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  1. Re:That Analogy Falls Apart on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    Been there done that.

  2. Re:That Analogy Falls Apart on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wow, your world of dark cold cynicism must be a very secure place. No outside world views to muddy up your picture perfect sanctum of sterile sanctity.

  3. Re:That Analogy Falls Apart on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Usually the lawyers don't get involved until some heartsick idiot relative that can't let go asks them to litigate, the stupid relative just won't be consoled that they are going to a better place. There may be a few unscrupulous lawyers that insist that they must litigate on behalf of your dying relative but I suspect they are far and few between. I may be wrong but I don't believe so.

  4. Re:Microserfs on Coders At Work · · Score: 1

    Oh kind of like the calendar ending in 2012, the one the Mayans just didn't bother to update past that point?

  5. The lawyers, the lawyers on Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System · · Score: 1

    The lawyers are coming, the lawyers are coming... I mean this has got to be a near orgasmic dream for the lawyers.

  6. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    I'll accept that as an axiom. Perhaps toy is not what I intended but it does indicate the way their programmers are treated. If you treat Java, C# and VB Sort of like dildos and C, assembler etc like dicks, dildos are easier to use and are used far more often than dicks but try making a baby with a dildo. Barely possible but not really practical.

  7. Re:Is there anything on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    Um yeah, but you're right Apple didn't invent those but it does follow them quite well. In the early days of external modems, most of the people that put the power supply inside the modem instead of in a dongle had plastic melting and cracking problems. I guess it just sort of carried along. Heat has been the enemy of electronics for quite a long time.

  8. Re:Microsoft started charging for the WinMo SDK? on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    Nope express version cannot use WinMobil SDKs

  9. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1, Insightful

    C# is a toy language like VB

  10. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nice research skills there MS fan boi, your own personal one is free others cost money! You can develop for the Windows Mobile platform for free, but not with any MS supported compilers. Minimum price for the ability to do it with supported compilers is whatever Visual Studio standard costs. Like $300.00 but you can get it free if you give up a weekday and attend the exact right launch party like I did.

  11. Re:Is there anything on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    Apple never has been the type of company to conform to industry standards that they didn't invent. Fixed that for ya

  12. Re:Is there anything on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    The other platforms also don't seem to be selling as well despite having "Better Features". According to my friends that don't have the iPhone they also don't work that smoothly when they do do those things.

  13. Re:Is there anything on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    Actually he said "Can't" do but the phone can do both of those things. It may not do them in the United States. There is a difference.

  14. fiction precedes reality... on Augmented Reality In a Contact Lens · · Score: 0

    Torchwood, among others have already postulated this technology. Get on with it.

  15. Re:So what on Tetris Improves Your Brain · · Score: 1

    No but using silverware might help.

  16. Yet another load of.... on Tetris Improves Your Brain · · Score: 1

    This actually had already been shown in studies of nuns with incredibly long life spans with few signs of dementia even at the ages of 97 plus. Complex interaction and puzzle solving increase the brain's ability to form connections and stay that way way past the point that it should have started deteriorating. The nuns apparently did all kinds of brain teasers and puzzles including spatial puzzles and this was part of their secret to extremely long mentally stable lives. Another link to Martin Gardner here as it was in his column that I read about this in the mid '80s or at least in the same publication. And the summary here reads really weird, did Tetris have music of some sort. I never played it with the sound on so I couldn't tell you.

  17. Re:Lithium Ion Batteries on Apple Faces Inquiries In the EU On iPhone Accidents · · Score: 1

    and they were much safer then previous batteries used. What? exactly what did these previous batteries use?

  18. um how about this little tidbit... on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    From TFA -- The Rockefeller-Snowe bill will not empower a "government shut down or takeover of the internet" and any suggestion otherwise is misleading and false.

  19. Re:The eternal September 11 on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Citation Needed!

  20. Re:Where Were You? on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    why hasn't Obama received the kind of criticism Bush did?
    I assume this was mostly rhetorical

    Because Obama hasn't actually done the same things that Bush did, and has tried to reverse most of the damage. Getting out of Iraq was really started before he took office and he saw no real reason to accelerate it more than was safe. Yeah you may be right about Afghanistan but time will tell. and you are actually right he is receiving criticism at an accelerating pace.

  21. Re:The Elites Plan for World Domination... on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I hear lithium helps.

  22. Re:Oh shit, they can take away my porn? on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I'd actually work on chiseling rocks into naked women. You will get far better results and the rocks don't complain nearly as much about the chiseling.

  23. Re:Obvious on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Wow, and what planet do YOU spend most of YOUR time on?

  24. Re:Obvious on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    What actually take the anti psychotic drugs prescribed by the doctor. That would just be exactly what they were expecting us to do!

  25. Re:I hate that suck Rockefeller on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I once said to a group of friends that a certain person that we all really didn't like much was a waste of oxygen, he died two days later. I felt really bad for a while.