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Comment Poor application of metrics - I want choice! (Score 1) 857

A regular business user might not use it. Home users the same (I use it less as a home user)

System Admins use it. I have way to many items to pin to the taskbar and it is hard to find stuff on the desktop.

Regular business + Home users probably account for 95% + of the audience so system admins and the rest are screwed?

It is not like most of us can just go and use another OS. *****What is the problem with offering choice?******

Comment Re:Call your union rep (Score 1) 365

A bit loose and fast with the numbers you be. If someone lived near police departments and fire departments they should. The point should be that those transmissions are also a concern.

Wi-fi transmit/receive hubs operation in the thousand watt range and are not required to be tested for spurious emissions or defected units by the manufacturer because they are marketed below the 1 Watt range. Once they are out there they are not tested either.

Spurious emissions could mean 20 watts being transmitted in close proximity to many people within the school. So there is room to be concerned for both.

Comment Usability -1 (Score 1) 862

People can be put in different groups when it comes to organizing because that is the way their brains work. Some people need to organize some things one way but other things another way.

The windows 7 menu is better for me >90% of the time....but the other 10% is a real pain. For others it might be better 60% of the time.....

Some of the people will be please all the time. Some will be pleased some of the time. Some will be pleased less.

It sucks that MS did not recognize the bigger picture.

Comment Re:Massachusetts laws are fucked up (Score 1) 662

Negatory good buddy, FTA:
“Even a cursory review of the law would show that the Legislature took the time to insert a preamble into the statute showing that it is specifically aimed at organized crime prosecutions,”

So, no he will not win easily......he likely will not even win.

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Comment dropping quality is noticed (Score 1) 271

My local The Toronto Star's quality has gone down hill. I do think it has to do with a lack of funds.....how else would they end up with such low quality people? I mostly read it online now and maybe it is just the online quality that is really bad:

-Bad or no fact checking (yes, worse than slashdot)
-Stories/reports being changed significantly but no statement saying they were changed.
-Lame stories (man in california /thinks says he got of speeding ticket because of his GPS evidence contrary to judges statement...wtf???)
-purposely misleading and erroneous article headlines/titles

I can imagine the stuff people will get away with because there are no reporters to hide from when this new form of quality becomes more popular.

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Comment AOE: shrewd move (Score 1) 275

good business sense.
Starcraft sequel comes out and Microsoft rides the (free) wave again hoping to snap up some RTS players new and those that get a bit tired of Starcraft.

AOE was a good game had a lot of potential for tweaking left; I wish they polished it up more. I'll still buy/play it.

Comment Was he the father of built in obsolensence? (Score 1) 298

"Twain had a cunning plan to beat the early 20th century copyright law with its short copyright terms. Twain planned to republish every one of his works the moment it went out of copyright with one-third more content, hoping that availability of such 'premium' version will make prints based on the out-of-copyright version less desirable on the market."

Where is the wrath of the slashdot crowd?
Microsoft and a few other companies likely have secret shrines honouring him. The man was a scoundrel or just doing right the capatalism way.....I am don't know what to say, I might do the same thing if I could.

Comment be brave at the end and let the living live! (Score 1) 651

The 2/3rds of the bill being spent for 2 months of life is too much.
Yes, it is about the money. money=time money=food "money can"= quality of life I am talking about the ones that will continue to live.
Money does not matter directly but it does matter. The money resource could be used for other important things.

The man had several years to prepare for death and get his affairs in order; he had a responsibility to prepare. If he had the choice I would hope he would suck it up and move on; we all die, it is a part of life. And yes, ultimately the dying ones decision....I hope my relatives are brave at the end. I intend to be prepared and brave.

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Comment Re:It's all about the tech (Score 1) 368

Yes, lets send up jammer signals that cover the entire continent or EMP the entire sky. lets pull out the missles an put them in every city.
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The expense of the imaginary "safe, unbreakable, unhackable, wireless, remote control interface" isn't an issue; a plain old remote control signal will do thank you.

As for autonomous GPS devices....Say good-bye to accurate GPS.

The image/GPS based autonomous devices.....yep were screwed.

Comment it is an error catching routine (Score 3, Insightful) 750

Yes. Toyota's mechnical fix may not be the actual fix and the root issue may be a software based one.

The software update is a failsafe, think of it as an error catching routine. All programs can benefit from error catching routines, problem is that programmers don't have enough time to program for every error possibility. Toyota has taken the time to add one to their cars.

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