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Comment Re:Doesn't surprise me. (Score 1) 328

Good luck with that. I just had my first IT job as contractor (was even lucky to find something) for 5 months and I was lucky to make $400 a week. Now I'm searching again and the IT job market is still bad.
But what can someone with a 4.0 GPA Master degree and CCNA certification expect?

Comment Re:Robotic cars may be the answer (Score 1) 601

We are already on a good way to robotic cars. We already got cars that can park themselves, we got cars that can read street signs (to tell the driver the current speed limit), we got cars that can stay in the lane and keep a distance from the car ahead.
We just need a car that puts all those features into one car instead of just a few cars having one of those features.

Comment Re:Merit Pay (Score 1) 1038

According to salary.com do public school teachers make 50K on average. That doesn't sound bad. I also heard from another teacher complaining how little she made but later learned that she was also in the 50K range.
In my opinion do public school teachers make too much money already for what they offer.

Comment Re:But is this really bad for publishers? (Score 1) 242

Does anyone have real evidence that the used game industry really harms developers?

I don't have real evidence but common sense. Every used item "harms" the creator of it because the creator of the used item doesn't make money on the resell. The creator only cares about the amount of new items sold and reduced used items will cause more new items being sold (not the same amount as used copies sold before). Software also doesn't get bad over time so that you can get the same quality as the new item.
You could argue that prices will get lower for new items if no resell is possible but like with digital distribution it doesn't happen because most companies are not non-profit.

Comment Re:HULU != Live (Score 1) 175

Hulu has sometimes live streams. For example, the Presidential Inauguration was live on hulu. Technically it is already possible for them but cable companies wouldn't like it and probably force them not to offer it like they did with cutting of Boxee since it made Internet TV on the television too easy.

Comment Re:Call their parents (Score 1) 1246

1. They don't have the right to take away the property of the student.
2. I would just never go to detention and taking property away would cause a fast law-suit if it happens more than once.

By the way, how can you ban a student from the school property for a week? Don't students have the right of a public education in the USA? (I know in Germany they have the right of education)

I had my own problems as student when I was around middle school age in Germany because I didn't participate in a Ethics class where the grade didn't count for anything in Berlin (but I was quiet in the back of class) and my sister had her problems in middle school and high school in the USA.

Schools should never be allowed to take your rights away even if most try to do it.

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 265

Don't private trackers already use different infohash for each user to track the stats of the users?
This would mean that looking at the infohash will only work for public trackers (which are slow most of the time anyways) and to get around that you would only need to use Tor for communication to the public tracker which is already supported by a few bittorrent clients.

Comment Re:Slow OS, Slow Graphics, Slow CPU (Score 1) 842

You might be surprised how little power you need to run multiple applications. RAM is probably the bigger requirement than CPU or GPU power.
For example, I run Hamachi, Pidgin, Mozy, Steam, Firefox (5 tabs), OO.org Writer and some other smaller stuff without problems on my Atom based laptop with only 1GB of RAM while using only ~10% of the CPU.
Even my mother on her 512MB RAM and AMD Geode CPU PC runs sometimes 4 applications.

Just think about how many applications you were running 5 years ago or even 10 years ago.

Comment Re:Do I pay twice (Score 1) 355

No, you pay once for the service to view the content on your TV and another time to view the content on your PC.
It's like when you buy a movie on DVD, you will have to buy the movie again to watch in HD using blu-ray, than you pay again to watch the movie on your Ipod. You get different content even if it looks the same.

Btw, you should sent at least an email to Comcast so they can explain to you why should pay twice for content that looks the same. I just sent an email too AT&T since they are also paying for this BS.

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