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  1. Just because you can't grasp English... on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    ... it means the project will fail.

  2. Your comment would be insightful... on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    ... if the US was consistent.

    I will not repeat here the long list of murderous dictators and despots that the US has supported or enthroned during the years.

    And in any case, what gives the US any right to decide which dictators are OK and which ones are not?

    And then people in the US were asking "why us" the 9/11. Pursuing a policy that only fullfills your interests no matter what is bound to create animosity.

    Your goverment is brilliant. They are now using now the results of such policies to curtail your own cherised freedoms. I would laugh if it wa not so pathetic and dangerous.

  3. Galileo was a great scientist. on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    Harrison was a great craftsman.

    Not in the same league.

  4. Did you ever heard ... on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    ... about the legal equality of states?

    No?

    I thought so.

  5. Shitty companies like that... on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1

    .... don't have those chairs.

  6. Count them. on Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates · · Score: 1

    You need:

    -People to check code.
    -People to adapt and expand code.
    -Development work in general.

    All this was done in the US, now most probably will be done locally thus helping the local economy.

  7. Too late. Everybody hates MS. on Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates · · Score: 1

    I was extremely surprised when a friend bought a new Windows machine and the registration experience was so draining that he began to look around for Linux.

    This is a 60 year old person which you would not class as daring technologically speaking. But he has enough as do many regular people out there.

  8. Very true, but they can do something else. on Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates · · Score: 1

    Use open standards for document formats.

    That way they can keep producing MS Office for Windows, adding features and improving support to their users (at a price if they want to, but it is good time that they really support the people using their software).

    I see no reason why MS can't have a slice of the IT pie. It would just be a slice based on merit, not on bully anticompetitive tactics.

  9. A brilliant oportunity for MS. on Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates · · Score: 1

    Open your damned standards, or even better, use published ones and enhance them (without enbracing them, MS style please).

    Show the world that MS can compete based in features, user support, and merit.

    Every new obstacle is an oportunity for improvement. OSS could be the best thing that happened to MS since they barely managed to jump into the Internet band-wagon.

  10. Bingo! on Low Cost Cinema Through Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 1

    Glad to see some people that get it.

  11. Yes. on Low Cost Cinema Through Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 1

    Only movies that people want to see would become scarce, thus raising prices.

  12. You is not we. on Low Cost Cinema Through Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 1

    I would be willing to plan ahead if that would save me money.

    I already do so for opera, concerts, football, plain tickets.

    Why should cinema be any different?

  13. No pop-corn, candy, sold. on Low Cost Cinema Through Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 1

    Just for the record, this new cinema is not selling junk food at all (you can bring your own pop-corn).

    They hope that the fair pricing of movies will allow to generate profit (sell out ones would mean that some last tickets were really expensive).

  14. Not true. on Low Cost Cinema Through Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 1

    The model he tries is as follows: you start selling your stuff cheap and wait for the market to react, if the market demands more then you raise prices. Latecomers to the market pay the most because the product (cinema seats for an X movie) have become scarce.

    If your product is shit (like Matrix Reloaded) ideally buyers would be few and prices remain low or vene lower to attract more buyers.

    It has nothing to do with selling at a loss, but all with reacting according to demand (sought after films become more expensive, trashy inconsequential movies remain cheap to see).

    You obviously have not bought plain tickets with Easy Jet, if you plan your trip well in advance you can have massive savings.

    I am not associated with Easy Jet, I am just a happy customer.

  15. Police in the UK do not carry weapons. on Shocking Clothing · · Score: 1

    Criminality is immensily lower than in the US, specially of the violent kind involving guns.

    Oh sorry, I forgot to say that guns are banned.

  16. And? on Today's SCO News · · Score: 1

    The code is open, openess is encouraged.

    If malicious code is ever found all the Linux developpers will point the finger to the culprits and will endeavour to remediate the problem.

    What are the guarantees companies have against closed source rivals that may copy their code?

  17. Not so. on Philosophy, Reality and The Matrix · · Score: 1

    They composed or worte beacuse they had to. They had a message that needed to get out and found an art to do so.

    More often than not many artists did not care about entertaining an audience and very often found dishartening how the mob reacted to great masterpieces which where completely undervalued during the lifetime of their authors.

    The problem with movies, specially the ones backed by big studios, is that the art is heavily compromised by commercial considerations.

    The truly great movies of all times normally are the consequence of an artist with full control and less constraints.

    The pressure to deliver commercialy cheapens terribly many artistic endeavours. The Matrix Reloaded is a great action film aiming a bit higer than what it truly can present (the plot is thiner and stupidier than any Hollywood starlette).

  18. Oh, I see. on Philosophy, Reality and The Matrix · · Score: 1

    So we should read modern philosophy only.

    Wow. Down with Plato now! The pompous prick...

  19. Erosion .... on Pictures of Earth From Mars · · Score: 1

    .... is a bitch....

  20. Right! on 802.11g Slows Down · · Score: 1

    Thet cable from my loft to my garage (where I need Internet access) will look a bit funny, but I can disguise it by hanging some clothes and pretending is a drying line.

  21. Slap that idiot in the head. on Computing's Lost Allure · · Score: 1

    And tell him to check the definition of personal in a reputable dictionary.

    What a moron.

    Put it back in your CV, perosnal is personal, it is just an indication of your character, not a yardstick about how "professional" you are.

  22. What you forget... on Computing's Lost Allure · · Score: 1

    ... is that there are many companies that live in a permanent state of crisis....

  23. I am very calm, you just challenge my calmness.. on Buddhists Really Are Happier · · Score: 1

    B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T.

    Religion is not meant to lead you to a calmer life.

    Crussaders, suicide martyrs, inquisitors should be enough prove for that.

    If you are a religious calm person is a different.

    As for the "anti-religion" types (whatever that is) I know plenty of atheists that are calm and peaceful people.

  24. De visita en Londres? on Water Flows Uphill · · Score: 0

    Lo que es la vida. No te vas a acordar pero nos reunimos un par de veces cuando yo estaba haciendo mis pininos en la UNAM como aministrador de sistemas.

    Me da gusto ver la prominencia que has ganado gracias a tu trabajo.

    Saludos.

  25. Similar thing in Mexico on Water Flows Uphill · · Score: 1

    ... close to Comala in the state of Colima there is a stretch fo road in which one sees like going uphill as well.
    Check it here.