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  1. Re:Hold Me, I'm Scared on Freetype Lands In... Microsoft Office? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is Pink Floyd recording a new album?

  2. Re:Because they can on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, the US has managed to do it to a Finnish company, so there.

  3. Re:I would like to know something on Foursquare-Style Checking In For Couch Potatoes · · Score: 1

    Only 50 hours?
    It looks like you are the one doing something wrong.
    And half an hour to find a parking spot? No thanks, I'd rather walk that 30 minutes to the next train station. It is healthier that way.

  4. Re:Not Their Choice on Germany To Grant Privacy At the Workplace · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Employees are not property.

  5. Re:Golf works like that on Monetizing Free-To-Play Gaming Models · · Score: 1

    So do Nike Free shoes. Those would be really great if Nike wouldn't make them for ridiculously slender feet only.

  6. Re:I bought shoes. on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: 1

    I am with you.
    I need to walk for 30 minutes to the train station every morning when I go to work and it really pays off: I've lost 15 kg since I've started walking and I haven't been so fit since I was a student. No car for me either, I don't want to grow lazy again.

  7. Re:How long till 'clean'? on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    Well, that friend of yours is probably only a scientist-wannabe, because the conclusion above (about the zone still being pretty much deadly) was on a basis of hard data.

  8. Re:How long till 'clean'? on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine is a scientist who was in the zone a month ago. He told me that while the roads are mostly safe, even a couple of meters outside the roads the radiation quickly rises to levels that will be pretty much deadly for prolonged exposure.

  9. Re:African or European on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 1

    Fuel density calculation ist standardised for 15C

  10. Re:Nights on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are already power lines in Siberia. There are even oil pipelines there.

  11. Re:Nuclear might not be competitive in hot climate on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 3, Informative

    For cold climates, active solar water heating systems are a good alternative.
    Read more here.

    And by the way, in Germany on sunny days there is more electricity produced by photovoltaics than by nuclear reactors.

  12. Re:Nights on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 1

    That depends on how the grid is interconnected.
    There is always day somewhere.

  13. Re:I'm puzzled on Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California · · Score: 1

    "Keep right unless passing" can only work together with "no passing on the right" because otherwise going to the rightmost lane after you've passed a vehicle would be very dangerous.

  14. Re:The leaf is not a hybrid on Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California · · Score: 2, Informative

    Volt was developed by Opel in Germany.

  15. Re:game changing, if true on Long In Development, Toshiba 'SCiB' Battery Debuts · · Score: 1

    Just FYI, I am working in the field of fuel transport tracking, you don't believe how huge and complicated the infrastructure for petrochemical products is.

  16. Re:illiterate on iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' · · Score: 1

    Well, my mother is basically computer-illiterate. And somehow she managed to be quite content with her phone (Windows Mobile 2003SE) for five years, only needing a battery replacement twice during that time.

  17. Re:I LOVE perl! on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 1

    As someone who had to learn both German and English as a foreign language, I cannot really answer that question because both languages suck in their own special ways (both are not as bad as French, though).

  18. Re:So, *will* it be missed? on Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed · · Score: 1

    Sounds like my Sigma DSLR.

  19. Re:Buy better on 'Bloatware' Becoming a Problem On Android Phones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except that it is very easy to get rid of bloatware in Windows Mobile - a hard reset, and when it says something along the lines of "starting to install software in three seconds" do a soft reset.
    After the phone boots you've got a clean and pristine Windows Mobile.

  20. Windows Mobile is not a pain in the arse. on A Windows Phone 7 For Every Microsoftie · · Score: 1

    I've used a lot of Windows Mobile phones with Windows Mobile 2003 to 6.5.3 (HTC Wallaby, Himalaya, Blue Angel, Magician, Universal, Athena, Diamond, Blackstone and now Leo, also TT7000 and four or five different Windows CE devices)
    Only Windows Mobile 5 prior to AKU3.5 sucked (it was very slow and A2DP was broken), the rest worked as intended, although I've also downgraded from 6.5.3 back to 6.5 because I don't really like the new UI.

  21. Re:Store in a water tower on In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid · · Score: 1

    There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

  22. Re:It's about being truthful on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1

    Of course you can force Windows to use lower maximum refresh rate, even for a generic driver.

    And by the way, I develop embedded Linux applications for a living. But at home I use Windows 7 and develop for myself in c#.
    Less hassle that way.

  23. Re:Does it work in reverse? on Vaccine Patch Removes Needle Pain · · Score: 1

    That's strange, for me a lancet (that of a glucose meter) hurted more than a needle pushed into the vein.

  24. Re:uh, samples? on iPhone DSLR Prototype 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Canon is not the only DSLR maker you know.
    Three years ago I've bought a Sigma SD9 with a 18-50mm/F3.5-5.6 for EUR170 on eBay. It is a DSLR by every definition.

  25. Re:What Else did the Data Recorders Show? on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 1

    Is it so? In every car I was the steering can only lock after you put out the ignition key.