You can measure plate motions with GPS, if you're patient. Most of the deep structure is worked out using seismic imaging.

USBDLM. 'nuff said. :)

Not in this case. From TFA:

SOL senators will ... only vote on Bills if a "clear majority view" is determined by at least 100,000 votes and a 70 percent majority view.

Maybe it was great as in large or immense? Did they use it in the pejorative sense...?

Umm... what? Why wouldn't it just be $1.00?

Seriously my iMac screen makes all the other monitors on my desk look like crap even if they look fine by themselves. It's especially noticeable when dragging a window from one to the other. Bigger and higher res is always appreciated but the biggest thing I notice is how bad the brightness and contrast of other monitors is even with the settings maxed out and the color profile customized.

I almost missed the best quote from Sony about this action. From http://www.ps3vault.com/list-of-sonys-greatest-quotes-in-the-past-1659

Of course a higher resolution helps you see them better, you don't use it to display more on the screen you use it to use more pixels to display the same amount on the screen.

If you used the same number of pixels for letters and so on, then yes a higher resolution would suck. But that would be an idiotic thing to do anyway so it doesn't matter.

You know what he meant really and he's quite right too. People could dick with these connections by putting a piece of paper infront of the transmitter or receiver. This just sounds like a uesless idea.

Bill Gates is a philanthropist? Puhleese! That man is merely trying to buy his way into heaven after all the evil he has done.

He has given away almost all his money, and the remainder of his life, to helping the extremely impoverished. Even then, you still condemn him? And you invent reasons about bad motives lurking behind his charity?

You (and those like you) don't really care about the poor or about social justice, despite your pretensions of social conscience. You hate Bill Gates because he's successful and that bothers you and your sense of envy. You would hate him if he gave away every penny. You would hate him even if he sacrificed his life. You would make up some story about how he was not really sincere when he sacrificed his life.

I'm glad I'm not the only one here that believes greed and avarice are not quality traits in any human being.

Nor is malice arising from envy.

I believe the point is that Google is making the news available in a fashion which satisfies 50% of the readers without ever having to go further. This pretty much means that Google, with their ads on their pages, is getting considerable revenue from the newspaper's content without giving the newspaper a chance to display an ad.

The clickthrough rate on the ads isn't significant - nobody is paying for ads based on clickthrough.

The causation here isn't significant either. The observation that the content is being snarfed up by Google and is satisfying 50% of the readers by itself is very important.

You can say that the content summed up by Google in their brief summary is good enough because of a general lacking in quality of the content behind the summary. But that is far more of an inference into the observation than is warranted.

Horseshit. My Belkin powered USB hub at home charges my iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G; my D-Link hub at work and two non-Apple car chargers do the same.

It's able to charge because it's a standard pinout. Go back to Best Buy or whatever it is you do that doesn't require you to know basic stuff like that. A real geek would be ashamed.

Perhaps you should educate yourself before spouting out a bunch of nonsense and insults, because you clearly don't know what you're talking about. The USB standard only allows for a device to draw a nominal amount of power unless the port tells the device it can draw more. Or in other words, a device can't just start charging because it sees 5V across the power pins if it wants to adhere to the specification. Now this presents a problem for a "dumb" charger, which was not considered when the standard was drawn up. The solution that many manufacturers use is to play various tricks with the unused pins in the charger, like put a resistor across them, so the device knows it's hooked up to the dumb charger and can draw more current. Of course, since this is not part of the standard, everyone does it differently, so you can't just pair up any old dumb charger with any old device and expect it to work. Especially when you have companies like Apple who realize that they can sell overpriced chargers this way.

The comma was indeed noted. I can also say with a 99.9% certainty that you are from Europe, and not a Cserve employee, given the project is in the 11K block. :) As for post AOL/WorldCom... I saw the stupidity on the wall more than 24 months before the acquisition/split, and have friends who are still working on both sides of that division, just as I have friends on both sides of the Avaya/Lucent split. But on the PPN... I have seen nobody mention what the underlying structure of the PPN is...

Now, back on the general thread... Generally, I would say that things like 'partyd00d420@foo' should not be considered. However, there are also just so many account names you can come up with on things like first initial and last name. So, then the question becomes how much can/do you deviate before you end up being considered as having a lame account ID? Here, I opted to go with my call-sign... is that lame? How about a name or nick-name which is not a typical spelling (in my case...Cinnion, which is the ancient welsh spelling for Kenyon)?

All-in-all..yes, it is a tricky matter. But at the same time, there is something to be said about getting 'tastefully creative' when you name is John Brown or Jane Smith (not the case here).