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  1. Re:Idiocy - bluetooth just taking off on Is Bluetooth Dead? · · Score: 1
    You missed the point entirely. It's not that he doesn't get they're talking about clear signal wherever, it's that they're using it as a selling point for their service. From what he's saying this is such a non-issue in other countries that they wouldn't even bother mentioning it.

    Does it take a rocket scientist to notice that?

  2. Re: Fastest thing ever? on Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers · · Score: 1

    So don't buy the latest and greatest, the G4 computers are still sold and are less.

  3. Re:Why buys Macs? on PowerBook 15" and 12" Disassembly · · Score: 1

    I think that no company will put a Li-ion battery under warrenty for more than a year, it's just the way the batteries work. I've read some stuff about how to properly take care of them (storing at 40% change not full charge, don't drain completely) and some of the descriptions sounded like it's magic that they could get the technology as stable as it is.

  4. Re:Not such a bad idea on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows · · Score: 1
    The first time I tried loading red hat it burned my seventeen inch monitor out.

    Then your monitor was ment to die.

    I have old monitors and they are intelligent about not trying to do refresh rates they can't handle.

    So it was either "luck" or your monitor was crap.

  5. Not Insightful on One Worldwide Power Grid · · Score: 1
    All that you have said applies to any energy source.

    As someone has pointed out, there's a paper that explains the 20 myths about hydrogen. You have touched on one of them that the main source for hydrogen would be water.

    Hydrogen lines may be more efficient at transfering energy over long distances when compared to electric lines (at least until superconductors that operate at outside temperatures).

    The best way to get energy would be to get it from the sun, but hydrogen may be a great medium for transportation of the energy. Think of what a UPS could be instead, since places could just have reserve tanks incase there is a hydrogen shortage.

    But the best choice is to make total energy usage minimal, but getting as close to 100% efficiency as possible is also a step there.

  6. Re:Sorry, but if that's the case it needs this tri on SCO: Fortune 500 Company Buys License, IBM Retort · · Score: 1
    The coffee was over 200 degrees farenheit

    Couldn't been much over it, since it'd be boiling.

    But besides that, I don't know about the rest of the American population, but coffee is supposed to be hot! Thank god the Starbucks cups remind me of this blatent fact.

  7. Re:Subscriber bastards! on One Last New Episode of Futurama · · Score: 1
    Yeah, isn't Fox great?

    I was looking into getting all the seasons I could, and saw on the comments how Fox is horrible about getting them out in a timely manner, then just today I go on gotfuturama.com and then see that not only has season 1 been out over a year in the UK, but season 3 has been released, too!

    It's not like making DVDs is rocket science. It's a pretty clear cut process, especially when there is another DVD already made!

    Region codes are the biggest load of crap and nothing should be able to convince anyone otherwise.

  8. Re:Facts about Flywheels on So Where Are The Fuel Cells? · · Score: 1
    I only have to read the first paragraph to know where this post is going. I'm sorry, but anything going close enough to the speed of light is going to have a ton of energy.

    Learn Relativity.

  9. Re:Why? on AnandTech Reviews ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000 · · Score: 1
    I got an Inspiron 8000, and before I got it I knew how to take it apart. Dell had complete instructions on thier website on how to remove and replace every component in the laptop.

    I've recently changed the Mini-PCI card in my laptop from wired ethernet to wireless.

    I could also change the screen, swap out the processor, change the video card, or get a different media bay option by finding the parts on Dell's website.

  10. Re:HA HA HA HA on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 1
    The problem is that (as far as I know, someone with more experience, please correct me) if it was compiled with gcc, it's GPL software.

    This is so blatenly false.

    First, there are projects out there that are compiled with gcc and use GPL tools to create software that is not GPLed.

    Second, would this mean that anything compiled using an MS, Borland, or any other compiler be under thier control? Would that document in Word you wrote be MS IP?

    Would that file you got out of cat be property of the FSF?