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  1. Re:I'm no physicist ... on Earth Could Collide With Other Planets · · Score: 1

    If both were are of the same size the scientific guess is that they would both be destroyed and you would have a ring of dust and rocks around the star.

  2. What is it. on Pleo Robot Dinosaur Back From Extinction · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you are wondering what this is, here is a picture and here.
    More info here.

  3. Dear Aliens on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Friends,

    I am Prince Fayad Musa H. Bolkiah, the eldest son of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, former Finance Minister of Earth, the tiny fuel-rich planet on the outer realms.

    Due to problems with a trading guild I was advised to evacuate my immediate family outside the sultanate to avoid further prosecution from them. Before I could do that I was placed under house arrest.

    Before my Incaseration, I went ahead to dispatch large sum of fuel with the assistance of friend in a galaxy far away. The fuel has now been deposited as valuables into different private security and trust company for safe keeping.

    In order to get the fuel I will need large quantities of the following chemical products, the mineral Be3Al2(SiO3)6,) and the chemical lement with atomic number of 79, details about this follow.

    For your assistance i will compensate you with 25% of the total fuel and another 5% shall be set aside to defray any expenses that may arise.

    Please I count on your absolute confidentiality, transparency and trust while looking forward to your prompt response towards a swift conclusion of this business transaction

  4. Re:Why bing? on Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India · · Score: 1

    It was picked because there was nothing similar to the name, easy to say and remember and the most important criteria was that it could be verbified.

  5. Re:You lack imagination. on First Zero-Gravity Wedding Planned · · Score: 2, Informative

    SCUBA is common, here is a company that does them and will provide SCUBA training http://www.pensacoladivecompany.com/weddiing.html
    http://www.canadianrockies.net/weddings/weddings-in-canmore-and-banff-alberta-mixing-marriage-and-pleasure-in-the-canadian-rockies.html does skis, also white water rafting boat, along with other.
    I give up and will give you the helium sucking priest. You are the second search result for this on Google.

  6. So in other words.... on Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A person who owns and runs a streaming music site is saying that people will actually start using the system?
    Please that is worse then the head of Government Motors saying that US citizens are going to purchase those small cars he wants to force on everyone.

  7. Re:Congestion on The 10-Year Satellite Forecast · · Score: 1

    I may be mixing up current terms be it geostationary orbit or geosynchronous orbit, whatever the Clarke orbit is called.

  8. Re:Bail out on US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    It is all of DoD that is under change by end of year, the Army is just behind everyone else.

  9. Re:Congestion on The 10-Year Satellite Forecast · · Score: 0

    But that is for the whole globe, which is not needed or wanted. For instance there are probably very few GEO satellites over the poles.
    So the real area available is over the highly prized area such as North America and Europe, so the area is alot smaller.

  10. Re:I agree on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who the hell else would know that?
    Every other web site that you visited that asked that question.

  11. Re:What? on Yellowstone Workers Fired For Urinating In Old Faithful · · Score: 1

    The punishment was for urinating, being off trail in a restricted area and taking items from the area.
    The really stupid thing was the park manager saying incidents like this were "rare". I was hoping that something this was unique but rare raises a whole bunch of questions.

  12. Re: Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked on Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked · · Score: 1

    You will probably not need silverlight for basic programs as word, excel, etc if you do anything that is web based, SharePoint, convert word, excel etc is web pages then yes you will need silverlight.

  13. Re:Warning! This is a False Sense of Security! on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    most drive-in are fairly profitable and in the last 10-15 years have been increasing in usage and profitability. You are seeing new theaters being opened.
    What is killing off the old ones is that they were originally built outside of the city in dark areas, you now have large plot of land near the population so the land is worth alot, so owners are selling them off.

  14. Re:Office 2010 on IE Losing 10% Market Share Every Two Years · · Score: 1

    The server parts of Office 2010 will require IE7, IE8 or Firefox 3.
    You will beable to use parts of the services with other browsers and certain high level capbilities will require IE 7/8.

  15. So... on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are the games any fun?
    If so, can you play if you are older than recruiting age?

