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  1. Re:Antitrust? on Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone · · Score: 1

    when the rest of the web doesnt follow "standards" you really cant call standards standards.

  2. Re:Antitrust? on Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You only get the free part right. I would hardly call Opera better. Even IE runs circles around Opera and I absolutely HATE IE. Opera's weakness is its lack of third-party support which in the .com2 era is a MAJOR weakness.

  3. A coworker once asked me on HP Opens Up TouchSmart To Third-Party Developers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    2 months ago when we where going to start having touchscreens all over. And I said to him, never, at least not in the foreseeable future. He asked me why and I listed the reasons, no software that really takes advantage of it, no one wants a screen with smudges all over it, and its impossible for us to fix cheaply when the interface breaks which we know it WILL break. A new screen is a couple hundred dollars, a new keyboard and mouse isnt even 50 for us.

  4. Re:non-compete == BS on Apple Plans To Make Chips For Handhelds · · Score: 1

    traditionally trade secrets are held to a different standard as a non-compete. Even after a non-compete expires your still not allowed to disclose trade secrets. The sole reason for a non-compete is to render the signer completely useless for a year or two to prevent companies in the same line of work from benefiting from another companies stupidity. It completely goes against the point of a capitalistic society, which is why many states just tear it up as overstepping legal bounds of a contract. There are exceptions (typically if you are leaving with a nice severance package, then a non-compete is legal, but if they are just laying you off with nothing, then judges usually throw out the contract.

  5. Re:Does anyone use this? on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    absolutely not. This means proprietary standards developed by Microsoft and given cutsie names. It ALWAYS means that.

  6. Hey US Army on US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Terrorists can use TXT messages too... and guess what... TXT messages are more secure than Twitter.

  7. Re:This is why we are $10T in debt on Couch Potato Gene Identified In Fruit Flies · · Score: 1

    Im guessing your from the "REAL" America, and not that fake America I'm from!

  8. Re: Oh come _on_ on Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android · · Score: 1
    See and this is why a lot of people think this is a double standard, people dont even know HOW Apple supposedly abused it.

    Apple DID NOT delete a iTunes rival, they deleted a mail rival that did nothing but ape Apples already provided google mail support for the iPhone.

  9. Re:What the fuck? on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1

    Actually its because producers wanted the Hiro from Heros too but NBC was unwilling to lose two key castmembers for 3 months. So it ended up going to Cho even though Abrams was a little unsure of casting a Korean as a Japanese officer.

  10. Re:Looking at the pictures.. on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Im almost 30 and guess what, not for nothing but I look a hell of a lot more like Pine than I do Shat when he was Kirk. Back then hollywood tended to have older actors play younger characters, to the point that once you have actors who ARE the actual age of the characters play them, it seems jarring.

    You know another thing, I love how people call it Star Trek 90210, yet people fail to remember the entire cast of that show minus Brian Austen Green was like 25 when they started. They where 25 and playing 16 year olds.

  11. Re:no comment on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pine is 28. Kirk was 30 when he took command of the Enterprise. Its not that they are so young its that Shatner was so OLD when he played Kirk (over 35 during the series) and your miss remembering how young Shatner really was in WNMHGB in comparison to the series proper which was filmed almost a year after the second pilot.

  12. umm how about your full of shit? on Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air · · Score: 1

    Memory and Hard Drive replacements on the Macbook do NOT void your warrantee. Its user replaceable from the battery port.

  13. Re:media on Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air · · Score: 1

    thats the only thing i can think of too, I much prefer my 1st Gen pro's matte screen over the glossy one and always recommended that over glossy for either Mac or Dell to my fellow staff-members.

  14. Re:Glossy only? on Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air · · Score: 4, Informative

    be ready though, even Dell is dropping their matte options. Pretty soon none of the laptops will have it.

  15. Re:we pay more than that on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 1

    That has to be the most utterly stupid comment I have ever read on this site in my life. The military budget in this country is 7 TIMES the education one.

