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  1. Re:Hmm on A Look Under Western Digital's Hood · · Score: 1

    Anecdotes are not scientific

  2. Re:Stealth is not a magic bullet. on Russian Stealth Fighter Makes Its First Flight · · Score: 1

    Why is the f-22 such an overpowering plane then? E.g., check out some of the simulated battles linked in this article. It always seems that they're hugely in favor of the f-22, but perhaps that is just air force posturing.

  3. Re:So... on Laser Fusion Passes Major Hurdle · · Score: 1

    We 'need' economic stimulus and everyone wants to look like they're driving alternative technologies and and clean energy. The main albatross for fusion is the decades of broken promises...

  4. Re:On par? on MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you're a troll or not, but the tegra 2 is intended for exactly this market. It uses the same cortex a9 cpus (comes in dual core varieties too) and supports hardware 1080p encode/decode. The TI OMAP4 is another similar product.

  5. Re:Original Firefox goals forgotten... on Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The concept of creating bookmarks and trying to organize them into some hierarchy is just... archaic.

    This is the future. Index everything, let me search it, and give me the best (most used) results first.

  6. Re:I don't understand the issue on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    It's very easy to join games in your friends list, and hopefully blizzard will implement friend follow or something like that in the GUI. Ironically, we usually use hamachi/bnet over our university lan because of it's tendency to block lan games from appearing for everyone.

  7. Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    Port 6113 is blocked here, meaning you have to change the default port of wc3 to host. Other than that, it works. Since sc2 will also have the ability to change port, everyone should be fine.

  8. Re:But Why? on Palm's webOS Root Image Leaks Out · · Score: 1

    You heard wrong; you've been able to freely transfer ringtones on most verizon phones since pretty much forever. I have heard they've been changing their store around this year though, so we'll see what happens...

  9. Re:The boot-up splash screen on Ten Applications That Changed Computing · · Score: 1

    For me, it was more like "c'mon, don't crash now...!" (being 6 years old, I did some unfortunate things to that mac...)

  10. If you're interested in Japan, check out Tohoku on Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? · · Score: 1

    If you're interested in Japan, check out Tohoku University. They're a technical school which does English courses in Japan. Being Japan, it's also pretty easy to get scholarships (I most everything paid for when I was accepted, including 2 round trips from US to Japan per semester, food, housing, etc.). Finally, since they're an English speaking school, they do a lot of work with study abroad students. The main downside to any study abroad program is transferring credits. Perhaps it is different at some schools, but at a fairly high level research university, it's almost impossible to transfer credits for anything outside of the core. The content has to be too similar. On the other hand, my school would let me transfer the courses as generic technical electives, so I'd recommend that to you.

  11. Re:Get 'em while they're hot on Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops · · Score: 1

    And you misunderstand Pascal's wager.

    Pascal understood the real-life costs of being an adherent; he just thinks that the possibility times the infinite reward of belief is greater than the FINITE costs expended while alive. Of course, since you obviously believe the possibility to be infinitesimal, the wager doesn't make sense mathematically.

    At least the paragraphs on true belief give some value to your +5 interesting.

  12. Re:Anyone remember the old Simcity "skins"? on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    I have the mac 'skins' on two diskettes somewhere back home... (System 6/LCIII)

  13. Re:Own your Facebook data on Who Owns Your Social Data? You Do, Sort of · · Score: 1

    Why use a scraper for this at all? Are you accessing data that the Facebook API doesn't let you or... what? Using the API, you can download the information for all of your friends (anything they haven't disabled using privacy settings) in about 10 seconds. And you can do this several hundred times a day (as my senior project proved...).

  14. Re:Breeze to Program on MS To Push Silverlight Via Redesigned Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    In my experience, flash rarely works properly on linux if you've only tested under windows. At least, if you're doing anything remotely complicated.

  15. Re:*** It's not JUST about the button *** on Ubuntu Linux vs. Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    beryl w/ scale plugin does Exposé better than OSX.

    Though with the recent open compositing shake-up, I'm quite lost as to how to get a working install of the new compiz (compiz has never worked properly for me...)

  16. Re:So Chris Carter was right? on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    This post asks "why X in the Matrix," where "why X" is answered in the sequels, says the sequels are dead to him, and gets modded interesting?

    The agents don't kill the children of zion because they are part of the overall illusion. There is the illusion of the matrix to contain the masses and the illusion of the rebellion to contain the rest. Neither are real.

  17. Re:Quran Translations vary widely on Two Ways Not To Handle Free Speech · · Score: 1

    You forget something. Languages are fluid. The text isn't going to mean exactly what it used to, because the language it was written in is not the language it is being read in.

  18. Re:Right... on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Contracts on iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote · · Score: 1

    Any verizon customer can email a number @ verizon.com to send a a text message to their phone.

    Any verizon customer can send an email with a .mp3 (or whatever codec the older phones use, forget the extension, but an mp3 is auto-converted to that format anyway) attachment to this number also.

    You receive a PIX/Multimedia message, and can save the song attachment and use it as a ring tone.

    You've been able to do this for at least a year; I have no idea if this also works with the newer .mp3 capable phones (mines old)

  20. Re:Doesn't matter what's causing it, we can slow i on UN Report Downgrades Human Impact on Climate · · Score: 1

    Burning the oil has a purpose besides its consequences. Kyoto protocol is all about the consequences. We understand the purpose, how well do we understand the consequences?

  21. Re:So what? on HP Regains Throne as Top PC Maker · · Score: 1

    1.3 * 1.2 * drop in the bucket = drop in the bucket

  22. Re:May I be the first to say... on MySpace Predator Caught By Code · · Score: 1

    Someone around here (Cleveland) who robbed my friend did do that.

    Yes, they are going to jail.

  23. What its like at Case... on Podcasts of University Lectures? · · Score: 1

    My university (case western reserve) has been doing this for a few years now, under the name "media vision." All large introductory class lectures are taped. They're then tagged for content, so you can search for "titrations" and find videos on how to do them if you don't want to watch entire lectures.

    Attendence is definately hampered. I don't think that is a bad thing, unlike many others... This is a giant lecture course. There is no interaction whether I watch the video or trek through 20 minutes of snow to go to class. Also, if I need daily interaction with the proffessor in class to pass my intro Chem course, it probably means just what the circulum is designed for; its a weed out course for a reason.

    In never even owned the book for several of these classes; lectures, homework, and videos (plus videos from different proffessors who taught the same material) were way more educational anyway.

    It can effect unmotivated students poorly however. If you're not careful or motivated, you'll find yourself with 6 hours of lectures to watch the night before the exam; a personal failing, not a failing of the system

  24. Re:*gasp* on The UK's Total Surveillance · · Score: 1

    smokers are (people think) a net gain for the government's bottom line, in terms of medicare and social security (they die earlier). google it.

  25. Re:Can We fire Rick Berman? on Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI? · · Score: 1

    whoa dude. periods or paragraphs or something.