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  1. Re:Obligatory... on Flying Car Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Imagine if we didn't have to build roads because we all had these hovering craft. But what on earth would we call them?

  2. Re:we will NOT have flying cars on Flying Car Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Might wanna get that working on a road car first!

  3. Re:we will NOT have flying cars on Flying Car Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Assuming we harness fusion for power before we use it for armageddon...

  4. Re:Paying your dues on How Will Recent Financial Downturns Affect IT Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Even if there's no table limit, there's your personal credit limit, and there's the fact that there's a finite amount of money in an economic system. Sooner or later, you lose!

  5. Re:Paying your dues on How Will Recent Financial Downturns Affect IT Jobs? · · Score: 1

    No, I didn't. What the infinite-growth-ists forget is that we live on a planet with finite resources.

  6. Re:Paying your dues on How Will Recent Financial Downturns Affect IT Jobs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aim high, get the job you want for the pay you want or stay in school, any other choice will hurt your earnings potential for literally decades to come.

    1) Bet X dollars on red. If you win, goto 3. If you lose, let X:=2*X and goto 1.
    2) ???
    3) Profit!

    Reasoning like this from economists is why we're in this mess in the first place. In capitalism, for every winner, there are necessarily losers.

  7. Please don't put "Jobs" in the title of stories on How Will Recent Financial Downturns Affect IT Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Please don't put the word "Jobs" in the title of stories. My brain is already attuned to filtering them out on the basis that it's yet another story about Steve's health.

  8. Re:BSD too? on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 1

    Indeed. All you'd have to do is port Cocotron to BSD ;)

  9. Re:extensions on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 1

    If you build it, they will come...

  10. Re:Enough already... on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Replaced with what? Silverlight?

  11. Re:Why bother on the Mac? on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 1

    If it forces Apple to play catchup on the javascript process isolation front, I'm all for it...

  12. Re:Firefox Left Without A Seat? on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 1

    70 million a year? Google probably spends that much on coffee.

  13. Re:Why is it taking so long? on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 1

    Because a web browser is an order of magnitude harder? (They control everything Google Earth connects to, whereas they don't control much of what Google Chrome connects to.)

  14. Re:WTFIWWE? on UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed · · Score: 1

    Anyone who can't tell the difference between the UK and England is hardly in a position to be too critical.

    Actually, Scotland is covered by the European Convention on Human Rights, so it'll be interesting to see whether the UK government dares move on any Scottish ISP.

  15. Re:happy 1984 on UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed · · Score: 1

    As for the Pentagon, even if it had stayed in pristine shape and was never struck, isn't the attack on the Twin Towers enough reason to assassinate Bin Laden? I say yes.

    I think you might have missed the point.

  16. Re:Governments on UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed · · Score: 1

    The problem with the democratic process is that you've got to get such a quantity of people behind you. With revolution, you don't have to get a majority, as long as you've got the quality (the military is often quite a good clincher).

  17. Re:Drupal sucks on Using Drupal · · Score: 1

    But languages and their libraries inform design decisions. And I have tended to find that people who prefer a more structured language are generally more structured in their design.

  18. Re:Drupal sucks on Using Drupal · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't have much experience with CMSs. I've just written enough PHP in my life to know that I never want to use it again :)

  19. Re:Drupal sucks on Using Drupal · · Score: 1

    Anything not written in PHP?

  20. Re:How many iPhone killers is that? on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 1

    +1, Spot on

  21. Re:Unfortunately it does not work that way on Apple's Life After Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Noone demanded something like the iPhone.

    Indeed not. And no-one wants a tablet Mac or a PVR AppleTV either. These are not the products people are looking for. Apple can go about their business. Move along...

  22. Re:Apple is Safe. on Apple's Life After Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    The problem with Time Machines is that you can't go back in time to before you built them. Unfortunately Jobs got ill before Leopard, and his pancreas may even be excluded from backups.

  23. Re:No one lives for ever ... on Apple's Life After Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Linux is not on everyone's desk not because of lack of apps, but because of a lack of ONE KILLER APP. Whenever it comes, people will come.

    Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who shall not taste death until they see this ONE KILLER APP coming in Linux's kingdom. This generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.

  24. Re:Great! on Playing Tetris Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    No, they're full immersive sensory experiences. I hear they're better than Second Life.

  25. Re:Great! on Playing Tetris Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    Specifically, the head-to-head Gameboy version. The pinnacle of gaming!