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  1. Re:What exactly are you doing AMD? on THG Labs In Depth With AMD Spider · · Score: 1

    People will buy it because it is cheap. AMD survives like they did in the past by being cheaper than Intel and Intel being greedy. Intel has tried the non-greed option for year or so now in the hopes of smothering AMD, but sooner or later the Intel stockholders is going to demand Intel raises the prices to what people(fanboys) are willing to pay for they privilege of rooting for number #1.

  2. Re:For Gord's sake, not THG on THG Labs In Depth With AMD Spider · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They used to be good, in fact they probably used to be the best. That's why they still carry some weight this long after they sold out and lost the dominance on hardware news.

  3. Re:Science! on MIT Students Show How the Inca Leapt Canyons · · Score: 1

    Be carefull how you state that, the quarrying and shaping is surpassed. Using water beams it is both easy and fast. We can even shape them manually using sandpaper, it is just no one can imagine sandpapering that many rocks. What a grind, those egyptians must really have had no life at all.

  4. Re:Well, he's over 40. on Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes · · Score: 1

    Complete wrong. While it various a bit from country to country, in most places in Europe liberalism means both social liberalism (like US left-wing), AND economical liberalism (like US Libetarians, or Republicans before Reagan). So gay rights, small government, low taxes and seperation of church and state.

  5. Re:Communism didn't work either on All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Unlike communism systems like this are in place in many very different parts of the world and works perfectly.

  6. Re:This man is a coward. on US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy · · Score: 1

    Spears? Right... You not only stupid, but arrogant stupid. This stupid arrogance is why you lose every war you fight these days.

    In even the most backwaters jungle you are going to be met with a resistance that as a minimum has improved WW2 arms like the AK-47, and likely several guided missiles as well, bought on the black-market e-bay. Not to mention abundant amounts of self-manufactured high-explosives.

    And the political interventions are part of the game, it doesn't excuse your defeats. They explain why they happened, and why they are going to happen again and again. This is not going to change.

    Lastly if I had 10 million men, I wouldn't take them to you, I would completely ignore you, and if you invaded I would gun you down in the world's biggest ambush. War isn't not just about winning, it's about getting ahead, and if it costs you more to invade than you gain, then invading would be a bad move. This is the true lesson about Vietnam and Iraq, you gained much less than you lost. Investing more might make you be able to win, but it would make the cost sky-rocket and make the adventure even less profitable and thus even more stupid.

  7. Re:Democrats are socialists? on Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans · · Score: 1

    Libertarianism is exactly the same we call liberalism in Europe. I guess that's why you haven't spotted it. It is pretty common, and has much bigger parties than in the US.

  8. Re:"At Will" on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    Most employees in the US maybe. I can not anyone else being stupid enough to sign such a contract.

  9. Re:This man is a coward. on US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy · · Score: 1

    Firepower, bullshit. This is what you get from being brainwashed about the US supremacy and how investing in military tech is going to make you invincible. Take a look at Vietnam, take a look at Iraq.

    There is one fundamental rule in warfare, and it is still unchanged: If the enemy outnumbers you more than 2 to 1 you automatically lose. This is still true, but it requires the 2 to actually agree on fighting the one, even though one is going to die in the process.

  10. Re:Pretty remarkable on Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Gets Axed · · Score: 1

    The harassment I don't get, though. I mean, if they want some free sex, couldn't they just go to a bar and say, "Yeah, I'm a VP of a multi-billion dollar corporation, and I make nine thousand dollars an hour. Let's take my jet and go screw in the hot tub at my 4th summer place."


    Well, it is that exact quote which will get you fired for sexual harassment if any of your employees happens to be in the bar and take offense (or pretend to take offense).
  11. Re:I'm sorry but no on Top Inventions of 2007 · · Score: 1

    Looks nice and behaves nice.

    If this was the real reason and not the sales numbers, then they would have given the award to the LG Prada of which the iPhone's design and user interfaces was riped off.
  12. Re:Nothing is solved, though on BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately gnash and swfdec don't work. Flash is constantly expanded and gets new features, and these open sources version doesn't work with the newest versions, and most modern uses of Flash.

