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  1. Will google make a better master? on Google's Patents Reveal Strategy To Beat Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We are not better off if google beats microsoft. The new boss is the same as the old boss, just different methods.

    For what google is up to: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103955/categories/stupid HumanProgramming/2005/09/21.html#a200

    "They are building a real time customer profile on your real identity. This is a very valuable commodity as it gives google the ability to sell high value campaigns to advertisers.

    This may are may not seem obvious to you, but it struck me in a tetris like way how all the bricks fit together if you are trying to build up a real time customer categorization system that can be used across all properties. Other companies might do the same thing using a portfolio approach. But google has taken a less direct Sun Tzu Art of War approach.

    If you notice google doesn't create word processors or accounting programs. Almost everything they do is about getting content and getting you to provide an identity to them. ..."

  2. Re:I think I speak for all of us when I say... on HP Fires Father of OOP · · Score: 1

    That's the best one.

  3. all stories should start at the beginning on 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH · · Score: 1

    And the beginning of the story, not the back story, is III.

  4. i'm hiding my stereo under lead on India Launches World's First Stereo Imaging Satellite · · Score: 1

    They won't even see it.

  5. it's entertainment on No Need For Trek Anymore · · Score: 1

    Mr. Stacked Deck puts a lot of responsibility on star trek be the Jackie Robinson of sci-fi. I watch it to be entertained. It fits in the ecological niche of all entertainment. There's room for it in my ecosystem.

  6. Re:how can it automatically know dependencies? on Does launchd Beat cron? · · Score: 1

    > The programmer or administrator is responsible
    > for putting that information in the XML file.

    Oh, ok, thanks. That's not automatic in my book though. That's as manual as it gets.

  7. how can it automatically know dependencies? on Does launchd Beat cron? · · Score: 1

    They are just programs. There's no way for it to tell how they relate.

  8. air conditioner invented on Bacteria Made to Behave as Computers · · Score: 1, Funny

    It may be used to cool air marshals as they look for terrorist devices. Please fund me.

  9. i don't care how the movie looks on Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith · · Score: 1

    Anakin becoming vader is not an interesting story. The first movies started at the real beginning. These movies are just backstory and they look it.

  10. Re:commercial use of government software on NASA Goes SourceForge · · Score: 1

    > That's just it, the government gives us
    > NOTHING. We have rights, that are inherent to
    > us as human beings that government cannot
    > take away.

    Corporations are not in the constitution. They are not people. They have no rights other than what the government gives because they are a completely made up entities. You realize that, don't you?

    We have fallen into the strange attactor of your libertarian rant and the predictible steam of verbiage comes out regardless of the appropriateness.

  11. Re:commercial use of government software on NASA Goes SourceForge · · Score: 1

    > It's fun to talk about how corporations are
    > evil and greedy and responsible for
    > everything wrong in the world,

    That's not what we are talking about. We were talking about paying for what your are given by the government as a seperate legal entity. The rest is your generic rant.

  12. Re:commercial use of government software on NASA Goes SourceForge · · Score: 1

    > But the people who end up with the money
    > the corporation makes, shareholders and
    > employees, all pay taxes on the money they receive. >The corp itself may only pay a small amount but
    >the money gets taxed eventually when
    > someone receives it as personal income.

    Corporations are special legal entities that get special rights. They should pay for these. I don't really care where their money goes. It doesn't have to go anywhere. If corps would be willing to give up thier legal protections and rights then i won't want to tax them. Do you think they will take this offer?

  13. You are right on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 1

    Have these people come up with a big bunch of code that is self documenting. Then if they can, which they won't, how much of that code exists, even if people are trying? Less than 5% certainly.

  14. France, Home of the Free! on French Courts Ban DRM on DVDs · · Score: 2, Funny

    US, the home the nanny government.

  15. Microsoft patents the thumb on Microsoft Proposes Thumb-Driven Interfaces · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chimps counter sue.

  16. Re:Reasons for robots in space on The Top Three Reasons for Humans in Space · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > Human life is precious.

    That's why humans need to take risks and explore. Not sit behind a joystick. Life is too precious to waste playing it safe. If that's what you want then fine, but don't destroy the dreams of everyone else who actually wants to risk and experience.

  17. Re:I hope people learn to become more careful on Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles · · Score: 1

    > Have fun with wiki everybody.

    Could you please buy me an encyclopedia i could use instead?

  18. still don't know what groove does on Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks · · Score: 1

    After years of trying i never got it.

  19. bad auto negotiation happens a lot on LiveJournal Blackout Analysis Online · · Score: 1

    > OTOH, I saw one example of a Crisco Crapalyst

    We always had problems with auto negotiation and the Crapalyst. It wasn't wiring or the workstation either. Whenever there was a performance problem it was almost always in the switch.

  20. when did 1 out of 37 become a low probability? on 2004 MN4 Asteroid Odds Inching Up Again · · Score: 1

    Haven't you ever watched the poker channel?
    It happens all the time.

  21. Re:VOD again and again ... on The Other VoIP · · Score: 1

    > Never quite worked, though :)

    It worked fine. It was just too expensive. They were never able to cost reduce their expensive set tops. Duh.

  22. why would w2k accept an XP patch at all? on Failed Win XP Upgrade Wipes Out UK Government Agency · · Score: 1

    > rolling an XP patch out onto a Windows
    > 2000 machine

    Wouldn't it notice?

  23. Re:The Mythical Man-Month on The Extinction of the Programming Species · · Score: 1

    Programmers have very high opinions of
    themselves. Seldom are they justified.

  24. Re:Opinions... on Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Probably. It was the worst "movie" i have
    seen in a while. I don't care about special
    effects. I care about the story and the characters
    and those both weren't very good.

  25. they need good writing on Should Star Trek Die? · · Score: 1

    not a vaction