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  1. When will people get it? on Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do not appeal to save energy or water. Promote the integration of the hidden environmental costs into the framework of market economics for finding appropiate prices for water and energy!

  2. Re:What we need is Al Sharpton to clear this up... on SCO Lists Specific Code-Infringement Claims · · Score: 1

    Wrong. This falls in the first category: to get what one wants - in thsi case 'conflict'

  3. Re:Lo tek is the way to go in this instance on Recorded Speech to Text Software? · · Score: 1

    Or you could outsource to India...

  4. Re:Chalk one up to American quality! on Still No Contact from Beagle 2 · · Score: 1
    You obviously have not lived in Germany. Raising a German national flag on a flag pole in your garden is enough to be called a Nazi pig. It was hotly publicly debated if one can actually claim 'I am proud to be a German!' (Ich bin stolz ein Deutscher zu sein!).

    And you know what? It is concensus that it is unacceptable to make such a statement. Do it and you will be denounced a frigging Nazi pig. It is fine to be 'thankfull' or 'gratefull'. But 'proud'? That would be too much. Don't belive me? Ask any of your German friends - should you have any.

    Maybe this give some of you an idea how your biased patriotism sounds in the ears of contemporary Germans who has been tought over and over again that 'patriotism' == 'fascism' == 'dead jews' == 'YOUR fault'.

    Just my 0.02 Euro.

  5. Re:There is a business reason for this... on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    AND IBM will be ready to provide services for all those company pondering the question of going with Longhorn or OSS in 2006.

  6. Re:Nudity harms children on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    The rules could be easy: Everything you do for the child is fine. Anything you do for you is not. But since kids are very impressionable and manipulatibal (spelling) it is easier to let the law set a certain arbitrary age after wich the public does not mind anymore.

  7. Re:In defense of -ist and -ic on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    If beliving that men and women are different is being sexist, then call me a sexist for the evidence is between everybodies legs.

  8. Re:Yep, the GPL is REALLY BAD! on McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights · · Score: 1

    6) It makes the baby Jesus cry

  9. Cashing in on the SCOX price drop? on OSDL Releases New Paper on SCO's Claims · · Score: 1
    I was looking around to buy some options on a SCOX put but could not find any. Can any knowledgeable trader please advise on how to bet on a price drop of SCOX stocks. Since it seems to be such a no-brainier I wonder if there is some money to be made by betting on a plummeting SCOX stock price...

    TIA!

  10. Re:Not quite "Supercomputing" on NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Sorry - that should have been 512 not 5120...

  11. Re:Not quite "Supercomputing" on NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    What's special about it is that it supports more processors - namely 5120 - on a single image under Linux than any other supercomputer before.

  12. Hmmm... on Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow · · Score: -1, Redundant

    African or European?

  13. Re:To Americans and others on China Outlines Moon Project Goals · · Score: 1
    For what it's worth I am living in China for the better part of my life now since 1983.

    I do not know where spinkham his getting is ideas from but it is far from the truth. Yes - when the Da Lai Lama is on CNN the screen goes dark until he is off. Yes - there are some very funny ideas in some Chinese heads about Chi and Falung Gong and other BS that no foreigner would even imagine can be belived. Yes - they have actually sprayed the grass allong the main roads green for the Olympic Comity.

    China however is by no means a socialist state. Capitalism is everywhere. Or to put it in the words of the late Deng Xiao Ping: "It is glorious to get rich" - and some are getting filthy glorious.

    I receive CNN, BBC, DW-TV (German CNN), HBO, Cinemax, Star World and many other English channels. As so many others, I have some heavy critique that I could bring forward, but the lame ass bullshit picture that spinkham paints is just plain stupid and wrong.

  14. Re:Reaching towards the goal on Security FUD On Linux · · Score: 1
    The truthfullness of a statment is independent of the number of times it is repeated.

    Yes - but repetition is the mother of belive...

  15. Re:Theory on 'Reversible' Computers More Energy Efficient · · Score: 1

    Conservatively it is save to assume that in a processor running at 3 Ghz, every cycle 1 Mbit of information gets destroyed. That are 3145728 Gigabits a second right there.

  16. Re:Low gravity eating? on China Plans Manned Space Flight October 15 · · Score: 1

    sticky rice

  17. Re:CompUSA Prices on IT's Most Outrageous Markups? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Profit is not price minus purchasing price. It is price minus cost. Cost can be a lot more then what a company has payed for a piece of equipment. You have to take, labor, storage, handling, capital cost, overhead, office and store rental into account. And those are just from the top of my head.

  18. Re:Gauss driven pistol on Build Your Own Gauss Pistol · · Score: 1

    The propulsion does not determin the spin of the projectile - the barrel does.

  19. Re:Oops (RTFA) on How to get 1.5 TeraFlops from Linux · · Score: 1

    64 in each node. Times 4 is 256. RTFA yourself ;-)

  20. Excuse me? on The Australian Broadband Disaster · · Score: 1

    Have you been living under a rock for the past 3 years or something? Please tell me just one tech company whose shares didn't fall 50% since late 1999. Just one - I dare ya.

  21. Why not earlier? on First HDTV Camcorder · · Score: 2, Informative
    "With digital cameras at regular stores with resolution over 5 megapixel it makes you wonder why it took so long to produce."

    Encoding a 5 mega pixel JPG is easy... The hardware had trouble to create 750p MPEG-2 video in real time. That is the limiting factor.

  22. Wait a minute.... on The NSA Gives Their Two Cents On Securing XP/2K/NT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't freely available security support terrorism by its very nature?

  23. Would... on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 1

    ...a 1000-monkies-on-1000-typewriters comment be considered particularly witty in this context? If yes I actually understood the article.

  24. Please excuse my ignorance... on 2.5.65 On 32-way NUMA-Q with Preempt Enabled · · Score: 1

    ...but I fail to realize the signifikance of this news item. Anyone of the in-the-know crowd: care to enlighten me? 32 bla NUMA-Q what?

  25. Re:Ok, I'll bite. on First Certified DivX/DVD Player Released · · Score: 1

    HDTV recording/playback