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  1. Re:One minor point on Politicians Catch on to Blogging · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, you need to get out more.

    From http://www.nycexoticcarrentals.com/new-york-city-b ridges-and-tunnel-overview.php

    Interesting Facts about New York City Tunnels and Bridges

            * There are 790 bridges in New York, 19 of which connect the boroughs. Of the remaining 771 you will find 20% of these in the Bronx, 23% of them in Brooklyn, 23% in Manhattan, 8% in Staten Island and 26% are in Queens.

  2. Re:Reference design. Maybe. Product? Doubtful. on Microsoft to Enter Handheld Market? · · Score: 1

    I think you need to better understand the differences between causality and correlation. It's a lot easier to blame Microsoft for one's failures than it is to blame one's self.

    Lat time I looked, both Sega and SGI were still open for business.

  3. One minor point on Politicians Catch on to Blogging · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you really believe that the pols themselves are actually writing, or even reading these, I've got a bridge in Manhattan I'll let you have very cheap. This is a staffer job.

  4. Reference design. Maybe. Product? Doubtful. on Microsoft to Enter Handheld Market? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't see them pissing off a whole bunch of media player mfgs who already have product on the market by going head to head with them. I can see them doing a reference design like they did with a cell phone.

  5. Distinction on Making Files Available Breaking the Law? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Putting files in a shared folder may be found to be illegal in a court of law. The mere act does not a crime make.

  6. You mean Brin defends his meal ticket on Slashback: Google, Surveillance, Stardust · · Score: 5, Insightful

    '...We ultimately made a difficult decision, but we felt that by
    participating there, and making our services more available, even if not
    to the 100 percent that we ideally would like, that it will be better for
    Chinese Web users, because ultimately they would get more information,
    though not quite all of it.'


    Meaning: "Thereby ensuring that we could sell ads that reach most,
    even if not to the 100% that we ideally would like, of the enormous
    Chinese market."

    Don't kid yourself. This has nothing to do with being evil or not and
    everything to do with making money. Great big piles of money.

  7. The reason not to do this on A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages · · Score: 4, Informative

    Capitalization makes all the difference in the sentence:

    i helped my uncle jack off a horse

  8. Re:Not exactly on iPod May Become Next Fair-Use Battleground · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd have to say it's pretty hard to imagine that, unless the guy selling the aforementioned iPod is a complete idiot, he dropped almost 12 grand between the iPod and iTunes and is willing to part with it for $800.

  9. Not exactly on iPod May Become Next Fair-Use Battleground · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you sell your cd case + cds, you're transferring the physical cd's, unlike the iPod case where you're transferring mere copies of the songs on said cds.

  10. Re:First Gimp Post on The Adobe Photoshop Elements Crafts Book · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but only a person who has never truly used Photoshop can make that statement. Gimp is very good at many things, but it isn't Photoshop.

  11. Oh I wish I had mod points on Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools · · Score: 1

    +1 pointing out hyperbole

  12. Pivot Tables: Separating the men from the boys on Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Once you learn how to use pivot tables, your entire perspective on Excel changes from "Word with Gridlines" to poor man's database.

  13. WIndows OneCare status? on Ask Microsoft's Security VP · · Score: 4, Informative

    What is the status of the Windows OneCare program? Is a released product expected soon?

  14. Re:Waste Of Time on Firefox for Intel Macs Planned for March · · Score: 1

    Yes. I bought the x86 version because Apple has a track record of agressively dropping support for legacy architectures and OS's.

  15. MIrror on Ideazon ZBoard Customizable Gaming Keyboard Review · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Re:Waste Of Time on Firefox for Intel Macs Planned for March · · Score: 1

    OK, let me lay it out for you. I have 3 computers. A 1.7 Ghz P4 running Windows, a dual P3-600 running CentOS, and an ancient B&W Mac G3. The G3 is long past its "Use-By" date but still sereves its purpose OK as an iMovie creator. Both the Windows box and the linux box are getting long in the tooth and both have 1Gb memory limits. After careful study, I believe that I can consolidate all three into a single iMac and get all of the functionality I need, thereby consildating the three computers into one. I cannot achieve the same objective if I try to consolidate onto Windows or linux.

  17. Re:Waste Of Time on Firefox for Intel Macs Planned for March · · Score: 1

    Outside of a tiny number of hardcore Mac fanatics, no one is going to be stupid enough to blow a ton of cash on overpriced Apple x86 hardware.

    Well, this hardcore linux/Windows user has his arriving on Wednesday. And, as soon as Tivo releases their Tivo To Go for the Mac, the Windows box will be completely decomissioned. The linux box will go sooner.

  18. Re:So they remove IE from Mac on Microsoft to Continue Office on Mac · · Score: 1

    "The Lord Giveth, and the lord taketh away"

    Indian Giver be the name of the Lord.

  19. My experience with gmail is different. on Spam is Dead · · Score: 1

    Like you I publicly post this address, but only on /. 22.7% of my gmail inbox is spam (20 of 88 messages). However, there are another 1394 in my spam folder.

  20. Re:Well, on The Media's Crush on Apple · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because Google hasn't done so much as fart (though you'd see it on the front page if they did) since Friday.

  21. Re:Well, Gates WAS a "Person of the Year" on The Media's Crush on Apple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Michael Dell has little to do with innovation.

    I beg to differ. Perhaps little innovation in PC development, but in supply-chain management? The man's a god.

  22. Basement? on 'The IT Crowd' UK Sit-com · · Score: 1, Funny

    As in one of the characters' mom's basement?

  23. Apple & SGI would have been interesting on Sun and Apple Could Have Merged · · Score: 1

    back in the mid 90's when SGI was riding high and Apple was fading into the sunset.

  24. Re:35mm film users, take note on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 1

    For just a wee bit more, the Nikon D70 has these features. In fact, it is often compared to the N80 (that's F80 to the rest of the world) as being essentially equivalent. Granted, the N80 is half the price of the D70.

  25. Re:35mm film users, take note on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 1

    Granted. But if digital cameras keep increasing in resoltuion the way they have, you might not find a 3yr old one all that appealing.