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  1. Prevention on The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing · · Score: 2

    Pay for the protection, not the clinic.

  2. Re:"None" is better than inconsistent? on Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' · · Score: 1

    You might consider that the person who has this flash requirement, such as yourself, should be savvy enough to find a way to get flash operating on the iPhone. So effectively the option is there. If your aim is to move design away from a format that you consider unstable/unsuitable for your environment, then the majority of people who don't have an opinion should not be given access. This will apply pressure to designers to seek open standards compliant formats.

  3. "Toyota" really? on Long In Development, Toshiba 'SCiB' Battery Debuts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Toyota really involved or do all Japanese companies look the same to you?

  4. Astrology implications on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh sweet Orion! Astrology may be true! Stars have some unknown influence on local physical properties depending upon distance. Is it any massive body? Moon/Planets? You just know this research is going to be abused, right?

  5. Re:But not int on The Xbox 360 Unveiled · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not really interesting until it runs Linux.

    When it does, will there be a reason to upgrade my old one? Can it capture video? Can it take USB drives?

  6. Design flaw on Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod · · Score: 1

    Phone + mp3 = no music in flight for you!

    Please someone figure out that you don't always want your phone on when you want music!

    And I'll be damned if I want my phone sending DRM or other info back to MS. Plays-for-Sure my butt.

  7. Re:There was no violence before video games... on Views on Violence in Video Games · · Score: 1

    And no monopolies before the Parker Brothers' board game. If only the Bill Gates' of the world had played something else then there wouldn't be all this corporate trouble in the US today.

  8. British go-getters have gone on Beagle 2 Official Inquiry Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    I propose a cultural problem.

    I would like a Brit to reflect here on why nearly all of their major high profile public projects are doomed to spectacular failure.

    I get the feeling that the once great empire building country seems to have exported and lost it's go-getters and is stuck with second rate middle management who are hell bent on staying where they are, interfering with their own agendas and covering their butts later.

  9. Not as good as you think on Scalable Enterprise Buzzword Solutions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I hear these buzz words I immediately assume that whatever the hell they are selling is not as good as the words may lead you to think. They're saying something but they are hiding something. Damned weasels.

    Give me benchmarks! Give me comparisons!

  10. Re:Sony Quality? on Sony PSP Defects Reported · · Score: 1

    Sony is known for their marketing of their brand name and insinuating that they produce higher quality products.

    In my humble opinion, Sony is at the low end of the quality spectrum and the high end of pricing. Their after sales service is notoriously poor.

    People buy Sony when they don't know any better.

  11. War on Spam on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    Makes much more sense than the alleged "War on Terror". We know the enemy, we don't have to kill them (yet) to stop them, I can and would contribute to the effort with a clear conscience that this is the right thing to do.

    Sure there may be legal repercussions but I still feel, in my gut, that this sort of thing is the right thing to do.

    Come on George, declare a "War on Spam". I have a speech right here for ya:

    "My war on spam begins with all spammers, but it does not end there. It will not end until every spamming group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.

    These spammers spam not merely to waste bandwidth, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every piece of unsolicited mail, they hope that genuine e-mailers grow fearful, retreating from cyber space and forsaking news groups. They stand against me, because I stand in their way.

    I am not deceived by their pretenses to piety. I have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the spamist ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing bandwidth to serve their advertising visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded trash cans.

    My response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated replies. I should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic e-mails to ISP's, visible to news groups, and covert operations, secret even in success. I will starve spammers of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from ISP to ISP, until there is no refuge or no rest. And I will pursue ISP's that provide aid or safe haven to spammers. Every ISP, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with me, or you are with the spammers."

    From this day forward, any ISP that continues to harbor or support spammers will be regarded by me as a hostile regime."

  12. Re:Forced to dump WordPerfect on Novell vs. Microsoft, Again · · Score: 1
    You clearly fabricated that anecdote.

    How on Earth do you come to that false conclusion? You clearly are a troll, but I am not above feeding trolls.

    Just quickly: new page orientation, multi documents, large document handling, quick key macros, obvious placement of header and footer menu, logical and reliable image/graphic/table/textbox placement, placing anything above an object at the top of a document, tables and borders, page numbering, dot leaders, tab stops, help, and of course: reveal codes.

    I know there is more, but it has been a long time. I have used WordPerfect since version 4.2 for DOS, I taught version 5 onwards and co-written some manuals and self paced exercise books for many of the old WordPerfects and the newer MS Words.

    I would also like to state that I believe that making Alt+F4 close a window was a malicious act on Microsoft's behalf against WordPerfect users.

    This was a good book in it's time Word Annoyances.

  13. Forced to dump WordPerfect on Novell vs. Microsoft, Again · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I was managing IT for a department where we standardised on WordPerfect. The initial release of any new version was always buggy, but patches would quickly stabilise WordPerfect into a solid package.

    Then we merged with another department who were MS Word users. The new head of department demanded that everyone use MS Word. His justification was that they made the operating system and so the office package must be the best. All the WordPerfect users were forced to switch. They were stunned at how awkward many functions were in MS Word, the lack of power, the interference of the automatic features, and the numerous bugs. I have had to replace a couple destroyed keyboards from users that went ape over the frustrations of using MS Word. They switched to MS Word 7 years ago and they still complain.

    The university made a deal with Microsoft so that we could install Office on any university system we wanted and staff could use it on home computers for free. WordPerfect can't match it. To make matters worse, Corel have dramatically increased the price on the academic edition of WordPerfect and the money people won't let me buy a single copy.

    Pretty much, the whole world uses MS Office these days. For anyone else who has used any other product, you KNOW that something is wrong when something so mediocre has total market dominance.

  14. Re:You can't get parts from India... on Orwellian Tech Support · · Score: 1

    > Does extra cheap widgets from Super-Corp really make your life any better?

    Don't fool yourself, nothing will be any cheaper. The share holders will make more money. "What the market can bare" is the cry of the all pervasive evil marketers.

  15. Give the downloaders credit on Evaluating a System for Selling and Delivering MP3s? · · Score: 1

    Give people who actually pay for the music some sort of credit, like a logo or icon they can include in signatures or on web pages that show they support independant music. May even have an indicator of how much the user has actually paid for. This image would also refer back to your site. Maybe even send out badges, hats or shirts when you buy x amount (and they pay for shipping). Maybe a nice FURIAA logo?

  16. Cure on Hic Hic Hooray: Hiccups Explained · · Score: 1
    Not everyone can do this, you have to have some mental feel for the way your body works, but if you can then you will be able to beat hiccups every time.

    Try to hiccup If you do it right, you won't hiccup. Pass on this information will ya. It seems that this is one cure that really works but isn't in the general hiccup cure lore. Nothing better than seeing a big goofy grin spread across a cured person's face.

  17. Re:my room? on How Looks Your Geekroom? · · Score: 1

    That's right. It's your parents who are scaring people off. Damn them. Maybe you should move out.