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  1. Re:NO thanks. on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    There is no more mercury in a CFL bulb than in the Ahi Tuna served in a seafood resuraunt.

  2. Re:NO thanks. on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    try buying brand names.

    My house is 100% CFL. No problems yet and it is nice that I have only changed 3 bulbs since I went all CFL 5 years ago.

  3. Re:Socialism on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The best health care system in the world is worthless if no one can afford to get treated.

  4. Re:Socialism on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 1

    idiot!!

    The Talent is the best but the access is the worst. Tell me, how good is a health care system if a significant portion of the population cannot access it?

  5. Re:Socialism on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 1

    Again you show yourself to be a fucking moron.

    She wants a universal health care system that uses private for-profit companies to provide the insurance for all. Her plan is no more socialist than Mit Romney's health care for all in Mass. Running a universal system that requires everyone to have health care (just like car insurance) is not socialized medicine. Do not fret, you will still have your health care choices decided for you by a company whose goal is to make a profit even if you die to make that profit.

  6. Re:Socialism on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, are you stupid.

    Clinton is a corporate whore. The rest of the Dems are letting the industry deal with itself but the control is coming from the right and you yell socialism?

    Retard.

  7. Well, Screw Democrats then on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 5, Funny

    This single issue is so important that I will vote for Gulianni. His policies may include 1984 type directives, but at least he will not make GTA V illegal.

  8. Re:Data Integrity Over Time? on Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data · · Score: 2

    That is my point.

    The DVD went from research project to general commercial success for storage media in about 10 years. All the vaporware garbage from people can be directed to that fact.

    If this new tech is expected to make similar commercialization curves, we can expect something around 2010 or so.

  9. Re:Data Integrity Over Time? on Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data · · Score: 1

    Dude.... The DVD has been around since 1993-94. When did DVD burners become common place? Around 2001-2002.

  10. Re:silverlight on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    Considering that Silverlight /Flex, and JavaFX were created to allow easy and effective web application programing, it seems that HTML/CSS/Javascript are out classed there.

    Rich web applications are stretching HCJ to its breaking point with CSS being the weak point though HTML and javascript have many weaknesses too.

  11. Re:silverlight on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    so your problem is that they are using an XML schema that is not standardized? so what. it will be more capable than HTML/CSS/Javascript/Serverside scripting for writing dynamic user interfaces for the associated web applications than Silverlight. Silverlight in turn is better than flash because of its use of XAML for its interfaces. It is better to use for Designers and developers because of its front to back integration and its ability to display the same no matter where you show it as long as the plug-in is available (something that will be remedied, MS not make a SL plug-in for phones the boom market right now?)

    Also nice is that the XAML can be(not nessisaraly a reality right now) transformed into xhtml.

    Web Application Development is not going to slow down, but it will need to get easier and Silverlight does that all around. JavaFX has similar language capabilities to Silverlight (both blow Flex out of the water on that) but I am not familiar with its vector graphics system to know if it uses XML or binary.

  12. Re:silverlight on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    the problem you had was COM.

    C# on client side code for a web app would not be using COM.

    C# does not require an IDE either, interestingly both suck to write with without one.

  13. Re:HTML skills are a commodity? on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    that is the converse.

  14. Re:silverlight on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    XAML is an XML Schema, how is it ignoring document standards?

    the plug-in runs on Macs and Windows, it presents the content exactly the same with the same fidelity

    C# is more powerful and more expressive than javascript. just because you are more comfortable with a language does not make it more expressive. weight will remain to be seen.

    explain how XAML schema is problematic to implement? Learn how to write the XAML and your solid.

  15. Re:First as tragedy, then as farce on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    ummm....

    The plug-in works on OS X and Windows and presents material exactly the same on Safari, Firefox, and IE.

  16. Re:silverlight on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    silverlight is not a hack... but then you would have to actually learn about it to know that.

  17. Re:silverlight on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    the vector graphics in silverlight are XAML so you are dealing with an XML schema that is web searchable and semantically meaningful.

  18. Re:Make a new protocol already! on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    check out what silverlight is doing.

    the OSS world needs to replicate that.

  19. Re:the suck/non-suck divide on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    The future is making silverlight GUIs which is wonderfully easy to do and integrates perfectly with server-side code and is fully XML (XAML) so you get a search engine friendly semantic layout and vector graphic system.

  20. Re:the suck/non-suck divide on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    Silverlight layouts and vector images are XML... yay semantics!!

  21. Re:HTML skills are a commodity? on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    no, you just said the contrapositive of it which is the same damn thing

  22. Re:HTML skills are a commodity? on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    And if I was not such a retard I would have properly displaied my div tags like this

  23. Re:HTML skills are a commodity? on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    You are being a pedantic dick who lost the argument and is hiding behind language to salvage an ego victory.

    Face it when someone says:

    " s are better than tables for layout" they mean " s with CSS are better than tables for layout"

    Christ fuck almighty I hate when people like you open their mouths.

  24. Re:Hilarious movie. on Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave · · Score: 1

    Well... the Hasidic Jewish community has a higher mean IQ than the rest of the population of Europe because during the middle ages, up until the late 19th/ early 20th century they were kept from marrying into the rest of the population and were only allowed to hold down jobs that required a lot of thought such as a money changer, etc. If you were dumb, you could not support a family, let alone survive.

    When you remove the survival aspect of the equation however, you are right.

  25. Re:Global calamity on New Wave Power Research Rising Off Oregon Coast · · Score: 2, Funny

    No Problem... just mine the moon and remove mass to keep it in orbit.