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  1. Re:50cm? How about 10? on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: 2, Informative

    They complement the satellite photos with aerial photography. This can be purchased from the USGS or other vendors.

  2. Re:Windows Mobile? on Cell Phones For Easy App Development? · · Score: 1

    Unless it's a PDA form factor device, I don't think the WM phones even have a touch screen interface. They use the little joystick button on the phone. www.pointui.com had made it look better at least.

  3. Re:Windows Mobile on Cell Phones For Easy App Development? · · Score: 1

    I would have thought that too. Based on a workshop that I attended, developing C# apps for Windows Mobile is relatively straightforward. The SDK is free, but you need the professional version of Visual Studio (I haven't tried SharpDevelop yet. The presentations and workshop materials can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mobilitymetro/

  4. Re:Dibbs! Level 3-top Corner, North East facing on Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million In Dubai · · Score: 1

    but with the MIT window films that channel solar energy to the edges of the glass, you can still have a window and collect energy too.

  5. Re:I think you ust hit the mail on the head on Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer · · Score: 1
    From the first link:

    1. having multiple spouses: the custom of having more than one spouse at the same time

    one is a subset of the other. If people are living polygynyously, they are also living polygamously. thanks for the daily dose of pedantic behavior....sheesh.

  6. Re:Too bad it's patented on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 1

    Patents and copyrights can be held and enforced by individuals or corporations against individuals or corporations. It's just that corporations usually have a bigger legal budget. In your example, the DIYer is getting away with using someone else's patented technology only if the patent holder doesn't know about it. The DIYer might not even know what they're doing is patented.

  7. Re:Too bad it's patented on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 1

    Why would it only matter for commercial products? If I patent something and then find out that someone else has a DIY project that uses my technology, I can still take them to court for patent infringement. It's just more lucrative to sue companies over patents.

  8. Re:how many on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 1

    Why would China even bother with following the old colonization methods in Africa? If the goal was more land & resources, why wouldn't they just move in and slaughter all the non-Chinese that are already there. They already have lots of people that could be utilized as workers.

  9. Re:I think you ust hit the mail on the head on Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer · · Score: 1

    I don't think the example was about the FLDS groups that are squirreled away in their own little compounds. There are people living polygamously like was described in various cities in the US. It is often advocated by feminist types as a way of empowering women with careers who don't want to throw their kids into day care.

  10. Re:Who Cares What Language, It Reeks of Poor Desig on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Who Cares What Language, It Reeks of Poor Desig on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1

    or instead of a rewrite, they could buy a canned payroll and benefits program and integrate it into their existing infrastructure. It all depends on how much they want to spend upfront and for continuing support. It wouldn't mean that they would be getting away from COBOL though. I believe PeopleSoft still uses COBOL to perform quite a few tasks in their ERP product (not sure how much is still there for anything beyond version 8 though).

  12. Re:No, *THESE* are slaves on Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be fair to GM and Ford, they have a generation or two of union costs on them that the new Toyota and Honda ventures do not.

    Yep. Continuing generous benefits for retirees, the "job bank", and other costs still pile on the balance sheet even though plants are being closed. I'm not sure if it has been reached yet or not, but at some point they are going to be paying more to people that used to work for them than to those that are currently working for them. This insanity is going to end someday. Hopefully it won't be due to the companies going out of business.

  13. Re:the new neocon slashdot on Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves · · Score: 1

    I remember when slashdot was full of smart people with a liberal philosophy

    I think that was a passing fad.

  14. Re:Why... on IOC Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China · · Score: 1

    What does Amnesty International have to do with reporting who won the 100m dash or some gymnastics event?

  15. Re:The conservative blogosphere isn't ignoring it on IOC Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China · · Score: 1

    It would be a great photo-op if some of the athletes donned gas masks during their events in order to breathe some filtered air.

  16. Re:a misunderstanding of Moore's Law on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    So even if you could make solar cells maximally efficiency and free to build and deploy, you'd still have to find the real estate that you could blanket and still leave undisturbed.

    I was thinking of that while I spent 24 hours this weekend driving along on an interstate highway. Why not put them in the meridians or over the roads? Even better would be to have the road surface made of a material that would convert solar energy into electricity and still be durable enough to take the traffic.

  17. Re:Tough one... on MacBook Updates Rumored To Include Glass Trackpad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    AL will flex some, but I don't think they are trying to protect against a stabbing (although that could be a design consideration for the UK) as much as someone accidentally stepping on it, being pressed up against another hard object in book bag, vehicle storage, etc. Shocks from drops can be addressed with a dampening material at the circuit board mounting points.

  18. Re:Tough one... on MacBook Updates Rumored To Include Glass Trackpad · · Score: 1

    I would think the internals would be damaged more by a thin soft case than by a sturdy one. Panasonic would love to know how they got their ToughBook totally wrong if that was the case. Once a macbook is considered DOA, someone can rip out the circuit boards, throw the AL case in one pile that goes to the scrap metal yard, the screen & trackpad cover in a pile to go to the glass recycler.

  19. Re:I don't get it... on MacBook Updates Rumored To Include Glass Trackpad · · Score: 1

    the guys shuffling around down pushing shopping carts full of cans are going to be after your MacBook now.

  20. Re:Strange to us.... on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    Forget about UFOs. I was thinking about the 'little people who look strange to us' phrase since Kucinich is a short goofy looking guy.

  21. Re:I said it once and I'll say it again on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 1

    It's trendy, but I certainly wouldn't call it sexy. It's still what I'd refer to as ugly/plain. I did enjoy driving one a few years ago though. It was nice to have a car with a decent amount of room and luggage space that was still efficient.

  22. Re:Remind me: on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 1

    It is really unfortunate that CA diesel regulations keep a lot of efficient European and Japanese vehicles out of the US market. Now they are keeping this one out too. :( I wish the manufactures would say "to hell with California" and make them available to the rest of us.

  23. Re:Strange to us.... on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    That's what the kucinich tag is about.

  24. Re:ffmpeg on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's the point. If the xvid encoder is single threaded, then to keep all the cores busy, one must run multiple instances of ffmpeg with each one encoding a different file. For the given Makefile, that is what make will do when the -j switch is used.

  25. Re:Whats the point? on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't an old Mac G4 mini be about the same as this thing, except with a hard drive? Small form factor PowerPC machine running an unix derived OS. You're right in that the new Intel based ones would be a better deal though.