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  1. Re:They don't care about challenging better phones on Verizon's Challenge To the iPhone Confirmed · · Score: 2, Informative

    you are aware that Apple went from a 2% cellphone share world wide to a 13% share in 2009, right? That is insane growth.

  2. Re:win7 on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 1

    Use the search feild in teh control pannel and you will find the setting every time.

  3. Re:The market is unfair! on Road To Riches Doesn't Run Through the App Store · · Score: 1

    The fart app pisses me off the most... the first guy to market required the skills that a 16 year old could learn over a summer to write it and it was bought millions of times.... WTF...

  4. Re:Another shocker on Road To Riches Doesn't Run Through the App Store · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you are right.... it takes balls to go through with the necessary ruthlessness that Gates engaged in.

    He knew how to play dumb when he needed to. He knew how to say the right things to people to get them to listen. He knew the price points at which people would sell their mothers.

    Digital pissing IBM off: Luck
    gates learning about it: Luck
    Gates going to IBM and selling them a product they didn't have: Balls
    Gates buying Dos for next to nothing, knowing what he would get from IBM: Ruthlessness and Balls
    IBM being stupid enough to agree to a non-exclusive license for Dos: Luck.

  5. Re:Uh oh... on NASA Downgrades Asteroid-Earth Collision Risk · · Score: 1

    No... we will be using Whale Oil to power out rockets and drinking Slurm on the way up.

    Can we add anymore geek references?

  6. Re:It's 1996 again? on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    dude.... at 60 GHz we are already talking about the need for line of sight and a human body blocking the signal. Say goodbye to using my internet services in my car... the roof would block the signal.

  7. Re:It's 1996 again? on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    same way they can get your voice on the same wire as your internet... they have multiple non-interfering signals traveling on the line. 56Kbps of digital data per channel, do the math.

  8. Re:It's 1996 again? on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    90 GHz? at that freq why bother? the freaking air pollution would block the signal over the distance of a large room.

  9. Re:It's 1996 again? on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    Just what I want... cell service that gets blocked by a sheet of paper.

  10. Re:I'm oddly disappointed. on NASA Downgrades Asteroid-Earth Collision Risk · · Score: 1

    "what do you want for your birthday jimmy?"

    "I want to stand directly under the doomsday rock mom!"

  11. Re:Uh oh... on NASA Downgrades Asteroid-Earth Collision Risk · · Score: 1

    make that:
    anniversary

    awww damn... I won't be able to post correct myself either!!!

    this world ending stuff just sucks.

  12. Re:Uh oh... on NASA Downgrades Asteroid-Earth Collision Risk · · Score: 1

    lets see... plus 1.... carry the 2.... equals.....uhhhh..... 57....

    oh shit... I will only be old.

    and we will all miss the slashdot 40th anaversery too!!! fuck!

  13. Re:De Icaza Responds on London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source · · Score: 1

    you are just full of assumptions on what the problems were.

  14. Re:SPOILER!!!!!! on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    um.... I didn't say that it removed things from one environment that were transported across the event horizon. I said it keeps the environments separate.

  15. Re:SPOILER!!!!!! on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    momentum is conerved so the hook flys through teh stargate and hooked onto the cave when t'ilk enters.

  16. Re:SPOILER!!!!!! on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    uhh... the rope was used in the black hole episode. it was not dangling through the event horizon, it was being used to lower a naquida bomb to the black hole.

  17. Re:De Icaza Responds on London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source · · Score: 1

    Sucky software is sucky software... it says nothing about the underlying platform.

    Where is that finder poking again?

  18. Re:FEH! on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    If Lost was episodic, it would be another gilligans island.

  19. Re:SG-1 on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    this makes a clean cut with most of the later mythos of SG-1, save for some ancient tech stuff.

    SG-1's ending was still interesting to watch so you might as well.

  20. Re:SPOILER!!!!!! on Stargate Universe · · Score: 5, Informative

    as explained in season 1 of SG-1, particles (such as air)are kept from traveling through the event horizon by the cool ancient technology as a way to help protect both ends from the environment on the other side.

  21. Re:Thats kind of scarry on Windows Marketplace For Mobile Kill Switch Details · · Score: 1

    fewer towers for equal coverage... better speeds.... gsm CDMA seems better to me.

  22. Re:Inspiring.... on AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful · · Score: 3, Insightful

    here is how:

    1)get the infection rate of the population
    2)take a random sample from the population
    3)do a double blind study of the vaccine
    4)at the end of x years, compare the rate of infection of both your experimental group and your control group. If the control group is with in the statistical bounds of the population infection rate and the experimental group's infection rate is below that rate at a statisticaly significant level, then you can conclude the vaccine has a positive impact on infection rates.

  23. Re:Server vs. client on FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted · · Score: 1

    again... ESPN is deciding not to allow access, those ISPs who have access are simply deciding to bow to ESPN's terms.

    the ISP is not selectively blocking content that users are attempting to access, they are selectively opting into a data service that ESPN will provide for a fee to the ISP.

    Your beef is with ESPN for trying to get the ISPs to pay them rather than the users of the site.

  24. Re:doesnt matter to me on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    You are right of course. UTF-8 or if you really crazy, UTF-16 would be what you would write in to provide data observability until the end of the binary computer era.

    Depending on how the era ends, the data will be ported onto the new system or no one will care about the data.

  25. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    only an idiot thinks menus are more usable than a ribbon interface.