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  1. Re:Standard on 10 Percent of UK Sites Incompatible with Firefox · · Score: 1

    To most "webdesigners" It simply isn't a question of compatibility. If you make you page in frontpage continualy checking it in IE it doesn't matter to you whether tags are closed or if stuff lines up corectly in firefox.

    That seems to be changing as more and more of the slightly "tech savy" start using firefox.

  2. Re:Good to see. on PetaBox: Big Storage in Small Boxes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about: In soviet russia, the internet downloads you.

  3. Re:Using social networks for personalization on Firefox Extension for Applied Social Networking · · Score: 1
    I get his point but:
    The sad reality is that most of my friends have rotten taste in music (I don't hold it against them), while the music recommendations I actually follow are mostly from people I've never met.
    So add you those people to your network. Noones saying you have to ad people from your golfclub to your network just because you all like golf. However if you ad the people with the same taste in music you'll know whether to listen to HotPuppetRockersFromHell's new album or not based on their thoughts. Or even get recomendations on stuff you wouldn't otherwise know of.
    The very fact that he follows recomendations goes agains his whole argument of social networks not working. They are based on recomendations.
  4. Re:I can explain how it works... on How the Batsuit Works · · Score: 0, Troll

    As you yourself describe it, it DOES in fact exist, just not as it's appearense in the final movie would implie.
    The insterresting part of "TFA" is the notes on how exactly they produced the effects. Especially the cape.

  5. Re:Lying with statistics on A Rubric for IT Analysis · · Score: 1

    Excuse me? As far as I can see the x axis was scaled in order to display the data in the most room available, not to deceive in some way. The y-axes were left alone because the data range depicted were identical.
    What grafs are you looking at? The y-axis has been changed and the x-axis has been changed.
    This gives the obvius impression that the results of the two test lie in the same interval however the first graph has mush lower y-values then the first.
    The "dots" marking the path of the curve have been placed so that they lineup with neither the y-axis og x-axis guidelines(So it's better to call them confusionguides) And the markings along the x-axis aren't properly "tied" to the graf. 1 is a number, not an interval.
    As for the colors, ofcause it's subjective, But the auther obviusly didn't sit down and think: "Hmm, lets make everything black exept the Samba line, just cus'"
    The point isn't to crye out: "The line is red so this is bullshit!!!" but simply to ask oneself Why did the auther of this graf make one line red and everything black, and why did the auther change the y-axis scale to make the results look more similar when they are indeed very different plottet with similar axis? I woun't make the conclusion that it is done to mislead the readers, but the question must be asked none the less.

  6. Re:Faster, yes... not necessarily better... on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The first rule of turning in papers writen in OpenOffice is: go pdf.

  7. Re:the ire of popularity on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked? · · Score: 1

    Yes because Softwareviruses find vulnerabilities in the MARKETSHARE not in the SOFTWARE, that's why we call them marketshareviruses......
    When ohhh when is this stupdidass argument of marketshare=vira going to die out?

    Next people will start claiming that Coka Cola is only unhealty because it's the most popular softdrink, thus there is nothing to due about it.

  8. Re:heh a bigger worry... on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    With the size being nanometers, inhaling isn't really the mayor consern since they won't need to be broken down to be absorbed by cells. Thus skincells will just as easily as the cells in your digestive system, absorb the nanosized particles. That's really why wearing teflonparticlecoated pants could be a bad ideer. However naked activists are hardly a good proof of this.

  9. Re:Well yes on Innovators Are Older Than Ever · · Score: 1

    First gets all the credit, when the person who was Second should earn our deep gratitude for independently checking the result.
    Very very untrue. independently checking results is just as worthless as being the first to state something. Look at fermats last therum. Would you have given the second person to put forth the same theory the credit? No.
    The person who proves it however should get due credit, and Wiles is credited for his prof.

  10. Re:We need a new word now. on w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word · · Score: 1

    woot as opposed to w00t.

    woot comes african amaricans dramaticing what. "Woot u talking about?"
    w00t comes from idiots replacing letters with numbers because that's sooooo c00l.
    Sorry to break it to you, but pen-and-paper players didn't really revolutinize the language, they just started using the same words as everyone else in their little closed environment.

  11. Re:We need a new word now. on w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gamers, not geeks(Though most gamers assume they are geeks because they are fat and greesy) need new words. w00t was never a geek word, from day one it was "hey misunderstand me please"-slang. Geeks use words simpelminded people don't know of. And the people whining about Aim'girl stealing their slang should shape up and come to the conclusion that playing CounterStrike 24/5 doesn't make you good at computers. And ofcause stop trying to impress all the Aim'girlhotties(or fatties) with all their mighty geekslang.

  12. Re:A subtle distinction... on Scientific Research That Could Have Been Avoided · · Score: 1

    I'm a big fan of the "there's no such thing as a stupid question" philosophy.

    That may very well be so. But the worth of questions vary. For instanse the question: "What is the answer to life, the univers and everything." is pretty much worthless in a sientific study, because you can just google it and there you have the answer.
    Asking commen questions then trying to answer them using prior research, is alsow worthless. That's why all those school projects about nuclear fission aren't worth shit.

    Ofcause there are reports that have a quality other then the conclusion. For example creating new ways of standardising jobsatisfaction messurement. I didn't RTFA but I don't think thats the case with the mentioned repport.

