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  1. Re:Concerns: on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you forget 4)
    all projects for cooling the earth by redirecting the sun radiation have the same fault: they are bad for the plants and the plants are best co2 utilisers.

  2. Re:Learning from prior mistakes on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    with tows, when the submarine is afloat.
    for example, an old soviet submarine (k-77) was towed from finland to florida, then to nova scotia and then to rhode island.

  3. Re:Won't work on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    well, a submarine is quite crowded, so you have to open windows from time to time...

  4. Re:Cut the Military to 1/4 of it's current budget. on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: 1

    only in a fascist country.

  5. Re:I wonder how much for the Buran? on Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now · · Score: 1

    there is one, sitting at the Technikmuseum Speyer. the museum states that the whole price (together with transport from bahrain) was about 10 million euros.

  6. Re:Speaking of "initmidation" ... on Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing · · Score: 1

    Nobody sells as many cars in the US as GM

    this is mostly due to car nationalism. every country prefers its own car brands.
    for example in germany, nobody sells as many cars as vw and so on.

  7. Re:Missed Opportunity... on Spaceport America Gets FAA License · · Score: 1

    try "tales of pirx the pilot" sometime. this is imho the most realistic (except of computer technology) discription of private human spaceflight out there.

  8. Re:Missed Opportunity... on Spaceport America Gets FAA License · · Score: 1

    why heinlein of all people? there are lots and lots of better sf authors.

  9. Re:Internet crimes, like rape? on MySpace Verdict a Danger To Depressed Kids · · Score: 1

    "use a rubber", maybe.

    because the cause of all those problems wasn't fucking in first place, but a pregnancy and an abortion.

  10. Re:congratulations on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    The HTC slider with the full keyboard? Really popular. But oddly enough, same problems. Needs daily (or more frequent) reboots to recover performance, and occasionally just stops making sounds.

    you mean blue angel? worked fine for me, works fine for my mother nowadays, never crashes. needs a reboot once in a couple of months.

    there are different firmware versions for all those devices, though, some aren't that stable. for example, the unofficial wm6.1 firmware of my universal crashes daily, but then again, this version wasn't made for my device, it is a hack of the htc athena windows mobile. or maybe your device had some bad memory chips.

    For instance, you see a Windows Mobile device as primarily a PDA, and don't appear to care that the phone function sucks.

    well, it does work as a phone for me - calling works, call answering works most times, sms works great, ringtone always works. even bluetooth headsets often work so this is a phone good enough for me.
    it is not the primary function for me, though, i just don't want to carry two devices and keep them both synchronized to a PIM.

  11. Re:congratulations on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    treo 750 sucks, but not all windows mobile devices do so. i've used a whole bunch of pda phones (htc wallaby, himalaya, blue angel, universal, touch pro). some of them are quite stable, some of them are not. different ringtones never were a problem, though.

    all of them were very useful as pocket size personal computers as long as you have this in your mind. if you use them only as phones, they tend to suck, though, because the phone function is only a practical feature on top of the pim, alongside of many others, not the primary function.

  12. Re:Your "American" car is full of Chinese stuff on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    this video explains the problem:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uykStESm3vw

  13. Re:congratulations on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    windows mobile isn't as locked as iphone. you actually can use lots of different interfaces with windows mobile.

  14. Re:Your "American" car is full of Chinese stuff on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    yep, looks like a vw transporter version t3, but without side mirrors.
    this version is from 1985, though. there were different safety standards back then.

  15. Re:Bye, bye GM :) on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 2, Informative

    the volt was originally developed in germany by opel anyway.

  16. Re:I don't get it on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    sorry, but it is not. i run xp with a heavy vista theme on my old hp omnibook 510. it wasn't that fast but it wasn't that sluggish either.

    then, after reading all the praises for ubuntu, i reformatted the hard drive and installed kubuntu. it ran so slow i could see the process of windows redrawing - nearly as if doing a remote desktop session over analogue modem.

    so much for being efficient.

  17. Re:New for 2009! on Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    command&conquer isn't a strategy game, it is tactics, operational level at most.

  18. Re:I don't get it on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    well, you cannot run mechwarrior 2: mercenaries in xp either.

  19. Re:Since Lenovo bought IBM's PC division on Should Apple Open Source the iPhone? · · Score: 1

    well, that is wrong again in this case. intel mac with windows would also work for visual studio, no bios there.

  20. Re:Requires a Mac computer on Should Apple Open Source the iPhone? · · Score: 1

    you, sir, are a liar.

    developing for windows mobile is free. you can download the .net sdk from microsoft or even use some other development tool like lazarus, which is free open source software.

    you can get the cheapest windows mobile phone for around 120 euros but you won't even need it because of the high quality emulators out there.

    and the best thing is: signing is not required in the windows mobile world.

    and wtf is with the "lenovo compatible" bullshit?

  21. Re:Teacher sounds like a dumb cow on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    uh... and you sound like a dairy farmer?

  22. Re:Exactly on 21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale · · Score: 1

    parent is right, for europe at least. even 15 years ago checks were a major pita for the banks, nowadays they are so seldom used that not every bank cashier knows what they are and what to do with them.

  23. Re:That is impractical. I mean, impossible. on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    so what?
    i was born in the ussr in the 1980. as you might know, there was compulsory vaccination in the ussr, but autism was unheard of.

    the vaccination times were quite different, though:

    according to my certificates, my first vaccination was against tuberculosis, a week after my birth.
    the second vaccination was a combination of polio, diphtheria and tetanus vaccination, [b]at the age of 5[/b]
    the third vaccination was six months later, supposedly against measles only.

    nowadays the vaccination in russia isn't compulsive anymore and both diphtheria and tuberculosis came back.

    maybe the current vaccination problem in the west is that all the vaccinations are done at the infancy and at a very short term of time. maybe you should let some time pass between each vaccination and try to get vaccines against one illness at time instead of combination vaccinations.

  24. Re:Evidence does not get recorded on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 3, Informative

    most urticarias do start suddenly and the reason is never found.

  25. Re:butterfs on Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    i think it sounds rather solid, like a BTR file system