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Comment It's a slippery slope (Score 1) 434

First you pay to skip commercials.
Then they add "premium" commercials that still get through. They charge whoever wants to air such commercials extra money, of course.
Then they introduce an option to skip these "premium" commercials, again for additional money.
Then you pay for that option and the situation repeats...

This happens in other industries, so why not here, right?

Comment Re:New Campaign! Stop cretinous fools! (Score 1) 447

Predicting the past is easy. As is evident from the Climategate and other materials, the creators of the models were spending most of their time tuning the models specifically to match past records. Needless to say, such retrofitting does not in any way make these models useful for predicting the future, which is what we actually need.

Comment Re:Typical MS forcing their customers to be slaves (Score 2, Informative) 315

You do not see this sort of API stability from almost any other vendor. API that worked in Windows 95 still works, more or less.

Solaris has always done great in this regard. Sun in fact has maintained binary compatibility up to Solaris 10, the current production release. It's even a guarantee.

Comment Beautiful? Not really, No. (Score 1) 259

His Beaming is terrible; his augmentation dots are on the barline; his slurs are too thick; his accidentals too small. His note spacing sdoesn't look too hot either.

Donald Byrd, the leading exponent of notational algorithms, has shown that fully automated music notation is not possible without human-level artificial intelligence.

....still, I applaud his efforts as an early start.

Comment Re:Climate Scientists, NAS, and Al Gore (Score 1) 1046

You are missing my point. So many here use the excuse to not listen to someone *regardless* if its not towing the AGW party line. I know plenty of National Academy of Science folks that don't tow the line, and if it was them claiming the sky is not failing. Many, if not most, would use the excuse they are not climatologists.

Big waves washing over cites like some high budget hollow flick is "mostly right". Perhaps you should read the peer reviewed stuff, where the scientists are required to back sweeping statements like "unprecedented" change. You get a different picture entirely, and they in fact don't use such language since the data doesn't really support it.

Previously it was asserted that "big oil" was the money behind the skeptics/deniers whatever. But hay the billions in carbon credits? Na Al Gore should be totally trusted.

Comment Re:The Internet is not going to end (Score 2, Insightful) 139

Euh... their are more then 13 routes, their are 13 addresses (prefixes) but their are many, many more routes, most of those 13 prefixes are announced in many places it's called anycast and their aren't just 13 servers either. Every one of them is a cluster of machines and as many use anycast their are multiple clusters per 'root nameserver'.

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