  16. Waste of time on Microsoft Releases Super-Secure XP to US Air Force · · Score: 1

    The Air Force has put out the order that all systems, except those exempt for specific reasons, have to have Vista installed by the late fall of this year.
    They are not longer building standardized XP desktops, and the only special systems that could use this would have to be recertified to do so.

  17. Re:Legitimate users were told to use GameRanger on Stardock Declares Victory Over Demigod Piracy · · Score: 1

    Thanks, will have to give that a try tonight when I get home.

  18. Re:Ironically... on Stardock Declares Victory Over Demigod Piracy · · Score: 1

    You are so right on that the on-line for demigod is worthless. I have tried multiple times, during and pre prime time, and have never been able to get into a game.
    For a game that is almost all on-line, single player gets really boring after a few plays, that the on-line setup are so bad is something that should of been fixed before they shipped.

  19. Re:ORLY? on Taser International Sues Second Life Creator Over Virtual Replicas · · Score: 1

    Yea you have companies from American Apparel and Red Bull who have hired people in their marketing departments who work in SL.

  20. Re:A Dying Breed on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 1

    Go back and read speeches from Bush he always mentioned embryonic stem cells, go to the groups morally opposed to the killing of human for this purpose and they mention embryonic.
    The people who DON'T mention are the media, people who are wanted federal funding for their groups and the uninformed. They are the people who do not mention embryonic and combine it all into stem cells.

  21. Re:This could work. on A Look At the Wolfram Alpha "Search Engine" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Using your melting point of iron on google gives the answer 1811K right at the top along with a link source.
    Alpha is going to have to be alot better which would require human intervention which leads to a Yahoo type directory and that has alot less entries.

  22. Re:One man's trademark infringement... on Taser International Sues Second Life Creator Over Virtual Replicas · · Score: 1

    That is probably the biggest reason that Taser will win. SL is filled with advertisement from actual companies so now you have Taser branded stuff mixed in with that so what is an actual product with approved advertisement and what are fake items.

  23. Re:Some thoughts on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    Being close is the whole point.
    These have been pushed by the eco crowd as the solution, give each house one or two and the energy problem is solved; so they would have to be close.
    BTW the way under the US stimulus bill, purchase one of these and you get a nice chunk back as credit.

  24. Re:Technet on Microsoft Leaks Windows 7 RC Date — Before May 5 · · Score: 1

    Technet is aimed at the IT office/Help Desk. It is the full blown version of the software, no time limits, no restrictions in the software; depending on if you get regular or plus limits the software you have access to. Evaluation means you cannot use it for development, work on production system, use it to play game on, or do work on, etc. It is to be installed to see if the software will work for you and do what you want, kind of like demo software. We also get a DVD package that contains the latest whitepapers, patches, betas, etc but I am not sure that new people get the DVDs any more and instead you have to download all software. You also get some free calls to microsoft tech support. When your subscription ends you cannot get new software, and you have a limit time before the access to the web site is over, but the software you already have will still operate. License wise the software is linked to a single person who can install it on 10 machines so some software has no way of counting this other software uses the new license schema(office 2007, vista, etc) and require that you get a new key for each install.

    The other option is MSDN, this is aimed at the developer. It is also the full blown version of the software, no time limits, no restrictions in the software. Again different tiers give you ccess to more software. Here you can use it for development and can install other applications on your production machine and use them for items related to development(can use Visio to do database development diagrams but cannot use it to draw a floorplan to your manager). This is more expensive but can be used for more developer/administrator type situations.
    Also the cost is for a 1 year subscription, renewal is around 2/3 the main cost. That $600 is the technet plus version which comes with the DVD shipped to you, you can get the a cheaper, no-DVD shipped, for $350 but I don't know what other software you don't get. Check around because you can get MSDN from places like newegg or amazon for cheaper then the price MS sells it for and they may do the same for technet.

  25. Re:MAPI/CDO on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 1

    Just because you have to manually install does not mean Microsoft has deprecated it.
    Starting with recent products they are now taking the stance of just installing the very basic items by default and if you want anything else you have to install it.