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  1. Re:It's always a surprise on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 1

    apparently you have never written a long paper with lots of mathematics in it.

  2. Re:the acid test on Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music · · Score: 1

    So... a cop watching the entrance to a known drug house is a camera?

  3. Re:the acid test on Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music · · Score: 1

    They are not monitoring this information...

    Do you wipe every surface that you come into contact with as well so that the "gubment" cannot track your finger prints?

  4. Re:the acid test on Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music · · Score: 1

    simple solution... place a random 128 bit number in each song as well.

  5. Re:Interesting on AT&T To Offer TV Over Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    I bet each CO will have multiple servers all direct streaming to customers. The servers will split the amount of needed bandwidth between the entire CO service area making it much more feasible.

  6. Re:And yet "the science is settled" on climate. on Hurricane's Eye Reveals a New Power Source · · Score: 1

    No... it makes sense in the correct order.

    The factors that govern precipitation across the globe as well as temperatures across the globe are extremely complex... just because climatology focuses on a small set of descriptors does not make their calculations over a long period of time simple.

  7. Re:Static Universe? on A Snapshot of the Universe 3 Trillion Years From Now · · Score: 1

    relativistically ... it will be static to the observer.

  8. Re:Oh god.. on 26 Common Climate Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    The policy community is bickering.. the scientific community is pretty much in harmony.... or at eh very least.. dealing with their differences in a professionals manor.

  9. Re:thickest strongest ice in 30 years on 26 Common Climate Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    While the arctic sea ice has not fully reformed this winter and will continue to degenerate as the years go by.

  10. Re:And yet "the science is settled" on climate. on Hurricane's Eye Reveals a New Power Source · · Score: 1

    Hurricane == weather

    Dry, wet, hot, cold, == climate

    We do not even have near the computing capacity to model to the resolution needed to see hurricanes in the models. To pretend that climatology is the same thing as meteorology to make a point is stupidity.

  11. Re:Dr. Seuss on Scientists Offer New Way to Read Online Text · · Score: 1

    damn.... not only is it easier to read, it is more comfortable and comprehension is higher and you read it faster!

    something like this can only work on electronic devices though because books were designed to pack as much text into them as possible and such formating would waste a ton of paper.

    I want more!!!

    can it reformat my pdfs for me?

  12. Re:This really....sucks. on Final Season of Battlestar Galactica Confirmed · · Score: 2

    Lost still has the "wtf is going on here" factor.

    Like last week... did we find the true power of the island? Why did it ask Locke for help? How did the hostel's get there, why haven't the ones that were there when Ben was a boy aged at all (like the fem looking dude with thick eye brows), How did Locke's father get there? How did Michael get off the island if the only way on or off is a submarine? etc.

    Getting off the island is also pretty much a long shot now that they know they are all confirmed dead because some how identical wreckage and bodies were recovered nearly 1000 miles away (how did that happen).

    I think what you are having a problem with is "how will my serial show last 10 years?"... It won't... that is the point of a serial show as apposed to episodic shows that have occasional story arcs. The story is complex... interwoven through 4-6 seasons and then it ends.

  13. Re:And in the spirit of things on Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget · · Score: 1

    Tribal societies seem to have great success with it.

  14. Re:And in the spirit of things on Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget · · Score: 1

    The difference between the famous/powerful and the rest of us is that we do not have any personal capitol to shake off something stupid we said in a forum 15 years ago that Google links to us today. This lacking commodity makes it very easy for people to black list someone because of something that happened in their youth.

  15. Re:The answer on Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer · · Score: 1

    actualy... it would have to be 42000000000000000000000000000000 OR 00000000000000000000000000000042

  16. Re:Brilliant... Maybe on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    CC it with some rights reserved as being unable to manipulate the substance of the material.

  17. Re:Interesting. on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes... but the debate participates set the rules of the debate and negotiate.. so.. if the democrats say "we won't debate unless the video is CCed... then that is a good incentive to CC the content... As for the Presidential debates... the candidates have even more power to set the copyright standards on those.

  18. Thanks to SCOTUS on Breakpoints have now been patented · · Score: 1

    obvious patents are no longer patentable.

  19. Re:Evolution vs Inteligence Re:Creationists on Chimps Evolved More Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Smartness and the ability to behave correctly in finer situations that the trailer park/street corner are different things.

  20. Re:In Defense of Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenOffice 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    no its not. none of the functions are hidden in menus any longer.

  21. Re:sorry to troll, but... on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    Except that this is 100 MPG or EQUIVALENT.

    They don't care how the car is powered... ICE, Fuel Cell, a Perpetual Motion Machine.... they just want the car to be capable of using the amount of energy in one gallon of gas to be capable of powering a car 100 miles.

  22. Re:In Defense of Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenOffice 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    If interface design were geared toward maintaining look and feel to avoid retraining of employees even if the old interface was horrible and hurt productivity, we would all still be using word perfect in dos.

    Get over it... the new interface is more productive and not that hard to learn. Rather than treat your employees like morons, consider that all tehy need to know is how their knowledge about Office maps to the new interface.

  23. Re:I would like to know on Dept. of Energy Rejects Corn Fuel Future · · Score: 1

    How about a nuclear battery to power the motors? Sure... we need some RD done to make it safe and non-proliferationable, but I think it can be done.

  24. I wish iTUnes on windows did not look so fugly on Vista - iPod Killer? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    iTunes on OS X rocks.... on windows, it looks nasty!!!

    keep teh organizational ideas and the general UI, but dump the OS X look and feel and go with the windows look and feel!!!

  25. Re:Should be obvious it's not on iPhone Not Running OS X · · Score: 1

    hmm... because the resolution available on the regular google maps does not go as high as you get on the iPhone... so Google made a deal to provide the pay for service to iPhone customers for free.