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  1. Re:SO YOU BUY MORE OF THEM... consumers on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    Why are you comparing the Cruzer Micro to the Cruzer Mini? Can't you read?

    SanDisk Cruzer Micro The 256MB model is priced at $19.99, and the 2GB at $99.99.

  2. Re:cell phones on The Death of the "Cell Phone" · · Score: 1

    I've actually heard more and more people just calling a cell phone a "phone". It's only when needing to differentiate that people call it a "cell phone".

  3. Re:That would be funny... on Old Mobiles — the Bad and the Ugly · · Score: 1

    It once seemed like cellphones would become microscopic particles, but height and width stopped shrinking quite a while ago. Try to keep up with the times. There's no longer a push for smaller cellphones.

  4. Re:What should I do? on Top Gadget of 2006 — The HurriQuake Nail · · Score: 0

    It's only gay if the balls are touching.

  5. Re:Firefox needs a "standard extension" concept on Firefox Losing Its Way? · · Score: 1

    Actually the default install comes with the DOM Inspector and Talkback extensions. During installation you can control whether they are installed or not.

  6. Re:anyone else remember when phoenix would fit on Firefox Losing Its Way? · · Score: 1

    On a what?

    In Korea, only old dying people use floppy disks.

  7. Re:Solution on Firefox Losing Its Way? · · Score: 1

    "fabulating"? "fabulations"? You're certainly enjoying your day-to-day calendar, aren't you?

  8. Re:JESUS FRACKING CHRIST on Firefox Losing Its Way? · · Score: 1

    People are wasting alot of time on this. Your going to loose the battle anyway, so why bother? Their's just no point.

  9. Re:The source is a fucking mess! on Firefox Losing Its Way? · · Score: 1

    You've got your history screwed up really badly. The Mozilla Organization inherited what would have been Netscape 5. That is what they decided to scrap. They then began a browser that became Netscape 6 and the Mozilla suite (codenamed SeaMonkey). Both Netscape 6 and the suite defined their interfaces with XUL. The Mozilla suite was not based on the code inherited from Netscape.

    Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was started because many people felt the Mozilla suite was suffering from major feature creep. It had nothing to do with the code inherited from Netscape. Firefox was not coded from scratch; it is basically the suite with the non-browser stuff stripped away. Firefox and the suite share a lot of code.

  10. Re:gimme a terminal! on OLPC Project Interface Revealed · · Score: 1
    Maybe you never run across those issues or don't care
    Of course I have. In Python I have to carefully indent code before running it, while in C++ or JavaScript I sometimes don't care about indentation until I've figured out how I want to do something. Requiring good indentation can make experimentation more tedious.

    I like Python's weird indentation thing, I just wish it was optional. Why shouldn't code like below that mixes the styles work? Simply because it's not "Pythonic" enough?
    if test:
      doFirstThing()
      doSecondThing()
      doThindThing()
     
    if test {
    doFirstThing()
        doSecondThing()
      doThirdThing()
    }
  11. Re:The source is a fucking mess! on Firefox Losing Its Way? · · Score: 1

    That isn't skinning. The stuff that is actually SeaMonkey consists of JavaScript, XUL, and CSS. Firefox is the same way. All the heavy lifting is done by a bunch of XPCOM components that are accessed through JavaScript bindings.

  12. Re:gimme a terminal! on OLPC Project Interface Revealed · · Score: 1

    So how do you indent your code? I really can't imagine more than one way to indent besides using tabs or spaces and the number of each, which Python always handles just fine. Do you switch from tabs on one line to spaces on the next, or what?

  13. Re:But *IS* there a decent way to enter Chinese ch on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1
    Last I heard people in China (& Japan) used Roman letters because as clumsy as the were, they were easier to enter than the Hiragana.
    That's ridiculous. The biggest internet forum in the world is 2channel (eng nav). The text there consists almost entirely of hiragana, katakana, and kanji. About the only place you see Latin characters at 2channel is in URLs.

    The Chinese and Japanese sections of Wikipedia are likewise nearly absent of Latin characters.
  14. Re:Hahh!! on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Here it is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wOxnAiIVs

    Having a highspeed internet connection is awesome! I never woulda thunk just half a decade ago that something like YouTube would be possible.

  15. Re:passwords have failed on Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords · · Score: 1

    Dibs on 666!

  16. Re:Longevity on Celebrate the XML Decade · · Score: 1

    Then get to evangelizing. Fast Infoset is ready to go.

  17. Re:Can't they just promise to do it? on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    Why did Trunks return to his dimension of origin when he returned to the future? Why didn't he end up in the future of the dimension where the man lived?

  18. Re:OK... on Report Blasts "Peak Oil" Theory · · Score: 1
    If we wait to switch until oil is $100 an ounce, goodbye plastic!
    I for one have been dreading this for a while. I don't think it'll be too long afterward that somebody invents a good cheap way of making plastic without fossil fuels, but for a while things could really suck.

    For some reason a lack of low-cost plastic bothers me more than a lack of low-cost gasoline and electricity.
  19. Re:really? on Internet Only 1% Porn · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The web may only be 1% porn, but bittorent traffic is probably much higher. That's where I get all my gigs of pr0n from anyway. Never downloaded much over HTTP.

  20. Re:My guess? on What Really Happened To Ubuntu's Edgy Artwork? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wow, it's actually a real site.

  21. Re:Make it stop! on Scientists Find New Painkiller From Saliva · · Score: 1

    Have you tried weed?

  22. Re:If this really works... on VR Cures Amputees' Phantom Limb Pain · · Score: 1

    He was even in a few pornos, putting it to work.

  23. Re:Suspicion on Top 10 List of Worldwide Internet Censors · · Score: 1

    libertarian != Libertarian

    Remember to cap the L when referring to the party. There's only one word unlike conservative/Republican and liberal/Democrat.

  24. Re:Well, you can still see it. on The Web Is 16 Today · · Score: 1

    How is that related to the web?

  25. Re:Are they kidding? on New Zealand To Allow 'Text-Speak' On Exams · · Score: 1

    If speaking and writing in a way that is usually considered to be proper actually makes you feel bad, then you probably have bigger problems than can be fixed with bad spelling and grammar.

    I just try to make my stuff seem right. I don't really care if it is. That's why I never bother trying to use the word "whom". Most people don't know when to use it, so I don't care if I use "who" when I should have used "whom".