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  1. Re:Taikonaut, cosmonaut and astronaut on China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just wait 'til the beavernaut pulls out the "candarm"

  2. Re:Does that mean it can run on BIOdiesel? on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 1

    Yes, as we all know diesel is not made from oil. Thus big oil would not be able to sell diesel. And it certainly doesn't come from the same cracking towers used to produce gasoline.

  3. Re:Very Very sad on David Foster Wallace an Apparent Suicide · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Generally "survivor" is used to mean a situation in which ones death could easily have been foreseen. For instance. "I'm a survivor of the Iraq War" or "I'm a survivor of a horrible car accident", "I survived cancer" etc. People generally don't use survivor like this: "I'm a survivor of driving to work", "I survivor of my dad's heart attack", etc. I agree it's fucking pathetic to think you survived someone else's suicide. Talk about ego.

    People who talk like would probably like to commit suicide but know that they'd fail at that like everything else in their lives.

    You disgrace everyone who has actually survived something that was a serious risk to their life.

    If you seriously think you are a survivor of this suicide, go to the nearest VA hospital and have a chat with those guys about surviving. Odds are you'll end up getting the shit beat out of you by people with no legs.

  4. Re:First Godwin! on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not well known, but the officers uniforms were actually designed by Hugo Boss, that's why they look sharp.

  5. Re:Misleading summary on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    NASDAQ also runs on MS.

  6. Re:1906 on Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know where exactly if not in the ground in the form of oil for a few million years did this plastic bag reside before it was produced in a factory.

    It's not really a big deal geologically if a plastic bag doesn't decompose for 300 years.

  7. Re:Does ISO still matter?? on ISO Relevance Questioned After OOXML Appeals Fail · · Score: 1

    It's only bribery if it's a gov't official. No one is forced to accept ISO standards.

  8. Re:What we really need. on Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US · · Score: 1

    Everyone sells out to private interests that is the nature of gov't, to pick who's interests to favor over others. In this case to decide between those who want less pollution and thus the economic benefits, vs. those who do not want the benefits nor the pollution.

    What you are really saying is I want a politician who will not sell out my interests in favor of other interests, but that doesn't quite have the same altruistic ring to it does it?

  9. Re:Iowa takes lead in corporate welfare on Iowa's New Top Crop Is Server Farms · · Score: 1

    Easy, from each project cut 25%. This is what large companies do, except their depts are required to cut their budget by 10% each year.

    Sorry, but there is no column in the budget specifically for waste.

    Waste in gov't happens like this:
    It's the end of year, I'm a manager and I have money left over in my budget. If I don't spend it next year I will get less. Lets get new chairs and some new printers. Companies that sell to the gov't know this and phone around end of year to sell things to waste money. Hopefully they will spend a little over their budget. Then they go to their manager and request more for next year.

  10. Re:Oh goody... on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, good, glad we got that cleared up, now everything hot or cold can be attributed to Global Warming.

    It's funny the weatherman can't predict whether it will rain in a week yet the GW movement knows the exact temperature 100 years from now.

    The GW movement is starting to sound an awful lot like Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland. I guess it's a step up from Chicken Little.
    "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."

  11. Re:As an Ex cable industry insider.... on Time Warner Cable Box Rental Inspired Antitrust Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Gold IS money. The price of gold in USD is the exchange rate between USD and gold. The price indicates the demand / scarcity relationship between the two currencies. However, in most countries people are not forced to accept gold as payment of debt. The price of gold is along with other metals is a fairly good indicator of how much our currencies have been devalued by central banks.

  12. Re:If in doubt, read this article! on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 1

    I can only think of one.

  13. Re:DoSing is OK now? on FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So is public mischief.

  14. Re:ffmpeg on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On a two processor system this would result in multi-threading being off.

  15. Re:ffmpeg on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 4, Informative

    No it doesn't the only time you want to use multi-threading in a single CPU environment is because asynchronous methods for IO are unavailable or the code would be too difficult to re-architect to use asynchronous IO. If the application is seriously IO bound threads can even make the situation worse by causing random IO patterns.

