Comment Re:More like an option (Score 1) 436
Pre-Mac OS X did have such an option, although IT didn't cover parental settings. That problem was not as much in the picture back then.
Comment Remember Alfred Nobel? (Score 1) 75
Alfred Nobel 'Price' was killed while using his own invention (dynamite). So you would be the first. Harry Potter is a fiction, remember?
Comment But did he order them? (Score 1) 220
Makes you wonder why there's a R&D in the middle of Nowhere
Comment Try this too (Score 1) 1067
While you're at it, test how porn proof it is. Hand it over to anyone that happens to be around and ask him/her to find any sexual explicit content.
Comment Re:Freedom from porn. (Score 1) 1067
Great cultural and sexual combined joke 'B)
Comment Why always from Europe to Azia? (Score 1) 133
It strikes me that such enterprises always start in Western Europe and end in the Far East. Anybody have an idea why it's not the other way around?
Comment Re:Impossible to test (Score 1) 499
What he means is that it just isn't realistic that only Toyotas have such problems. After Toyota made it public, suddenly other brand dared to do the same..
Comment Germans are not the problem (Score 1) 37
If you think Germans are a pain, wait until you share a ski resort with a group of East-Europeans. Seriously, ask anybody who's been to Austria.
Comment Word (Score 1) 1
After have worked for a decade or more with double monitor setups, I bought a 30' monitor (3008WFP) and never looked back.
Comment Word or words? (Score 1) 2
I'll never get how (for example) 'Web 2.0' can be a word: it's a combination of multiple words.
Submission + - n00b fails to become English's 1,000,000th Word 2
Caity writes: According to The Global Language Monitor, Web 2.0 became the 1,000,000th word to enter the English language at 10:22 on June 10th 2009 (GMT). n00b came in at 999,998.
Officially, in order to enter the official lexicon, a word requires a minimum of 25,000 citations with a certain breadth of geographic distribution. Citation sources include the blogosphere and Twitter.
Officially, in order to enter the official lexicon, a word requires a minimum of 25,000 citations with a certain breadth of geographic distribution. Citation sources include the blogosphere and Twitter.
Comment Re:Not-so-green phone (Score 1) 246
Sure, but you'd still need 16600 devices to use it to get 1 Watt of energy in place, of the 1000000 Watts you spend..
That's ridiculous, even if you don't give a hoot about the environment.
Comment Not-so-green phone (Score 1) 246
[...] 6 microwatts from a 1.0-megawatt TV antenna [...]
Wow, how's that for an environmentally unfriendly record?
Comment Expensive toys (Score 1) 148
How many iPhone owners will give it to their 2-year old to play with, do you think?
