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  1. Re:yay dotcom bubble on Oracle To Buy Siebel · · Score: 1

    In a single step, Oracle becomes the number one CRM [customer relationship management] applications company in the world,

    I guess we now know what step ??? profit is.

  2. Re:The Article is a troll on Supernova 1987A Decoded · · Score: 1

    Thank you for being a math Nazi. I am saying three pages as in 3 full pages. I doubt it will start exactly at the first row of page 666 and go to last possible row of page 670.

    But hey if you just want to go around looking for math erros you go right ahead.

  3. Re:The Article is a troll on Supernova 1987A Decoded · · Score: 1

    from the Electric Universe Site:
    MANY OPEN QUESTIONS ABOUT A BLACK HOLE: XTEJ1118+480

            * Why are jets emitted by a black hole instead to disappear in it ?
            * Why are these jets million light year long and thin ?
            * Matter in the jet is accelerated by a force which cannot have its counter force !
            * Which force accelerate matter in the jets in more and more distance to black hole ?
            * If the jets are million Kelvin hot, why does Chandra not show a quick cool-down ?
            * If the jets cannot be hot, why do they emit X-ray along their length as the solar corona ?
            * Why do the jets of radio galaxies contain knots but not in equal distances to the black hole ?
            * Why does the accretion disc emit X-ray also in its outer parts where it is not pressed ?

    All these questions are answered in my book The Electric Universe (p 666-670).


    So basiclly he can explain all 8 of these points in 3 pages of text. That right there makes you wonder how credible it can be. Thanks for the heads up.

  4. Re:Stop right there. on RIAA Hands out more Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    I agree.
    But of course fiel sharers pay more. They pay about $3000 to settle out fo court.

  5. Re:There is no point unless... on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 1

    I don't suppose you have the courage to say the name of your organization. That way you can save your time and the time of all those over educated over achievers out their?
    Times like this I'm glad I got out of IT. Cert's on the whole aren't bad. If anything it shoes motivation and a desire to learn. Kind of like a degree which as someone else said are kind of the same.
    Just curious what do you think about certifications in other fields, like ASE certified mechanics?

  6. Re:Great! on iTunes Might Lose Labels · · Score: 1

    Thats one of the things I hate about the music industry in general, no mater how old or how new a song/album is you probably going to pay the same amount. You can't tell me that "Just a Perfect Day" (bad heroin trip in Trainspotting) should cost the same as the osng that just won a grammy for best new shi... song.

  7. Re:How about instead of.... on Maturing Net Grows More Slowly · · Score: 1

    I'll have you know I rent the basement I live in thank you very much.

  8. Re:That's how we can kill this on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 1

    Annoying is not the same as dumb.

  9. Re:That's how we can kill this on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 1

    You don't have to accept the connection, why is this a dumb idea?

  10. Re:Necessary Evil on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    I think their is a problem with your keybord. When you tried to type he it was prefixed with a s. Just thought you'd like to know.

    On a serious note or wishful note. I wish I knew a girl that played video games.....

  11. Re:Theoretical Bounds Without Implementation on One Hundred Years of E=MC2 · · Score: 1

    Actually it does. Kind of. If I remember my Advanced Cosmology class. One of our first assignments was to figure out how much energy you would get by bringing in 1 kilogram of antimatter in to contact with its corresponding regular matter. Providing all the matter and antimatter are converted.
    While you use e=mc2, The part that a lot of people forgot was that you get twice the energy because while you get the energy of the conversion of antimatter you also get the energy from the conversion of normal mater.

  12. Re:Problem-solving on Your Homework is Play Video Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps it is because of the overwhelming lack of critical thinking and other cognitive skills in young adults nowadays.
    I wonder if every generation says this about the generation they produced. Meanwhile technology still progesses forward.

  13. Re:A few obvious questions on Henrico County iBook Sale Creates iRiot · · Score: 1

    Sorry I totally didn't catch the problems with a move from Apple to PC. Long day.

