are driven by ego, greed and a desire to consume all; not for helping you.

    Be weary of the tiger that builds tiger traps.

  12. Re:Cashing in on ... on Gates Calls for Increase in Tech Labor Supply · · Score: 2, Interesting

    3 things:

    1. Where in the U.S. are those $90K jobs?

    2. I can't believe this; For the first time I'm in agreement with my fellow republicans in the white house.

    3. And IT IS painfully obvious, the dwellers of redmond are at odds with trying to understand that bitter taste in the back of their throat; its the last little bit of pride they have left that is choaking to death right now.

  13. Re:Half of Users Already Know Windows Costs Too Mu on The Truth About Linux and Windows · · Score: 1

    I believe that what we have here is a classic case of blind people explaining to other blind people what things look like using references to light.

  14. Re:Hmmmm... on Microsoft To Add A Black Box To Windows · · Score: 1

    These are all interesting observations, but I think the great ones are losing focus on what the 'P' in PC stands for. I for one chose to ignore their need to make my decsions for me.

    And while I'm being tastless in doubting the credo of the wise ones of redmond, crippling XML processing instructions in Web Services, and SQL Server 2005 is not cool.

  15. The Last Star Wars Movie? on George Lucas Struggles to Reinvent Himself · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that the star wars saga was a 9 movie sequenced in the order of 3,4,5,1,2,3,7,8,9. I guess the last three became victums of the editing room.

  16. Re:min-width and hacks on New IE7 Information Announced · · Score: 1

    Being a software contractor, I've seen more than my share of projects done by one person, and done by teams of people. After reading the reviews of ie7, I am amazed that the villagers of redmond would trivialize such an important first impression tool as a web browser. Is it possible that the village people, of redmond, are turning their attention to other ways of profiting?

  17. Re:What Happened to Simputer? on What Happened to Simputer? · · Score: 1

    Amazing! I just thought it was because of the added revenue that our red state congress men were giving to these fine software engineers, that those same engineers just bought other hardware for their own requirements.

    but here's a question that's bubbling in the back of my brain, "how could the simputer find a market here in the u.s.? maybe, simputer marketing should be looking at the multi user gaming market?"

  18. Re:Better Option on Music Industry Drafts Code of Conduct for ISPs · · Score: 1

    I wonder if anyone has considered that the music industry is oriented around the melodramitic that we give money to in order from them to perform for us? And when their performance is finished, they are invited to leave. I have yet to see one of these performers willing to pay for what they believe in.

  19. Now for Step 2 on Mapping the Mind · · Score: 1

    I know its not a simple task.

    How can I apply this book to help me map the nuerons in a human brain?

  20. I Think The Navy Forgot Some Stuff on The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Cameras for looking front, and back?

    How about Up, Down, Left, and Right?

    This way, the operator can concentrate on flying the aircraft, not banking for a 'better angle'.

  21. My I Suggest Renting an Educational DVD? on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 1

    "Born in East L.A." by Cheech Meron. Today, more than ever, it has real relivance.

    Happy motoring? :-)

  22. Re:No thanks, we are just fine w/o you. on UN Wants To Regulate Internet · · Score: 1

    I think when Houlin Zhao speaks of the internet; Houlin Zhao is thinking of Houlin Zhao, not the internet.

  23. I Am No Lawyer, But: on BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? · · Score: 1

    In the U.S. one is presumed innocent, until proven guilty. Of course, school administrators are a curious lot; They will fight to the death to keep a job whos sole purpose is to "dot i's, and cross t's."

  24. Lets Step Back and Look at Browsers on IE Developer Responds to Mozilla Accusations · · Score: 1

    Given: An internet browser is an application interfaced to a communications port using a communications protocol to pass message transactions via a defined protocol.

    I believe that if a federal judge had sentenced the chieftins of the village of Redmond to spend a single night at the neverland ranch, or fix Internet Exploder; That IE would work better now than Firefox.

  25. And Let Us All Not Forget: on The Science Guy Returns · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The Knights That Say ... 'Nye'"

    Pat Paulson as "Mr. Wizard", made science very enjoyable to watch.