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  1. Re:Do we really need GPS to track mileage ? on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 1

    my question is... do we need to add GPS to every car increasing the price for this?

    You must get fuel efficient cars so we can raise the price of them because you have a fuel efficient car...

  2. Re:Binding Contracts. on Senators To Examine Exclusive Handset Deals · · Score: 1

    I would say yes. if it's a CDMA phone, call up their call center and give them the code under the battery and they can add it.

    I worked for the Cell back when they made the move from TDMA to CDMA, and that's how it worked then, back then the Cell also didn't lock their phones and were pretty open, no idea how they are now, but their phones still are lagging WAY behind the bigger names...

    As the Touch Pro 2 comes out, they come out with the Touch Pro 1. and that's how they work... best coverage in northern illinois/south wisconsin, but their phones are just bad...

    it was a good company to work for until they bought PrimeCo though...

  3. Re:Carriers != Manufacturers on Senators To Examine Exclusive Handset Deals · · Score: 2, Interesting

    oh hell no...

    GSM and CDMA both have their good sides, such as GSM cannot do analog, which would be very useful in country area that digital signals don't cover well. (CMDA can do digital and analog, and being code differentiated, i think can handle more traffic)

    GMS is great for Europe, but if i'm not mistaken i think a large part of Africa and Asia use CDMA...

    TDMA i think has gone the way of the dodo, since from my understanding it's much the same as CDMA, but less bandwidth since it's Time differentiated.

    As far as saying one is antiquated and the other is still good, I don't think that holds any more water than saying that Mac or Unix is antiquated since MS is newer.

    They both come out with new technology, but it's easy to say that Win 95 is outdated, but that's not the MS standard.

    Personally I like CDMA more than GSM, which is part of the reason I have sprint service (imagine that, a consumer making a choice on personal preference and not government mandate...), US Cell has great coverage in southern WI and northern Illinois, but their phones just suck out loud.

  4. Re:Not a big deal? on Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops · · Score: 2, Informative

    Win 7 Professional Upgrade license WITHOUT software assurance (With volume License) can downgrade to:
    Win 95
    Win 98
    Win NT
    Win XP Professional
    Win Vista Business

  5. Not a big deal? on Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops · · Score: 1

    from reading TFA (amazing I know) it sounded like if you have a volume license, no big deal. This would only effect shops buying OEM licenses...

    am I wrong on this? It's what the graphic with and without software assurance says...

  6. Re:Only if... on How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy! · · Score: 1

    think of it this way, if it can make jokes as well as being that good, I believe it would make more money and add some unexpected comic relief to things making it that much more valuable.

    you don't need to put your A people on it, just some guys that know what they are doing may do it on their time as well...

  7. Re:Dealing with Layered Problems on How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It may not be... would it hit the buzzer and hope it had time to compute the answer like many people on those shows, or would it wait until it had time to compute, and then ring in only if it has the answer?

  8. Re:Suck it Trebek on How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy! · · Score: 1

    That's S-words for four hundred...

  9. Re:Suck it Trebek! on How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy! · · Score: 2, Funny

    or the other classics...

    Connery - "I'll take the PEN IS mightier for 300..."
    Trebek - "That's the Pen Is Mightier..."

    Connery - "I'll take Famous Tities for 500"
    Trebek - "That's Famous Titles..."

    It's not so easy when you don't have the answers to look at is it Trebek?

  10. Only if... on How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy! · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can answer in Sean Connery's voice and make your mother jokes at him.

    Otherwise I'll probably pass and look up old SNL skits on youtube instead.

  11. Re:Call a tow truck on Spirit Stuck In Soft Soil On Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Beer and TP.

    In Wisconsin when there is a severe snowstorm predicted, those two sell out.

    Milk is nice, but the beer and TP will help you weather the storm.

  12. Re:But what about the sidebar? on First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook · · Score: 1

    Try Winkey+G for gadgets.

    should do what you need.

  13. Re:XP Free for a year? on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you do the ultimate, you should be able to download it.

    It's for business and ultimate only, plus you need to be able to do hardware virtualization as well, so my work PC isn't able to, my boss picked the wrong processor to buy us... only one in the line that doesn't do it.

  14. Street Fighter on Strange Glitches In Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't believe noone mentioned this one yet...

    Chuck Norris was in a street fighter game, but no matter what button you hit, he did a roundhouse kick and killed the other guy.

