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  1. Meh. on Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I doubt this. Encarta wasn't all that useful to me when it could have been. I still went to paper encyclopedias or used search engines. Now wikipedia has replaced both avenues. But Encarta wasn't even on the list. I looked at it a few times and couldn't take ti seriously as a resource.

  2. Re:My beta impressions, as a major fanboy... on Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th · · Score: 1

    Oh there was experimenting through 'rebuilding'. I made something like 7 different amazons total (and 3 barbarians, 3 paladins, 2 necros and 3 sorcerers) exploring specs and most of them made level 80 before it was time to try a different approach (and getting to 80 was no feat, it was pretty easy later in the game).

  3. Re:Engineering shortage? on Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers · · Score: 2

    This entirely depends on the company and the culture it fosters. I currently work at one that has competency barries not age barriers. I work with a lot of people older than I am and some devs and engineers are well into their late 50s.

  4. Re:Useful fossils for biostratigraphic dating on Jawless Creature Had the World's Sharpest Teeth · · Score: 1

    Yep. The oil industry use them all the time.

  5. Re:Dentist insight... on Jawless Creature Had the World's Sharpest Teeth · · Score: 1

    No prediction here.

    What are believed to be conodonts have been found in legerstatte deposit which can preserve impressions of softer tissues.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagerst%C3%A4tte

  6. Re:85% Market share, trying/failing to be like iSt on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 2

    You could try to pay me to accept a copy of Windows 8. I would gladly accept money to install Win 8 into my garbage can.

  7. Re:CULL? on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    I agree. They will get rid of invaluable feedback like the pesty fly it is.

  8. Re:We can do this, people! on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    Well you need an alternative to fill the gap for the hardware base/user demographic. There isn't one. For the hardware base and user demographic.

  9. Re:They alienated a major sector before on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    Yes they do. Training major UI changes is expensive (time, energy, support, money). Also a lot of corporations have internal infrastructure they will not want to change willy nilly to accdomodate the weird little differences with every release and the bigger the corp the worse it is.

  10. Re:Win95 wasn't that bad on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    It was distributed on both floppies (a bunch of them) and CDs.

  11. Re:Cycles on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    Not true when staying with the new version of windows is MORE problematic than changing.

  12. Re:Where are the JRPGs? on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    Hard. Definately. It has been so long since I played that game (on a 1 year old 486x66) that I had forgotten about it.

  13. S.E.P. on After Legal Fight, NCI Researchers Publish Study Linking Diesel Exhaust, Cancer · · Score: 4, Insightful
  14. Re:Moon... dead? on Moon May Not Be As Dead As We Thought · · Score: 0

    Undead

  15. Re:corporate responsibility on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    They know it sucks. Talk to someone from there.

  16. Re:A Real Jedi on Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen · · Score: 1

    Obi Wan hid two light sabers (that we know of).

  17. Re:Picky on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The present culture is not synchronized to our biological realities. I am sure someone will try to fix it with synthetic pheremones when it becomes enough of a problem.

  18. Re:Giant virtual bar on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 1

    Well yes plus bars have the alcohol. No alcohol on dating sites -- just spam -- which is sobering.

  19. Re:Of course it is. on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    Plenty of anti religious sentiment out there from the religious side of things. Us vs them religious are all over the place.

  20. Re:There's still some hope. on Central Europe Countries Continue to Oppose ACTA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People haven't changed. When soldiers have to make the decision to shoot relatives (brothers, sisters, grandma, mom) many will reside with the population. That is when governments fall.

  21. Re:*Stomps foot* on RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Act · · Score: 1

    Nothing strange there. I think we all know who RIAA represents.

  22. Re:Hmm on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 1

    Facts are a terrible thing when they disagree.

  23. Re:Hardly unique. on Piratbyran Co-Founder Says Stop DDoSing Polish Sites · · Score: 1

    The rebels WERE a bunch of selfish thugs who just wanted to get out of paying taxes. What do you think the Boston Tea Party was? It was a bunch of colonists angry at the Tax rate on Tea. That is nothing new and no one tries to hide it or revise this aspect of history it even here in the US outside of toning down the presentation. The facts are there for anyone actually looking into it.

  24. Re:Mandatory G+ signup clarification on The Google+ Name Game Continues · · Score: 1

    tested this too and created a new account with complete garbage -- tailored so it would be accepted but it is still complete nonesense data. Also if you dont' want google+ then just leave the signup page. Your email account is already setup and available. Opt out of GP by leaving the GP signu page. Iti s that simple.

  25. Re:Google Inflating User Amount on The Google+ Name Game Continues · · Score: 1

    There is no forced here there is only a mind trap caused by the web users assumption that they have to click something. Attention to detail folks. At the top of the Google+ signup page they say something along the lines of 'congrats on your new gmail account, now how about a google+ account.' Point overlooked: _The gmail account creation process is done._ Your gmail account is setup and created. This is not some Windows Setup/Installation process where if you cancel a stop in a dialogue box the Setup fails. No. In this case just go to a different web page -- like say gmail.com -- and boom you are now in a new gmail account without google+. Its a web page. Its a mind trick. Now yes its underhanded that they did not put an obvious 'opt out' button on the page but there is nothing forcing you to create a google+ account when creating a gmail account outside the intertia of user interface psychology (albeit used in a very crappy way, tricking users into thinking they have to click a button when they can just ignore that signup page entirely).