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  1. Re:Still not available on Hulu May Begin Charging For Video Content · · Score: 1

    You might be right, but he said the costs, not the bandwidth costs. I no longer have optimistic interpretations of Internet comments.

  2. Re:Still not available on Hulu May Begin Charging For Video Content · · Score: 1

    Or how about, since the costs to broadcast a channel are independant of the content, that they just charge a flat rate for each channel.

    Why would the costs be independent of content? Individual channels almost certainly cost different amounts to rebroadcast. Even if that's not true, more demand always leads to higher prices. Cost of production isn't the only factor in pricing.

  3. Re:Waste of time on A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave · · Score: 1

    Actually, it would be more like the "no self-linking" policy on MetaFilter.

  4. Re:Maybe on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Seriously Java? on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1

    I've reported this bug as well. If you click on the name of the article just above the threshold settings it shows up fine. It's only the SEO friendly URL that is broken.

  6. Re:Terminology on Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing" · · Score: 1

    You're right, of course, but the comparison is off. You cannot meaningfully compare sales of one party with profit of another.

  7. Terminology on Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft may have posted a quarterly loss, but comparing that with 4.7 billion dollars of gross revenue doesn't even make sense. Did Google make a profit on that 4.7 billion and how much? That's the important question, and none of the press releases linked here have an answer.

  8. Re:Good. on Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No. Nothing appears to have happened to original verdict yet, as the original judge's bias has not been evaluated. The judge who was judging the bias of the original case was dismissed, so I assume they must restart the review the bias of the original case, and then, if needed, have a retrial. Unless they run out of judges.

  9. Re:Another lesson... on Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek · · Score: 1

    The antipiracy marks don't look like the "cigarette burns." They're much smaller and in a different place on the screen. the ones I have noticed are a constellation of small red dots in the middle of the screen.

  10. Starting? on ASCAP Starts To Act Like the RIAA · · Score: 5, Informative

    BMI and ASCAP have been thugs for a long time, threatening bar and club owners for licensing agreements for offering live music. For this reason, AS220 in Providence no longer allows musicians to perform any cover songs!

  11. Re:The main rule on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked for a company that built label printers. They conveniently placed an automatic label printer at every fridge. You pressed a button, and a label would print out with an expiration date. Anything past expiration or without a label was tossed daily.

  12. Re:Why would my Mom upgrade to Snow Leopard? on Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  13. Re:So, where did they steal this idea from? on Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I wouldn't say that classes are bad in and of themselves, but trying to bolt classes onto Erlang certainly wouldn't make sense.

  14. Re:Typical Microsoft on Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language · · Score: 1

    It's not just Microsoft. The JVM has a host of 'guest' languages besides Java, some of which exist for .NET too: JRuby vs. IronRuby, Jython vs. IronPython, Kiev vs. P# (prolog), etc. etc.

  15. Re:So, where did they steal this idea from? on Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, it does use the same concurrency model as Erlang, but Erlang has no concept of classes. Perhaps Scala, which I know little about except that it runs on the JVM and is supposedly better at concurrency.

  16. Re:Hurry! on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    If you mark use as a foe and give foes a -5 moderation bonus.

  17. Re:This is a Zero-Day? on Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Indeed I am (or was).

  18. This is a Zero-Day? on Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've had Adobe Reader 9.1 installed for a few weeks. What gives?

  19. Who cares about the length? on RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "4 pages longer than the document to which it was responding"

    And?

  20. Re:What I want to know is on Digg Backs Down On DiggBar · · Score: 1

    Facebook does not offer their goofy bar as a public URL-shortening service. It's primarily for use inside the Facebook walled garden. The DiggBar option shows up in TweetDeck along with bit.ly, TinyURL, etc., and you don't need a Digg account to use it.

  21. Re:What I want to know is on Digg Backs Down On DiggBar · · Score: 1

    No, it sounds more like a complaint about absent fury for Facebook.

  22. Re:Under pressure on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    A general in the navy?

  23. Re:Under pressure on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    I did consider that, but it was WRONG.

  24. Under pressure on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No matter the physical environment, nothing is an intense and scary as the pressure that mounts above you as you attempt to code on a customer's premises, on production code, trying to find a problem you didn't cause and barely understand, with no connectivity and no source control and no opportunity for QA.

  25. Geez, at least pick a different name on Microsoft's "Pseudo-Transparent" and Fold-Up PCs · · Score: 1

    nanoTouch? Seriously?