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  1. Re:it will be disaster on Activision/Vivendi Merger Looms, Fallout Continues · · Score: 1

    Pay attention to the link. It's easily confused with this one. This little guy is much happier though.

  2. RTFA on Is Google Making Us Stupid? · · Score: 1

    preferring instead to process byte-sized information quickly, regurgitate 140-character "tweets," and skim thought? Is the concern overblown or are we becoming the Web that we created?
    Dunno, I didn't readn't the article. :P
  3. Re:DRM - Free on Radiohead Changes Tack, Joins iTunes · · Score: 1

    Well at least I know you're not Scott Tenorman.

  4. Re:DRM - Free on Radiohead Changes Tack, Joins iTunes · · Score: 0

    May I be the first to say "No Surprises" hmm?

  5. Re:No, I'm New Here on Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, -1 Funny. You've invented anti-funny which I think that can trigger outbursts of straight-faced ness. That's quite an achievement.

  6. Re:Hmm on Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Y instead of W.

  7. Re:Don't all search engines do this? on Music Industry Tells Advertisers to Boycott "Pirate" Baidu · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point of the joke.

  8. Re:Understandable on UK Local Councils Spy On Emails and Calls · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course they want sound. It makes being a peeping tom council worker so much more entertaining:

  9. Re:cool. on Music Industry Tells Advertisers to Boycott "Pirate" Baidu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The music industry works completely differently in China and everyone knows it. Especially the musicians. They know the only way to make money is through sponsored live performances and product endorsements. No-one expects anyone to pay for recorded music because it's completely impossible to stop piracy.

    Yes, yes. Don't feed the trolls. But if the article is a troll in itself, why not?

  10. Re:Don't all search engines do this? on Music Industry Tells Advertisers to Boycott "Pirate" Baidu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except of course that it's Prince.

  11. Re:Does the President have to know about this stuf on How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be? · · Score: 1

    However it is, let's hope his specialists are of the "Blue Genie" variety instead of the "Grand Vizer" variety.

  12. How Long? on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure x86 processors will still be in use for another 15 years at least. But, how much further will this architecture evolve? When will we see the demise of x86?

  13. Re:Dupe! on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1

    You're right. The first one usually doesn't contain posts about dupes.

  14. Re:I... on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's fine. I just don't want to see it mating with my toaster.

  15. Re:Good ridance on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think watching movies and games that have an age limit a good few years higher than you would is a rite of passage for any kid. My childhood wouldn't have been the same without sneakily watching films like Die Hard, Aliens, Predator and Terminator 2 with my friends.

    Lets not forget that Doom was certificate 15 here in the UK. The films I mentioned about were certificate 18, except T2 which was 15.

  16. Re:fp on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    First you must perform a rectoscopy.

  17. Re:Hate to say this but... on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 1

    National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA)
    I'm the poster explained the acronym. My Foreign Language Acronym Prediction Algorithm (FLWSP) would have missed this one.
  18. Re:Obfuscation on Kurzweil on the Future · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to the summary you do it every day with everyone you meet!

  19. Re:New Name on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    It's how we say it in Scotland.

  20. Re:...but Hillary still won't leave. on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    Is that because they're both really good candidates or is that people are equally indifferent?

  21. Re:Internal Resistance on New Superconductor Found "Immune To Magnetism" · · Score: 1

    I work with Kelvin all the time
    That's quite a privilege!
  22. Re:Well on Brian Aker On the Future of Databases · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, come on. Even Ned Flanders says damn. :)

  23. Re:How about artfully Gameplay-entwined stories? on Games Need More Artfully Story-Entwined Gameplay · · Score: 5, Funny

    but alas, I unloaded in the middle of the street.
    This usually ruins most dates.
  24. Re:Simpsons already did it. on Google to Offer Real-Time Stock Quotes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem is, this is only open and close prices. If you want to write algoritms that run on actual tick data (what realtime algos are actually useful for), you have no way to back-test it without collecting your own data first.

    My job involves persisting tick data from a Reuters feed for large investment company and the amount of data we collect every day for 16 exchanges in Europe is huge. Something like 25Gb (growing exponentially) and that's being selective about which stocks to capture.

  25. Re:Microsoft on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 1

    This is my understanding too and I like it that way. Microsoft hates it because there are too many steps before step 5 and they don't understand step 4. :)