    Ideally, the number of threads a program uses should be no more than the number of processors available. Otherwise, you are wasting time context switching instead of processing.

  16. Re:It's mildly shocking... on Apple Files Suit Against Psystar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because their products are highly targeted and because most of what they are selling is branding. Tiger has similarly annoying issues as Vista. I had a mac laptop for about 2 years and I found that I spent 70% of my time in Parallels using Server 2003.

    If a gamer bought a Mac he would be highly unsatisfied as it doesn't play games. Apple doesn't have to, nor does a lot of things Windows does.

  17. Re:So what's the point of having ratings? on Minnesota Pays Video Game Industry $65K In Fees · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is false. It is not illegal, it contravenes the contract the most movie theaters have in place with the distributor.

  18. Re:So what's the point of having ratings? on Minnesota Pays Video Game Industry $65K In Fees · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To provide the customer an objective analysis of things they or the party they are purchasing for may find offensive in the game before purchasing the game in an effort to reduce returns or unsatisfactory feelings arising from the purchase.

  19. Re:Admittedly.... on Brian Aker On the Future of Databases · · Score: 1

    wow.

    I imagine a schema like OrderItemId1, OrderItemId2 .. OrderItem500. I have a feeling if you designed your schema, it would be much faster.

  20. Re:Jerry Yang did the right thing on Microsoft Offered $40 a Share For Yahoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Jerry Yang's job isn't to do whats good for Yahoo, it's to do whats good for the share holders. Maybe you forget that they are the people who actually own the company. Yang needs to demonstrate how Yahoo will deliver more than double its January value to it's shareholders.

    That's part of the deal for taking public money, if you don't like the deal don't take the money.

  21. Re:Paper Tiger on Net Neutrality Bill Introduced In Canadian Parliament · · Score: 0

    Generally, whatever makes the most money is most beneficial to the people when there is no gov't interference in the market place. If thinking about the "people" really worked Soviet Russia would have been an awesome place to live. What this bill does is make the service more beneficial to SOME PEOPLE and less beneficial to others. The thing is that service providers and their customer are much better able to agree on reasonable terms than the gov't is to dictate terms of agreements for everyone. If I want my packets to get somewhere ahead of other peoples packets I should be able to pay to make it so. This is why some people send letters USPS and some use FedEx. Just wait til you get past the good intentions of net neutrality to the bad results. Of course this piece of regulation will be different than all the others.

  22. Re:some standards are more equal than others on UK Agency Files OOXML Complaint, EU Demurs · · Score: 1

    Everyone has to make a decision between X and food. Goods and services are scarce resources that people need to economize. I'd be willing to bet that most of the parents you are talking about also smoke, buy lottery tickets, and alcohol.

    The same parents will also have to make the choice between a computer and food.

    It would be interesting to see how many families are rich enough to be able to afford a computer, yet cannot afford Windows 98 and Office 97. Which would enable them to inter-operate with a computer at school running Windows Vista and Office 2007.

    I just looked at craigslist and found a computer with a Windows 2000 and Office 2000 for $45. Office 2007 will save documents in Office 97 format.

  23. Re:Intellectual Property on Security Research and Blackmail · · Score: 1

    Hit it in the corner and it will break like nothing. Borrow a key from anyone around you and put it into the bottom rear corner of the glass and press as hard as you can, not only will it break but 90% of the glass will fall on the ground outside the vehicle. Pound on it in the center and you will be there all day. Wikipedia a "Prince Rupert's Drop" to know why it works like this.

  24. Non-Embryonic Stem Cells? on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    Why is an embryonic stem cell "life"?
    And a non-embryonic stem cell not "life"?

    If we found the tech to create "embryonic" stem cells from non-embryonic stem cells would it then be OK to test on them?

  25. Re:Nuclear Power and Global Warming on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically you're right, there is no "risk" of contamination from coal, it just plain contaminates everyday. There is enough uranium and thorium in most coal that if you could extract it economically would produce more power than the coal itself. Coal is somewhat radioactive, how do you think they do carbon dating?

    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste