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Comment Re:I thoroughly enjoy the Joomla (Score 1) 74

Joomla is great for the "my site looks identical to yours" group of rapid deployment. But when you want to do really fancy or different things (menu navigation in a 2X4 grid) suddenly it's a major pita. Plus converting a customers HTML site to a Joomla site is a raging pain in the butt.

I don't follow this at all. All a Joomla template is is an HTML page with a few PHP calls inserted to load content. It's really easy to convert HTML to a Joomla template. That's part of the development process for every Joomla website I do.

Comment Re:Still alive (Score 1) 763

Gas lacks the requisite heat to really sear a steak properly.

My gas grill gets to about 700 degrees fahrenheit. I believe that's plenty hot enough to sear.

PROTIP: Put a few sticks in your gas grill just before you put the steak on. Nothing beats that wood-smoke taste.

Comment Re:When the bank / IRS comes to take all my stuff? (Score 1) 409

Well, I've been trying to increase the revenue of my business since I started it, but despite my best efforts and quite a number of years working at it, my income remains about the same. Some of it has to do with the recession, but I can't blame it all on that. Part of it is that I'm chickenshit - I need to hire employees to handle some of my menial non-billable tasks, so I can get in more billable hours. I never have enough money to actually follow through with that, though. It's a chicken/egg sort of deal.

Comment Goodie! (Score 1) 178

Yay! You may take this with a grain of salt, since I'm a Pre owner, but I think that WebOS is the best UI when comparing it with Android and iPhoneOS. The "card" concept is excellent, and so beautifully implemented. iPhoneOS is pretty good, but the lack of multi-tasking is a deal killer for me. IMO, even the newest versions of Android look unpolished. I do wish I had access to more good apps in WebOS, though.

Comment Manipulate the data. (Score 1) 430

Not to be to 4chan-ish, but is anyone here a kid in Florida?

If so, figure out what IBM's criteria are, set youself up as an at-risk kid by doing some of those criteria, and then lead a normal law-abiding life.

If IBM's data and results turn out to be crap, nobody will want to use this service.

Comment Re:Fugly (Score 1) 494

I always hate those posts on car sites when a new electric car is introduced that say the thing is ugly. That's really not the point. It's supposed to be about the new energy technology. However, in this case, I have to agree with you. What is the point of the odd styling? That thing is hideous. Why didn't they just make it look like normal bike? What's with the women's-style frame? I'm pretty sure that the largest market for this kind of thing will be younger males.
Space

Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242

likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."

Comment By Europe, I presume you mean Italy... (Score 1) 920

Some of the worst pizza I've ever had was in Florence, Italy. Just terrible. Mostly raw, unseasoned ground beef as a topping. Probably the best pizza I've ever had was from Glass Nickel in Madison, WI. I live in New York, BTW, and there is a greater proportion of good pizza here than in most places I've been to.

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