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  1. Re:Raised eyebrows on Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure · · Score: 1

    For the individual company you might end up with less revenue to spend on research. For the industry in general you would end up with more. Marketing is directed towards the markets where the competition is toughest. In order words where other similar products are already available.

  2. Re:Raised eyebrows on Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure · · Score: 1

    Look it up. There have been pleanty of news stories on it.

    It still hasn't affected all branches of the pharma industry though, mostly those selling life-style drugs. The last time I read it, it was attributed to the pharma industry in the US in general and feared as a trend that might spread to Europe if more adverticing for drugs were allowed.

  3. Re:Just like in the 70s on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I just wish there would be more science in the discussion rather than "Global Warming is happening, we need to act NOW!!!"

    There is pleanty of science it is just being ignored and replaced by annecdotes and references to other times in the earths past the weather has changed.

    The fact is that greenhouse gasses causes a greenhouse effect, the question is, how significant is that effect?
    The fact is that the Earths average temperature is rising, the question is why?

  4. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    In other words, 39% chose creationism, as there is no discernable difference between creationism and ID. Score another victory for ID, for once again successfully obfuscating the issue.

    Well there is no difference between what ID advocates believe and creationism. But ID used to have a different philosophy, one of guided evolution. This survey says nothing about which ID the respondant believe in.

  5. Re:Iceland on Sweden To Be Oil-Free By 2020 · · Score: 1

    But Iceland actually have a chance to do it. Sweden is just full of... no gas, just hot air.

  6. Re:Not hard to see why.... on Pixar Eaten by Mickey Mouse · · Score: 1

    Home on the Range (2004) $50

    I wonder is that the Moo-vie?

  7. Re:Uhh - Action at a Distance? on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Why should they work any different? They still suck, they just do so with a time-delay according to distance like everything else in the universe.

  8. Re:I can't believe nobody's posted this reply yet on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    If it can be measured 5 billion years later it is kinda hard to account for..

  9. Re:Vast improvement on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes it is amazing to see anti-scientist attack evolution when we know the theory of gravity is the weakest theory of all. Almost seems they are afraid to say they don't beleive in gravity :D

    Seriously for all we know planets could still be held together in the solor system by invisible angels in invisible golden chariots.

  10. Re:STOP TAKING BLACK BOX VOTING STORIES on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 1

    This is dangerous. You are completely ignoring the issue and instead trying to smear the opposition.

    You are either ignorant or you are the one astroturfing, either way this is a dangereous trend in american politics.

  11. Re:oh let's not talk standards on IE7 To Support XMLHTTP Requests · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bad example. Text-shadow was deprecated in CSS 2.1 which fully supercedes CSS 2.0. Better examples are that Firefox doesn't support:
      * display: compact and inline-block
      * content: counters and quotes (recent version has quotes)
      * min/max-width/heigth (recent versions support it very limited)

    There are a couple more. These are also the primary reasons Firefox cannot easily pass Acid2.

  12. Re:Browser stagnation? on IE7 Leaked · · Score: 1

    In Konqueror you just press / for type-ahead searching like you would in less or vi.

  13. Re:Dreamworks vs. Disney vs. Pixar on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1

    Well as I said Dreamworks focuses on a more mature themes. You have scored the most childish of the stories high and the mature ones low. It might very natural for most people who still likes cartoones, and I am weird one.

    In my view the last good Disney cartoon was Lion King and Lilo and Stitch was abysmal. I don't understand how anyone can rate Bugs Life good in any way. Sure it has a cute story, but no charecters and everything is cheap antics. I guess it is a matter of taste.

  14. Re:Ok, what happens to Renderman now? on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1

    No. It was like Nemo and Sharks Tale. Dreamworks decides to do a movie in the same theme as a contemporary Disney movie, but does so much much better but aimed at an older audience.

    Antz was one of the first big non-Disney cartoons, and as such didn't do very well. Not until lately have people realised that Disney now suck and Dreamworks rocks. I call it post-Shrek :)

  15. Re:Quelle Horreur on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1

    Just let it go. Dreamworks is the new Disney, and Disney destoys everything they touch. This is not going to change anytime soon as long as the same people have control over Disney.

  16. Re:Sex Sells on Domain Name Sold for Millions · · Score: 2, Funny

    It needs a rewrite. The modern version is: "Sex.com sells"

  17. Re:Anti-septic environments are dangerous on Keyboards Are Disgusting · · Score: 1

    You don't inherit it, but yes you got it, since the most important time of development in your immunesystem is as a baby.

  18. Re:userContent.css to the rescue on Firefox 's Ping Attribute: Useful or Spyware? · · Score: 1

    User stylesheets have higher priority than !important styles in a server stylesheet. The important rule here will only let it overrule other user styles,

  19. Re:Hey, that's my idea! More things to consider... on Smart Elevators Coming to Seattle · · Score: 1

    The on/off toggle is seriously going to piss you off the first time the little lamp or diode breaks, and they always break.

  20. Re:Waiting on Smart Elevators Coming to Seattle · · Score: 1

    Just get a continues elevator. It would even improve Darwinism some by killing of users that fail to operate it.

  21. Re:That's ridiculous! on Who Owns Baseball Statistics? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately Paris Hilton is a cheap media whore, so she would end up as the only one they could afford to write about.

  22. Re:That's stupid on Who Owns Baseball Statistics? · · Score: 1

    Who says the result is public. It might have been broadcasted but that does not give you the right to copy it, do it?

    So, yes. Expect results to be copyrighted and require fees next.

  23. Re:Web Site Peeves on Web Users Judge Sites Instantly · · Score: 1

    It is optional to implement, and only Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox ever has.

  24. Re:GB isn't Gb on 15 Important Tech Concepts In 2006 · · Score: 1

    Actually Gb can mean the same as GB and reverse. The abreviation of bytes and bits is not welldefined. Before using either you should define it. If undefined it is assumed to be bytes.

  25. Re:Another? on WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor? · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is pretty well known that most versions of Windows shipped with an intentional NSA backdoor. Microsoft only removed after it was exposed and thereby also hackers could use it.