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  1. Re:University on IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India · · Score: 1

    How can each student make a presentation if there are 300 students in a class, or even 30? This begins to take on the excitement of a sales presentation.

  2. Re:About time. on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 1

    I thought he said "tourist". That explains a lot.

  3. Re:A Short History of Nearly Everything on Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books · · Score: 1

    If you get a chance, pick up the Audible version where Bryson reads his book.

  4. Jacques Cousteau on Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books · · Score: 1

    Jacques Cousteau had a great series of books that more or less paralleled his TV series in the 60' and 70's.

  5. What happened to AI on Whatever Happened To AI? · · Score: 1

    The movie sucked and killed any enthusiasm.

  6. Re:So it's not... on Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success · · Score: 1

    Nobody likes a poor thief.

  7. Re:You will be missed bill on Bill Gates's Last Speech · · Score: 1

    Nobody likes a poor thief.

  8. Re:The best part about the TRS-80 Model 100... on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nearly every main frame at the time had a terminal description for it. It was the most widely used device for reporters. They would write their stories and dial the home office using a phone coupler that attached to the phone mouth piece and download the story. They could be used as terminals for Tandy's TRS80 model 2 Xenix systems. One thing it did not handle was leap year. I had an Otis elevator engineer call up on leap day to tell me he used them to start and log the error codes for elevator controllers. It couldn't log for this day because it wasn't able to handle leap day. I told him to call me back the next day.

  9. Re:Well... on Hiding Packets in VoIP Chat · · Score: 1

    Dell learned something from having an ex-NSA Director and Deputy CIA Director on their Board of Directors.

  10. Re:Jews on Dell Found Guilty of Fraud, False Advertising · · Score: 1

    Being a prick has nothing to do with religion.

  11. Or as a VP of Sales once said. on Dell Found Guilty of Fraud, False Advertising · · Score: 1

    We are no worse than anyone else.

  12. Has Obama been selected on McCain vs. Obama on Tech Issues · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought the Dems haven't selected a candidate yet.

  13. Re:Thermaldynamics? on Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about PV is that it can be distributed and a lot can be generated right where it is used so you don't need a distribution system.

  14. Re:The prefect blueprint? on Mozilla Dev Team On Firefox's Success · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should see someone about that cough.

  15. Re:So long DELL? on HP Seals the Deal, Buys EDS For $14B · · Score: 1

    Michael's just dressing up the pig so he can sell it.

  16. Re:Prefer the Pile of Cat Poo or Pile of Dog Poo? on Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Screw Card.

  17. cgh4be meet Life... on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 1

    Life meet cgh4be.

  18. Re:Great, on NASA To Develop Small Satellites · · Score: 1

    Will they be using Live mesh?

  19. Wait on Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sun has an OpenSolaris?

  20. Re:WishList on 3G iPhone Going Into Production In May · · Score: 1

    Add A heart rate monitor add on and you have a killer trainer.

  21. Re:Unknown value? on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    In an appropriately curved universe pi could be 3.

  22. Re:WTF? on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The West has been buying Russian plutonium from old weapons and from surplus stockpiles under the idea that it's better to use it as fuel in a power plant than in a weapon.

  23. Re:Uncertainty on Supercomputer Adds Credence to Standard Model · · Score: 1

    Heisenberg? Are you sure?

  24. Re:Why Microsoft REALLY wants Yahoo on Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Nobody likes a poor thief.

  25. I've been on both sides on Ethics In IT · · Score: 1

    I was ethical once and lost my job. I was unethical the next time and retired at 47.