    When asked about the glitch, Chuck Norris said "That's no glitch."

  15. Re:Great on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    no no...

    you must have misheard... Obama wants YOU to have change. and only change.

    so if you have $100, he wants at least $99.01

    THEN and only then will we all have change.

  16. Nature's Population Control anyone? on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 1

    Anyone think it's nature saying that there are too many people, so less males make less people and we would be better off in many areas with a smaller population?

    Of course it would probably work out better that way with more males and less females, but limiting either side lowers population eventually...

  17. Re:Um, global thermonuclear war? on This Is the Way the World Ends · · Score: 1

    Global Thermonuclear War was a GREAT DOS game...

    I played it for hours when I was younger, and the key to always winning is to take the US and accept the shield... then every time the USSR launches, it deflects to some other country and does it's damage there. the theoretical body count was enormous. and US + Shield = no possible way to lose.

  18. Re:All hail the new king, same as the old king. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 1
    Watch out with the line item veto deal... Wisconsin's current governor had something similar, and he used it to change the spirit of legislation.

    Granted until recently it didn't have to be full sentences (now it does), but he would do stuff like take: "Governor Doyle shall pay to The State of Wisconsin 1 Million Dollars. The State will pay back 1 million dollars to Governor Doyle 5 years later."

    He could change that to "The State of Wisconsin will pay 1 million dollars to Governor Doyle."

    He didn't do things quite that blatant, but he came close a few times, especially with the budget with his Frankenstein veto power.

  19. What brand laptop? on Whole Disk Encryption For Vista? · · Score: 1

    One of my previous jobs used thinkpads, and they had stuff built in for security so needed 2 passwords just to get the laptops to start booting up. one secured the bios, the other did the hard drive I believe...

    so maybe get your boss to get all new laptops... security is expensive, but it's worth it to get a new PC...

  20. Re:What is so special about a "charging station?" on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1
    The issue with swapping batteries is what if you get some really crappy ones that maybe do damage to your car?

    Who's to say it wasn't something you did to the battery that caused the malfunction or that you got it that way?

    maybe you get one that only hold a tiny charge while saying it's fine

  21. vandalism? on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 4, Insightful
    So in many of the pictures I've seen, there is a cord running from the car to the plug, normally in public areas since it's so wonderful to plug in and just leave your car to go shopping or to work.

    What happens with some thug snips your power cord?

    Will the cord be coming from your car, or from the outlet, and how easy and cheap is it to swap out cords?

  22. Re:Webmail on Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail · · Score: 1
    from what i remember, you say how many you expect to have, and then you can always request more accounts later if you need them.

    how many companies out there interested in using third party email are going to need more than 40,000 email accounts?

    unlimited makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but telling me i have 1,000 email accounts has the same end effect for me. My site isn't going to hit 200 email accounts, let alone 1000. (it's not a business site, but more of a group site that i offer email accounts to people if they are interested)

  23. Re:Obligatory Back to the Future joke on Supernova Birth Observed From Orbiting Telescope · · Score: 1
    in my mind reading that, I was wondering if it was going to time travel, since it had to have been moving faster than 88mph...

    and that much energy...

    if only there was a way to harness it...

    every now and then blow up a star and get all of our energy from that. hmm... figure what, blow up a star every couple hundred years or so should keep our lights on

  24. Where it's going on FCC's Spectrum Auction Approaches $20B in Bids · · Score: 1

    I believe I heard a while back that it's all paid in installments, so it's probably going right to their budget over the years to be spent on some random thing, or to hire more people to man the phone lines for the groups that just complain about everything...

    Personally I'd like to see it invested in improving the broadband situation here, but i don't think that can be a reality... it would start off with great intentions, and then eventually become some crap about a 10 billion dollar highway bridge to Hawaii that the cables can run under... (and then a 2 billion dollar bonus for each of the 5 execs that were in charge of getting it done)

  25. Re:Opera on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    try out avast for the antivirus I've been using it for over a year now, great little program... the ONLY time it asks me about anything is if i want to click on the little green new version available window, which goes away after a couple seconds the daily updates it gets on it's own and tells you it's been updated, it's free for home use, and i don't notice it at all. (except when it tells me that it blocked something bad from a webpage or a temp file, email etc...) it's the only antivirus i recommend to people these days...