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  1. JQuery in a nutshell on Learning jQuery · · Score: 0, Troll

    jQuery is yet another JavaScript/AJAX abstraction library - just one of a hundred such things. It's littered with random obscure bugs between browsers, just like all others. The one thing that sets it apart from the rest is its ugly and arcane syntax and poor performance compared to others.

    Sound good?

  2. Think Ahead on New Hydrogen Engine Test Shows Future of Aviation · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen is not and never has been a proposed solution for energy generation. It is a proposed solution for energy transport. Imagine the following scenario

    - We perfect launching payloads into space with hydrogen engines
    - We launch an orbital power power station that uses solar energy (at a much higher efficiency than we can get planet-side) to produce hydrogen from launched water payloads.
    - Periodically we launch up a water payload and bring down a hydrogen payload.

    There you go. Closed loop cycle for perfectly clean energy thanks to the Sun.

    You can also substitute hydrogen launching of the payloads with electromagnetic slingshot launching if you want.

  3. Content-centric design on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Everything is not in one window. Krita is not MDI, it is like Photoshop, a content-centric design rather than a control-centric design like the Gimp.

    All the tools for editing one image are in that image's window. If you are working on two images with one on each monitor, like you suggest, then you have two sets of tools, one for each image.

    I fail to see how this is inferior to the Gimp over multiple monitors. IMO it is far superior. With the Gimp for example because there is only one set of tools you would have to move your mouse from one monitor to the other all the time to use the tools.

    When you are talking about editing a piece of content, it only makes logical sense to tie the tools being used intrinsically to that document.

  4. Re:Wow on Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal! · · Score: 1

    The exchange rate would only matter if they were imported Asian hookers.

    Domestic good-old American hookers should not be affected.

  5. Re:Whats the big deal? on Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers · · Score: 1
    And some of us actually take a bvacation.

    Sounds to me more like you are telecommuting from the road than taking a vacation.

    Don't worry - soon you'll burn out and regret the 1/3 of your life you wasted overworking yourself to buy crap you don't need.,p> Money can't buy back time.

  6. Copyright Law on Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source · · Score: 1

    Since when does copyright law allow one to restrict another from reading or viewing the material?

    Copyright law is soley about COPYING the material. Hence COPY-RIGHT. It isn't VIEW-RIGHT law.

    Either these guys need to go back to law school (or even high school), or stop smoking the pot.

  7. Re:7.2Gbps via official torrents on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    If you upgrade via the Update Manager does it use torrents to speed up downloading of the installer?

  8. If Only... on 'Bionic' Nerve To Repair Damaged Limbs and Organs · · Score: 2, Funny

    If only they could come up with a Bionic Scriptwriter and Bionic Actress With Personality to save the god-awful Bionic Woman series....

    Had some high hopes for that one... what a waste.

  9. Wii Play on Mario Might Save Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Actually, according to Chartz, Wii Play has sold 1.6 million more copies than Halo 3 thus far.

    http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2666

    If Wii Sports counts then of course it trumps both with 10.6 million. But this is a bundle so it doesn't really count.

  10. Decent idea but... on Touch-based Handhelds Turned Inside Out · · Score: 1

    ...this thing is far from an iPhone killer. For one, it is still vapourware and would be at least a year or two before it could get to market. They still have A LOT of work to do. For example, the product needs a much faster CPU and/or image processor - the demo shadow fingers look extremely laggy, to a point that it would not be usable because I would have no idea where my fingers actually where when doing something quick like typing.

  11. M / R vs. AO / NC-17 on Interview with 'Anti-Gamer' Senator Leland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I fully support this bill **IF** the classifications for movies and video games are held to the same standard.

    Ie If Manhunt is an 'AO' game, and the next GTA is an 'AO' game, then then entire Die-Hard series should be re-classified as NC-17. Similarly for the majority of horror films, such as the current 30 days of night, for example.

    The REAL problem is that there is a double-standard.

  12. Re:AT&T respects your right to free speech on AT&T Issues Formal 'Censorship' Apology · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The OP's point is the law is supposed to be enfoced by the courts, not by AT&T.

    When a law starts being enforced by private companies, the citizen no longer has any recourse to violate a law that they feel unjust.

    The ability to violate unjust laws and get them overruled through jury nullification is one of the cornerstones of the legal system - despite what some judges nowadays instruct their jurys.

  13. Re:But what does that mean? on Time Dimension To Become Space-like · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure you'd be dead and would not have to worry about it

  14. Re:Monetize? on Google To Monetize Content From Consenting YouTubers · · Score: 2, Informative
    Monetization may also refer to... charging for something that used to be free or making money on a goods and services that were previously unprofitable.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetize

  15. Re:Thunderbird needs better filtering on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Those filters only apply to incoming messages.

    This is a rule that has to be applied to messages already in the inbox.

  16. Thunderbird needs better filtering on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    I like thunderbird, I really do, but it needs much better and more powerful filtering and rule support. There has been no progress in this area for years.