  14. Re:A few obvious questions on Henrico County iBook Sale Creates iRiot · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be kind of foolish to keep using the laptops in a public school after the service agreement was up. I could only imagine how hard the wear and tear would be on them in public school and even if you know who broke something good luck trying to get all the money back it took to fix them. Plus they will break eventually without malicious intent. So you going to have to fix or buy new ones.

    At least with a contract you have a fixed price that you can be reasonably assuerd wont change, and if it does their are legal chanels to persue.

  15. Re:Massive surge coming, just look on Firefox Share Slipped in July for the First Time · · Score: 2

    Why didn't they install it on their rents machines. I did when I went home?

  16. Re:Interesting on US Copyright Office Considering MSIE-only website · · Score: 1

    I'll post a responce someone put in refrence to my IT company

    "Left hand, I'd like to intrdouce you to Right Hand, we'll introduce you to The HEad later"

  17. Re:The catch? Those aren't your USPS boxes! on FedEx Cracks Down on Box Furniture, Citing DMCA · · Score: 1

    Is it because he's using FedEx images on his website?

    Not that I'm defending FedEx but I wonder if that is the angle they are using.

  18. Re:Not enough on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    I didn't say anything about the war on drugs being winable. I have a degree in Criminology, we talked about that at length. I was refering to the fact that if you not involved with the war on drugs opr now adays the war on terror, your not going to get as much money funneld to you.

    Your right it is an allocation problem. They only have so much to allocate. They are not a money making machine like corprate America. MS gives them 5 billion to allocate to a certain section that I feel has been largly ignored. So why do you have issue with it?

    For the record I think stopping pedophiles is a good expendature of money.

  19. Re:Not enough on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1
    "Often"

    I said often. And I wasn't refering to pork barrel products either. I'm talking about local polcie departments and agencies that aren't getting money for teh war on drugs.

  20. Re:Respect the Contract on Japanese Musicians Defy Sony by Joining iTunes · · Score: 1

    Or as the GP said by not getting in bed with them to start with.

  21. Re:Not enough on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    Were not talking about the business world though are we, as that is where the money is coming from were talking about law enforcement agencies as that is where the money is going. The private sector will often have more money that the public sector, thats just how it works. I'm sure they wont be complaining about how little this ammount is. You have people at different LEA getting excited when they get a 10,000 grant, in smaller towns it makes the paper etc. But this is /. where MS is always eveil no if's and's or butt's so I'm sure this post will fall on deaf ears.

  22. Re:Not enough on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    Okay so giving 0 dollars would obviously not help fight spam or improve IT skills, that's a given, now your saying that 5 million wont either. So if there is no change or benefit from 5 million instead of 0 by your reasoning you could say that no amount of money will ever make a change?
    Good God people a company of it's own free will gives 5 million to different groups and you still moan about how crappy it is. Do they get PR out of it yeah probably, so does any Tom Dick and Harry that makes a donation to a school and has a building named after them. Would you rather they horde all their money and not give it out? Tell me what would you have them do? At least it must be simple living in your world where everything is so black and white. Company X is bad everything they do is bad, company Y is good everything they do is good. You know it's not that simple there are shades of gray.
    Also your point is flawed by saying that the money they are giving will not help since it's only a fraction of their R&D. Care to explain how that works? I mean if a company that spends 10 million of R&D gives 5 million for charity how would that 5 million be any different than the 5 million that MS gave?

  23. Re:It would be humorous to note... on Apple's iPod Interface Patent in Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    Totally off topic but I seem to rememebr MS being the first to offer a optical mouse?

  24. Re:Learning? on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 1

    I kept mine for a few reasons. One was so I would have somthing to show for all the money I spent on tham and all the time I spent reading them. Besides it makes you look intelligent too ;)

  25. Re:Learning? on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 1

    It is unfortunate that learning has become a profit commodity
    Where have you been for the last few hundred years? If you talking about modern times have you seen the price of textbooks? Modern Universities have always been expensive, if money goes out, Professors, Facilities, Services etc it has to come in doesn't it? I don't think your that naive I just think you're just Karma whoring. And to add lthat last little bit you made the point of it being the result of the American school industry. So does that mean that education was free right up until the Americans decided tyo change it. The Universities in Europe? Where they free before?