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  1. Re:Hmmm... on The Kafka-esque Nightmare of Palm App Submission · · Score: 1

    So, when he wants to get paid, then he has to provide a paypal account. Simple enough, if he doesn't provide a paypal account, he can't get paid. Common sense.

    And since I haven't seen a single non-free (as in beer) app on the store yet, demanding paypal accounts from everyone when non-free apps are the exception not the rule is unnecessary.

  2. Re:it's not men driving this phenomenon on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's easier to find clothes that look good when you're skinny, because the designers design clothes for skinny people. Then they extrapolate some of those clothes out for larger sizes, where they don't look as good.

  3. Re:EMP? Impending poverty? on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting question, but not really an argument against the death of cursive.

  4. Re:Font on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    I had to check my manual to find out what the light on my dashboard was. My guess, "Check Engine", was correct but it looked nothing like an engine to me.

  5. Re:doesnt matter to me on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    When the only way for most people to trade text messages with each other, or store text for future use was putting it on paper, it made sense to spend time to learn the fastest and most compact way to do so. But when putting things on paper becomes a much smaller part of your lives, is that time spent learning still worth it?

  6. Re:doesnt matter to me on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    How is cursive writing less vulnerable to power blackouts than print writing?

  7. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    Feel sorry for the UK, then. I've tried a few different brands (whichever I grab at walmart) and never had any significant problem with warmup time. Even the old long tube fluorescents we had at home growing up (20+ years ago) provided at least some light within a few seconds, and usually got to full pretty quickly)

  8. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    Yup, they need time to warm up... a whole half a second...

  9. Re:Gentlemen, start your start-ups on Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health · · Score: 1

    Actually with anti-bacterial products everywhere, I wouldn't be surprised if they started injecting the anti-bacterial agent during the shower. Can't trust that soap to get you clean, better drown you in purell so you can escape those nasty evil germs that will KILL you.

  10. Re:Who is running Nielsen anyway, Leslie? on Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    For some ads that's important. I think for the vast majority of ads, being 3 weeks old is not important.

  11. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    I imagine a moisture farm gathers water, an important commodity on a desert planet.

  12. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    But we see another Protocol droid at the start of Phantom Menace, and it's just as physically awkward as C-3PO, unless that one was also built by a kid in the desert, this was the way the protocol droids were designed to operate.

  13. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    I think you could save even more space and weight by replacing the droid with a computer. The droid only had a reach of half a foot or so, how often are there going to be problems with the fighter that the droid can actually reach?

  14. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    A bad lawyer? His little rant about Chewbacca and monkeys got the jury to award millions in damages for "harassment". That's a pretty damn good lawyer, if you ask me.

  15. Re:My experience with a tech who wanted in on Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face · · Score: 1

    So what exactly did you prove? If I was your maintenance guy, I would avoid your apartment at all costs from now on. Got a leaky faucet? Well... I'll get around to looking at that... eventually... after you move out. But, I bet showing off your gun made you feel like a big man.

  16. Re:Good ruling, bad law on Judge Rules Against RealDVD · · Score: 1

    Congress won't "fix" the law because the law is doing exactly what it was intended for. Real doesn't have enough money to push Congress around.

  17. Re:Live by sword... on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Didn't they just get a patent themselves on using XML to save documents?

  18. Re:N64 cartridges on Classic Game Console Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    If you don't think about the risks when making and marketing your game, you're not going to survive long as a software company. If you don't make profitable games, you can't pay your developers, or your marketers, or management and you go out of business.

  19. Re:parent is not trolling, get a clue mods on AP Will Sell You a "License" To Words It Doesn't Own · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, and when they were informed of the mistake, they gave the money back. Just like when you notice the 20 pound notes, you gave the money back.

  20. Re:Wagers+HonorSystem= on BringIt.com Allows Players to Bet On Console Game Matches · · Score: 1

    Then the sore losers would also rate down the people who beat them.

  21. Re:Beware of namechanges on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1

    The funny thing I keep seeing on trucks is "FedEx Express"

  22. Re:Beware of namechanges on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With Verizon it probably helped. Anyone happy with the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX/GTE was already a customer, and wasn't going to switch just because of a name change. Changing their name gave them a chance to trick some of their unhappy former customers into trying them out again.

  23. Re:Obsolete on Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions · · Score: 0

    But if removing the "browser" will only free up an insignificant amount of disk space, why bother removing it? People ARE free to choose what to browse the web with, whether you remove IE from your system or no.

  24. Re:1984 on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    I think I'd be better at understanding people who were moved by Catcher in the Rye if I hadn't read it.

  25. Calvin on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
    -Calvin