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  1. Re:*sigh on National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax · · Score: 1

    or suffer the consequences. It was implied.

  2. Re:Food? on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    Taste was secondary to health concerns in his question. So, yes perhaps the beef becomes less tasty, but we the consumers of beef and beef itself, becomes healthier with the beef on exercise and a grass-fed diet. I would much rather see grass-fed as the dominant food source and pay more. End corn subsidies now.

  3. Re:Strange on An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen · · Score: 1

    Although it might seem strange, these are not the first organisms on earth currently living that do not breath oxygen. The implications for life on other planets have already been discussed based on that fact. They live in extreme climates without light and seem to exist off of the rocks they live on. There is also anaerobic bacteria. However, the articles mentions the first multi-cellular organisms that do not require oxygen on earth. There are implications however, they are a different set.

  4. Re:This will fail - because Apple only does UI on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    SearchMe is up for sale. Very Apple like. Great for a smaller interface. Combine this with some other licensed technology and you have an Apple home run. Let someone else like Yahoo do all the optimizations and algorithms and Apple can fine tune the interface. Wow, in a month they can be in the search game.

  5. Re:You need a disc? on Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii · · Score: 1

    You will need the disc until Microsoft's exclusive agreement runs out. Same for PS3.

  6. Re:Not to sounds like a video snob ... on Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii · · Score: 1

    My PS3 can stream in 720p when Netflix offers a video at that resolution. Not everything is offered at that resolution (yet?). Otherwise I am in 480p/480i anyways. Secondly, the point is that anything that streams is meant to supplement what comes in the mail. It is not meant to replace it. Things like old TV shows and movies may not have been shot in HD, either. As others have pointed out, not everyone has a HDTV, or at least a their Wii is not hooked up to one. Not everyone has broadband that plays nice with HD bandwidth requirements. Not everyone has a laptop, spare computer, Xbox 360, PS3 or Roku, etc to stream in better resolution. If you have not gathered by now, there are many reasons and points to the Wii streaming. Not to mention that many people (read children, elders & non-technophiles) do not need HD to be satisfied.

  7. Re:Death by Snoo-Snoo on Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fry: Goodbye, friends. I never thought I'd die like this. But I always really hoped.

    Zapp Brannigan: We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.

  8. Re:Meh... on Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the case you present, the profit models need to change. Free music can lead to better more people buying merchandise and going to shows for example. Or pioneering technology like 3D that is too expensive and/or not available and gives an experience that pirating cannot. Ways of profiting are there, they have just changed.

  9. Re:Meh... on Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway · · Score: 1

    As long as they price things out of a range you consider reasonable, i.e, you not only have enough money to purchase and you desire to purchase at that price, you are not what they consider a customer anyways. They cannot expect you to buy and should not consider it lost revenue. Maybe that is just my business school education talking though; I have never been to law school.

  10. Re:Good for PF...but also...bad for PF? on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is a down side to this ruling. Many who want songs and not full albums at the price offered will revert to piracy. This will hurt the bottom line of EMI and Pink Floyd, weather or not they care, they will be compensated for their efforts.

  11. Re:A Clockwork Orange on Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control · · Score: 1

    My first thought. What I came here to read. Thank you.

  12. My favorite dinosaur... on New Type of Dinosaur Unearthed · · Score: 1

    My favorite dinosaur is still the Lickalotapus. Need less to say, my least favorite is the Megasaurass.

  13. Variables on Truth Or Dare — What Is the Best US Cell Company? · · Score: 1

    It depends on where you are based, how much you will travel, are you a business or personal user and whether you like sim cards or closed platorms.

  14. Re:Does MagicJack Work? on MagicJack Femtocell Gates Cell Traffic to VoIP · · Score: 1

    True, but whats to stop you from building a dedicated headless pc, say via based for energy reasons, for about $200. Comcast charges $45 a month for unlimited calling to US and Canada. With $40 a year subscription first year for magicjack, thats a 6 month payback period (adding in electricity) and lots of savings. With $20 a month phone service, its a year payback. you must work for the phone company.

  15. Check your dates on Y2.01K · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Midnight, December 31, 2010 has not happened yet. You must mean Midnight January 1, 2010.

  16. You need... on Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    You need the team from The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard.

  17. Where is the sound? on Amazing New Movies of Saturn's Moons · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kidding.

  18. Re:good on Google In Talks To Buy Yelp · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's why they have options to make friends and have followers. People with similar tastes can recommend places to each other and avoid blindly following reviews.

  19. Re:They suck at math too on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 1

    ...People liked that other elements ended in ium and not um, so they they renamed it aluminium, improperly.

  20. Re:They suck at math too on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 1

    In 1808, Humphry Davy identified the existence of a metal base of alum, which he at first termed alumium and later aluminum. The man who identified and named it, used the word aluminum. People liked that other elements ended in ium and um, so they they renamed it aluminium, improperly.

  21. Re:They suck at math too on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must use the incorrect term 'aluminium' as well.

  22. Re:Who wants to update?? on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 4, Informative

    Licensing aside, they never supported the Atom. As far as I know, they never planned or pledged to support it. Although you may be a customer, you were not an intended one if you installed OS X on an Atom. Apple does not sell anything with an Atom.

  23. Re:Faster... on Sneak Preview of New OpenOffice 3.2 · · Score: 1

    Always send out your résume in PDF. It will look the proper way, as in the way you intend it, every time, every platform.

  24. Re:What a surprise! on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was talking about grad school. Most students are not full-time in grad school for the majority of their curriculum. They spend more than 2-3 years in school because they work and go part-time.

  25. Re:What a surprise! on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    Some public schools in California have international student tuition set higher than out-of-state fees, which if I was informed correctly, means that they pay a higher level all 4 years and cannot get resident rates after a year of living here.