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Comment Re:Adobe Creative Suite on Ubuntu (Score 2) 319

Expanding on this question
Have you considered actually trying to make money of reselling closed source apps ?
Personally, I would pay the same price I pay for Windows+Office Bundle for a linux distribution which can run a full version of excel with macros (too many apps I use have Excel Plugins). For the above user, it seems Adobe Creative suite is what is the barrier.
I always wondered why you would go with Unity and Search advertising when the easier path would have been to just resell MS Office / Adobe / Gaming software for Linux through the Ubuntu software center ?

Comment Re:What a Load of Bullcrap! (Score 1) 1199

As an ex-smoker, what works for me is walking.
I used to stand at a spot or drink tea/coffee with other smokers while smoking. I rarely walked while smoking.
So now I walk when I have to take a break (5 mins same time as a cigarette, approx. half mile or so) and eat a very sweet candy (or nicotine lozenges) whenever I feel like smoking. Also, since you said you quit recently, remember that it mostly gets easier as you go along. Except at around 3 months, when you really hit a rough spot. Only thing that got me through was the lozenges. By that point the connection of hand-to-mouth action is gone, but the nicotine craving is not.

Comment Re:Who buys automobiles based on nationality? (Score 1) 141

It is funny that both of your American cars were not American at all. The Pontiac Firefly was originally a Suzuki (cultus or something). Chevy Aveo is a Daewoo Kalos.
The Aveo was never meant to be a US Spec car, it worked OK in Asia where it is used over smaller distances and the weather is OK. Nevertheless, it was one of the cars that put Daewoo out of business.

Comment Re:Amazing (Score 2) 178

It depends.For many papers, this is how I have seen it progress
1) Go to a conference and present a topic.
2) Publish a larger set of results including the above as a PhD/Job Market /Masters paper.
3) Condense the paper and publish in a journal.
4) Take the ideas and condense it further and publish in an industry journal
5) Make it into a 1 page and add pictures to publish in a trade journal or to use in marketing products.

Comment Re:How are they doing it? (Score 2) 276

I believe the visa in question is the B1/B2 visa. The visa is issued as B1, B2 or B1/B2. If it is B1 alone, it is a tourist visa. B2 is a business visa. B1/B2 includes both, but i believe you have to declare at the port of entry what the purpose of the travel is.
B2 is not a tourist visa, but allows a visitor to negotiate contracts etc.(do business, not necessarily work) while in US and being on a foreign payroll. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_visa#Uses_of_a_B1.2FB2_visa

Comment Re:Get Over It Already (Score 2) 178

I think of it as a progression.
Before 90s New York Times and the Post were the only sources of real news. They had actual reporters on the field. They were playing the role of both news aggregators (like Reuters/AP) and a paper (with the paper version). Local newspapers then added local content to Times/Reuters/AP news and printed it .
Then after internet, their paper business shrunk while their online version did not catch up enough. So NYTimes became a paper with a lot of reporters on the field, but with not enough ads sold to pay for them. The local newspapers got killed because everyone figured out that you could get 90% of the news on the NY times website for free and the remaining regional coverage on local radio/TV.
Now NYTimes is making the online version expensive. This should really have helped the local newspapers, but they are all dead and people did not grow up subscribing to local newspapers and will not start anymore.
You can still get news from AP or Reuters online for free and without any of the editorial biases (real or perceived) of the Times. East Coasters can still get a slightly biased coverage from Bloomberg (and Bloomberg Businessweek).
The people who missed out are indeed the midwesterners -they lost their local papers while times won't serve them anymore at zero cost.

Comment Re:The people will be the ones who suffer (Score 1) 667

B does not seem to apply very well.
India was under Persian rule for a long time. Now it is no longer Persian or Muslim, but secular (Hindu majority). Similarly, Afghanistan was taken over by Russia after a long Muslim-secular rule. Spain for a period was Islamic.
Even extremists in Iran does not seem to claim to wipe either of these countries out.
I think this is more related to local geo-political stresses and considering some people bad neighbors than an attempt at world conquest (Dar alHarb -as you call it)

Comment Re:Not breaking any laws (Score 5, Informative) 502

It is not foolish science. There are two differences that I see.
1) Black body radiation cannot be turned on or off at will at constant temperature. What these guys have figured out is a way to turn it on or off using electric power.
2) Since it is an LED it emits a specific frequency range of (visible) light. Black body radiation emits all frequencies, but peaks at a frequency dependent on the temperature. I doubt the materials used would have any noticeable amount of visible light at 135C. These guys have managed to somehow convert all these varying frequencies into the natural frequency of the LED at 135C.

Comment Re:Right Tune...wrong lyrics... (Score 1) 277

The article talks about a first and a second sleep in the night - The interruption actually happens after sundown.
It may have been common in Europe, but was unheard of in India/China afaik. In most warm places, night is the time when snakes get out. It is also the time when wild animals roam about. Not the time to wake up and wander about.
On the other hand most of these places wake up early and then have siesta after lunch, which is still the case today in Southern Europe/Latin America.

Comment Re:I blame Denver Internation Airport ... (Score 1) 139

Parse error?
I had no problems with that sentence as it stands- It was well formed grammatically as far as I saw it. I split it as the following.
Denver uses unencrypted wifi - hence data can be accessed. Denver offers free Wifi - so many are likely to use it and this makes capture of data especially probable.
I do not see how that sentence implies that all free networks are unencrypted.

Comment Re:Because everyone needs a gullwing suv (Score 1) 306

Gull wing doors take less width than standard hinged doors, because the pivot point is near the centre-line of the vehicle.
Not exactly true.
If you are in a regular car and need to open the door in a tight space, you can partially open the door and squeeze through. In a Gullwing (or Falcon wing as some are calling this one), if you partially open the door you cannot get out. Probably relevant in crowded parking lots, like in a school lot in the morning. The sliding doors in Japanese small cars were made to specifically address this problem.
Funny thing is that the original Gullwing from Mercedes had a gullwing because it had too high door sills (because the race car they based it on had the load bearing members at waist height running through the car) and they simply fixed it by opening the door upwards. In this case, the big advantage of an electric car is that there is no transmission or any sort of connection between the front and rear axles (it has two engines), but still there is a door that opens up.

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