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  1. +5 Hysterical on Japanese Chip Makers to Unite · · Score: 1

    It's competition that keeps U.S. companies honest.

    You should be in showbusiness, hahahahahahaha.

  2. The Inquirer gets it wrong on Is the Dell/Microsoft Alliance Fracturing? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dell is under no obligation to ship IE with their machines

    Unless IE has been decoupled with Windows recently without anyone being told, Dell, like everyone else, has no choice in the matter.

  3. Re:"Most readers have probably heard about Firefox on Firefox Secrets · · Score: 1

    Eh? I've just sung its praises in the previous comment. I think you should read what I said again.

  4. Re:Why not flying cars, then? on Stanley and the Conquest of the DARPA Challenge · · Score: 1

    Dunno about the US but in the UK you have to have your car's roadworthiness checked every year by law, so it wouldn't be that much of a bind to have a flying car checked every six months.

  5. Re:With regards to the hoax... on Slashback: Little Red Hoax, Firefly, Google · · Score: 1

    Effect can also be used as a verb.

    -Mr DeadDrunk Earth date 29/12/2005

  6. Re:Intelligent Design tantamount to teaching relig on Slashback: Little Red Hoax, Firefly, Google · · Score: 1

    Please read this. Theory means something a little different when we're talking about science and I'm a bit tired of religious nutcases pretending that it means the same as the dictionary definition.

  7. Re:"Most readers have probably heard about Firefox on Firefox Secrets · · Score: 1

    The only thing I like about IE is that it can be controlled via a script, which is very handy when you have to fill in dozens of webforms with very similar data over and over again. I know that that's bad design but when you're an office clerk you have to live with what IT gives you but being ex-IT I know ways to speed stuff up and I'm glad that IE and all the other MS products we seem to be stuck with at least have one redeeming feature.

  8. Re:Just Pick One and Learn it Well on Learning Java or C# as a Next Language? · · Score: 1

    Some of the contributors to the competition are indeed businesses trying to make money.

  9. Re:Just a question on Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day · · Score: 2, Informative

    What the EU has done is enforce its laws, the same laws the US government has and failed to enforce effectively. MS has brought this on themselves, they could have easily played by the rules and licensed their technology to others. Intel did this and last I heard they were still turning a pretty hefty profit and consumers have benefited because now we have 2 major competing players in this market.

  10. Re:Just a question on Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day · · Score: 1

    Dude this isn't Korea we're talking about here, this is a market with more than twice as many people as the US in it. I'd love to see them try to sell that to their major shareholders.

  11. Re:Just a question on Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day · · Score: 1

    Yeh like even MS could afford to do that or that their shareholders will not immediately remove the board for even thinking about it.

  12. Re:What this means on New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download · · Score: 1

    Effect can also be used as a verb as in effect changes to something.

  13. Re:Leverage on Innovation Happens Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    Yeh I know, I just find marketing speak a bit annoying.

  14. Re:Leverage on Innovation Happens Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    Leverage is a noun. Some weirdoes have hijacked it and claimed it as a verb but it isnt.

  15. Re:Uhm... on Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable? · · Score: 1

    [Valley Girl]OH. MY. GOD[/Valley Girl] I never thought I'd see Easytrieve Plus mentioned on here. Personally I think it's fantastic for what it does and I've been able to convince it to do more than it wants to. It is so so much better than the original Easytrieve though (a colleague of mine christened it Easypeeve ;)).

  16. Re:bogus: diverging about half a million years lat on DNA of Woolly Mammoth Fully Sequenced · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope that's Elton John

  17. Re:Incorrect title (again) on DNA of Woolly Mammoth Fully Sequenced · · Score: 1

    It's ok they'll just fill in the blanks with frog DNA and create woolly jumpers

  18. Re:Well good on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The ridiculous thing is that there is plenty of room for evolution in the Christian faith. God made the world and everything on it and the theory of evolution is part of how he did it. How about intelligent guidance, where the creator made the first creatures and guided them via evolution to where they are now? That is pretty much how the theory of evolution (and many other things) were explained to me in my religious education. God may have created the universe in 6 days but Genesis fails to mention how long one of God's days actually is? A good theologian (like my teachers) can fit scientific advancement into the faith, bad theologians take everything literally. And yes there is no place in the teaching of science for unproven speculations, since by definition that isn't science.

  19. Re:Wait on Testing Drugs on India's Poor · · Score: 1

    Except that people should not be treated as just another commodity. Especially when those people are not just your employees but your customers as well.

  20. Re:Pixelated? on Review: Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones · · Score: 4, Informative

    And the Amiga version was pretty sexy too. Yes kids it's that old ;)

  21. Re:Mix that..... on Microsoft Tries To Charm EU With Future Visions · · Score: 1

    Ah a tedious exercise in semantics with a pedant. In the UK speeding is a criminal offence even if the penalty isn't particularly high. I don't know where you live but I bet it's not much different to here.

  22. Re:Mix that..... on Microsoft Tries To Charm EU With Future Visions · · Score: 1

    Which country do you live in where speeding isn't a crime?

  23. Re:Next Target on The Future of Outsourcing in India · · Score: 1

    Except that when socialism was rationally applied in the US, UK, western Europe, Japan and Australia everyone got a great deal richer not to mention healthier, better educated and having access to a range of technology unimaginable even 100 years ago.

  24. Re:(was Interesteing Problems) on Microsoft Ends IE for Mac · · Score: 1

    And to that last sentence I simply say ha! When have Microsoft EVER had to pay up due to losses due to their poorly designed software?

  25. Re:Next Target on The Future of Outsourcing in India · · Score: 1

    We oppose it because it impoverishes people in rich countries without doing much to improve the living standards of those in poor countries (India being the exception before you start jumping up and down). Fair and well-managed globalisation would be fine, destruction of people's lives and exploitation of people's abject poverty is not that.