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  1. Re:Alright, I'll play. on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Grishnakh strong! Grishnakh no sissy under baggage load! No, not the whip!

    Um, ok. Every week makes a difference. Number of connections makes a difference. I find it makes even more of a difference when travelling in Europe, where they frequently weight (and weight-limit) carry-on bags.

    Yes, one pound makes no difference when it's "once in a while". It's a different story when you're always on the road.

  2. Re:Alright, I'll play. on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 2

    Do you lug your laptop through airports every week? A pound makes a hell of a difference when it's hanging off your arm for an hour at a time. I'll take a pound over upgradeability any day, but my use pattern differs from yours.

  3. Re:How about getting the units right? on TSMC To Spend $10B Building Factory for 450mm Wafers · · Score: 1
    Wafer diameter is in millimeters. Process feature size is in nanometers. No error was committed in prefixes.

    Wafer handling is a big deal, and the bigger the wafer the less waste there is at the circumference, increasing yield.

  4. Re:l2history on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no difference between offensive and defensive weapons in the nuclear age. Ideologues quickly forget that balance is what kept us all from getting nuked for 30 years. Anything that moves that balance is a threat with the offensive capability. Given how trigger-happy the US has become I can certainly understand the traditional enemy's belligerence in the face of an increase in "defense" systems deployed near their borders.

  5. Re:Maybe I'm Understanding This Wrong on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 2

    10:1 says that once the (alice->victor | bob->victor) delay is longer than the speed of light delay from alice->bob the effect vanishes. The result seems consistent with causation being an effect at slower scales than the speed of light, which comes back to the basics of modern physics: Everything is goofy when you get near C.

  6. Re:Computers are a fad. on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's correct. If you've been writing DRM you haven't produced a useful program.

  7. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 2

    You say same percentage, I say same relative impact to standard of living. Fair means different things to different people.

  8. Re:There is a deeper meaning here on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    Yes, because extra-judicial assassination always seems like such a reasonable course of action.

  9. Re:Facts on Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev · · Score: 1

    They can unilaterally change the contract, and you can't. There's a bit of a power imbalance in the relationship.

  10. Re:Facts on Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev · · Score: 2

    And can you then drop your side of the contractual obligation without penalty? I thought not.

  11. Re:Conartist Party Lies on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    It promotes growth and is strong.

  12. Re:Obviously... on Using Fractal Interconnects To Improve Electronic Eyes · · Score: 2
    Most blind people aren't blind since birth. A large fraction of blind folks suffer from age-related macular degeneration, where the reflective pigment at the back of the eye gets damaged or destroyed (through a few mechanisms), or the retinal "screen" is otherwise damaged (torn, distorted, occluded) by capillary leakage and scarring. In some cases it's very narrow areas - you won't notice them if they are in the periphery - but they wreak havoc if they are centrally located and/or spreading. Note that these processes don't affect the neurons as much as the detection equipment and/or shape of the receptor field.

    Add the baby boomer effect, and it's become very profi^H^H^H^H^Hrelevant to be able to overcome these degenerations.

  13. Re:Credit on 'Canadian DMCA' Copyright Bill Dead Again · · Score: 1

    At least 63 million. Harper has turned the government of Canada into the largest advertising buyer in Canada. Sick.

  14. Re:Ugh.. on 'Canadian DMCA' Copyright Bill Dead Again · · Score: 1

    Ask any oh the G20 protesters which government was tromping on rights. Ask Harper about his inability to balance a budget, or even put all the expenses down in it! Ask harper about his 6billion dollar gift to corporations (those are "businesses", no?). The liberal misdemeanors are now 7 years past, and the team has changed. Unless you're the kind of person who is guilty for your parents' sims, you need to let go and see who is corrupt today, not most of a decade ago.

  15. Re:Windows Phone 7 on Apple vs. Microsoft: a Tale of Two Mobile Updates · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean more like the Newton interface ;-)

  16. Re:They are too focused on cost and ignore value on Are Tablets Just Too Expensive? · · Score: 1
    Look at the parent's application. Yes, having the keyboard there gets in the way. Needing to hold the laptop and press keys to control the playback while trying to show someone a video *standing* on a sports field doesn't work as well as a tablet.

    I'm surprised you didn't recommend he use a pencil-and-paper playbook. We've made do with those for years.

    Get off the hater bandwagon and actually think about what it might be good for.

  17. Re:Netbook Pro on Early Review of 11" Macbook Air · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Because you keep your laptop tethered?

    Wifi actually works.

  18. Re:Why 3D? on Sunshine Writer Joins Logan's Run Remake · · Score: 2, Funny

    You need 3D for the 1970's titties.

  19. Re:Oh Canada on Bill Proposes Canadian Cellphone Unlocking Rights · · Score: 1

    Nice! I wish I'd had that link 5 hours ago! Thanks. +5 informative.

  20. Re:Don't hold your breath on Bill Proposes Canadian Cellphone Unlocking Rights · · Score: 1
    Also keep in mind that the ruling conservative party is a minority party.

    The days of electoral majorities are behind us, I think. Time to get more mature about our voting options.

  21. Re:Oh Canada on Bill Proposes Canadian Cellphone Unlocking Rights · · Score: 5, Insightful
    So you also clearly don't keep health insurance for your family, don't benefit from (in no particular order) police services, fire departments, curb-side trash removal, winter snow removal, labor regulation, environmental regulation, judicial services, etc.

    Why are so many people willfully ignorant of what services modern governments pay for from their taxes?

  22. Re:welp. on iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales · · Score: 1
    No, no, no. The iPad is not a giant iPod Touch.

    The iPot Touch is a miniature iPad. You really have to keep that one straight.

  23. Re:After a month of daily use... on iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales · · Score: 1

    Having typed SMSs on phones and having typed on an iPad - what the hell are you talking about? I wouldn't want to write a novel, but short emails, SMS, tweets, are much nicer on the iPad than any other non-laptop I've used.

  24. Re:If I could do it, I would! on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 2, Insightful
    With that attitude, I hope that you have some alternative mechanism for receiving your post, food delivery to your grocer, and all the other second-hand societal & civilizational lubricating effects that the public roads bring.

    Selfish moron.

  25. Re:What do you DO with an iPad? on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yes. Unless you also count "easy data entry tablet" through the numbers app.

    But yes. Mobile media display, iTunes remote control, web browsing. In a stable platform that I don't have to screw with.

    That's a lot of "That's it".