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  1. Re:That's great and all, but... on Growing Insulin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The insurance companies, of course... It's them that are running the show here in the US.
    My out of pocket costs are probably 4x or 5x of what I used to pay '98. In fact, I'm using cheaper insulin now, because I'm not using insulin pens anymore.

    After all, do you really think that the out of pockets costs will drop because the supply of insulin has gotten much cheaper?

    - YAIDP (Yet Another Insulin Dependent Person).

  2. Re:AP Computer Science on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    If you write code like you write english, I guess you normally spend a lot of time getting your code to compile...

  3. Re:I'll take a stab at this ... on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    and assembly is just an API to the piece of hardware made by someone else. The x86 API is different from the sparc API, etc.

    It's all about abstraction and virtualization.

  4. Re:Gmail. on How Do You Store Your Previously-Written Code? · · Score: 1

    And when Google goes bankrupt? or it just bubble-explodes, and takes down all the data with it? Unless you do the backups, you are not in control.

  5. Re:quick and dirty benchmark (factorial) on MD5 Collision Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    kcalc (KDE calculator) on a P4 3.4Ghz does it in less than 20 seconds.

  6. Re:From the desk of the President on U.S. Broadband Access Falling Behind · · Score: 1

    Next time, you could sign of with 'UU'

  7. Re:posturing on Hiper Type-R Modular Blue Line 580W PSU Review · · Score: 1

    Audi, obviously. 5 Cylinders? Does that mean an Audi 90? OTOH that's the only 5 cylinder Audi. Im not a car freak, but I once was the proud owner of a 2001 manual 2.8 quattro A4.

    A turbo, so that means an after market chip to mod that turbo. Easily adds a lot of HP.

    Quattro, pretty much means you cannot burn your tires in 1st. Always got grip (well, that's with the +- 200 HP in the A4, probably different when you talk 300+ HP).

    Yeah, I like them Audi's. Would love to drive one of them new S4's one day.

  8. Next poll topic! on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 1

    100 GB is not that much. So that spawns this next poll topic/question:

    What is the total HD size you have under your control?

    I'm sure it's > 100GB

  9. Re:Where's Alviso? on Where's Alviso? · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing....

    And it's on the left hand side of the road....

  10. Just wondering on Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open · · Score: 1

    Will Blaine control this Mono as well?

  11. Re:386to486.exe on Turning A FX5900 Into A FX5950 Ultra, Tool-Free · · Score: 1

    XP prof should be able to create mirrors, I believe. It might have trouble recognizing your mirror from another system (or VM), although I wouldn't know why.

    Since I only work with the full volume manager product, I don't know anymore how the base product behaves :)

  12. Re:Definitely MapQuest on Best Online Mapping Site? · · Score: 1

    It's still not a real highway (talking about 87 here). I take it every day for my commute, but the lights just kill me.
    But even trying to make into a real highway won't help, I fear. It will be backed up even worse on the 87 and 280 intersection (south San Jose'ers know what I'm talking about (does anybody get pissed of as well, when you're being a good citizen in the left lane (yes, left lane is good in this case) and people speed by on the rite and then just cut in in front of every body.) .)
    ( Too many levels of brackets, alcohol does that to you.)

  13. Re:Just a thought but... on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 1, Informative

    windows will remount the drive automatically, whenever there is an access on it. Volumes and file systems are very much the same, unlike in unix environments.

    Unmounting forces a flush, so it can have a purpose though. Heck, even trying to lock a volume / file system will flush it for you. How's that for a sync :)

  14. Same with .MSI on Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released · · Score: 0

    Whenever you try to download an MSI installer file, it will display as plain text.

    But then again, it's a good thing to save MSI's to harddrive before you use them to install anything.

  15. how to get past the spikes in the ground? on Fan-Made Space Quest Prequel Released · · Score: 0

    i got over the hole in the ground by using the board, but I can't seem to find out how to get past the spikes that jump up out of the ground.

    Use rope tells me to tie something to the rope, but i pretty much tried it all...

    Please help.

  16. Re:But whois thefreeworld.net? on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 0

    You mean this slashdot user?:

    http://yro.slashdot.org/~Rik%20van%20Riel/

  17. Re:Old News on Elements 116 and 118 are Bogus? · · Score: 0

    Or they read the poll comments yesterday: noble gas poll

  18. Re:Veritas NetBackup. on Making Users Back Up Important Data? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's VERITAS, not Veritas :)

  19. Re:Different student visas on Work Options In The U.S. When Student Visas Expire? · · Score: 1

    You don't _have_ to spend 2 years outside of the country. That depends on the IAP66 form you got, when you applied for the visa.

    In the left bottom corner, there is a little section with room for checkmarks. When you're lucky, the good one is checked :)

    I am lucky, i got here on a J1 visa to start working for this company before i got my h1b.
    Right now, I have an H1b, and i'm hoping to get married before it expires, and get a green card :) (Without leaving the country for two years, that is)