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  1. Re:WTF? on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    My old (cheap) Nokia phone can sync calendars with iCal, sync contacts with Address Book, and be used as a modem, all via Bluetooth. The iPhone needs a cable to do any of these

    That's untrue. My iPhone syncs to my Mac automatically over the net whenever I make a change to my calendar or address book. That's a big win compared to my old Treo, which required a cable to sync and didn't sync reliably ...

    (and can't do the third one even with a cable).

    That's true if you haven't jailbroken your iPhone, or if you weren't lucky enough to get a copy of netshare before it got removed.

  2. It's worth doing! on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1
    My advice is to take a class in the language of a country think you'd enjoy visiting.

    As an undergrad, I took a couple years of German to meet my college's foreign language requirement, thinking it might help me in my research. It hasn't. But it was worth doing anyway.

    As a CS professor, I've traveled to Europe on research projects more times than I can remember. Knowing a little bit of a foreign language has made the experience immensely more enriching.

    In retrospect, I wish I had learned one of the romance language (French, Italian, or Spanish) in addition to (or possibly instead of) German. It would have come in very handy during my 6-month sabbatical in Northern Italy -- languages are much easier to learn when one is young.

  3. Re:Scrap Barry White on Party Ideas For Math Nerds? · · Score: 1
    I recall a mathematician's version of a popular drinking song:

    Aleph-naught bottles of beer on the wall,
    Aleph-naught bottles of beer.
    Take one down, pass it around,
    Aleph-naught bottles of beer on the wall.
  4. Re:PNG on 31 Lawsuits Filed Over Alleged JPEG Patent · · Score: 1

    Since we all know that information wants to be free, are you sure he wasn't referring to some that got loose?

    Sorry, I couldn't stop myself :-)

  5. Re:A layman's view on Yahoo! Vs. Google: Algorithm Standoff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think google's ranking system needs a major overhaul; various sleazy companies have become *much* too effective at fooling it. For example, below are the first three hits that I got by typing "prozac suicide" into google (I've deleted the URLs to protect the guilty :-). Most of the top 20 hits are similar to these.

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