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  1. Re:No on Would You Pay For YouTube Videos? · · Score: 1

    exactly. I currently switch my computer to output to my HD tv, and watch episodes that way. bonus since I bought a may i have a remote that works.

  2. Re:Does it bother anyone else..... on Hospital Equipment Infected With Conficker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what part of 10 year old equipment didn't you understand? What part of Win NT and win 2K makes you think the hardware can even run anything newer?

    At that time your looking at Red Hat 5. think about it. linux wasn't ready back then for mission critical stuff.

    At best they could have gone with OS/2 warp.

  3. Re:A Dying Breed on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 1

    While you are correct it had the net effect of stopping or slowing down ALL stem cell in the USA for 6 years putting USA researchers ahalf a decade behind China and Korea in practical uses for Stem cells. It did have a second side effect of forcing USA researchers to look for alternate stem cell sources.
     

  4. Re:Good idea on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 1, Interesting

    good admins who know what they are doing(windows , Linux, etc) are more expensive. So for a company to afford more sever and desktop licenses MSFT engineers Windows to be admined by monkeys banging on keyboards.

    The ones who can also shout "developers" while banging on their keyboards. Become help desk techicains. The monkeys who can do all of the above and fling their own poo join MSFT marketing.

    Seriously though Windows is setup by bad wannabe admins because MSFT marketing has convinced CEO's that anyone can do it.

  5. Re:Microsoft, please read and listen! on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you look at the history of Mac OS. Apple has changed processor styles twice, and is working on a third major API change. Msft won't charge you for it. Itwill be standard on most versions if not all. Vpc CPU support hasbeen around since pentium III's?

    You really aren't that informed about the advances of the computer industry in the last decade. This will be mostly seamless to the end user. Double clicking on an XP app will auto launch the VM if it isn't running. If you have any Linux experience itwill be like launching windows apps with wines except msft has the full Api. After 2-3years your problems will be a memory. And msftwill finally have a 21st century OS.

  6. Re:We are a bunch on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1, Insightful

    um it has two military escorts. if your afraid of a plane already being escorted by the military then you really need a clue. The planes that did attack the trade center didn't have escorts.

    it is a deduction worthy of sherlock holmes apparently.

  7. Re:A bit self-defeating on Future of Financial Mathematics? · · Score: 1

    Well that statement about walmart is several years old. However Walmart has 7 billion in the bank. with an annual revenue of 405 billion. that means they are making 3% profit.

    If Walmart for whatever reason does something stupid that causes their stock value to crash the banks will start to call in loans. which will in short order crush everything walmart has.

    3% profit isn't a healthy company. Walmart has one thing going for it, it is a low end product supplier and in a tight economy people go with the low end.

  8. Re:Yeah God Forbid They Actually Have to COMPETE on Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon · · Score: 1

    why don't you find out how many phones are on both networks. the list is very small with random features missing in each making them not quite the same.

    Blackberries are the closest but they have variations.

  9. Re:You Can't Fight the Internet on California Family Fights For Privacy, Relief From Cyber-Harassment · · Score: 1

    if your dumb enough to do drugs, then your dumb enough to drive too. just look at drunk drivers. The real reason those who do drugs don't drive is because they have already lost or never had a license, and don't feel the need to drive. They generally don't have a car either as they are poor from doing drugs.

    hence why the only people one hears about driving under the influence of drugs are the rich.

  10. Re:A bit self-defeating on Future of Financial Mathematics? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually markets are very predictable. every 10 years they go boom. Which part goes boom is varies but every ten years since Nixon they go boom.

    The trick is that wall street likes unlimited growth. if you don't expand your business by 10% every year then you are a failure and your company should be punished. After 10 years at 10% growth you have over saturated the market by 100% and every company that got there with unstable books and balances collapses.

    I forget exactly who and when but a walmart exec once stated. If we stop building new Walmarts we will go bankrupt. As they leveraged one walmart to build the next in a terrible endless pyramid scheme. Once the bottom bursts there is nothing holding up the top.

    Indeed if you look closely to all the news reports on what happened to the banks that is exactly what happened. 5% failure of loans should be expected. However a handful of banks ended up holding that entire 5% as their portfolio. As they collapsed the rest of the banks were suddenly forced to cover them, and since they over extended themselves by laying off bad loans on a small group the rest of the banks couldn't take the weight.

    the housing market the past 8 years was the same way. You can't have massive growth without massive contraction.

    The dot com burst. was the same. unparalleled growth but questionable accounting.

    Oh and I saw the housing market ready to burst 18 months ahead of time. Just look for massive growth over 5 years in any given market. a Seller's market for a long enough time leads to collapse. timing exactly when is the trick.

  11. Re:Yeah God Forbid They Actually Have to COMPETE on Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon · · Score: 4, Informative

    last year called they want their criticism back.

    when i first got the 3G network performance was bad. Over the last six month AT&T has brought it almost to the point where the iphone processor is the limiting factor. With rendering times almost equal between 3G and wi-fi.

    What really gets me though is verizon can never have the iphone. Ever. It would have to be made exclusively for verizon customers. As Verizon uses phone technology that is incompatible with the majority of the world. GSM may not be the best solution, however it does have the largest user base. When will people understand this?

  12. Re:Buh? on Microsoft Suffers Leaks, Lagging Sales Numbers As They Look Forward To Windows 8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well that depends on how long you have been listening to msft hype. A database file system has been promised from msft sine roughly 1994. Back then it was a full FS. The latest version is a database layer on top of NTFS. Something they have been promising since 2002. They still can't get it to work. It has led to improvements in windows. However apple and gnome had those features without false promises of winFS.

