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  1. Re:"Pigeonholing Customers" on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    Wear expensive shoes or an expensive watch. Both say, "I have money".

  2. Re:Why would a satisfied Perl5 user migrate? on Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions · · Score: 1
    Perhaps you should go look up the difference between infer and imply. As I am making the inference, I can infer whatever I so choose.

    Faster means faster than perl 5. smaller means smaller than perl 5. Got it? I have no desire to understand programs written by others. I have a staff for that. I'm only concerned about the ones I write myself.

    Call your pharmacist, dude. You seem to be running low on anti-psychotics.

    oh, and it's spelled "grammar"

    jerk

  3. Re:Oh for the love of Pete on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    s'ok, i got over it

  4. Oh for the love of Pete on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your guy lost. Your reported anomilies aren't going to change that. Get over it.

  5. Re:Why would a satisfied Perl5 user migrate? on Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions · · Score: 1

    What other improvements besides speed and size would provide impetus for an already satisfied user to migrate? Assume for the moment, I do not have copious amounts of free time.

  6. Re:Why would a satisfied Perl5 user migrate? on Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions · · Score: 1

    If I am a current, satisfied user, the last two are less important than the first two, as current & satisfied infers that I have all the features I need and already know how to use/understand.

  7. Re:Why would a satisfied Perl5 user migrate? on Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've heard/seen that "this upgrade won't affect your existing code" song and dance before. In my youth, I actually believed it.

  8. Why would a satisfied Perl5 user migrate? on Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions · · Score: 4, Insightful
    What does Perl6 offer a satisfied Perl5 user? Is it faster? Smaller?

    To this user, the last several releases (5.x) have looked more like opportunities for continuing royalty streams for perl authors (new versions of old books) than significant releases.

  9. Re:Perfect Basic Functions First on Megapixel Cameraphones Compared · · Score: 2
    Actually, Nokia and others, design around the battery. Yes, they have some say, but they cannot say give me a battery that has three times the capacity and weighs half as much. That's a limitation of battery design issue, not an availabiltiy or customization issue.

    The camera uses little/no power when not in use. The major power consumers in a mobile phone are the display and the RF transmitter. Both are essential to the basic performance of the phone.

    Also, don't make the claim that there's a marketable number of people who would trade increased battery life for a less clear or a less functional display. If such a market existed, the mfgs would be scrambling to fill it.

    So, no, for the most part, it is not in the control of the phone mfgs. It is a combination of the physical limitations in current battery design coupled with consume demand.

  10. Re:No important stuff on Megapixel Cameraphones Compared · · Score: 1

    try visiting the rest of the site. all the info you ask about is there

  11. Re:Perfect Basic Functions First on Megapixel Cameraphones Compared · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that's a battery issue, not something directly under most mfgs control as they don't design batteries, they buy them from others

  12. Re:I have a great idea! on Vint Cerf on Internet Governance and Beyond · · Score: 1

    even at that level, they're a bunch of fvckups

  13. I have a great idea! on Vint Cerf on Internet Governance and Beyond · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Let's let the UN run the Internet! I mean, their track record at running things is so awesome.

    Sheesh. The UN couldn't manage a two car parade, let alone Internet governance.

  14. It'll never catch on... on New Blu-ray Disc to be Made of Corn · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't see these things replacing cobs in the outhouse.

  15. Re:Let's not forget on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1
    I've never heard of people getting dysentery from drinking LA water.

    Trust me, there's no place in the US that compares to China for hocking loogies.

    China's infrastructure has to accomodate the east coast. While it is densly populated, it's not 1.5bln people and the geographic challenges are muche easier than doing the entire country.

    I'm not making assumptions. My company has a large business presence there and I travel there many times each year. I'm speaking from experience, not from surfing a few web sites.

    Oh, did i mention inter-country internet connectivity? Can you say 600-1500msec latencies? Some technological marvel.

  16. Re:Let's not forget on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1

    NYC tap water may not be palatable, but China's tap water can give you dysentery.

  17. Re:Let's not forget on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1

    I have spent a lot of time in NYC, but I can see you haven't time in China. [note to other poster... I've lived in many parts of the country, including upstate NY. The term "hocking loogies" is not peculiar to that region]

  18. Re:Let's not forget on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1

    I have spent tim in both Beijing and Los Angeles. Beijing is an order of magnitude worse.

  19. Let's not forget on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can't drink the water from the tap

    Hocking loogies in public seems to be a national pastime

    Air pollution so bad that on some days it looks foggy

    Diseases like malaria and dengue fever (more a 3rd world than 1st world problem)

    China may have cool tech, but the basic infrastructure sucks.

  20. Re:Smokeless... on Battery-powered Cigarettes? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess there's no real substitute for the voice of experience, is there?

  21. Re:no for typical smokers on Battery-powered Cigarettes? · · Score: 1

    Think 11 hour international airplane flight

  22. Re:Bush and I'm not afraid to admit it. on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 1

    I believe it's called trickle-down economics. We'll have to agree to disagree on your analogy.

  23. Re:Bush and I'm not afraid to admit it. on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 1

    Taxes or fear of how much more I'll end up paying if Kerry gets elected. I remember when Clinton said no new taxes for people earning less than $200k. I said, "ok, no chance of that happening soon". Then he got elected. The number mysteriously became $100k, which had already happened (hey, it's Silicon Valley). Betcha Kerry's $200k makes the same mysterious transformation. Plus, Kerry's a bitch. :) And his mouth is way too small for his face.

  24. Bush and I'm not afraid to admit it. on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even while in France last week.

  25. Re:black earbuds on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1

    to me there was,yes A lot is going to depend on your listening environmant and what kinds of music you listen to. On a couple of receordings that I have heard countless times obver the years, picked up new passasges that were no longer muddled in the mix, as it were.