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  1. Re:cheaper... on Nike to Unveil Self Lacing Shoes? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is good because she eats the other 65% of that, from the looks of her.

  2. Re:Why on Nike to Unveil Self Lacing Shoes? · · Score: 2

    I think the idea would be that it conforms better by tying it perfectly each time. To tie shoes really well you basically have to restring them each time or at least re-tighten all the loops leading to the action tie-off point.

  3. Re:cheaper... on Nike to Unveil Self Lacing Shoes? · · Score: 1

    Even at $1 a day it seems like it be cheaper to buy the shoes. How little are you paying these shoe-tiers of yours?

  4. Re:Why aren't these still available? on 1970s Polaroid SX-70 Cameras Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Portable printers exist and how often are you more than a couple hours from a drug store?

    Do you really need it right now, or is a couple hours later ok?

  5. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    It means he pays a lower share. Taxes are generally a percentage of income. His percentage is lower. In absolute terms he might pay more, but he makes far more.

    Are you a useful idiot or fabulously wealthy?

  6. Re:Google's idea of open source isn't right on The State of Open Source Software · · Score: 0

    Why not?
    So long as the end user gets the code, what does it matter?

  7. Re:All in the costs...as always on Airship Company Gets First Civilian Customer · · Score: 1

    This is not a traditional airship. As it is a hybrid air vehicle it generates only 40% of its lift via gas, this means it is far more stable. We will have to wait and see if this makes a big difference or not.

  8. Re:Cruise ship on Airship Company Gets First Civilian Customer · · Score: 1

    Can these perhaps lift more than a 747?
    Why would airships require more maintenance?

    This craft is not a regular airship though so weather should be less of an issue.

  9. Re:Cruise ship on Airship Company Gets First Civilian Customer · · Score: 1

    I would pay the same amount as the flight cost today if I could get that.
    35 hours of fun beats 8 hours of airplane every day of the week.

  10. Re:A $25 cpu is not a $25 computer on Ask Director Eben Upton About the Raspberry Pi Foundation · · Score: 2

    If you can afford a television with usable inputs and/or a conversion dongle, you can afford a netbook.
    And you can still afford to buy this.

    ARM linux is not a mainstream OS.
    My phone disagrees with you.

    Keyboards may be free or cheap to people who already have computers, but not so much to anyone who would be interested in a $25 inferior good.
    Those people can buy them at good will.

    If you already have a screen and keyboard, you wouldn't buy this, since it is inferior in all ways to any desktop from 1995 or later.
    Let's count some ways it is better than this 1995 desktop:
    1. HDMI
    2. ARM
    3. lower power
    4. smaller
    5. this still works
    6. this has general io ports, 3.3v ones another poster claimed

    This is a great product and I will be buying one, even though I have a netbook, smartphone, desktop and several smaller handheld devices.

  11. Re:Malware Transmission Prevention? on Ask Director Eben Upton About the Raspberry Pi Foundation · · Score: 2

    That malware does not target USB drives. It spreads via them, it targets windows machines.

  12. Re:VMs on a mobile device? on Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android · · Score: 1

    Its not "windows" it does not support the same APIs as windows. Its kernel is perhaps similar, but the userland is nothing like it.

  13. Re:A $25 cpu is not a $25 computer on Ask Director Eben Upton About the Raspberry Pi Foundation · · Score: 1

    You do realize that most desktops are sold without a screen right?

    Any human interested in this will own a screen and a keyboard already. Any human interested in this will not be scared away by having to run a non-mainstream OS.

  14. Re:VMs on a mobile device? on Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android · · Score: 1

    Link to the download for that, or it is useless. Windows has supposedly been compiled for arm before and nothing came of it.

    No one is missing anything kiddo. I just stated that there are faster ways to get this sort of separation if you were willing to run on OS multiple times.

  15. Re:Chroot/Jail on Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android · · Score: 1

    No one wants WP7.
    What we do want is to run mulitple full android OS at the same time.

  16. Re:VMs on a mobile device? on Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android · · Score: 1

    Of course not. He said two separate operating system environments, not can you run windows in it.

    You would not be able to run it on this either, unless you have some arm compiled windows.

  17. Re:VMs on a mobile device? on Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android · · Score: 1

    There is, using jails or chroots or openvz containers. How much separation you want dictates what method you choose.

  18. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    They never did tried to implement his theories. They claimed they did, big difference.

  19. Re:At some point on GlobalSign Suspends Issuance of SSL Certificates · · Score: 2

    But until yesterday you would not have.
    So they will fold this company and do it all over again. That is much cheaper than ever bothering with security.

  20. Re:At some point on GlobalSign Suspends Issuance of SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    Why would they?
    Security costs money, these folks sell the illusion of security so that is what they use for themselves as well. When marketing and MBAs run companies this is what you get.

  21. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    No place.

    I cannot compare anything to the enchanted fairyland with the tax funded beer volcano, ruled by a leader selected by lottery, to rule for 45 seconds, that I came up with an idea for a type of goverment right now.
    That does not mean I compare it to Haiti, just that I admit it has never been done.

    There is no need to make false comparisons.

  22. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    It is not disingenuous to point out that the wealthy avoid equal taxation by making most of their money via capital gains. Why do you think CEOs take $1 salaries? So they can be paid in options and stock which is taxed as capital gains and to avoid paying SS.

    Buffet was pointing out that the tax system favors the rich.

  23. Re:Ehrlich was right, just a little early. on World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October · · Score: 1

    Jevon's paradox is indeed a problem.

    Our economy is not doing well for a whole host of reasons. Once energy costs rise enough alternatives will be used. Negative growth for decades is the cost of shortsighted policies those economists and politicians put into place.

  24. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am no philosophy type, and I realize that nothing is black and white. My only objection here was comparing the USSR to what Marx wrote about is insane. The USSR and its leaders never intended to put such a system in place or even attempt to. They used these words as a propaganda tool. Just like the "American Dream" is used as a propaganda tool to keep the poor from rioting in the streets when they find out Buffet pays less taxes(percentage wise) than his secretary.

  25. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    Then don't bother reading Marx, or any other philosopher.

    If you don't waste time with that then no new ideas will ever be tested, or thought of. Have fun in your ignorance.