  13. Re:What are the implications of this discovery? on Rydberg Molecule Created For the First Time · · Score: 4, Funny

    Robot wives is an oxymoron. Robots are logical wives are illogical. Therefore no robot will ever replace the wife. Mistress maybe. Though if it lasts only 18 seconds I have my doubts.

  14. Re:size on World's First X-Ray Laser Goes Live · · Score: 1

    you fire it at lawyers.

  15. Re:NYT quote is a bit unfair ... on A Layman's Guide To Bandwidth Pricing · · Score: 1

    yea but you should know that doubling your customers doubles your requirements.

    ISP oversell their service by a couple orders of magnitude a they think email and web pages are the end of the internet. things like youtube, and VOIP are sucking down as much bandwidth as bittorent but that little bit of information is missing.

  16. Re:Hotter'N'Hell on Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if that's true will god ignite Jupiter so that there is enough day light hours so that the solar can truely power all of the vatican. Or will it only work during the his glorious light and at night there will be no lights?

    Solar doesn't store power very well.

  17. Re:So.. on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    hurricanes release a lot of energy. If that energy isn't released I would hate to see what happens.

  18. Re:Some thoughts on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    well one or two of these on the rough of a house, combined with ~2 KW in solar cells, and while you will still have to draw from the grid, your air conditioner is powered all summer for free. That by itself is a huge savings. realistically the average house has room for 3kw in solar panels. Now they won't work with their best efficiency but they will work better when you need them, the summer sun has a way of doing that.

    Now if they can just get the cost down to the consumer so it is worth it.

  19. Re:Latency on Telepresence — Our Best Bet For Exploring Space · · Score: -1, Redundant

    shh don't spoil their self delusional rants. I rather enjoy them. It's like watching a B sci-f movie.

    Not to mention if you want to bring something back larger than samples the you need big machines and people to control them.

  20. Re:Uhhh, yeah... on Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? · · Score: 1

    I have had letters arrive the next day, and 3 weeks to go the 90 miles between rochester and syracuse. Sometimes it is 4 days, sometimes 2, (not counting sundays)

    UPS though guarantee's service over certain milage in 1-6 days. they even produce maps to help guide you. Also USPS says they have tracking. however actually tracking an object through said measures is futile until after it arrives at the destination.

    In the end. I pick up the phone and call or just drive it there. after all 90 miles is only and 1.5 hours and I can spend 4-6 hours with family making a day of it.

  21. Re:F-22 on Predator C Avenger Makes First Flights · · Score: 1

    And if that jammer is space based how do you shoot it down? The trick isn't to jam GPS, but to introduce your own false signals. Now GPS is randomly working.

    Next up using your own counters to the USA growlers, to jam UAV controls(which all respond to ground control even if the primary flight is automated, the landings take-offs, and targeting is all done by remote.

    The F-22 radar can be used to electronically overload other radars, and systems. Call it targeted jamming. China most likely is copying this ability like they copy many other things from the USA. Once each side begins to target UAV's and missiles in such fashions manned pilots will be needed to target said locations.

    The F-22 radar has been truck mounted too. 20-30 of them a mile or so behind your primary ground troops, flanked by mobile anti-aircraft missile platforms. And your suddenly fighting a whole new war. or one a lot like an old war.

    remember Iraq really wasn't an effective fighting army. we walked over them twice('91, and '03) in roughly 6 weeks time frame. The rest of the time was cleanup.

  22. Re:Intent on What the Pirate Bay Verdict Could Mean For Google · · Score: 1

    The law is always falling away. it is a side effect of being 10-20 years behind the times. But like gravity it is also staying with us slowly.

    An accountant should be able to quickly determine if the pirate bay is telling the truth. it won't take much unless the TPB leaders have done some clever book keeping to hide money. If they are doing the later then they should pay up. If however if the majority of their revenue is going to servers, and bandwidth then they are telling the truth that they really aren't in it for the money.

    Just remember the biggest crooks in the world have gotten caught because they were greedy and didn't feed the government the governments desired share.

  23. Re:F-22 on Predator C Avenger Makes First Flights · · Score: 2, Interesting

    UAV's are awesome right up until your enemy decides that it is easier to just jam all available frequencies while launching their attacks. Frequency hopping will help but if you start losing even momentarily control your weapons start falling off target and aircraft can be dangerously uncontrollable.

    personally I am betting china already has or is currently working on a method of disrupting GPS signals. Even forcing an error rate of a single percentage point is enough to render it weak for smart bombs.

    pilots won't go anywhere as smart countries will target UAV weak points. remote control, and GPS. Modify a tv station ghz satellite transmitter for the right frequency and broadcast the wrong signal at the warzone. Better yet. Turn one of your space based satellite TV stations to broadcast higher power GPS signals. Flood the area with fake signals and let the receivers sort it out. In the mean time you start losing UAV's, fast.

  24. Re:Sharks on A Monster LED Array For Irresponsible Fun · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone who needs their night vision use red and green lights.Once you hit blue and white it can take 10-30minutes for your eyes to adjust back. It is biology.

    Light spectrum colors and their effects are known. Meat counters use pink lights, as if they used a bluish color the meat looks rotten. Take a good look Round yourself some day. Various shades of colored lights are used everywhere to promote different products. And for effectivedifference between HPS and white Metal Halide go to a mall parking lot and then to a car dealers. Notice which one hurts your eyes.

  25. Re:Look at page 3 on "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Try holding your breath. That always works.

    The iPod bubble will only burst when the iPod competitors actually produce a quality product. I keep trying to use other products but they all do some random annoying little things that prvent me from using them. I like my products to work with me. Not fight my attempts to use them.

    I don't use windows as I can't stand the minor details in use. Quality of features over Quanity of features.