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  1. Video isn't Image on YouTube -- The Flickr of Video? · · Score: 1

    Videos aren't images. It takes way longer to watch even the shortest video than an image. Its much easier for an amateur to make a great photo than a great video. Etc. Of course, sharing videos on the net is inevitable but it'll be different in many nontechnical ways.

  2. Re:Even compared to other new non hybrids..... on Modded Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 MPG · · Score: 1

    And that oil from Canada will last forever?

  3. Re:Easy bomb target...dependancy on World's Largest Solar Array to use Stirling Engine · · Score: 1

    Luckily conventional power plants are immune from bombs....not.

  4. Re:Wine shows up as Win98 on Linux Passes the Microsoft WGA Test · · Score: 1

    Can you set the version of Windows that WINE is to (not)emulate?

  5. Re:"We suck, so we blame it on others" -tommy.com on Linux Feels Growing Pains · · Score: 1

    I guess I'll have to boycott their stuff.
    Oh wait, I'm a nerd - I have no need for their
    preppy crap anyways. Jeans and EFF T-shirts for me.

  6. Less terrestrial weapons on Do We Really Need Space Weapons? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Darwinian Evolution on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    Evoltion isn't random -- mutations might be.

  8. Re:So much for moments of genious on NRLB Redefines 'Your Own Time' · · Score: 1

    You have a good point. Someday an employer will try to extend this to white colar workers saying: clearly his long beard and sandals where the uniform or a Unix guru. Could happen.

  9. Big, but noisy? on Hitachi's 500GB SATA-II Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't want the fastest or biggest disk.
    Just the quietest.

  10. stock:GOOG on Google Includes NASDAQ Results · · Score: 1

    It would be nicer if you could search for stock:GOOG
    since eventually every three and four letter combo is going to be a stock. You don't want stock results.

  11. Search ALL Google on Google Launches Scholar Beta · · Score: 1

    When is Google going to add a way for us
    to search in ALL their databases (News, Groups, Scolar, books, etc)???!!!

  12. Re:This is news? on Google Launches Scholar Beta · · Score: 1

    Gawd do I hate NN/NN/NN dates!!!
    I *think* you mean 2004-Nov-18 but I can't be sure.

  13. Re:Offsite Co-op? on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 1

    > This revolution may even end up being televised.

    Did you watch TV on the morning of Sept 11, 2001?
    Anybody who says "the revolution won't be televised" is well...wrong. (I know you, mi, aren't saying that.)

  14. "They hate our freedom" on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Well, guess what the terrorists have won.

  15. Re:Hydrogen energy? on Ethanol More Trouble Than It's Worth? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah we know hydrogen isn't an energy source. But its a way of storing energy so its not entirely wrong to say "inventing in ... hydrogen energy".

    And, syntax aside, it is something worth inventing in!!!

  16. Yeah about that standard library... on Stroustrup on the Future of C++ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... its embarasing. Compare it to CPAN (perl) or Java. It can't do very much. I wish they could get some real functionality in there. Adding the Boost stuff is nice but. What some something like Java's SWT where you can write an entire GUI using the standard library. Now that would be an improvement for C++.

    I would be very easy to do. Just "steal" the API spec's from Java. That's what C# did. Just recode the entire Java API into some C++ .h header files. Call it the standard and let vendors code it out. Sweet!

  17. Re:the lost art of the downshift on Fuel-cell Vehicles for Americans · · Score: 1

    It may be fun driving with a stick... but I just couldn't be bothered. Its like coding in assembler.

  18. Re:Won't take off in the US... on Fuel-cell Vehicles for Americans · · Score: 1

    I agree with you and use the same strategy.
    In fact because of all the thousands of dollars I've saved over the years by not having a car I was able to buy a nice house that's downtown and really close (walking distance) to most things.
    To me this is obvious.

  19. Ain't no K&R on The New C Standard · · Score: 1

    Some lacking the elegance of the K&R book.
    Good thing this isn't the first book about C or
    it would never take off.

  20. "The New" on The New C Standard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know if I trust a style guide with "The New" in the title. Nothing stays new forever.
    What about when the next version of C comes out?
    You'll have to go back a revise the title! Why not do it right the first time and call it "C90/C++ Style" or something.

    Maybe times when cleaning up other people's files I have run into files with "new" in the name... dated years ago. A sure sign it can be deleted.

  21. Something up their sleeve? on Google Invests in Power-Line Broadband · · Score: 1

    There are lots of posts here saying how IPoPower will never work because of this or that. Google isn't mad of dummies - maybe the are investing in a company that has solved these issues? My bet is that its a solution for a small area - like reading power meters.

  22. Re:Openfiler is what you want. on OSS Web-based File Management? · · Score: 1

    According to the "about" page it seems to require "CentOS Linux". Er, maybe I don't want to run that distro.

  23. Re:Mobile phone net on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    I bet that'll result in a lot of useless 999 calls.
    "Can you tell my wife I'm OK", etc.

  24. method on Google Releases Maps API for External Use · · Score: 1

    Its neat how the API works.
    You get the browser to read in some javaScript from a Google Site then you write javaScript in the page to use loaded classes. Nice.

  25. Re:I'll never understand. on Ballmer: 'We'll catch Google' · · Score: 1

    Let say you make cookies. Do you want to KILL all other cookie companies?!