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  1. Re:Depends on what you're trying for... on Best Ways to Learn Graphics Design for the Web? · · Score: 1

    That was close intelligent and thoughtful. Visual acuity is not an accident! I wish I had a nickel for everytime I heard that one. There is a big difference between a formally trained graphic designer and a learn as you go. I watched the evolution of a graphic design foundation course over a period of 35 years. Graphic design as a separate discipline started in the fifty's. Note I'm not a graphic designer but was well taught on the fundamentals of what constitutes a good visual design and found that a good number of the principals work equally well when applied to electronic design. A little formal training does help immensely if you want to be a good graphic designer, there are lots of bad ones. Or find a good one and code up the end design. One more time Visual acuity is not an accident!

  2. Re:What a laugh! on Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft · · Score: 1, Informative

    1 lakh = 21363 USD aprox. lakh 100 000 rupee crone 1 million rupee more ignorance in cultural diversity shining through smile they are your future customer/boss

  3. enough with the ostrich act on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wonder if this is blunt enough for Blunt Missouri's poster child for republician stupidity.

  4. EPA tests on EPA Fuel Economy Myth: Too High, Too Low? · · Score: 1

    the EPA tests bear little resemblance to reality --Toyota for one has complained bitterly about the testing methodology even with it's seemly higher numbers. The tests were designed in the 70's with a different set of goals in mind. Due to intense lobbying they have remained in effect-- if they reflected real world numbers things would have to change -- follow the money 'remember hybrid cars are impossible to build' at last count they are building them on 6 different assembly lines / plants and the waiting list is weeks -- it's bad for oil until they gasify all that coal.

  5. science and politics don't mix on U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning · · Score: 5, Insightful

    bushy needs the religious right to keep the power and to hell with consequences. Just to keep the research alive for a cure for juvenile diabetes, the society had to fund their own research for 17 new stem cell lines of which none could be used in the US, the researcher has two kids with diabetes of his own and for the "SIN" of trying to keep his kids alives, has been hounded, threatened and abused. The research is moving overseas rapidly which is to be expected and in the end won't slow it down much. What doesn't get mentioned much, is that most of the approved stem cells are locked up in patents and too flawed for meanful research.

  6. Re:What would make the ultimate player... on MPlayer 1.0Pre1 Is Here · · Score: 1

    for 35 bucks there abouts you can emlimate that problem 'AnyDVD' for windoz-- it tells billy what ever he thinks he wants to hear for a region code
    nice idea -- sort of a driver driver
    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11297
    has the details

  7. Re:First Patent! on Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering · · Score: 1

    This is all about maintaining the status quo - all of it. The DMCA the removal of the "sunset clause" from the Patriot Act, oil from Iraq, hydrogen from coal instead of water, the UWB restraints instead of open development, Linux and open source instead of closed systems, plus the IMF as means of economic policy control. In short, we are at the edge of a new technological revolution that will change the players at the top, and they definitely do not want to go quietly into the night. It is just as silly/pathic as the "salt laws" were in England. Same players, same song, umpteenth verse. Technolgy has to be controlled to maintain the entrenched powers-that-be. Hydrogen for cars locks you to a distribution network, Iraqian oil will keep our oil companies going, UWB has the bandwidth and user density to render the cable and landline companies obsolete, it will also work fine for cell phones, plus it works indoors.