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  1. Re:CDs! How *quaint* on UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 · · Score: 1

    You missed his point. It's not all about nostalgia, it's about how you interact with the medium.

  2. Re:CDs! How *quaint* on UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 · · Score: 1

    I would bet the people increasingly buying vinyl are not the ones listening to "overprocessed, overmodulated, autotuned, beatbox crap". As much that does cover a lot of what's on the radio, there is still as much good music being made today as ever.

  3. Re:I Am Shocked! on UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 · · Score: 1

    Wow, way to ruin the poor guys whole mp3 collection.

  4. Re:hmm... on Google Reported Ready To Leave China April 10 · · Score: 1

    The difference between simplified and traditional are not very significant. It's trivial to convert between the two, and if you're proficient in one, learning the other is not very difficult. Even without learning the other characters you can typically read it without much trouble.

  5. Re:If both beams are 3.5 TeV on LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV · · Score: 1

    And yes, that does mean that they create those tiny black holes all the time in our atmosphere.
    If this would create black holes, earth would have never existed.

    Potentially, but we haven't yet proven that micro black holes can be created by particle collisions. If it turns out they can be created however, it would certainly imply that they are not a risk to the planet.

  6. Re:If both beams are 3.5 TeV on LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I highly doubt you'd feel an impact with a single particle regardless of it's momentum. It would just blow right through you like an X-Ray or gamma ray without you knowing, but potentially damaging some DNA on its way.

  7. Re:Good luck with that on Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but what's that worth when almost no one is using the Theora support?

  8. Re:11k Is Too Big? on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    I disagree, I'd say the embedded programming style is inferior. There's nothing stopping regular programmers from coding the way they do so it would be done if it had any value. The embedded guys don't write unportable assembly because it's better, they do it because they have to.

  9. Re:11k Is Too Big? on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    If that's the point of the article (which I don't think it is) then it does not make the case very well. You would need to show how that overhead scales with larger programs. Sure an extra 10k of code for Hello World is a lot, but if KDE only has 10k overhead I'd be pretty damn impressed.

  10. Re:He could have fixed it with a wave of the hand on Jobcentre Apologizes For Anti-Jedi Discrimination · · Score: 1

    It would be more accurate to compare it to "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy" -> "Everyone has to take a day off once every seven days". Not much of a stretch really, is it?

  11. Re:firefox is getting old on Microsoft Previews IE9 — HTML5, SVG, Fast JS · · Score: 1

    It's fine as default behavior, now quit bitching. Just change your Firefox preferences and move on with your life.

  12. Re:Interesting point on How To Guarantee Malware Detection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have a hard time believing a technique that starts with "swap out everything in RAM" could ever be used for real-time detection.

  13. Re:Why a 140-char limit, and why not by words? on Pharma Marketing Faces a Character-Count Conundrum · · Score: 1

    The messages are limited to the size of an SMS messages since that is how tweeting was originally meant to be done.

  14. Re:Priorities. on Former Astronauts Call Obama NASA Plans "Catastrophic" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If doing nothing costs more than an additional trillion over 10 years because of the continuously rising costs of health care in America, then paying only an extra trillion is a way to save money.

  15. Re:A minor point... on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    While you're writing email or browsing the web? I've used it before on my girlfriends iphone, and I seem to remember having to stop the music when I needed to look something up.

  16. Re:It's already been there on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The apps most likely to be running in the background on my phone are various audio players, google navigation, and other various gps apps for recording trip information.

  17. Re:I hope it's optional in settings on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Android 2.1 has a task manager under Settings/Applications/Running Services. I never use it to kill apps though. Apps that don't multitask right get uninstalled from my phone.

  18. Re:A minor point... on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You prefer being limited to using only Apples music player? Personally on my phone I listen to streams from last.fm as much as I listen to local MP3s, and I wouldn't be able to do that on an iPhone.

  19. Re:How about leaving it in a bag or on a bench on New Phone Allows Bosses To Snoop On Staff · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If a company wants to track your every movement throughout the day, how hard is it to imagine they would also require you to wear the tracking device?

  20. Re:Protein? on Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean it took you a few minutes to get to the third sentence in the summary where it said just that?

  21. Re:Similar languages on Google's Computing Power Refines Translation · · Score: 1

    Are you sure the human translators aren't just using google translate?

  22. Re:Try using google voice transcription on Google's Computing Power Refines Translation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, google voice is fun, it's what you get when you combine voicemail and mad-libs.

  23. Re:Does the vendor make md5 or sha1 hashes availab on Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications? · · Score: 1

    How is removing XMMS a sign of not being up to date? XMMS hasn't been supported by the developer for years. Audacious is what you are looking for and I'm sure it's in the Ubuntu repos.

  24. Re:Forged Headers? on Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone · · Score: 1

    sjobs@apple.com, steve@apple.com and sj@pixar.com are all reported to work. It's no secret.

  25. Re:Forged Headers? on Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Faking email headers is trivial. Getting Steve Jobs personal email so that you can fake a reply is slightly harder.