    I am glad to see that gnash "plays many flash" movies. So now finally after 2 years, youtube is going to work, but it is still two years too late.

  13. Re:license on Qmail At 10 Years — Reflections On Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously if the user has subscribed to multiple mailing lists and the same mail is send to more than one of them he SHOULD get more than one copy.

    It is incredibly confusing when some stupid mail-provider along the way decides to snuff one copy. This means the mail doesn't appear where it should in my email-program. Each mail the the different mailing list creates a separate thread of responses WITHIN that mailing-list. That is TWO not ONE, but TWO different discussion threads, which should be represented with two entries in you email program.

  14. Re:BBC is hopelessly biased... on BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To a liar everyone seems biased.

  15. Re:Conclusions... on Patterns in Lottery Numbers · · Score: 1

    But that's completely irrelevant. You might as well discuss what the players were wearing or what day it is.

  16. Re:EU membership on Microsoft EU Decision Protects OSS Projects From Suits · · Score: 1

    As for Iraq, they are going to in fight a terrorist group - listed as terrorists by the US and Iraq and Iran and Syria - that are killing their soldiers

    There is the flaw. People who kills soldiers are not terrorists, they are a military enemy. It is only terrorism if you attack civilians.

    So Turkey attacking them is justified, because they are a military enemy, but calling them terrorists smells bad, "Russia in Chechnya" kind of bad.
  17. Re:Damn, they actually look reasonable on OSI Approves Microsoft Ms-PL and Ms-RL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You normally are not allowed to distribute other peoples code without a license, so you NEED to agree to a license to do so. (GPL)

    You ARE normally allowed to use software you have bought, so you can do NOT have to agree to a license to do so. (EULA)

    This license seamingly falls inbetween because the products probably ends up being free, but whether you buy something or get it as a gift doesn't really matter for contract laws.

    This license is a troll, in that it is a EULA, exactly like Microsoft accuses GPL of being (but it isn't). I predict this license to be declared invalid, and Microsoft then pointing at GPL and claiming it has to be invalid too.

  18. Re:Damn, they actually look reasonable on OSI Approves Microsoft Ms-PL and Ms-RL · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the license is invalid in most of the EU. You can not agree to a license implicitly, like this one suggests. This makes it completely useless internationally.

  19. Re:How could this get approved? on OSI Approves Microsoft Ms-PL and Ms-RL · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but the license in inherently invalid in most western countries. In fact, I only know one place where EULA like that are valid - in the US; and even there they often fail when tried in court.

  20. Re:I wonder if this isn't an intended byproduct... on Format Standards Committee "Grinds To a Halt" · · Score: 1

    It is the US that is using their veto power whereever they go, or just ignore the result if they don't have a veto.

    China is still only slowly getting into the game.

  21. Re:So, does this mean they'll all be unlocked? on Nokia responds to iPhone by Promoting 'Open' · · Score: 1

    Actually you can get your phone unlocked at any time for a fee of 50EUR, but the subscription that came with the phone is still binding even if you use the phone with another telco.

  22. Re:and? on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    Ah, no. If you want that rate, you need a 20% down payment. This means $47.5k up front for a loan of $190k (home price of 237,500).


    Considering that the rate for a normal consumption loan is at 7.5% if you are smart enough to use a bank instead of a drug-dealer. It is not going to make a big difference even if you have to put 50% down.

  23. Re:How to help... on Washington State LUG to Hold "Nerd Auction" · · Score: 1

    You sound like a honey--pot

  24. Re:They do... on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    Swedish policy is to depend on foreign electricity imported from Denmark and Poland, and then show the worlds how they can do without completely without CO2 produced electricity, carefully forgetting the big dirty coal plants in Poland and Denmark that lights every other house in Sweden, all those months when the rivers are low-tide and hydroplants are on low-power.

  25. Re:Why the concern? on Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google · · Score: 1

    Why is everyone so concerned about a company having their URL history?


    Because they do evil.