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  1. Re: Good Question on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    I can't think of too many situations where a cow would be best suited as a work animal.

    See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxen . They're stronger than horses, albeit slower, and have quite a few working uses.

  2. Re:1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052 on Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words · · Score: 1

    Using a word list like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list would even make it safe(ish) for verbal communication.

    I like this idea quite a bit.

  3. Re:ok on Montreal Union Wants a Camera On Every Policeman's Uniform · · Score: 1

    My solution: chloroform. If it's fast-acting enough, then why not use it? Harmless, and pretty soon the victim is incapacitated with no harm done. Sadly, cops don't want that because they want to punish the victim.

    Not sure if that was serious, but Chloroform is not quite as harmless as you see in television: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroform#As_an_anesthetic

  4. Re:you had me at... on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    Runtime? So it's like Java then... it's interpreted. Ooookay, well, I suppose runtime languages have their place amongst the honored...

    While I don't disagree with your assessment of the language, FWIW, all languages have runtimes, not just interpreted languages.

  5. Pfft video on Users Abandon Ship If Online Video Quality Is Not Up To Snuff, Says Study · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Personally, I bail when the content is a video. Give me back my plain text internet, please.

    Videos are such a waste of time.

  6. Re:Already Fixed? on CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked · · Score: 4, Informative
  7. Re:I don't think anybody really cares? on Former Popemobile Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    You're drawing attention to something that you profess not to care about. Ignoring it and saying nothing is usually a better response.

  8. Re:Just because they are indi.... on Xbox Live Indie Games Struggle For Profitability · · Score: 1

    You seem to be short on the letter 'e'. Here! Take some of mine:

    eeeeeeeee

  9. Re:No binaries on Rushkoff Proposes We Fork the Internet · · Score: 1

    you'd have to ban large binaries otherwise it will just become a big music and movie sharing network.

    Non sequitor.

  10. Re:Suspecious on Underwear Invention Protects Privacy At Airport · · Score: 1

    Fuck that. They're not just doing their job. They, like everyone else, are 100% responsible for their actions both at work and elsewhere.

  11. Re:Enough already!! on Google Give Searchers 'Instant Previews' of Result Pages · · Score: 1

    Requires javascript.

    Requires Javascript?

    The primary issue is latency because they're not hosting with a ridiculously load balanced configuration, within a 50k radius of anywhere, but I suspect that will improve in time.

    Quality of results is another one of those things which is bearable now, depending on your use case, but will improve in time. Their !syntax seems pretty useful. I've been using it professionally for a week or two now, and haven't really had any trouble.

    Also important: they don't store your information.

  12. Re:Enough already!! on Google Give Searchers 'Instant Previews' of Result Pages · · Score: 1

    It's a damned shame there's no competition left that believes in simple search

    DuckDuckGo?

  13. Re:Facebook has nothing to do with innovation on Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration · · Score: 1

    Does the direction, or the idea of progress matter to the concept of the argument? I think not. Let me put it another way:

    At a given moment in human culture, there are a number of 'inventions' in range of discovery, and a number of people in the right position to make those discoveries, whether any of them do or not. Some people have more capacity for discovery and some less, but no-one creates in a vacuum, so the particular people are very much interchangeable.

    What we call 'genius' is, at best, someone reaching a little further out into the dark than we had reason to expect.

  14. Re:deposit? on SpaceShipTwo Flies Free For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Given that the seats are 200k (from TFS), it's fair to call that a deposit, though a pretty big one.

  15. Re:What about the important stuff on PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you're well and truly outside of the target market for ecommerce providers. You should look into something like this, or a weekend-worth of custom development.

  16. Re:'pretty powerful'. on PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    I gather you took a Magento project and it went pretty badly? Happens a lot. It is also used in lots of project which don't really fit its feature set, etc.

    Once you get past the steep learning curve, it's actually a very decent system, with a few flaws. Can also run pretty snappily if you set it up properly.

  17. Re:Presta shop guide, pimping you presta shop. on PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    Other question: how does PrestaShop compare to Magento...?

    PrestaShop is smaller, has fewer features, and is almost certainly a better choice if it fits your requirements. Also look into LemonStand and OpenCart for other light-weight but high(er) quality PHP ecommerce applications.

  18. Re:what is it? on PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    Apparently it's a PHP/MySQL app for running a web-based retail store.

    Outside of Appleville, we call this an ecommerce application.

    In any event, PrestaShop is one of the more decent modern OS ecommerce applications (in PHP. If you're open-minded, look at Spree instead). You don't need to buy anything to get started, aside from the services of a development company for rebranding/customisation.

  19. Re:Please think of the Grocers on Developers' New Opportunity — Retailers' Open APIs · · Score: 1

    Please elaborate. I can't spot anything wrong with the punctuation in TFS.

  20. Re:Greenwashing on Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption · · Score: 1

    Anyone for a false dichotomy? No?

  21. Re:Next Stop: Murder! on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    The United States of America, I presume.

  22. Re:haha on Steve Jobs Says PC Folks' World Is Slipping Away · · Score: 1

    Does it bother you that you're thinking in terms directly derived from Apple's substantial marketing campaigns, and coming to the intended conclusions?

  23. Re:I hope... on The End of the 3.5-inch Floppy Continues · · Score: 1

    From my experience, it seems like solid state storage tends to break when the circuit board is flexed, even a little bit. Hence CompactFlash > SD-Cards.

  24. Re:Indian Copyright Bill on Indian Copyright Bill Declares Private, Personal Copying "Fair Dealing" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But perhaps I'm just being a closed-minded ethnocentric pig.

    Nail, on the head.

    There's very little purpose to the 'my culture is better than your culture' rant, and this was one of the less reasonable ones that I've seen.

  25. Re:Transparent, benign big brother? on Google Enumerates Government Requests · · Score: 1

    Do you give the burger seller more power over you than necessary? Are you willing to be the burger seller's product?

    I have no problem with the concept of business. What worries me is businesses who gain power over governments while maintaining their for-profit motivations. As a motivation, for-profit isn't inherently malign, but it certainly is non-benign. As far as I can tell, nobody's even pretending that corporate motivations are benign, but we tend to lose sight of that when discussing the merits of these mega-corporations.