Comment: Re:do it mozilla. (Score 0) 284
hadn't posted since "...by airrage on Friday July 28 2006, @11:52AM." so just thought I would log back in and say hello. I shall now go back to my experiments. Good day to you sir!!
Experiment Shows Not Washing Jeans for 15 Months is Disgusting But Safe 258
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from the thank-you-science dept.
from the thank-you-science dept.
dbune writes "Young people who argue with their parents over wearing the same pair of smelly jeans can now cite the work of a 20-year old University of Alberta student who wore the same jeans for 15 months straight. From the article: 'Josh Le wore the same pair of jeans to break in the raw denim, so it would wrap the contours of his body, leaving distinct wear lines. He had his textile professor test the jeans for bacteria before washing them for the first time.
The results showed high counts of five different kinds of bacteria, but nothing in the range of being considered a health hazard."
Comment: Re:Ah yes, memories from the 80s... (Score 1) 177
Sex in a canoe? PBR, fucking close to water that's all it is.
Rogue Dead Guy, now that is a beer.
Comment: Re:Fly-by-wireless-link for the win! (Score 1, Insightful) 522
An honest observation labeled a flame. Karma be damned I'll add to it. Here is another similar comparison, the cowards in Afghanistan hide in caves, but never forget that the brave people that serve at NORAD are in a mountain, not a cave.
Comment: Re:I think... (Score 1) 113
But you were trying to argue that "search" isn't a market, and that Google has thousands of competitors since thousands of people sell advertising. The point is that only a handful of people sell sponsored links in their searches; it is a distinct market.
I neither "tried" nor "argued" anything. I very successfully stated that "search" isn't a "product".
When was the last time you bought a search from Google? Answer, you never have. What version of Google search are you using? You have no idea. What is a product is the people who are searching. Just like billboard companies don't sell the billboards, they sell the number of eyes that will see the billboard. The search engine is just the carnival hawker getting people to come visit. Search is an effective way of generating traffic, so is a map service, free email hosting and free blogs. As long as it gets butts in pews as the saying goes.
Make no mistake, "search" isn't the product, and that is a fact.
Comment: Re:I think... (Score 1) 113
Hmm, so what you are saying is that they sell advertisement, interesting. I never thought of it that way.
Comment: Re:I think... (Score 2, Insightful) 113
They have plenty of competition, there are thousands of companies that sell advertisement. "Search" isn't a product, in exactly the same way that TV shows aren't products, the commercial slots between and during shows are. You view of reality is skewed.
Comment: Re:Tape (Score 3, Informative) 941
Even simpler, onboard mics turn off if an external mic is connected. Just take an old pair of headphones, cut the 1/8 plug off of them and stick it into the mic jack. Easily removable too.
Comment: Re:Logistics? (Score 1) 941
I doubt they intended to watch kids regularly...even "problem" kids. But perhaps if the kid was playing hooky then they might have thought it'd be okay to turn it on, find where they are and inform the parents.
The naivety of this statement is absolutely mind blowing.
Comment: Re:US Law (Score 1) 234
A list of interesting names is not a fact in that it is formed by the creative selection of names by a person or group of people.
As soon as you created the list, it's a fact.
Close, but wrong.
As soon as you created the list, it's a fact that you created a list. The list of facts doesn't suddenly become a fact in and of itself.
Comment: Re:Oh, it's more sinister than that... (Score 1) 214
I think you meant July 4th, 1776.
Comment: Re:Large? (Score 1) 532
gtkdiff works pretty well for me.
Comment: Re:It's not "PDF stuff" (Score 1) 614
This might help with the CMYK stuff in GIMP, Separate+. I'm not a printer so I don't know for sure if this is the complete solution you're looking for though.
Comment: Re:Inaccurate? (Score 1) 354
In wine, having an app that was intended for an entirely different operating system actually work just blows my mind. i would never think to complain to the wine team that "x program won't work"
Complaining that "x program" doesn't work yesterday, is why wine works today. The difference between complaining in the F/OSS world and complaining in the windows world:
Complaining in the World of Windows = getting at best a rebate on your next purchase, and it's STILL buggy and broken until the next realease.
Complaining in the F/OSS world = getting the problem FIXED.
Comment: Re:The Cold War Called ... (Score 1) 600
Um, Given that Putin was the leader *for the other side* during the past eight years, I took it to be a cheap shot at Putin. You're the one that brought US politics up. Enough already, stop whipping the dead horse.