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  1. Re:2 Months is very fast on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 1

    Amen to that.

  2. Re:2 Months is very fast on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the government stayed away from subsidizing education, the prices for it would go down and more people would be able to afford it in the first place. More doctors would graduate and that would drive their prices down so even a private health system could be affordable.

    Wrong. This is pretty much the same as saying that when the goverment wouldn't subsidise car manufacturers, everyone could afford a Porsche.

    A private education system, same as a private healthcare system, will charge for the services whatever the market can bear. That means for healthcare that the doctors will charge real shitloads of money. Just because they can - if people are seriously ill, they'll pay any cost to get healthy again. Those, who cannot afford to pay that huge sums of money would receive no healthcare - thre is no reason doctors would waste their time for the poor when they can use the time to treat wealthy patients. Everyone else would have to pray to their personal deity or to resort to traditional medicine (which is also pretty costly these days since there aren't that many places anymore where you can harvest herbs).
    Same would happen to education.

    I believe on economy my position is logical and yours is not.

    Nope, your position is illogical because it is based on beliefs. In other words, economy is a religion for you.

    What I describe are just facts. We have already had fully private education and fully private medicine. There is a good reason why 20th century has changed that.

  3. Re:Single card, Dual GPU on SLI On Life Support For the AMD Platform · · Score: 1

    A two card solution provides better cooling and in case of Radeon 4670 it is possible to have a passive crossfire solution.

  4. Re:So... on Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks · · Score: 1

    Or maybe your device just sucks. HTC had some lag in their development (between Universal and Diamond) when they released crappy underpowered devices with premature Windows Mobile versions. That is the reason, why HTC Himalaya - their second Windows Mobile device - is capable of running Windows Mobile 6.5 and is faster at that than many of their more modern devices, although the Himalaya came out in early 2005.

    Yes, Windows Mobile reacts somewhat slow, but that is the price for real multitasking. It is also possible, that you've got some CPU-time consuming apps or services working in the background.

  5. Re:Non-sense quote about device support on Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks · · Score: 1

    CE 6 comes with a lot of drivers. The fact that it was offered for a lot of time for lots of very different devices helps.

  6. Re:Stop global warming? on Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification · · Score: 1

    Germany - the origin of ice wine - produces plenty of that stuff.

  7. Re:Idea on Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification · · Score: 1

    And that is another reason why geotech sucks. Your nifty green solar powered device stops working after a while when the sunlight is blocked, or at least, isn't that efficient anymore.

  8. Re:Wait, can't colds do that too? on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    A common cold goes away after 10 days at most. Then the sense of smell will come back.
    That nasal gel can damage your nose nerves so you lose the sense of smell for a long time if not for the rest of your life.

    It is quite a difference, quiaff?

    Even worse, the sense of smell and taste are combined so you would also lose a part of your taste sense.

  9. Re:It will not stop terrorism on Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law · · Score: 1

    It would stop the misuse of the SSN for identification purposes, though.

  10. Re:On what basis? on EC To Pursue Antitrust Despite Microsoft's IE Move · · Score: 1

    if there is no base, then the case would be closed. that's the way courts work.

  11. Stalker on Videogame Places You're Not Supposed To Go · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When you turn no-clipping on and try to explore the levels, you can very often see (especially at the wild territories and at the brain scorcher) that the levels were originally meant much larger and the story was meant larger, too (what's with the helicopter behind the fence at the radar site?)

  12. Re:Research is not the function of the Fed Gov't on Why Isn't the US Government Funding Research? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Private companies don't do basic research because basic research might or might not be profitable and if it might be profitable, then only in very long term. Private companies don't think in long term.

    Also, stop bullshitting yourself in thinking that free market puts research dollars where they will be most beneficial. Free market researches everything what might bring a short term profit. It doesn't have to be beneficial at all and often it isn't.

    Putting research dollars where they will buy the most votes, on the other hand, is doing research on what the public wants. And in many cases the public wants beneficial things.

  13. Re:Baby Boomers on Why Isn't the US Government Funding Research? · · Score: 1

    CEOs and congressmen sell neither sub-prime mortgages nor financial derivatives. Clerks in their late twenties do (and get a huge commission for that). Ah, and they hate taxes as well. So much for your generation being not greedy at all.

