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  1. Re:The science of better Guinness on The Science of Stout Beer · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. As an Irishman you are somehow able to tell everyone what is good and what is bad?

    Seriously you're judging what other people enjoy? What gives you the right?

  2. Missing the point on Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution · · Score: 1

    I fail to see any news or well anything at all in this story.

    So what feature of the pad made it better than the other options?
    What role did the pad play that could not be done by any other device?

    I feel like I'm playing madlibs. (proper noun) (verb past tense) (noun) on an ipad! Report it as news!

  3. Re:"Over"? on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    Even in Class D I was taught begin and end all transmissions with your tail number. I thought it was quite the mouthful as my double tail number was often longer than the usefull in formation in the call.

    four three niner final for 23 four three niner.

    What was up with the airport you were using? Why could you only land in one direction?

  4. Re:"Over"? on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    This directly contradicts with what I was taught and how the Class C I frequent operates. In the example below the Pilot should end with four seven whiskey. If not how does the tower know the correct plane is responding?

    T: Four seven whiskey, turn right on alpha three and contact ground point eight
    P: Right on alpha three, ground point eight. good day

  5. Re:FYI - Pilots don't use "over." on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    Nice!

  6. Re:FYI - Pilots don't use "over." on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    Yes generally calls to ATC are Who, Where, What. In no example you give does the pilot use over.

    That burst of static you just heard. Is it the end of a transmission, a failed radio, interference, or the pilot being stepped on by another pilot?

    What the military does is irrelevant because the author specifically target pilots.

  7. Re:"Over"? on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    Nope. You end the transmission with your tail number. It does double the work. Show's that your done and conveys information to the person receiving the transmission.

  8. FYI - Pilots don't use "over." on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    Pilots don't use over. Pilots end a transmission with their tail number.

  9. Re:Microsoft plays catchup? on Windows Phone 7 To Get Multi-Tasking, IE9, Xbox Integration · · Score: 1

    Nice. Why'd they backtrack?

  10. Re:Microsoft plays catchup? on Windows Phone 7 To Get Multi-Tasking, IE9, Xbox Integration · · Score: 1

    Were there phones that ran that?

    Why did MS remove multitasking? Other than apple who thinks multitasking is bad?

  11. Re:Microsoft plays catchup? on Windows Phone 7 To Get Multi-Tasking, IE9, Xbox Integration · · Score: 1

    Yeah and Unix had it in the 70s. What's your point?

  12. Re:Microsoft plays catchup? on Windows Phone 7 To Get Multi-Tasking, IE9, Xbox Integration · · Score: 1

    Ooo I missed that. Please send info on this 2002 Windows phone!

  13. Microsoft plays catchup? on Windows Phone 7 To Get Multi-Tasking, IE9, Xbox Integration · · Score: 2

    Am I reading this right? Windows phones will now be able to do things android and iphones have been doing for years?

  14. Re:Targeting only iPad is nonsensical on News Corp's The Daily Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    How does that compare to the number of computers?
    How does that compare to the number of smart phones?

    They're ignoring literally hundreds of millions of possible customers.

  15. Targeting only iPad is nonsensical on News Corp's The Daily Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    It was doomed to fail the moment they decided it was only iPAD.

    Why limit your audience in that way?

  16. Re:Can Bing do Exact Text Searching on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    I agree the vast majority of the time case-insensitivity is fine. However it's really really frustrating when you need sensitivity. For example when the software package you deal with has error messages in the format of [ERRORNAME]. In this case throwing out the special characters and the capitalization throws out everything that makes the search term unique and guarantees that no result will possibly match.

    I imagine you're dead on they do it to speed up the results. What a search engine needs to do is have a batch system where I can submit an exact text search and it will get the results back to me in a minute or two.

  17. Can Bing do Exact Text Searching on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can Bing do exact text searching. And by exact I mean exact. Contrary to what Google thinks capitalization and special characters are important. Stop throwing them away Google!

  18. Re:Maybe MS got it right with XBL... on Sony Updates PS3 Firmware To 3.56 To Stop Jailbreaking · · Score: 1

    Subscription fee is meaningless. It's a private network. Sony can kick people off even though they don't charge.

  19. Re:Google results don't contain searched for terms on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 1

    I don't care about the source. Do you read the source of every page you go to?

    Google can't tell the difference between what is important to the browser and what is important to the human. That's a utter failure to understand your market and what to provide them.

  20. Re:Google results don't contain searched for terms on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 1

    So you're saying Google can't tell the difference between what is important to the browser and what is important to the user.

    How's that not a failure state?

  21. Google results don't contain searched for terms. on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a great example of returning pages that don't contain what you're searching for.

    Search for +open +cat +mug +frame

    The first link only contains 2 of the 4 terms.

    Returning a page that does not contain a required search term is a failure state.

  22. Re:Evil commenting on evil on Why Sony Cannot Stop PS3 Pirates · · Score: 1

    5) If the alternative is games and media publishers abandoning their platform, they now have the incentive to build the necessary infrastructure.

    False premise. The 360 has been owned for years with no damage done. It's still top of the crop.

  23. Re:Evil commenting on evil on Why Sony Cannot Stop PS3 Pirates · · Score: 1

    But, you neglect that Sony could update metldr. The fail0verflow people said they couldn't, because they reasoned that as metldr is encrypted with a random key that's burned into the console at the factory, Sony couldn't update it en-masse. However, all Sony need to do is to pull their database of "what key was burned into each PS3 at the factory", and add code to their firmware that gets the PS3's serial number, sends it to Sony, and in return gets a firmware update already encrypted for that console.

    There are quite a few assumptions here. What if they are not true?

  24. Re:Evil commenting on evil on Why Sony Cannot Stop PS3 Pirates · · Score: 1

    Your PS3 manual contains instructions on how to install a larger hard drive.

  25. Re:Google's been declining for years on Google vs. Bing — a Quasi-Empirical Study · · Score: 1

    I can get phrase search to return results, with qualifier, that don't contain the phrase. That's not the best example so I started playing with google again. Looks like I might have been thinking of the + operand. Google does no exact search and has no mandatory search operator.

    Here's a great example of returning pages that don't contain what I'm searching for.

    Search for +open +cat +mug +frame

    The first link only contains 2 of the 4 terms.