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  1. Re:Timezones on USPTO Imposes 'Undue Hardship' On 1-Click Lawyers · · Score: 1

    They have plenty of time to fly out and get acclimatised.

  2. Eh, no. It's "Guy with 60 Windows servers" on Mindbridge Saves "Bunches of Money" In Switch To Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Converts them to 13 Linux servers.

    See Microsoft's problem now? See the point?

    Say, did you graduate high school? Your reading skills seem to be lacking, it's right there in paragraph 3 of the article. Oh wait! I get it you didn't RTFA and decided to spout of anyway. Oh and the mods, good job there.

    As you were.

  3. Wrong architecture on Mindbridge Saves "Bunches of Money" In Switch To Linux · · Score: 1

    100,000 desktop PCs, 1000 file servers, 500 email servers etc etc.

    Really. Think about the mathematics of that situation. Think about the relationships between the machines, work out the complexity. As far as I can see there are a lot of CEOs and CIOs out there who simply can't multiply two numbers together. And if they can't do that...

  4. Re:10,000 member IT department. on Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'm thinking "Christ, so that's where everyone went".

  5. Re:the world market is irrational on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    Yes, the world market is irrational. It happens every couple of decades I'm not sure it's irrational. It's just the way exponential functions work.

    By using debt as the basis for our monetary systems, worldwide, we are deliberately introducing non linearity. We're introducing multiple exponential functions. As if the markets weren't volatile enough in the first place.

    If you intend to try to profit from the current financial irrationality, remember this: Meh. I was stung when younger. All my investment decisions have a horizon of 15 years.
  6. Re:Hey, its not like.... on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    Well, for the money supply to grow, the amount of debt also has to grow, and you have to get someone generate that debt. They have to take a loan out based on some collateral. With the economy having to grow exponentially, you eventually run out of people to loan to. Or rather, you start loaning to people who can't really afford it. Hey what's the problem, the interest rates are low. Except that you're also increasing the money supply as you loan, which increases inflation which increases interest rates which causes default on the loan. Bump. It's just a slightly bigger bump than usual.

  7. YAY! on Server Benchmarking Lone Wolf Bites Intel Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At last we'll be able to determine server power efficiency.

    London, the world financial centre has real problems with datacentre power supplies. Any new ones pretty much have to be built outside the M25. There's pressure on the ones inside to use less power.

  8. Re:Hey, its not like.... on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We freely sent off our manufacturing, then our IT, and a good bit of agriculture. But thankfully, we still have a great service industry, lots of restaurants, etc. That'll keep us safe in times of financial/world troubles. Actually. It's pretty much all caused by the petrodollar.

    You're too expensive because the petrodollar tends to deflate. There's high demand for dollars to pay for oil, the world over. It makes Americans expensive.

    The current world troubles are caused by the US interest in preventing the dollar from losing it's reserve status. Iraq, Iran, Saudi etc.

    The current financial problems are caused by the dollar being a debt based currency. Debt increases exponentially, it requires exponentially increasing economy and additional loans to service the debt and continue growing. So liquidity is piled in exponentially, the debts grow accordingly. Eventually you have to get even those unable to pay involved, in order to continue the growth. The crash is inevitable, nothing can grow exponentially forever. However the longer the growth period the bigger the bump. In the past few years the central banks have piled in cash in order to glide over some of the smaller bumps, basically just lining up for a bigger crash later. It's more of an issue right now because the dollar has become less desirable internationally forcing up interest rates.
  9. Re:Here we go again on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You missed the irony. The country being outsourced to is the US of A in this case. But that's ok. I'll assume you're American.

  10. Language problems on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    I suspect this is more due to the relatively low takeup of Danish internationally.

    UK. No shortage.
    America. No shortage.
    English. Highly prevalent.

    Tell you what. Switch your country to English and all your labour shortage problems will go away.

  11. Zim on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It has to be one of the most useful personal documentation, note taking tools in existence. It's basically a wiki for the desktop. All the information is stored in wiki style text files so even if you want to switch to something else, it's easy.

    http://pardus-larus.student.utwente.nl/~pardus/pro jects/zim/index.shtml

  12. Re:Co-opt it.. remove it. on Storm Worm More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No. The blame can largely by levelled at the purchasers.

  13. Yeah. Not like a super computer at all on Storm Worm More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm. More like a brain.

  14. Re:Corporations Need to be Smacked Down! on Copyright Alliance Says Fair Use Not a Consumer Right · · Score: 1

    My fellow Republicans need to be reminded that to be a genuine conservative is to value freedom first and foremost. That would be liberalism[1]... Not conservatism.

    There will come a time, and it may be soon, when we have to choose between freedom versus wealth I think you'll find if you look deeply enough into the subject that they're ultimately the same thing.

    [1] Or for USians, libertarianism.
  15. Re:Here's a better analogy on Justice Department Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    ISP's should be tightly regulated in favor of the consumer, at ANY cost The problem is regulation in the first place. Subsidies and tax breaks.

    What the fuck is wrong with us? You have faith in politicians.

    100mbit broadband in Sweden is a myth
    http://radiowood.com/2007/01/swedish-broadband-not -as-wonderful-as-advertised/

    Given that you believe what the politicians tell you and whatever rumours abound, I would say you're credulous. Just the way they want you.
  16. Do they get half the difference? on New Way of Extending Satellite Life Saves Millions · · Score: 1

    Y'know. $30 million?

  17. Re:OK I'm confused. on Skin Stem Cells Used to Mend Spines of Rats · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.rds-online.org.uk/pages/page.asp?i_Page ID=145&i_ToolbarID=3

    Apparently if the severance is incomplete they can regrow nerve fibres.

    I thought humans could too though. I thought it was the scarring on the ends of the nerve fibres which prevented regrowth. My father severed the nerve in a finger, after several years it regrew and he could feel things again.

  18. Yeah, but look at all the publicity on Are Relational Databases Obsolete? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Vertica's getting a load of it free.

    Hey, you never know, some good may come of it. Maybe some of the "Nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle/SQL Server/DB2" people will have to explain why they're using inappropriate technology.

  19. Re:Biggest myths of all have been around for ages. on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 1

    It aimed to answer the questions like "Why am I here?" Actually that question may have created religion. The question "Why" implies purpose and purpose implies and intelligent creator.
  20. Mao, Pol Pot and Stalin on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did not specifically target religions because they were atheist. They targeted anyone who could possibly have been a rival.

  21. Re:Fortunately on What's Wrong With Lithium Ion Batteries? · · Score: 1

    It's not ideal for batteries to push big currents. Capacitors can. I expect capacitors to be used as a buffer in front of the batteries.

    I'll believe the energy density improvement when I see it.

  22. You really think anybod would stop to test? on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    I mean, the US managed to completely miss Al-Quaeda and hit Iraq instead.

    Politics gets in the way.

  23. Re:What a moronic post on What's Wrong With Lithium Ion Batteries? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Posting from your padded cell are you?

  24. Is the US moving nukes around? on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    If the Russians discovered that the US had been moving nukes around on planes, it would certainly explain them suddenly, publicly, restarting their flights.

  25. Re:Fortunately on What's Wrong With Lithium Ion Batteries? · · Score: 1

    The next generation of batteries will probably be Lithium Sulphur technology. Ultracapacitors are really solving a different problem.