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  1. and where praytell, are the comprable CES stories? on The Best of Macworld SF 2006 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know they were submitted.. slashdot posted damn near SQUAT.

  2. my books on Sony Reader Taking Hold? · · Score: 1

    stay in my pants pockets....
    sometimes more than 2.

  3. handheld XP on Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner · · Score: 1

    Docupen.

    doesn't need the computer until you want to dump.

  4. slight amendment necassary on Solid State Memory on the Rise · · Score: 1

    I am after all, concerned with the trivial..

    xp Pro 64 bit.. can indeed adress a little bit more than 4gb of ram..
    (can't install jack shit for external hardware, but still)

  5. How do you prefer your crow on Apple Sues Burst.com in iTunes Patent Dispute · · Score: 4, Informative

    boiled- baked- fried?

    http://www.burst.com/new/products/main.htm

    My god, a two click search, and by your own admission for holding patents with NO intent of producing. (If they had a product we would all be hating on Apple) your entire well reasoned and well written argument falls apart.

  6. uh-huh-- and who broke the law on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 1

    the kid at the center- or those who listened to his sermon?

    he's not believed to be personably responsible for the refreshing, only the reccomendation to others that they do so.

    kinda like printing the anarchists cookbook? no?

  7. of course they do on NVIDIA and Dell Display Quad-SLI System · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Why all the bad press? on 360 Disc Scratching Serious Problem · · Score: 1

    pick up the january 2006 pc world magzine... and read the stats on dead out of the box electronics.. 3-5 is in line with their results too.

    (blew me away, I've bought a lot more than 100 pieces of electronics, and the only doa's were gateway's and refurbished stuff)

  9. the real test of a boxing robot on Fighting Android Sparring Partner · · Score: 1

    have they put it up against Lee Marvin?

  10. Re:Is time not important? on Does Faster Broadband Matter? · · Score: 1

    I agree. I work for an ISP and we have 2 OC-3 connections. The high download speeds we have make my job much nicer. If I'm working on something and need a large download, I can usually download it and continue working instead of starting the download, working on something else, and then getting back to what I was doing when it finishes.

    As a test, I downloaded debian-31r1-i386-binary-10.iso (644 MB) from mirrors.usc.edu while typing this. Maxed out at 2.58 MB/Sec and downloaded the entire file before I finished typing (under 5 minutes)
    this took more than 4 minutes to type? do you type with a stick wired to your jaw or what?

  11. no, no, and no,.. on The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    vcrs (famous betamax decision) helped people carry out an illegal act.. but it was legal.
    just providing the means does NOT equate into illegal actions.

    napster got in trouble because they kept the master file list on their own servers- and then couldn't filter out content the riaa & others wanted blocked.

    Laws concerning morality never fit in with the 'average' views of the citizenry--

  12. think I can get prior art? on Ramp Creates Power As Cars Pass · · Score: 1
  13. Re:your sigline on A Closer Look at Google Adwords · · Score: 1

    parse it- what does
    "a year than all" mean in that sentence.

    I did make a mistake, the sigline referes to all #'s SINCE (therefore not including) Vietnam
    but it is a comparison of many years vs' per year.

    the # is still wrong however (see my response lateral to your reply) as if you include all military deaths (other than age) it's still not higher (mostly due to accidents)

  14. Re:your sigline on A Closer Look at Google Adwords · · Score: 1
  15. your sigline on A Closer Look at Google Adwords · · Score: 1

    http://www.madd.org/stats/1298 sez less than 17k killed in 2004 due to alcohol related deathe

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war#Casualtie s says 58,226 were killed in action or classified as missing in action.

    can you 'splain the difference?

  16. for the manufacturer... on The Next-Gen Odd Couple · · Score: 1

    seems wrong.. a new and or different term is needed, publisher, host, host..

    the manufacturer just stamps the cd's and prints the boxes....

  17. go to staples on Accurate Project Time Tracking? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    buy a cheap timeclock, and some time cards... set it on your desk.

    punch in, punch out, per job.

  18. hypothetical indeed on What is the Scope of Computer Forensics? · · Score: 1

    lets say I search for
    "investment potential" as the TITLE of and WITHIN all .doc files on a PC

    if XP opens every file (all 3000 of them) then NTFS records me as opening all those files.

    guess what-- even if I only copy 50 of them, I've opened all of them.

  19. and wow- what the alternatives have wrought on Telcos Propose 2-Tier Internet · · Score: 1

    I just checked over my long distance bill.. there was one call that has to be an error, 150 minutes, to my mother, (which is out of state long distance) 5 years, 10 years ago, I would have called to dispute it, and likely gotten credit for it readily. this time, I'm not going to bother- why? the charge for that call was 1.06/.// it is not worth my time for a dollar..

    think about that, 2.5 hour call, AT&T, and the charge was a dollar six....

  20. do you know how to climb a really big mountain? on NASA to Privatize ISS Missions? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    with base camps...

  21. Re:do me a favor? on Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy · · Score: 1

    oh..

    thanks for the response, however I find your interpretation flawed.

    especially, strongly?
    it was a genuine question of what SG Cowens inspiration/source basis for the report might be.
    it was answered well by others, and I learned a little more about how the world works.

    but thanks for your input..

  22. do me a favor? on Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy · · Score: 1

    reparse my question with me, and tell me how your response 'wrong' applies?

    my question includes two assertions before asking a question (ps I consider a little bit of skepticisim of everyone healthy)
    1-they don't do it for fun (it referring to generating reports)
    2- they do it for income (it referring to generating reports)
    --what's the source of the revenue ?

    what part of that- properly- can be responded to as "wrong"?

    now, in the second half, you answered my question- but why did you start out with "wrong"

  23. time is relative---- on Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy · · Score: 1

    I have not clicked the example (which was posted well 45 minutes after my post-making it impossible for me to have done so before my post) and this is new on to me.

    the results in the 'alternate' search do appear commercial, and they are also the top results if you actually search for the alternate terms.

    what is very odd is a search on a deliberate mispelling
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q= beahball which does suggest alternate spellings and no 'ad' section of three similar to the original,

    and weirder still is, if I use the example, the first 'pro fit' alternate link sample gives a url of
    http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&revid=2025422389&qp os=0&upos=0&oi=revisions_inline&q=http://www.pro-f it-intl.com/

    whereas a google adsense link looks like

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=l&ai=BZMAUjQebQ9ejNr7 8aLaotc8Pq9_0DIOpsL0Bv7LCnwewtjwQBhgGKAg4AEikOVCLx tSZ-P____8BmAGSlAnIAQGVAiGaGgo&num=6&q=http://www. goldforex.biz

    I'm not sure it's really an "AD" as google loves to use those hugely perverse multiple digit urls (between the ?and the &num in the last example above) to track specific clickers... but it does seem--slimish?

  24. bad news dude... on Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy · · Score: 4, Informative

    um-- you have ad/trojan/spyware.. I had this exact same thing..
    in made my google results always have commercial sites turn up in/mixed in with the results.
    looked really good- but none of the adslime had cached version links available

  25. since we are always discussing microsoft on Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and their 'funded' windows v linux TCO studies..

    I'm curious who paid SG Cowen for this one?

    they don't generate this stuff for fun, they do it for income-- what's the source of the income that enables them to produce such a report?

    anyone? know anything about the corp? I find little on the site of the company to fill in the blank...