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  1. Re:Chinese manufacturing exaggerated? on The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart · · Score: 1

    Walmart has revenue in excess of $300B, so $18B isn't that much.

  2. Re:Obvious. on The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart · · Score: 1

    you mean like a Vetrans Administration hospital?

  3. Re:Something is Fishy about this Whole Story on Open-Government Technique Used on Iraqi Documents · · Score: 1

    a friend of mine used to be the stereotypical foreign NYC cab driver. While he had no problem conversing with others in his native language, he could not read or write anything in it. All of his education was English based.

  4. Re:This is when we all say on GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    the only thing I like about them is their commercials.

  5. Re:My guess: Microsoft paid GoDaddy to change. on GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft · · Score: 1
    from their site: "Second, we're straight shooters. There are no tricks in what we do, just good, old-fashioned, reliable business principles."

    So, based on your experience, I guess that's like a used car salesman that keeps having to remind people about how honest they are.

  6. Re:Not surprising on PayPal Goes Mobile · · Score: 1

    That was one of the things that I thought was cool about PayPal too. Unfortunately, by the time I got a PDA, they cancelled the service.

  7. Re:Not bad... on ATI's 1GB Video Card · · Score: 1
    high detail flight simulators or virtual reality apps.

    I would have loved having a graphics subsystem with a 1GB for texture maps when I was doing gl work 12 years ago.

  8. Re:Mobile phones in India on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I'd use the flashlight more than a camera. I'll have to see if I can get one. Thanks!

  9. Re:The nature of friendship changes over time. on The Physics of Friendship · · Score: 1

    that "interaction map" isn't much different once you get out of high school.

  10. Re:Geeks are smart but when it comes to this stuff on The Physics of Friendship · · Score: 1

    figure out how women think and what they want

    that's easy. They want lots of money and the ability to spend it with abandon, family finances be damned. The job of the man is to make sure the bank balance remains positive and to not complain about it.
  11. Re:Analysts say "Boo Hoo" on Google Faces Wall Street Revolt · · Score: 1

    if the analysts and investors don't like how Google behaves, they are free to take their money somewhere else. If enough do, the stock will probably come down to sane levels.

  12. Re:English to American translation on The Simpsons Come to Life · · Score: 1

    If he was driving a vehicle with the steering wheel on the right hand side of the car, he wouldn't be able to get nearly run over by Lisa and still have the car in the same spot in the driveway as the cartoon.
    I'm guessing Homer got a cheap used car from the continent. Are there many people driving cars with the controls on the left in the UK?

  13. Re:works half as well... on iTunes, One Billion Suckers Served? · · Score: 1

    but until Capt Walker shows up, they won't know what to do with them other than use them for scepter decorations.

  14. Re:works half as well... on iTunes, One Billion Suckers Served? · · Score: 1

    which would you consider worse:
    Buying a new player that can play your previously purchased songs even if they are at 128kbps quality at 700kbps and any new stuff. Or
    Buying a new player and repurchasing the music you had previously downloaded.
    I agree that you would be better off buying CDs and ripping them into a lossless format. But, if you're a person that just wants to buy a track or two at a time and aren't interested in buying the entire CD, what's the alternative? In an ideal world, the user would sign on to a record label's website, pick songs that they wanted, pay for them, and they would then be able to download those tracks in a lossless format or have a CD burned and mailed to the customer. But the record labels want to keep selling you the same music over and over again as technology changes, so they're not going to do that.

  15. Re:When CD's are gone everyone will go to concerts on MPAA Files Lawsuits Targeting Major Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    then they should check out archive.org, etree or any live show trading site and they can listen to free music that someone else heard when they went out to a show.

  16. Re:Guinness Voice: Brilliant! on Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies · · Score: 1

    They just have to send the driver of the truck delivering them to the wrong warehouse and/or deliver a batch of filled in ballots for the deceased that are still in the voting area. We've recently had someone who "won" a state senate seat (vacated by a relative who was caught in an FBI sting) and the results are in question because of several votes cast by dead people.

  17. Re:Depends if a monoculture develops on Anti-virus Vendors Eye Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Gartner predicts that there will be widespread mobile phone virus outbreak by the end of the year. Maybe they based that on when their MSFT buddies think they will have a majority of the mobile phone market.

  18. Re:Sharks aren't the only benchmark. on The World Oceans Now 70% Shark Free · · Score: 1

    Is this also true for catfish farms?

  19. Re:Only retail on Japan to Discourage Sale of Old Electronics · · Score: 1

    and I was hoping for a glut of Japanese electronics on ebay. :(

  20. Re:Freedom Fighters on Chinese Journalists Beat Censorship With Web · · Score: 1

    why ask questions when you can just make stuff up?

  21. Re:The joy of minimalism. on How Does Your Personal Data Center Measure Up? · · Score: 1

    operating a home for orphaned computers makes me happy. If I got rid of them all, I'd have an empty apartment.

  22. Re:Program Naming on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    I suppose doing something like gnomeApp123456 or gnomeApplet087654 would require too much coordination and harken back to un-hip mainframe coding standards.

  23. Re:Progress! on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    including specialist functions like memory slices and memory chunks which malloc doesn't provide

    when I want a X bytes of memory, that's what I give to malloc. What are those?
  24. Re:Sigh you make a lousy hacker on Other Uses for an AGP Slot? · · Score: 1

    Is it a BX chipset motherboard? I have a dual PIII w/ a gig of ram in it and it works fine. However, at one point I had just a single Celeron OC'ed to 450 and it could only deal with 512M. I'd like something faster, but for most things, this machine is still overkill.

  25. Re:NewEgg with Old York inside on A Look Inside Newegg · · Score: 1

    the USPS is one of those bulk shippers - $6.3 billionover 7 years. Priority Mail is sent via FedEx