  13. Re:It's a copy on Download Your Brain · · Score: 1

    A copy of human is still human.

  14. Re:Speed performance? on Microsoft Finalizes Its Desktop Search Software · · Score: 1

    Because this isn't an attempt at improving the OS. This is advertisment for MSN search trying to take over the search market.
    It would be considert misuse of their monopoly if they put it in a servicepack(Since it shows msn seach in a desktopverion when you search, like google's shows you a google search).

  15. Re:Competition is GOOD on Microsoft Finalizes Its Desktop Search Software · · Score: 1

    Well....
    Depends on the kind of competition. Microsoft isn't exactly known for "clean" comperition.
    If it was a case of the better product winning competione would be good but time has shown that the better marketing devision seems to win.

  16. Re:Err...how often? on Microsoft Finalizes Its Desktop Search Software · · Score: 1

    As you yourself say: Apple's spotlight is integrated into the filesystem layer. This is a googledesksearch "killer" just software level indexing. The spotlight"killer" is gonna be in Longhorn(Or possibly be released sometime after Longhorn.

  17. The important stuff on Microsoft Finalizes Its Desktop Search Software · · Score: 1

    What about the seachdog? How has it been improved?

  18. Re:G forces on Excursions at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Not on a bike you can't. The airresistanse depends on you volocity^2 and would definately tear you apart, even if have very smooth skin.

  19. Re:Disable Greasemonkey on Hacking the Web with Greasemonkey · · Score: 1

    Well if you want me to see it at all, you'll just have to accept that I'm viewing the way I want to view it.
    If you don't like the way the world wide web is constructed, find some other means of destribution. How about paperform. You just need to laminate it so people can't cut it into pieces.

  20. Re:The way I look at it on HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can · · Score: 1

    So after a succesfull burglerring of your private property, you put you wife in jail for not closing the door, not the burglers for breaking the law?

  21. Re:Space... on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about it being slow, when refering to infertility. Consider this: Infertility HAS NEVER and WILL NEVER be hereditery(By ways of nature) so the case being as has always been, infertility does not constitute evolution. Only if you actively make "weak" individuals infertile.
    Me not being good at spelling is a good example of humans breaking evolution. I suffer from wordblindness, so did my father, his farther before him and his mother before him(Though back then they just called her an idiot, told her she'd never amount to anything and left it at that), clearly this ability is being passed on even if it isn't a "good" thing. Because beauty is valued higher(She may have been "a dumb idiot that'd never amoutn to anything" but by the standarts of the time she was hot as hell)
    Sure if you start spacing out small collonies of humans in spaceships because, you want to make you favorate flavor of scify soapopera come reality, theres a chanse someone will be borne with telepathic abilities(NO??).
    As humans migrate to space the abilities that will be subject to natural selection is manly and almost only whatever will get you killed before you are old enough to have sex(By the social order not the biological fact since we're screwing with nature in that field as well).

  22. Re:Space... on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    So we are left with evolution base on Infertility not being passed on(doh). And traits being passed on based on social aspects.
    Thus a spacebreed of humans must be based on a forced eugenics program. Unless we are counting on only "sending up" people who's ideals of beuti are in accordence with what is best in this spacebreed and who have fysicle traits that would be applicable.
    In a world where the ideel of beauty is dictated by central instansens or completely random, there isn't really a chanse for this sort of evolution.

  23. Re:Space... on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    Evolution is "suvival of the fitest" so for us to "evolv in space" you would have to put x people in space and then only alow the fittest to reproduce. Then in turn only allow their children to breed amongst eachother, only supplying a small amount of genetic diversity from the lesser beings.
    Humans don't behave in such a manor and therefor will not evolve to "spacecreatures".
    The key to evolution is breeding, and humans breed based on looks and personality(And to a much higher extent availability), aspects that don't really help you live in space.

  24. Re:Human evolution on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    Actually "mutants" with photographic memory are allowed to live just as fine as everyone else.
    The evolutionary problem being just that.
    Unless we start at breeding program where only "speciel" humans are allowed to reproduce(and in extreme numbers) the diversity is confined to the same boundries that everyone else is.
    Unless the children of these "mutants" are only allowed to breed with other "mutants" there's no real change.

  25. Re:It hardly matters very much on Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well that's a pretty simplistic example. Here in DK the public new well before hand "who's with who" but the "two sides" of rightwing vs leftwing is simply made up of many parties. When you vote for Venste(rightwing) you already know that they are forming a government with Konservativ(other rightwing) with support from Dansk Folkeparti(Nazies).
    But the point is that if Venstre who's "in control" does anything stupid(Like enter a war without the peoples consent) a vote of mistrust is held in the parlament and Konservative will form a government with the leftish party De Radikale since they both share a commen financielpolici.

    Thus the govnerment has to ensure that what it does is supportet by enough people in parlament or they're in trubble.

    So the minority being 48% of the population is voiced in both parlament and government. In the USA that 48% only get a newsshow on ComerdyCentral and is otherwised assraped.

    The problems of bad representation in government start to arise only when you have as little as 3-4 parties, 2 being the extreme(Few interlectuals in Denmark consider USA a democrasy). As long as there is a wide representation of diffrent policies you know that however you vote, your vote goes towards the policies of that perticular party.