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  1. Re:Only for VERY foolish investors on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 3, Informative

    True, he is only 3rd richest behind Bill and Carlos.

  2. Re:Give me a break on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At least Microsoft can program an OS, unlike Apple who had to get Unix, since there old OS sucked worse than Win3.0

  3. Re:Science and Politics on Senators Demand NASA Continue Spending On Ares · · Score: 1

    Here you go, a couple dozen out of over 1600 technologies that the Space program has given us over the last 50 years.
    http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2008/pdf/timeline_08.pdf

  4. Re:Astronaut Job Interview Question . . . on Senators Demand NASA Continue Spending On Ares · · Score: 1

    The correction should be '2010s: "How's your Chinese"' since they will most likely be the next to go the Moon.

  5. Re:Competitive gaming and premium content on EA Introduces "Online Pass" To Get In On Used Games Market · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think so, it sounds like if you buy a New game you get a 'serial' number for DLC but if you buy a Used games, you have to buy the DLC for $10. It more to kill the used game market since they don't get a cut from it.

  6. Re:Is it safe? on Microsoft's Free, Online Version of Office To Premiere This Week · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am impressed you got it downloaded, I think he means the downloader program was the trojan, since it didn't work correctly and messed up you computer if you tried using it.

    I think it will be hard for MS to start charging for the free version consider there not much to the free version anyway.

  7. Re:Way to kill your business on Games Workshop Sues Warhammer Online Fansite · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They took it down because the reviews stunk. I don't know anyone who plays GW stuff anymore, even though they have a store in town. A decade ago, I know a dozen or more who played regularly.

  8. Re:Whatever it taks! on iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales · · Score: 1

    The WePad looks good but I like the Touchbook http://alwaysinnovating.com/home/
    The Touchbook runs Linux, with Open Source, Open Hardware and Open Community. The only problem is it could take them 2 months to deliver the touchbook.

  9. Re:That's all fine and good on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 2, Informative

    I meant, iPad wasn't Stolen by Apple.

  10. Re:That's all fine and good on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was stolen, since Alan Kay will always be a researcher who would rather have his innovations used. Alan Kay used to work for Apple and told Steve his he should increase the size of the iTouch and could rule the world. The Apple Newton could be consider a Dynabook v1, with the iTouch being v2 and the iPad being version 3 of Alan's dream computer. Also after Alan left Xerox Parc, he went to work for Apple in 1994, he is currently heading the institute he founded.
    Here is Alan's view on the iPad... http://www.tomshardware.com/news/alan-kay-steve-jobs-ipad-iphone,10209.html

  11. Re:First on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    MTX locks up on XP sp3 also.

  12. Re:So? on The FCC May Decide Not To Regulate Broadband · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Tell Congress to change the laws. What I mean is write a REAL paper letter to your Congress person, and not email them.

  13. Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    You can get quite a difference in 'simple' classes. I remember on C++ class where everyone would have the assignment done in 1 or 2 pages but one person would do it in 5 or 6 pages. I think I only had one assignment that ran more than one page, and that included the comments. It was also a bad class since we really didn't do C++ in class, I know the other teachers didn't like how he did it either.

  14. Re:Am I Missing Something Here? on Blu-ray Proposes Incompatible BD-XL and IH-BD Formats · · Score: 1

    The only time I have had a hard drive become unreadable was because of a power supply problem, the old data became unreadable but the new power supply the old data was readable again and the newer data was dead, even though I tried the old power supply.

  15. News? on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 1

    I saw that gaming table at GenCon Indy, two or more years ago, and every one thought the price was outrageous.

  16. Re:Uh yeah... very speedy. on Speed-Assembling Servers · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think they did it the way to did to save time, a lot of people won't had time to do it that way. You have to remember the challenge was on the trade show floor.

  17. Re:Uh yeah... very speedy. on Speed-Assembling Servers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess you should have been in my Intro to Networking class, we had to dig the parts out a room with a lot other junk, get the computer up and running then install the OS. At least it was a group project, but still after 2 motherboards we got it to post, then came the fun trying to get the Network card to work, we when though 6 cards to find one that worked correctly.

  18. Re:Invert rose-tinted-glasses on Programming the Commodore 64: the Definitive Guide · · Score: 1

    Microsoft only programmed Version 1 of Basic for the Pet, the programmers at Commodore programmed version 2-10, v7 was the C128 and v10 was C65.

  19. Re:How Fast Loaders Worked on Programming the Commodore 64: the Definitive Guide · · Score: 1

    The Vic 20 had the problem and they fixed it with the Commodore 64, I believe it was the Vic II chip, been a long time so I may have the wrong chip. The slow speed of the 1541 was because Commodore made the C64 backwards compatible with the Vic20 and 1540s. Try a 1571 with a Commodore 128, to see what the 1541 and C64 should have done. JiffyDos was great, it did speed up most of the programs quite well. IEEE was nice but Serial isn't slow, compare EIDE to SATA, which is faster? I liked my FD2000 drive and my Ramlink the most, now you can get a Secure Digital (SD or SDHC) or CompactFlash drives, so if you really want you could put all Commodore stuff on one 32Gig SDHC or CF.

  20. Re:Really? on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Indiana tried to pass a law stating that PI was 3, it was 1897 and almost passed.

  21. Re:First Priority on NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars · · Score: 1

    Finding craters is easy all you have to do if find circles in the pictures, and I very much doubt the NASA only goes on the work of the public. Mapping all you have to do in line up a picture on a larger picture, I know real technical, but it may be to hard for you. Finding circle and matching patterns, how much experience do you need?
    You know people with zero technical experience find stuff on google maps all the time.

  22. Re:First Priority on NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars · · Score: 1

    Here you go, start looking... http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/welcome/
    Right now you can help look for crater or map mars.

  23. Re:Debug key on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    I have had wiring problems with my model M before, other than that they are good keyboards. I guess if I typed like everyone else it would be a problem but I use my keyboard on my lap. I just don't like the spacing between the keys, most keyboard have the keys too close together.

  24. Re:About split on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 2, Informative

    Zip, Rar or some of file compression program will split files will work also.

  25. Re:Of course on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Until the next patch come out, all new achievements.