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  1. What a relief... on Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now Boeing can finally pin the blame for all the delays on another company again.

  2. Re:HF is the only communications safety net on Mixed Conclusions About Powerline Networking vs. Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    "completely reliable" Gee man, I designed and built HF radios for about 10 years. Completely reliable HF sure isn't, but it is a nice toy to play with...

  3. Your code is useless to anyone else on Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    Your code is useless to anyone else. The only person who believes in its value is you. That is why you are unable to administer your own systems. So relax and enjoy it...

  4. Robot App Store == Sourceforge? on A Standardized OS For Robots · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This guy wants to see a Robot App Store. Nothing wrong with SourceForge for your favourite GNUbot Apps...

  5. Re:OpenOffice legendary? on Best Free Open Source Software For Windows · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, I fought with MS Office 2007 today and lost the battle. I had to complete the task with OpenOffice. The document reached a size where things started to screw up at random: Paragraph numbers disappear, the table of contents screws up, the bullets menu becomes greyed out so I cannot apply bullets to a list (but doing them one at a time by typing an asterisk worked). Gawddammit.

    So people who keep saying that MS Office is better than OpenOffice are probably only working on one page memos. In my experience MS Office 2007 is a bug ridden POS and OOo is quite a bit better - not perfect either, but much better - especially with large documents.

  6. Re:Word is the IDE of writers on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never heard of WordStar have you? or WordPerfect, or...

  7. City states on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are places in the world that are literally just a single city, with nowhere else to go: Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong, Monaco, Windhoek and many little islands. Those could make good use of these type of cars.

  8. Re:Holy shit. on UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV · · Score: 1

    No under class before the 1940s? Try the 1840s... You are forgetting that the UK used to export its 'surplus population' to its colonies. It even emptied its jails for the benefit of one colony in particular.

  9. Export clunkers from Mexico on "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    I hear that the export market for clunkers from Mexico is picking up nicely...

  10. Cadsoft Eagle on Cheap, Cross-Platform Electronic Circuit Simulation Software? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Eagle is pretty good: http://www.cadsoftusa.com/

  11. Re:When we speak of free software... on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    He can post the code somewhere else - on his own web site for example. Complying with the GPL is easy. Subverting the GPL is difficult. ;)

  12. When we speak of free software... on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    To quote the GPL: When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. and: For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that you received. So, it seems that the developer never read the GPL.

  13. Cow friendly butter FS? on A Short History of Btrfs · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, just keep meat products out of it so that it can be used in the Middle East without causing a religious problem and needs to be shut down once a week... ;)

  14. System 73? on Amazon US Refunds Windows License Fee, Too · · Score: 1

    Geez, instead of running around, let your fingers do the walking and use Google to find a notebook with Linux pre-install or God forbid, no OS. It really isn't hard to get.

  15. Re:bad for US companies on Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The end game is in full swing. Many US factories have relocated to China and elsewhere years ago and the US Dollar keeps devaluing. Pretty soon, Indian and Chinese high tech companies will outsource their support call centres to the USA.

  16. What a waste on Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What a terrible waste of time and resources to study Windows flaws on a Linux super computer.

  17. That would be quite some ballot box on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 1

    Supporting Internet Explorer on Linux would result in a rather complex ballot box application I would think...

  18. I don't like Opera on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and I suspect that there are many other people out there that don't or won't like Opera either.

    I have tried it a number of times, but it feels clunky compared to Firefox and it really doesn't work any better. Adobe Flash makes Opera hang just the same as Firefox.

  19. Cursive can be downright dangerous on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    I am twice that age and I have almost never used cursive hand writing since leaving high school. If I have to write by hand, I use block letters. The advantage is that most people can actually read it.

    Cursive can be deadly. Doctor's prescriptions were frequently misinterpreted. Computers solved that problem.

  20. Re:In most likeliness on Laser Ignition May Replace the Spark Plug · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, the hydrogen storage and delivery problem has been licked long ago. If you combine hydrogen with carbon and form long chain molecules, it becomes a liquid at normal atmospheric pressure and temperature. This allows it to burn efficiently in modern vehicles without any modifications required...

  21. The gods are slugging it out on Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter · · Score: 1

    The gods are fighting each other again. My money is on the God of Heaven and Earth, Jupiter. He'll win as usual and be none the worse for wear.

  22. Always been there - no-one looked on Noctilucent Clouds Spread and Mystify · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    These clouds have always been there, but no-one bothered to look at them since they don't affect rainfall. In Calgary, the nighttime sky is almost always white at night - city lights bouncing off these high altitude clouds.

  23. Re:Vinland...FInland on Danish Expert Declares Vinland Map Genuine · · Score: 0

    Of course, it means the same thing: Vin, Fin, Found.

    Therefore: New-Found-Land.

  24. Oracle is First Linux Company on S&P500 on Red Hat Is Now Part of the S&P 500 · · Score: 1

    Oracle has a Linux distribution that is remarkably similar to Redhat's and they have been on the S&P500 for a while.

  25. Re:Fuck 'Em, And Their Law on UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Even worse, the law passed and George Bush wasn't president of the United Kingdom? Preposterous!?