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  1. Re:I can't support this use of tax dollars on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    But with point 1 won't the chinese copy any methods even faster? I don't say it's true I'm asking.

  2. Re:If the advanced technology comes from China... on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    Though cheaper don't mean worse manufacturing or environmental consequences, amount of middle men, brand recognition, modern modell or casual and so on affect price to.

    It may be possible to get more political clothes/items for less if you don't pay that much for the label / store location / marketing / ...

  3. Re:If the advanced technology comes from China... on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    Over here there exist a bank for people who don't like interests and how they work at all.

    You can save your money there but you won't get any interest, but I guess they will loan the money to others which want money but they also pay no interest. I have no idea how the loan stuff works though. I think one have to have saved money for a while there to be allowed to take loans.

    http://www.jak.se/

    Oh, they even got an english webpage:
    http://jak.aventus.nu/22.php?HIST=
    "Membersâ(TM) deposits finance all loans. The members have saved a total sum of â 97 million and have borrowed â 86 million. (2008)

    Annual membership fees and loan fees (equals approximately 2.5 % effective rate of interest) cover administration and development costs."

    Ok, so a loan actually do cost something (administrational fee + all members pay 200 SEK the first year and 250 SEK / year for the rest of the time), but not very much atleast.

    Seems like you can even decide what you want to loan out your money to, for example only for environmental friendly usage or whatever.

    Personally I hate interests since they obviously just give more money to the people who already have them, though many people would rather invest than save them without interests. Around 50% of what you pay for a product is supposed to be made of interest (loans on equipment, for starting the company, on buildings, and so on so on.) Not weird that the banks get so rich.

  4. Re:The keyword, however, is "quality" on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    Browser no but won't most OSes have support for it? The free ones fail? What is more likely, Theora becoming a standard or people trying to get h264 for free (but can't they already? Can't VLC and mplayer play h264?)

    I to believe a free format would be better, but if almost no-one use said free format and it's a definite fail that doesn't help. Such as trying to make a music store which only sell OGG although only just a few premium players play them.

    I'd be ok with theora to, and a standard / getting rid of flash is more important than getting the most superior format (which will always be outdated some day anyway.)

  5. I don't get it either on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    How will more money solve the problem? Isn't the problem that the ideas comes from somewhere else or that developing them is much more cheaper over there?

    How will more money solve that?

    It's the wrong solution, if american companies can't make cars people want for prices they are willing to pay or develop competitive battery technologies why invest in those areas? Invest in something you do better (or compete in price of the work but I doubt many americans would want to go that road.)

    Shoot for high-tech engineering or something such (which battery technology may be but unless it's competitive to manufacture them over there why do it? You can't generate "real" money if you have to get the money from the government / taxes. If only more parts of Sweden understood that to ..)

  6. Re:The keyword, however, is "quality" on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    .. and h264 got better video quality and more peoples videos are probably already in h264 so why use theora? Except it's free... But that don't guarantee success in any way.

  7. Re:The keyword, however, is "quality" on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    They can't be embedded in a standard way not using quicktime/wmp though can they?

  8. Re:Actionscript on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    I'm not as much of a fanboy as I'm a hateboy of one single browser (or well, make that two, Safari is quite crappy to.)

  9. Re:I agree many things don't need to be printed on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    Or atleast that you can't just assume that it would save letters, especially then ... everyone .. separates.. sentences ... like weird!! I like -: vnv nation :- -: pokemon :-.. (^_^) and end sentences with !!!!!!!!

    But don't worry about it, I'm used to retarded users using their mod points even though they don't have a clue. They have removed that moderations of moderatorsthingy?

  10. Re:Some people STILL think they should use IE on A First Look At Internet Explorer 8 RC1 · · Score: 1

    So where does 11 mbps come from? The ADSL offers are most often max 28 mbps but sometimes more, is it based on the ADSL speed most people get or what?

