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  1. Re:Commutivity on This Rare Friday the 13th · · Score: 2, Funny

    1582, never forget.

  2. tires not a good example on Scaremongering over Spyware? · · Score: 1

    You DO pay forever to keep them working, either retreading them or buying newer (upgrades!) every couple of years :)

  3. Wine on How Songs Get Popular · · Score: 1

    This effect is much more obvious with wine.
    Numerous blind tests have shown that there is almost no correlation between expensive wines and taste.
    Yet the expensive brands keep winning the awards....

  4. Yep. its tabloid trash on Warp Engines In Development? · · Score: 1

    Its a tabloid of the worst type, your inferences are correct.

  5. Re:Parabolic football? Not even close! on Zero-Gravity Sports League In Development · · Score: 1

    planes flies in a parabola . They play with a ball on a plane.

    Pretty simple really.

  6. Re:Dupe by Google; try Métro on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    In the near future, the web will be on most phones so google's entire suite will be available anytime, everywhere...... when it stops costing $$$$ to view a single page :(

  7. EEE strategy in action again on Windows Live goes Local · · Score: 1

    windows live
    - IE is smooth as silk
    - Firefox is all sticky and wierd

    google
    - IE smooth
    - Firefox smooth

    Very nice and subtle there microsoft, make it work on firefox but make it kinda of crappy so when someone uses (accidently) IE to view your stuff, they'll go "holy shit! IE is so much smoother and faster at the interweb! Order me 10 copies of Vista to go!"

  8. Re:Dupe by Google; try Métro on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hell google search was a dup of the other search engines :)
    I think their point of difference is it doesn't need a download and will be integrated with all their other search functions.
    I'm sure Metro is great but google's offering is quite different.

  9. Re:"The Day After" premise on Failing Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, i have seen that in several articles, that global warming is happening at a MUCH faster rate at the poles than at the equator.
    Sorry dont have any links tho :(

  10. Re:And the cause of the cooling? on Failing Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age · · Score: 1

    2. Ocean rises, which causes a lowering of the ocean temperature from the influx of cold water.
    Doesn't the ocean rise due to an increase in the temperature of the water (expansion) ?

  11. You would buy it on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the company using it saved money overall and could give you a better price than the competition.

  12. space tourism will take off! on Slashback: BlackBerry, Cloning, Smart Hotels · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hu Shixiang said that the goal is subject to the government's funding and their ability to build a rocket with 25 tons capacity."
    Good news then, finally something that will be able to lift american space tourists :)

  13. a big f**king drill on Vast Subsurface Martian Ice Discovered · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The implications is that to release the water you need to drill down 1.5km or possibly 2.5 to get to the liquid.
    Doing that on another planet would probably cost more than another iraq war.
    With no oil at the end.

  14. move along, nothing to see here on Intel and Tivo Partner Up · · Score: 1

    intel has dropped its media server engine (interopability) from the initial release. Its basically just a MCE box with a standardised hardware and some preloaded programs. We were told to drop all the content server stuff from our apps.
    June is when all the content sharing stuff comes out. Read this as; they're completely rewriting it.

  15. Things will change on Microsoft Open Document Standard Not So Open · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If ms had not been forced to support web standards ove the years, you probably would just be seeing a 'please spend a minium of $500 on ms products to view these pages'

  16. Re:A bucket? on Pictures by Hive Mind · · Score: 1

    Its a schooner!

  17. get out of the office! on Copy Machines At Greater Risk During Holidays · · Score: 1

    Thats why you dont have office parties in the office!
    Drunk people plus expensive equipment equals badness.
    Much better to go with somewhere with low light, then that chick in accounts with the great body but bucktooth teeth will be ever so appealling.

  18. Re:The Cost of Clueless Customers on Get Out of Voice Menu Pergatory · · Score: 1

    Also, this model seems to work out quite nicely for open software products as well.

  19. Swineburne University on Recruiting IT Students? · · Score: 1

    Do what Swinburne University does, one year industry placement is a requirement to graduate. Consequently, industry knows where to get the upcoming bright young things and students+staff try very hard to place everyone.

  20. Re:awesome on Google's New Click-to-Call Service · · Score: 1

    You'll no more be able to ddos their phone system as you will be able to ddos google itself.

  21. blogs? on Finding a Ready-Made Dev Team? · · Score: 1

    comon! people who write good blogs are people who write good blogs.
    While they might be entertaining and a good read your 4th point is the most important! It goes like this.
    1. send me source code
    2. talk me through it as i investigate it
    3. let me guage your personality in respect to; pride in your work, humility when you recognize a better way, an ability to correct someone in the appropriate manner, operate under pressure.

    Holy shit, everyone goes on about how hard it is to do hiring for programmers. Its not hard, the only problem is, there almost noone out there capable enough to justify the salaries they demand.

  22. its not expensive if most people pay for it on Cellphone Songs Overpriced? · · Score: 1

    comon, as i said in an earlier post, its not about the absolute cost. If you ./'s where so concerned about pay per use then you'd institute a frequent flyer discount at the local whorehouse.
    But you dont
    Because its too much effort.
    If you want sex, RIGHT NOW, you will pay for it with cash instead of investing time in a relationship.
    the reviewer is correct, it is all about the RIGHT NOW, he just simply doesn't understand that this is reality of the current generation of 'rich pickings' (young impressionables with lotsa disposable cash).

  23. Re:And this succeeded when? on Microsoft to Open up Office Formats · · Score: 1

    netscape. dead (ok, mozilla/firefox is coming back but the company is no longer really a concern). A lot of pages still only look right on IE, a lot people (normal people, not /.'s) baulk at using something that makes their favourite real estate site look odd.
    java is a fragmented mess.
    mac os is an operating system, i'm not sure what your point is. Anyway, its in MS's best interest to keep apple alive so they dont have a monopoly. But when's the last time apple was deployed in large scale corporate environment? And no, education institutions dont count.

  24. EEE on Microsoft to Open up Office Formats · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, here we see stage one of microsoft's tried and true 'EEE' strategy.
    (Embrace,Extend,Extinguish)

  25. left out the easiest way on How To Write Unmaintainable Code · · Score: 1

    through in a few regular expressions, those things are usually a mystery to anyone else.
    Hell a,fter 6 months my own ones seem like arabic :(