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  1. Re:Wii on Gabe Newell: Steam Box's Biggest Threat Isn't Consoles, It's Apple · · Score: 1

    No netflix here in Australia.

  2. I would watch streamed movies on my wii, if it had the capability to do that. I read that you can get netflix on the wii in the US. Is that correct? You can't do that here in Australia as far as I know.

  3. ie, on Amazon.com Suffers Outage: Nearly $5M Down the Drain? · · Score: 1

    Chicken feed for Amazon.

  4. Re:Yeah, about that... on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    I looked it up. This object will come just inside the Roche limit for fluid objects, but about twice the roche limit for solid objects. So a breakup is unlikely.

  5. Re:Football field unit. on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    Can't argue with you there.

  6. Re:Yeah, about that... on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    It could be like Comet_Shoemaker Levy 9 but on a smaller scale. I think the risk is quite small and I don't think any change in the estimated mass is relevant.

  7. Re:Is there a chance of it hitting a satellite? on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    I could imagine it stirring up some existing orbital debris. Turning big chunks into small chunks and changing their trejectories.

  8. Re:Football field unit. on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    Maybe its that two dimensional prison thing from the original superman movies. Could be a whole lot of bad guys inside having a Bad Time,

  9. Re:Yeah, about that... on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    If the object fragments in the Earth's gravitational field then the resulting objects will definitely have different trajectories. Some parts of the asteroid could finish up in earth orbit.

  10. Re:Football field unit. on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    Worse: its Aussie rules.

  11. Re:Yeah, about that... on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    Remember the thing about a feather and a bowling ball falling at the same speed in a vacuum?

    I am pretty sure that there were no bowling balls on Apollo 15.

  12. Re:Non english speakers seem to think it is normal on DMVs Across the Country Learning Textspeak · · Score: 1

    In that environment she was the only person who sent messages like that, out of hundreds of people. I assume she picked it up as she was learning English and assumes that ur is more mainstream than it actually is.

  13. Non english speakers seem to think it is normal on DMVs Across the Country Learning Textspeak · · Score: 1

    This indian woman I used to work with would send me emails like What is ur schedule for this afternoon?

  14. Re:Price on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 1

    My observation is that the manager will get an iPhone.

  15. Re:Runs andriod apps? That reminds me of an IBM OS on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 0

    Yeah RIM might have had a chance if they had come out with an Android phone.

  16. Re:No specs? on Excessive Modularity Hindered Development of the 787 · · Score: 1

    I see different but related issues in software engineering. There is a tendency for developers to want to turn their applications into something like an operating system. So instead of tightly integrated modules it becomes a bundle of modules which theoretically do things and can be thrown together when the application is deployed. The result is that the framework which ties the who lot together becomes very complex, and interactions between the modules become very difficult to understand and test. You get to the point where its modules all over the place and nobody knows exactly what is going on.

  17. Nobody just does email any more on Free Wi-Fi: the Movement To Give Away Your Internet For the Good of Humanity · · Score: 1

    They stream. I have the tcpdump trace right here. Gigibytes of UDP. Non stop for hours. Long story short we have guests in the house and I gave them the password to my wifi as a gesture. I might not do that again.

  18. Re:unclear subject on Apple Has a New Porn Problem · · Score: 4, Informative

    Twitter has introduced a video app which works a bit like short tweets. It lets you compose seven second video loops.

  19. Re:Pigs in space! on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 1

    But where would Iran get a pig?

  20. What was that again? on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 1

    A Jimp? Did they send a Jimp?

  21. Re:Dear Microsoft on Microsoft Blames PC Makers For Windows Failure · · Score: 1

    I use a left handed mouse configuration. I can select objects with my left hand and action them (delete, enter) with my right. Working this way I don't have to move my hands around as much.

  22. Re:Dear Microsoft on Microsoft Blames PC Makers For Windows Failure · · Score: 1

    But the mouse can be beside the keyboard. I am using a desktop monitor and I don't want to reach over to it to click in a text field. For a start the monitor would move around. Touch screens may make sense on small laptops where you don't want to waste space on touchpad.

  23. Re:Start of something big. on Accessorize Your Phone With Another Phone · · Score: 1

    I am fine with my LG Optimus. It lives in my back pack inside a waterproof bag a lot of the time. Its a small phone and carrying a big tablet seems silly to me. But I do like the bluetooth wristwatch peripheral which somebody linked to. It might be good for wearing to work.

  24. Re:Is a blog format possible on What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin · · Score: 2

    64 bit date formats in OpenVMS go back to 1858 IIRC.

  25. Even more amazing on Dung Beetles Navigate By the Milky Way; Pigeons Tune In To Magnetism · · Score: 2

    ...would be if the dung beetles could also navigate through the Galaxy.