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  1. Re:Rational Sucks on Rational Atlantic Eclipse Based Solutions · · Score: 1

    We had two developer who had used prior incarnations of ClearCase but since our needs were very basic, overcoming the installation and administration hurdle would have been too great.

  2. BMX Mini PC? on World's First BTX Mini-PC · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Crap, I read that wrong. A BMX Mini PC sounded really interresting.

  3. Rational Sucks on Rational Atlantic Eclipse Based Solutions · · Score: 2, Informative

    We just spend a month and a hald trying to demo Clearcase LT at work. I tried installing it three times and it never worked. The Rational tech support didn't have a clue and their answers seemed applicable to Clearcase not Clearcasr LT. One guy got it working with the client and server installed on one machine but we never could get it working right. I set up subversion in < 30 minutes and even the dumbest developer in our group figured out ho to check stuff out and commit changes.

  4. Don't Get It. on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    At work we just new nice new 17" LCDs. The picture on mine is no perfect, clear and saturated it nearly looks like a painting. The CRT it replaced was nowhere near the quality of this. Neither is the 21" Viewsonic P810 Graphics monitor I have at home for the kids.

  5. I think I saw that movie. on Tiny Aircraft Feeds Itself With Dead Flies · · Score: 1

    Don't the bugs evolve and start eating humans for fuel?

  6. Dumb on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    If your supposition were true we will have knocked out the easily identifyable ICBM silos before the first offensive strike. We surely wouldn't wait till their birds were halfway here.

  7. Money for somthing on What Interests High-School Students? · · Score: 1
    I imagine those students flipping burgers for minimum wage would be interesed in somthing more worthwhile if given the chance.
    • Pay them to do something. Scan in all the old public documents at the courthouse.
    • Interview retired people and publish the results on a website to teach life lessons and life stories.
    • Have them put together a program to teach Stepmania to the elderly.
  8. I'll narrow it down even quicker -for some. on Guide to your Perfect Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    Plan to take outdoor pictures or pictures at a distance of objects 20 ft or greater? You need at least 10X optical zoom.

  9. What a joke on EU Presses Ahead With Galileo GPS System · · Score: 0, Troll

    Want a great army? Stary by not forcing citizens to join. Then give them a decent budget. Right now the combined EU can't even float a navy. No functional nuclear subs and few functional carriers.

  10. Re:Actually, it is true...but probably not serious on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    It happended with Clinton was in office.

  11. Actually, it is true...but probably not serious on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 1
  12. Definition Of "Click"? on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Somehow I think ther's a pretty loose definition of "loose" being used. Those extra "clicks" that IE exploits tricked me into performing convinced me to switch to Firefox.

  13. Beach House on Cal Earth Creating Different Housing · · Score: 1

    That looks like it would make a great beach house. I'd modify the weeTwo and add a master bath. Have you applied hurricane code type engineering standards? Another interresting construction method I've seen is precast concrete construction.

  14. Why not learn from wood frame style construction? on Cal Earth Creating Different Housing · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A lot of this stuff looks pretty far fetched. In America, wood frame construction has won the affordable housing race. Advancements in modular home construction could easily be used to develop even more transportable housing. The reason I say a lot of this stuff is kooky is because of the lack of standardization. At some point you also need to talk about SAFE housing and that is very difficult without standardized building practices.

    So maybe a proposal in the middle would be to look at what made the wood frame style so successful and apply that to local building materials.

  15. You mean like Slashdot, Kuro5hin.org, etc? on Wikinews Project Launched · · Score: 1

    If anything, distortion of the news is a factor of success.

  16. Similar Situation on EA Reconsiders Overtime Position · · Score: 1

    I used to work for Newport News Shipbuilding a few years ago and they had a problem where some people working in an Engineering division were being paid salary and were overtime exempt and others were hourly workers. The salaried workers complained to management about the inequality so the CEO came up with a solution. He fired all the salaried workers and hired them back at a much lower hourly rate when they begged. Ain't corporate America great?

  17. Westwing Episode last week. on Bhopal Disaster Revisited [updated] · · Score: 1

    Last week's Westwing, The Dover Test basically mentioned the Bhopal incident in their storyline where Leo McGarry was offered a board position with a chemical company and his Indian nurse became upset.

  18. I declare war on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 1
  19. $10 Thermal Imager from a porch light on Optical Mouse Used As Cheap Motion Sensor · · Score: 4, Informative
    I was looking for an inexpensive option for thermal imaging and I came across this project for a $10 thermal imager using a automatic porch light and a frensel lense.

    Footprints project overview

  20. Rewatch The Series on Serenity Pushed Back to September · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bought the series and rewatched it in the Directory's intended order. Before I thought the series was great, but rewatching it in proper order made it awesome. Fox should be ashamed.

  21. Time Value Of Money on Screw-in LED Floodlights · · Score: 1

    Of course estimates like this always ignore the Time Value Of Money. If you were to invest the money at a modest rate of return that you are saving by going with incandesent things don't look as rosy. Add to that the early adopter fee you pay for jumping on the bandwagon first. Wait a few years and the cost will be significantly lower. Newer LED technologies like the Luxeon Star will boost output per Watt too.

  22. "It feels like a clown is raping my mouth." on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly how does your friend know how it feels to have a clown raping his mouth?

  23. Selective Discriminators - What about AGE on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1
    The summary report says they couldn't find correlation based on:
    • - number of voters
    • - median income
    • - Hispanic population
    • - change in voter turnout between 2000 and 2004
    • - support for President Bush in 2000 election


    But what about age? The county population increased nearly 7% from 2000 to 2003. If I was looking for a positive correlation in anything it would be age since Florida is one of the most popular retirement states.

  24. Better Job that the Charles de Gaulle air airport! on EU Intent on Hosting International Fusion Reactor · · Score: -1, Troll

    If they do, I hope they do a better job then they did with the $1 Bil Charles de Gaulle airport that collapsed.

  25. Re:France Has Access To Cheaper Power on EU Intent on Hosting International Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    Uhh, what innocent country is that? Ivory Coast?