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Comment Re:PSA (Score 0, Troll) 484

Irregardless is a word irregardless of what you may think now. Since irregardelss of the absence of use of the word irregardless in the past, if enough people use the term irregardless enough times and in enough contexts, irregardless of the proper use, I'm sure it will find its place in the dictionaries in the future irregardless of the fact that it is a very presumtious word.
Disclaimer: IANANES (I Am Not A Native English Speaker).

When it comes to the filesystems: ext3, slow on Windows, but works (I think, I don't use windows, so I must confess I haven't tried it), ntfs, a bit slow in Linux, but works (I have tried it), you don't use the kernel driver, but the FUSE ntfs-3g driver. File system driver in kernel or user space, you don't want to care.

Comment Re:porn? (Score 1) 467

I'm not saying it makes sense. And I'm not saying they don't lose most of the time, and that their playing isn't irrational, and believe me, there has been tales of woe.
But I know people who has won big several times, each time more than they'll ever spend. Winning like that one time should happen just once every 1000 years. And I know, winning twice should then happen every 2000 years, so that's almost the same degree of impossible. But I would still call it some quite concentrated luck.

In that light, I see the best strategy of winning when gambling is to bet as little as possible where the possibility of the biggest win is. Since the only way of winning is to have luck, and if you have it you'll win with little effor, and if you don't have luck, you'll lose a lot, even though you sometimes win a little.

Comment Re:porn? (Score 1) 467

There is one and only one way of winning in gamling. Luck.
Don't laugh. I know lucky people, and I'm not one of them.
The people I know have gambled a lot their whole life, with quite a profit. Not horse racing or anything where guessing is possible. If you know your math, you'll know that's very very improbalble without luck. Plain luck.

On topic:
I wouldn't hire you if I knew you considered taking the job but refrained to do it because you thought it might hurt your chances of getting other jobs. That is a very questionable moral and hypocritical. Please choose what you want to do with your life based on your own moral judgement.

Input Devices

Submission + - Eee Keyboard Details Released (engadget.com)

ScuttleMonkey writes: "Details on the new Eee keyboard previously held secret during the FCC filing, have now been made available. You can now take a look at the innards and a full spec sheet detailing exactly what is being promised. "Beneath the 5-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touch panel (with stylus) we'll be getting Windows XP Home running on an Intel Atom N270, 945GSE / ICH7-M chipset with Broadcom AV-VD905 video decoder, 1GB of DDR2 memory, either 16GB or 32GB of flash storage, 4-hour battery, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, HDMI and VGA outputs, integrated stereo speakers and mic, 3x USB, headphone and mic jacks, and external WiFi / UWB antenna. The Eee Keyboard's on-board Ultra-Wideband (UWB) throws 720p content to your TV within a 5-meter range (10-meters for non-video transmissions) via a UWB receiver packing 2x USB ports, another mini-USB port, audio out, and HDMI.""
Transportation

Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit 384

Hugh Pickens writes: "The New Scientist reports that with a hat tip to Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon , physicist John Hunter has outlined the design of a gigantic gun that could slash the cost of putting cargo into orbit. At the Space Investment Summit in Boston last week, Hunter described the design for a 1.1-kilometer-long gun that he says could launch 450-kilogram payloads at 6 kilometers per second. A small rocket engine would then boost the projectile into low-Earth orbit. The gun would cost $500 million to build, says Hunter, but individual launch costs would be lower than current methods. 'We think it's at least a factor of 10 cheaper than anything else,' Hunter says. The gun is based on the SHARP (Super High Altitude Research Project) light gas gun Hunter helped to build in the 1990s while at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. With a barrel 47 meters long, it used compressed hydrogen gas to fire projectiles weighing a few kilograms at speeds of up to 3 kilometers per second."

Comment This qestion will soon be redundant (Score 1) 175

I'm quite sure, when people realise that digital content is free as air, and anyone trying to make a business out of charging for making personal copies of or sharing music, video, whatever that doesn't cost anything to reproduce, are either stupid or evil. Artificially limiting the spread of cultural expression is huge obstacle to public creativity, and laws that encourage such absurdities will only be abided in countries with totalitarian governments. This will all be old news in, lets say, five years.
Then, when this is realised, you will not stream or download, you will have a lot of music on your phone, and when you miss something you will stream it from your own home server, or from wherever else. There might even be live feeds you like to pay to listen to live, or listen to it later for free.

Comment Re:Even Stranger...... (Score 1) 964

There are many more asian people in Poland than black people. I heard that many years ago Poland had a kind of common poitical platform with a large asian country.
Still, this stupid mistake doesn't say that Microsoft is racist, or their marketing department, but it says that they think the people in Poland are. I don't think that's a better message to send.

Comment Ahh, now I know how to make a lot of money... (Score 1) 526

I just decide that the breath I exhale should be my property, and therefore anyone using it after me should pay as much as I decide it's worth. There's just one catch.. First I must become the most powerful nation on earth, so I can force all other nations to see the fairness in this rule.
I'm sure the only reason Britain hasn't yet asked for royalties on the world wide use of the English language, is that they're not the most powerful nation.
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Asking people to pay for something that is free to reproduce is something that will only work in a totalitarian regime. Go and find better business models, that's the only solution for the future.

Comment It just doesn't make sense (Score 2, Insightful) 211

They are artists, creative people. They should be in the forefront of the development of human culture. Then they base their business model on certain technological limitations. That is bad in the first place, but then, when the limitations are overcome, they try to force the limitations back, just so they won't have to adapt to a new reality. That's not very artistic. With that kind of attitude, I'm not sure I want their stuff, for free or not. Then again, I hope very few actual artists think in this way. I guess it is the industry people, who are very rich and conservative, and want to stay rich and conservative.

Comment Re:Quantum Mechanics (Score 1) 137

So go ahead and credit God if you want to. I won't tell you that you're explanation is necessarily wrong. Just please don't do so in a scientific context.

I agree with you. But there is sad tendency for people who regard themselves as not religious or spiritual, who might have very little or a lot of scientific knowledge, to disregard ideas that don't lend themselves to scientific investigation as untrue or stupid. If an idea is unscientific, science can't say anything about the validity of the thought, and nothing about whether it's interesting or not. My opinion is that it isn't useless to wonder about the things we can never know. Science might some day find all the answers about the world which lies within its scope, every possible theory that can be tested empirically might some day have been proved or disproved, to great advancement of our comfort and self esteem. But we will still have great questions we can ask, and even more answers to them that makes our imaginations tremble. We will still wonder about our existence, we will speculate about what is right and wrong, and we will pretend to know which is which, and go to war on those convictions, caring little about if it is scientific or not. We might be right and we might be wrong.

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