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  1. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    You might want to switch to Nollywood or Bollywood. The effects are noticeably less special, and the acting and plot may be more than a little formulaic, but there is still more interest in the content ant Hollywood manages!

  2. Re:Weather, not climate on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1

    But, as previous poster implied, it typically disspates at least one unit of heat for each unit it moves. Better performance is possible, but worse is more likely.

  3. Re:as an American... on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1

    As a UK resident, I can't sleep with a fan or A/C blowing on my face, even in West Africa. A cool breese is a scary idea for me - more people die from cold in the UK than from car accidents!

  4. Re:and you wonder.. on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 2
    Most recruitment processes these days appear to be highly optimised for the purpose of recruiting fakes - not just in IT, but in every part of the organisation. Its even worse in the public sector - at least here in the UK.

    Part of the problem is the (media promoted) idea that an education.means being vaguely literate, and knowing how to learn some guff by rote.

    While I accept that most Western educated people know a bit more than the Nigerian terrorists who believe that "book learning is unIslamic (haram)" (makes it easy to persuade a few illiterates that they are good Muslims), the reality is that the margin is not as great as it could be. Far to many people have the attitude "never mind the learning bit, I just want the certificate".

  5. Re:Bronies on Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S · · Score: 1
    You are right, I had no idea. but

    At last - convincing evidence that Windows causes brain damage!

  6. Re:It's the business model on Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S · · Score: 1
    beyond generating loyalty from 1%ers like Slashdotters

    Spoken like a true PHB.

    Many people, including IBM, have learned the hard way: you have to please the nerds, cos they are the people the others go to for advice.

    Obviously not the only people they go to for advice - some people ask Kim Kardasian, some ask famous rappers, and others ask "My Little Pony". Some don't understand the answer they get from a nerd anyway.

    However, the people that ask the nerds are usually the ones responsible for bulk purchasing for corporations.

    Any conmpany which makes its purchasing recommendations on the basis of "My Little Pony" will probably go out of business before it pays for the product.

  7. Re:It's the business model on Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S · · Score: 3, Informative
    Unfortunately, a few guys running their mouths and waving their arms about conspiracy theories doesn't take the place of real evidence.

    You must be new here.

  8. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    As most Christians outside America know full well.

  9. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    Mod parent +1, Informative

  10. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    You must be new here!

  11. Re:One benchmark on Intel Medfield SoC Specs Leak · · Score: 1

    I think there is a confusion between m and u here, or you are not talking about idle.

  12. Re:And the other reason is... on Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    Mod parent +1 right

  13. Re:"Foxconn posts $943 million net profit..." on i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China · · Score: 1
    And there was me thinking Hon Hai was a school in a Rock and Roll movie based in the 1950's.

    Perhaps I have had one too many brandies in the festive season!

  14. Re:Obvious on i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China · · Score: 1
    It's obvious that low skill manufacturing jobs pay less than high skill design jobs.

    Its also obvious that any idiot can become a PHB, Unfortunately, vacancies are restricted to idiots.

  15. Re:Why manufacturing is important on i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China · · Score: 1

    You might need to go and see a Harry Potter film - no one has to do that stuff any more - they just wave a magic wand and speak Latin. (So watch out for Latin America, I say!)

  16. Re:There is a reason on i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China · · Score: 1
    employ more peasants

    Please, please, can I have a joke about how many Chinese peasants it take so make an iPhone?

    And, for a bonus point, howm many American peasants it would take to make the same iPhone?

  17. Re:A need to rethink economics for post-scarcity on i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China · · Score: 1
    Well, that is part 1.

    In part II, Americans with no money and no welfare kill the rich, and impose a communist government - then everyone starves.

    Meanwhile, in Europe, where there are viable welfare schemes, the robots work a bit harder, and everyone else parties like its 1999.

  18. Re:Profit as a Ratio, and as an Absolute value on i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China · · Score: 2

    Cash is abundant in China because America has been printing dollars and sending them tho China to buy stuff which cannot be manufactured profitably in America, cos America's business methods are cr*p.

  19. Re:Dirty trick on Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com · · Score: 1
    I am sorry, but for politicans, I expect it to be

    politiciansname.scum

    regardless of party affiliation.

  20. Re:The other five on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 1

    I dont think there will be a problem - The evidence is that they've already had all the PC they can take!

  21. Re:Right to Read on Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access · · Score: 1

    Please, where can I find how to root my microwave? I really want it to play mp3s when the food is cooked!

  22. Re:Right to Read on Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access · · Score: 1

    Mod parent +1 sane batshit

  23. Re:Prior art on Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls · · Score: 1

    If the patent system was meaningful, the fact that someone else thought of it before the patent was publicly released would be considered a demonstration that it is "obvious to anyone sufficiently skilled in the art"

  24. Re:Where else do our parts come from? on Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides · · Score: 1
    You think they are actually worse than the last bunch? You might try reading the news (tax settlements, phone regulators, bank exchange rates, to name but a few issues that the pervious govenment stood by and watched, while the present bunch are publicly throwing a sop).

    Yay! Vote Gordon Brown - he knows how to spend your money better than you do! (Jobs for the boys is the answer -Mugabe told him so).

  25. Re:Where else do our parts come from? on Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 is made in Japan?