    And obviously in some areas you can get other things than ADSL, so it doesn't make sense to me at all, and I'm swede ;/

    It could had been so much better over here if the government didn't sucked.

  11. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know for you but for me 99.9% of the paper I consumed won't be readable in a year, because I will have thrown it away.

    Text-files? I'm sure they will.

    PDF? No idea.

  12. Re:I agree many things don't need to be printed on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 3, Funny

    aawwwwwwwwwww datz riily riily smart!!!!!!!!!!!!"##

  13. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    And forests all over the (measured part of the) world is growing except in rain forest areas.

    Which obviously is the worst place to do it at together with fucking up the oceans both by pollution and the damn fish eaters =P

    I guess one can find bad paper, and in some cases you probably replace a nice mixed forrest with a boring whatever-pine-tree-one but anyway. Give me leafs!

  14. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    And for saving other things you could make sure everyone print ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FUCKING PAPER. Quite obvious but how many places do?

    Another alternative would be to print on A5, I doubt it will lose much reading comprehension vs this.

  15. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a much better one, change the quality settings in the printing dialog. There you have it ..

    I doubt it will be less readable than that crap and it will also work for all fonts and images and so on ..

  16. Re:Blaming Linux... on Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users · · Score: 1

    Are there other oses (FreeBSD, Solaris?) which would had been able to handle multiple threads using the same socket better?

  17. Re:Wow on Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Your business sound more important with VmWare!"

  18. Re:The keyword, however, is "quality" on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    I don't want to do anything of that anyway so .. If they really want to add ads I guess they can still add them into the actual video file, or make clickable layers with CSS and javascript and so on.

    In fact I don't give a shit about ads and clickable areas in videos, I just want to watch videos.

  19. Re:Damn, did I really not know? on A First Look At Internet Explorer 8 RC1 · · Score: 1

    When it comes to Google several betas actually come after the RC :D

  20. Re:Some people STILL think they should use IE on A First Look At Internet Explorer 8 RC1 · · Score: 1

    It's obvious he didn't knew shit, what is it what works better in IE? His borked websites?

    Speaking of bork, what's your signature all about? Fastest in what way? From your location?

  21. Re:The keyword, however, is "quality" on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I assumed all of them would support whatever codecs you had installed? If Firefox and Opera don't that suck.

    I see no problem with using mixed video codecs for the videos as long as every browser support the codecs you have installed. My Quicktime can probably play most stuff anyway, and obviously my VLC/mplayer classic would to if I had ran Windows, or mplayer in BSD or whatever.

  22. Re:Actionscript on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    With all due respect who the fuck cares what IE supports or not? Start using it anyway and eventually people will move away from the inferior product which most people use. If you never give them a reason why would they switch?

    "Firefox and Opera has better standards support!"
    "But all pages I want to visit already works in IE! So why should I switch?"

  23. Re:The keyword, however, is "quality" on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Safari, Opera and Firefox already have support for embedded videos thru HTML 5. So we're already there.

    All I want for christmas is YouTube, DAP- and game-reviewing sites to start using it instead of flash. Probably won't happen until Microsoft has managed to drag their balls out of their ass and manage to pull IE8 out at the same time (and way ..)

    If only atleast Google had some balls big enough to say "oh well, YouTube requires a decent browser!", or they could just check with JavaScript if the browser is new enough to have HTML5 video support and fall back on Flash if it's not.

  24. Re:iPod, iPhone, then what? on Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote · · Score: 4, Funny

    iPhone brought in the first touch screen

    Right ...

    No need to read further than that I guess ..

  25. Re:I'm getting a WATER powered car ... on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Wtf are you talking about? There is no fucking refill time if you make the hydrogen thru electrolysis, and there is no hydrogen fuel cell either since they will combust the hydrogen with the gasoline.

    I hate all the lame gay water powered videos and sites on youtube and the Internet and all the retarded morons claiming that omg this is the shit the oil industry hides this from us and kill everyone! They should all be shot for being retarded.