  16. Could have told you that was coming on New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback · · Score: 4, Insightful

    its all in the upkeep, It is cheaper and easier to maintain a bunch of servers, and have a bunch of lightweight computers hooked into it than to maintain a individual machine per EVERY person. While there will always be things that having a individual machine is better suited for, for those people where all they need is internet, database access, and word processing, it makes little sense to not just maintain that stuff on a secure server and farm it out to everyone else. I have been pushing this for years in our school district, its only been now where the people who get to make the decisions are finally listening.

  17. Re:Clock can run in reverse. on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 1

    It did, but not in the way this guy thinks it should have. By law the money needed to go to pay down our public debt first, which is real debt despite this guys claims. The big number is national debt which once the money we borrowed from SS and medicare was paid back, would have then been paid back IF the Clinton budget had been kept.

  18. Re:Clock can run in reverse. on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 1

    And as I mentioned elsewhere where someone posted a heavily slanted republican piece about how Clinton never had a surplus, the fact is legally we HAVE to pay down the borrowed debt to Social Securities and Medicare before governmental debt can be paid down. So its really a falsity to say that there was no surplus and debt wasn't being paid down when in fact it was through the only LEGAL way to do it.

  19. Re:Clock can run in reverse. on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 4, Informative

    actually the assertions are not entirely accurate in that whole spiel. The debt DID go down, but it was the way it went down that was not readily visible. The persons agenda clouds the fact that our debt needs to be paid down in certain ways before it can be paid off completely. Corporate accounting is not the same as governmental accounting, I know this one for a fact working for a school district and the specific ways we have to work our books that would make a corporate accountant freak out.

  20. Re:Clock can run in reverse. on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thats really sad isnt it, that we at one point WHERE paying down the debt. And the sad thing is Bush cant even blame the war... he got rid of ALL of Clintons budget concessions not long after becoming president. If he had kept them, even with the war, we would have had the debt paid off by 2011., as of now without serious cuts in spending and raising taxes in some form (which could be as easy as repealing the Bush tax cuts) it could be 2070 by the time we get out of debt. And these are people who sold themselves as fiscal conservatives.

  21. Re:My MBP was already burned by this issue... on Apple Admits Nvidia GPU Defect In Some MacBook Pros · · Score: 1

    The tech likely had not heard of the problem. Remember techs are always the last to know what engineers are finding, especially when you consider how many techs Apple likely has.

  22. Re:Price Drop? on Apple Admits Nvidia GPU Defect In Some MacBook Pros · · Score: 1

    Pros. Macbooks use the intel on board chips which while sucky for gaming, have now proven themselves to not be mini-USS Enterprises.

  23. Re:dirty tricks on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 1

    Is it gay?

  24. Re:dirty tricks on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And computers have been voting in republican for the last 8 years your point?

  25. Re:TWO BIG ENGINES? Really? on Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here · · Score: 1

    First off your using fueleconomy.gov. While a good site, its not even remotely accurate for any vehicle over 4-5 years old at this point since they changed the calculations and actually only tested new cars with the calculations while estimated the older ones based on the results of them. That being said, how you come to a 85 Honda civic and DONT pull up a Geo Metro which gets almost 47-48 estimated mpg according to the site is amazing since your trying to prove YOUR point, yet your purposely cherry picking your car.

    And I hate to break it to you but despite the software being updated over the years, for the most part emission control systems and catalytic converters have remain the same, mostly due to government regulation than anything else. I can tell your exactly where all my O2 sensors on my brand new Aura are based on where they are on my first car thats 20 years old now. And while airbags have become more prevalent over the years (they did exist in the 80's though sir) and cars have become "heavier" it is sure not because of any safety innovations as much as it is people needing important features like air conditioning, souped up stereos, electronic windows and doors, sunroofs, etc. etc. etc.

    BUT then lets just go by the list you put up, and THEN go by the most popular cars from the 80's and 90's Cavaliers, Escorts, Taurus, Sunbird/Sunfire, Civics, Accords, Camry, Corollas, etc etc. For every one of your Caddies, there was about 3-4 of these models making MUCH better milage.