    For example - our companies mail boxes are not allowed to go above 1 GB. So, in KMail, I have a rule that says to automatically move messages older than 90 days from my IMAP inbox to my local inbox. This automatically protects me from having my inbox overflow, and I still get to keep all my messages for archival.

    Can I do even this simple task in Thunderbird, no. But KMail sucks for other reasons ( HTML composing support is horrible). So, in the end,I have to run BOTH mail clients at the same time, so that I can use thunderbird while KMail filters for me. This is ridiculous.

  17. Re:On hold on Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued · · Score: 1

    The record companies don't get paid extra when you listen tom advertisements.

    Trust me, the desires of the radio stations and the desires of the record companies DO NOT agree in this area. If it were up to the radio stations they would happily have you blaring their tunes (and ads) to high heaven.

  18. Not as dead end as you think on iPhone Business Model Hits a Snag in France · · Score: 1

    All Apple has to do is make it so iPhones sold outside the US cannot be updated or synched with iTunes in the US. iTunes knows from your IP what country you are in.

    Sure, there are proxys, but this would shut out 99% of the problem. People couldn't just buy an iPhone in Europe and use it here theyd have to know what they were doing.

  19. But Don't bother on Survey Finds Canadians Support Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    If you want to show your support for this issue, then take the ten minutes of effort and write your MP, both email AND a printed snail-mail copy.

    Online petitions are like prayer. They give you something to do, but they really don't get you anywhere.

  20. Why is this 'alarming'? on The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct · · Score: 1

    It's called evolution of the species. The less languages used on the planet, the more efficiently we can communicate globally. Therefore ideas will be more free-flowing, and global average advancement will happen at a more rapid pace. Thus it is advantageous to us as a species.

  21. Total Strawman on Ohio Net Censorship Law Struck Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is a total strawman.

    I suggest you do some actual legitimate research on the subject and interview some actual professionals in the industry. The vast majority of women in the industry travel to the valley DIRECTLY in order to work in adult film.

    It is not like they have no other options in life, it is what they choose. They choose knowing full well what it entails and does not entail, and a large number of them love their jobs and the money they make doing it.

    All the power to them. I don't see you complaining that male underwear models "only resort to modeling because of the amount of discrimination they still face in the job market today".

    Also - the idea that women still face any kind of legitimate job discrimination is also a straw man.

  22. Feminist eh? on Ohio Net Censorship Law Struck Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You'd think that as a feminist you would be pro pornography.

    Why should you, or any government, get to dictate what a woman can or can not do with her own body?

    Just because pornography does not agree with your own personal moral standards does not make it a woman's rights issue. If a woman is ot have the right to choose, then she is to also have the right to choose how to make a living. If that includes having sex for money, so be it.

  23. Re:I learned how to use my slide rule... on Know How To Use a Slide Rule? · · Score: 1

    It scares and disturbs me that I am seemingly the only one who gets this joke :P

  24. Re:And as jewelry on The History of the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    If money is backe dby gold then the purchasing power of gold can't go up seperate from the currency.

    You have to think globally about the issue.

    For example. Say for simplicity that 1 oz of gold is worth $100 US by our "gold standard". That is the standard forever. That means that I can buy 1 oz of gold for $100 US and sell $100 for 1oz of gold whenever I want, guarenteed.

    Now, suppose in China/Africa/Wherever someone discovers a new big gold mine. In China/Africa/Wherever gold is now cheaper than copper. The world market is flooded with gold, the price drops 75%.

    This means, implicitly that the US dollar has now dropped 75%. Since it has a fixed backing of gold, people can now buy US dollars for 75% cheaper than they used to be. All of a sudden, the value of goods in the US has to skyrocket to cope with the required rapid price inflation.

    Gold backed currencies only work domestically. Once you start trading internationally with other countries who don't have gold-backed currencies, everything falls apart. And if every country had a gold backed currency, then the exchange rates between countries would be linked, forever. This would be even more of a disaster because it would mean as the economy of any given country goes up or down their currency can not be valued accordingly. Interest rates would be insanely volatile as countries used them as their only means to attract investment in their bonds.

    All this and the price of gold would go up exponentially as countries have to procure more to back their currencies - making legitimate uses for gold (like jewelry, electronics, etc) hyper-inflate in price.

  25. Gold Standard == Bad on The History of the Federal Reserve · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only people who argue for reinstatement of the gold standard are those who do not have a fundamental grasp of macroeconomics. Reinstating gold-backed currency would do several bad things, because it artificially constrains the value of gold as a commodity metal.

    Because the value of gold is implicitly tied to the value of a currency, gold can no longer be traded as a commodity in any real sense. As in - if your currency is backed by gold, what happens if the value of gold should go down due to a glut in the production market? Answer is nothing, because it *can't*. If money is backed by gold then you can't logically trade gold separately from money. This means that gold is artificially valued, and the prices of things that use gold would increase for no sound economic reason.