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  1. Re:Amazing what happens when you're asleep on Sleep Mailing · · Score: 1

    Check out this brand new study on Irvingia:

    http://www.lef.org/LEFCMS/aspx/PrintVersionMagic.aspx?CmsID=116132

    You'll be able to continue eating normally while shedding pounds. It's slow to get the process going, so I would recommend trying it for 2 - 3 months at a minimum to see if it works for you.

  2. Re:Soon to be worthless on How a Rogue Geologist Discovered Diamonds · · Score: 1

    I once found myself in a conversation with several of her college girlfriends and their husbands about designer purses. (sorry, "handbags")

    The word you're looking for is "bags".

    No one says "purses" or "handbags" anymore. It's like saying "stewardess" when you mean "flight attendant" or "apothecary" when you mean "drugstore".

  3. Re:The real beginning of Vista on Vista SP1 Coming In Q1 2008 · · Score: 1

    Quite frankly, I will be amazed if SP1 actually helps at all. I've had Vista installed on my (admittedly oldish) laptop since about February, and every update only seems to make things worse. I particularly hate whatever patch caused Vista to turn off the freaking file names in Explorer whenever it feels like it.

    Explorer sucks.

    Use Directory Opus instead.

    Shit, if Microsoft was run by anyone with half a brain they would've bought them out a long time ago.

  4. Re:"Ignore" sellers? on Students Embarrass eBay With Firefox Add-On · · Score: 1

    Actually, all my negative feedback has been from sellers that I left either neutral or negative feedback. I have perfect feedback from my buyers (at least one hundred transactions).

    In fact, I haven't had a single negative feedback in 5 years despite hundreds of transactions. Yet, my overall feedback is under 99% because my account was created in 1999 and leaving neutrals and negatives in the early days wasn't such a big deal. Ebay/Paypal broke the system when they demanded a stupidly high 98% in order to qualify for Paypal protection. They might as well have set it to 100%, because that's what everyone will be demanding soon. I've dealt with sellers with 1000+ feedback, all 100%. I assure you, you're definitely not getting a clear picture of their reputation. These days leaving a negative is like dropping nukes and you're assured of getting a negative in return. There's no point in leaving anything but positive feedback. That's how you get sellers with 100% feedback over thousands of transactions (such things don't happen in the real world). The feedback system at this point fails to measure anything.

    Places like Amazon.com for instance work better. Sellers can have feedback as low as 90% or 85%, but still manage to continue doing brisk business. In fact, I regularly buy from them with no problems.

  5. Re:99% cutoff = paranoid on Students Embarrass eBay With Firefox Add-On · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, I think you meant to post this in response to Spazmania, especially since you quoted him, not me.

    But, yeah, I definitely agree with you.

  6. Re:"Ignore" sellers? on Students Embarrass eBay With Firefox Add-On · · Score: 4, Interesting

    98.2% positive feedback? What's wrong with that? You do realize that that's less than 4 negatives for 200 transactions? It's so easy to end up with retaliatory negatives from sellers when you use your account for both buying and selling.

    Don't be a chickenshit. And for fuck's sake don't leave negative retaliatory feedback when I give you a neutral. The ebay feedback system is so broken that people like you think a single negative and fifty positives is a complete disaster. It definitely needs more granularity.

  7. Re:Read something about this in Discover on Treating the Dead · · Score: 1

    It's in the May 2007 issue, page 42 "Suspended Animation". It's not on the discover website yet, it looks like.

    The article mentions someone in Japan spending 24 days unconscious on a frigid mountain. When they found him he had no pulse or respiration and his body temperature was 71 degrees Fahrenheit.

    He made a full recovery with no brain damage.

  8. Re:Self fulfilling prophecy on Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google · · Score: 1

    My wife does this too. I can't really understand it, but she's got Google as her homepage and even if she *knows* the address of a site, she will type the name into Google and then click the link that comes up rather than just typing it into her address bar and hitting control-enter. I have even seen her mistakenly search for Google on Google, just out of force of habit.

    There are probably a lot of people who operate this way, using Google as a combination semi-automatic portal/search, whereas we mostly think of it as just search. They're typing things in not because they need to search for them, but because they just rely on Google to serve them up links that they can click.

    In a way, I guess this is more like real, hardcore old-school web browsing - the first browsers didn't even have an address bar, everything was done through hyperlinks. (That's the whole point of the web.)


    I reckon some people do it because they're bad spellers or slow typers. It's pretty annoying making a typo with a long domain, waiting a couple seconds only to get a blank page (or worse), finding the typo and then correcting it. Much easier to make the typo in Google because it will no doubt correct it for you.

    Some sites only exist as .org's or .net's (theinquirer.net is one example.) We're so used to always typing in ".com" that's it's pretty easy to make that mistake for a site that you're not familiar with or haven't visited in a while. If I mention an interesting article to a coworker that he might want to read at theinquirer.net and he's never heard of them before, chances are excellent that he'll instinctively type in theinquirer.com and get a junk page full of ads.

    Sometimes the address of a company isn't what you think it will be. Nissan.com is obviously the address of Nissan the car maker, right? Wrong. Their address is actually NissanUSA.com. Much easier to just type in Nissan into google and let it figure it out for you what Nissan's address is.

    These are my observations. All those things eventually happen to everyone and slowly we just learn that it's much less of a hassle to let Google handle things for us.

  9. Re:This is sad ... on Hans Reiser to Sell Company · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...The judge's instructions were very clear.)

    Please don't forget that a judge's instructions are worthless and that you as a member of the jury have all the power and the final say. You have the power to decide whether a law is just or unjust and are free to ignore it and do as you wish. Anything that comes out of the judge's mouth means diddly-squat. What the law says means diddly-squat. You create the law if you're on a jury.

    Google for "jury nullification" if you want more info.

  10. Re:WOW! But is it ready for the enterprise? on 3 Terabytes, 80 Watts · · Score: 1
    ...more devices per controller (14 per cable, rather than 2 of IDE/SATA),


    SATA is only 1 device per controller, not 2.