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  1. Re:Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 0

    Huh? This is an insightful comment? Meta Moderators, where are you?

  2. FAQ - How can you help? on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the site:

    ==============

    How can I/you help?

    The biggest thing is getting the word out. The students who use the site seem to really get excited by how quickly and deeply they can learn from it. Right now (5/2010), there are about 200,000 students using the site per month; no reason why it shouldn't be 20 million!

    If you like to code or work on user interface design, you might be able to help on the Khan Academy applications which we are doing as an open source project

  3. MA-thee-MA-ics on Why Are Indian Kids So Good At Spelling? · · Score: 1

    That because Indians are taught to spell "mathematics" as:

    MA-thee-MA-tics

  4. According to Malcolm Gladwell on Balancing Player Input and Developer Vision? · · Score: 1

    To answer your question and to quote Malcolm Gladwell, that users/consumers do not know what they want.

  5. Re:Further Proof on Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On · · Score: 1

    Right click on internet explorer and click "Run As" run it as admin. type C:\ into the address bar. Navigate to whatever folder the programs you want to run are in and run them. Anything that spawns from here will be running as admin.

    Except, after installing ie7, which stops this functionality... :-(

  6. Re:Not Joel Spolsky's Site on Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site · · Score: 1

    It does not charge for answers. Just scroll down and the answers are written there in visible plain text. The scrambled answers above are just a "trickery"

  7. Re:My Government is POISON to the rest of the worl on Pirates, Web 2.0, and Hundred Dollar Laptop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Usually, newspapers and letters to the editors go on here saying that "...we dont blame the American people, we blame the American government...". Considering that the American government is a democratic one (so much so that it thinks it right to "impose" its democratic vision to other countries) it is correct to blame the people as they are the ones who elected the governemnt. And those who didnt vote are to blame as well, because the government represents them and its their responsibility to elect the right one. Otherwise, they are responsible for the elected governments actions and should share the blame.

  8. Re:The AOL of VOIP on Skype Offering SkypeOut Service for Free · · Score: 1

    From the site:
    Important: Customers who sign up with sipgate for geographic phone numbers in the UK, must reside within the UK.

  9. Re:A vote for uTorrent on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Try PDFind (An ultra fast file finder)

    And ofcourse IrfanView

  10. 9/11 Myth on Ask The Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    There is a documentary out there called "Loose Change". Very good quality. But I am not sure of the quality of their claims.

    One claim is that detonations were going on in the building while it was collapsing. They have visual proof of this abnormality.

    Could you try busting or reinforcing that myth?

  11. Re:Wow that's creepy on Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Bush *MIGHT* be technically right be blaming New Orleanians, BUT the truth is that the Bush administration has cried "Wolf" too many times by scaring the general public and raising the scare-tactic threat level on every instance they could.

    Now when the threat was imminent, the public was confused as to how they should have reacted to defend their lives. And the irony is that this time the "enemy" was the terrorists...

  12. Re:Maybe 4 bombs on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Have you seen "The Interpreter"?

    Mushraff ALWAYS ALMOST BARELY espaces.

  13. Simple on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh... you didn't know?

    You can make gold by a simple double decomposition reaction. You just need Copper and Aluminium:

    Cu + Al = Au + Cl

    :)

  14. Re:The only real winners... on SCO Versus Novell Going All the Way · · Score: 1

    MS : SCO : Linux
    is the same as
    USA : Israel : Palestine

    Now, before you go modding this. Think about it.

    MS helps SCO behind the tables. Everyone knows about it. MS doesn't confront Linux directly. Linux gets angry about MS backing up SCO. Finally, it makes Linux so angry that MS gets a big blow from Linux.

    Now substitute.

    Oh yeah, and the only real winners here are ... "weapon makers".

  15. How to install this thing? on Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0 · · Score: 1

    Can somone please help me out how to install qt on windows? (Yes, this version, not the cyg-win version).

    I got it extracted to c:\qt\4.0.0 but running configure.exe does not do anything. It just makes me accept the license and tehn nothing. I tried the configure option "-qmake" which didnt do anything either...

    Ermmm... I am lost.

  16. To Fix the Boot Problem on Building the WallTop · · Score: 1

    To fix the problem of attaching the touchpad, he could have just gone to the bios and selected "Halt on No Errors". This way he could do with attacing the touchpad.

  17. Re:To the Cringely Haters... on Cringley Thinks Apple & Intel Are Merging · · Score: 1

    This intel/Apple prediction is a continuation of his previous prediction:

    3) Apple will take a big risk in 2005. This could be in the form of a major acquisition. With almost $6 billion in cash, Steve Jobs hinted to a group of employees not long ago that he might want to buy something big, though I am at a loss right now for what that might be. Or Apple might decide to throw some of that cash into the box along with new computers by deliberately losing some money on each unit in order to buy market share.

  18. Re:veryhai on IBM to Lose 13,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    "Outsourcing" to Asia

    is nature's balance for

    "Brain-Drain" from Asia

  19. Re:wtf? on Searching by Image Instead of Keywords · · Score: 1

    Poster is very right about the small subset. We might be able to see very similar plane pictures, because the subset is so small, and even in this small subset, we cannot find, say similar pictures of helicopters. The final searching algorithm should be a combination of CBIRS and metadata (to subset the images).

  20. Re:Freudian slip for an internet addict on Traffic Studied Using Computer-Linked Cars · · Score: 3, Funny

    We had a graphic artist once who called the neighbourhood cafe and ordered:

    "One Tuna Sandwich on Rye Bread, with Chips and no pixels pleas..... er, no PICKLES please! Thanks."

  21. This works ! on Who Will Pay For Open Access? · · Score: 1

    Whoring out ( or sponsorship for the politically correct ) always works !

  22. Walla on High School Dropout, Self-Taught Chip Designer · · Score: 1

    She moved to Walla Walla, Wash., and began attending Walla Walla College

    Wallahi?!

  23. Re:All your typos... on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    ... been opened by e.g. a your bank or ...

    Two typos in one heading! Do we have a NEW record? DO WE?!?

  24. Re:I agree. on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, lots of religions have an "End of Times" prediction stating that "Knowledge will decrease enough though there is plenty of information".

    That sounds just like the effect internet search engines are having!

  25. Re:It's interesting on Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 2, Informative

    >in theory, there isn't much of a difference
    >in a loan shark and any sort of investment

    Sorry about going off-topic, but - Not really.

    INTEREST
    --------
    When you loan an amount on INTEREST, you always make a profit. The more money you have the more profit you can make. The rich get richer - faster.

    Invest
    ------
    When you invest that same amount in a business, you can loose that money. You cannot sit on your ass all day and hope to make money. You are doing actual work. Or you might be motivating people to work. If you dont, you loose your money.

    So, in an INTEREST based economy, there is no production and people get fatter. In an investment based economy, people are working hard, and hence healthier. The INTEREST would certainly make that economy have more $$$money$$$ on fiscal records, but amount of money isn't everything, when health is being sacrificed.

    Moral - You just gotta work hard for your money. If you don't its only bad for you.