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  1. Re:You're not supposed to look at the keyboard on Optimus OLED Keyboard Pre-Orders Start Dec. 12 · · Score: 1

    There are cheaper metals that don't oxidize.

  2. Re:Alright, own up on Ballmer Says Linux "Infringes Our Intellectual Property" · · Score: 1

    Vista: expensive, slow, a piece of crap.

  3. Re:The problem with juries on Does the RIAA Fear Counterclaims? · · Score: 1

    And soon every lawyer works for the RIAA. Lawyers may be pricks, but they're necessary pricks.

  4. Re:favorite data loss tale on What Not To Do With Your Data · · Score: 1

    no, TripMaster Monkey had a cooler sig.

  5. Re:Not in the USA on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 1
    in fact, we are a few hours ahead of you when you look at the clock.
    No, you're a few time zones ahead. If I look at the clock in GMT in Europe and the clock in GMT in the US it's the same time. :P
  6. Re:Not in the USA on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 1

    There's a scientific term for that. The "Hawthorne Effect".

  7. Re:Having lived in both Germany and the US on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 1

    I think it's that way in most of the US--you never 'have' the right of way, you just don't yield it.

  8. Re:Great! on Optimus OLED Keyboard Pre-Orders Start Dec. 12 · · Score: 1

    ...while listening to Chinese Democracy by Guns 'n' Roses.

  9. Re:You're not supposed to look at the keyboard on Optimus OLED Keyboard Pre-Orders Start Dec. 12 · · Score: 1

    ...Why does it need to be gold-plated? That seems kinda useless.

  10. Re:Best use for this... on Optimus OLED Keyboard Pre-Orders Start Dec. 12 · · Score: 1

    I've heard figures that the shortcuts in those sorts of software number in the hundreds.
    And Emacs is pretty good software, except it's missing a decent text editor.

  11. Re:I've never really understood the obsession on Optimus OLED Keyboard Pre-Orders Start Dec. 12 · · Score: 1

    I've spilled coke on a modern keyboard before. It worked fine.

  12. Re:Introduce school vouchers on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1
    (I'm not anti-teacher, but anyone with actual school experience will tell you that the state and national teachers unions are part of the problem, not the solution.)
    I know somebody with teaching experience across the nation, in both union and non-union schools, and let me tell you this: If it weren't for the teacher unions, private schools would be worse than public schools. In non-union states like NC, there are very few teachers and we basically have to import them from New England. And private schools only pay teachers anything above the average public school pay because they have to compete with public schools.
    I think the broad model should be the US university system. It doesn't have to be all private or all public, but you have real competition between schools and people can direct some of their government subsidies for education towards private schools instead of public schools.
    Considering the growing tuition problems in the US university system, this may or may not be the solution.
  13. Re:VISAs harm Americans on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    Yeah, VISAs are harmful. That's why I only use Mastercard.

  14. Re:You know what they say about a rising tide... on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    So where's Oma Desala? ;)

  15. Re:Plug-and-Play Staff on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    ...I saw your stuff on the c2 wiki. Good God, it was inane. I think I'd prefer Visual Basic to TopMind's ideal language.

  16. Re:What's a Zune? on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 1

    A googol is 10 to the 100. A really big number.
    And Zune is ridiculously stupid because in Quebec and Israel it has a sexual meaning.

  17. Re:Different Price Points on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 1
    most posts seem to indicate that its bad for MS to have a monopoly, but that its OK for Apple.
    ...because Microsoft has abused its monopoly and Apple hasn't.
  18. Re:Hurrah! Apple's near-monopoly is secure! on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 1

    Microsoft gave OEMs benefits to not include browsers not named Internet Explorer. If that's not anticompetitive tactics, what is?

  19. Re:Not true on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 1

    AAC is not a DRMed format. Apple uses FairPlay which is a DRM wrapper around AAC. It would be the same if they used MP3, only lower quality.

  20. Re:Not true on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 1

    I mostly have AAC files burnt from CDs. Vanilla AACs play fine even in Linux. The only lockin is the iTunes Music Store files I have which I bought from giftcards.

  21. Re:You are using WHAT? on Can the Web Survive v3.0 · · Score: 1

    I got web 7.0 off a server in Gallifrey.

  22. Re:2.0 isn't even out of beta yet! on Can the Web Survive v3.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried to install Web 7.2 but halfway during the installation the server at Gallifrey stopped responding and gave something about a "Time War error".

  23. Jack O'Neill on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES GO TO P4C-970".
    i have to talk like e e cummings because the lameness filter hates me

  24. 2.0 isn't even out of beta yet! on Can the Web Survive v3.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do we need Web 3.0 now? We barely need Web 2.0!

  25. Re:Stargate anyone? on NASA Making Plans To Save the Earth · · Score: 1

    Actually, two of the discoverers of 99942 Apophis were fans of Stargate SG-1. Of course, we all know that show is really just plausible deniability(note episodes 100 and 200) ;)