  14. Re:Boeing vs. Airbus, not US vs. France on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    Aerospatiale is actually one of the Airbus consortium founders (as are all other defunct French aircraft manufacturers).

  15. Re:something interesting about the airbus on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    Well, let's see how much more reliable Boeing's hydraulics is.

    About 12 minutes after takeoff, as the aircraft reached cruising altitude over Sagami Bay, the rear pressure bulkhead failed. The resulting explosive decompression tore the vertical stabilizer from the aircraft and severed all four of the aircraft's hydraulic systems.

  16. Re:On top of that on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most of Boeing's military aircraft are tankers and AWACS which are based on their passenger airplanes.
    Boeing hasn't built a bomber since 1962 and their only fighters were some prototypes for ATF and JSF programs. Ah, and since they bought McDonnell Douglas in 1997 they also build their fighters.

    So no, Boeing knew nothing about fly-by-wire, they were very late to produce a fly-by-wire airplane (Boeing 777 came 7 years later than Airbus A320) and thus, they don't trust it.

    Airbus however is a consortium of DASA, Aérospatiale and CASA. Aérospatiale had early experience with fly-by-wire (they built the Concorde).

  17. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    Wrong, wrong and wrong.

    1) Everywhere in the world TCAS has priority
    2) The pilots of the DHL plane were Americans
    3) If the pilots would have done what ATC told them there had been no crash. Only the Russian pilots (which weren't instructed in TCAS use) have listened to the traffic controller instead of TCAS, the DHL pilots changed the course according to TCAS.

    P.S. the explicite line about TCAS having priority was postfactum added to the Tu-154 manual.

  18. Re:On top of that on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Boeing was just late to fly by wire and without that much experience they don't trust full computer control. That is the only reason for Boeing to the full manual override.

  19. Re:Apple pushes the boundaries again on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 1

    remove multitouch - which can be a huge disadvantage - and then you've got a clear yes.

  20. Re:Some information would be nice. on 7-inch Android Netbook From GNB · · Score: 1

    Somehow I have the feeling that my phone has got better specs.

  21. Re:Freight trains are still greener, though. on Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains · · Score: 1

    Not only that. The friction loss on a railway is in a whole different league. Also, a single vehicle has less to fight against aerodynamic drag than lots of them.

  22. Re:German results on Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat · · Score: 1

    For such a young party the results are very good. Give it more time.

  23. Re:Why would You Buy a Pre NOW? on Palm Pre Is Out, Time For Discussion · · Score: 1

    I'm really not on any horse at all.

    You are, when talking about malware.

    As for WCE having a longer bullet-list of features, that's certainly debatable if you count the number of usable features.

    As I previously mentioned, iPhone was always years behind. When the iPhone came out, all Apple fanatics cried that noone needs multitasking, copy&paste, custom apps, A2DP and so on and so on.
    When Apple introduces all these features (which Windows Mobile could do for years) in the 3.0 firmware it suddenly starts to be the best thing since sliced bread.

    And in terms of useful, show me a turn-to-turn navigation software for iPhone. Those have been available for CE for a decade. That's the reason why 95% of PNA devices out there are Windows CE based.

    THAT's what's killing/killed WCE.

    The nice thing about Windows Mobile is, you can put any graphical UI ontop of it. If you like the iPhone shell - which is pretty much the same as the Palm OS shell of early years with added colour and multitouch support - you can have it. Also you can hardly say that Windows CE is dying - as I already mentioned 95% of PNA devices are CE based, the smartphone share of Windows Mobile is still higher than Apple's (iPhone doesn't sell well in Europe), and there are lots of Windows Mobile PDAs out there without phone function.

  24. Re:Will they run Linux? on ARM-Powered Linux Laptops Unveiled At Computex · · Score: 1

    To be honest I am very fat myself (170cm/135 kg) but since I did sports some years ago I am still pretty mobile for that weight.

  25. Re:My office mate from India on Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Even an induction stove can get pretty hot after use because the heat of the cookware transfers back to the top plate. It can even get so hot that the stove gives an error and shuts down because of overheating.