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Comment Re:Cognitive dissonance (Score 1) 1205

Actually these two positions make good sense, and they are not directly related in the way you have implied:
  1. If Israel is indeed our ally, he has certainly not been tough enough with Iran.
  2. The quote from Mr. Chu (who officially represents the Obama administration on matters of energy), along with the administration's vetoing of the Canada-US pipeline (which would help reduce our dependency on countries like Iran), are but two very good examples why Obama *should* bear at least some of the blame for the record-high prices for winter this year.

Comment Epic fail (Score 1) 2254

Can't use it on my iPhone 3GS - in order to get the text big enough to be readable, most of it goes offscreen, so I have to continually scroll way back and forth to read it. I *think* the "Small Screen" setting in Options could potentially help, but there is no "Save" button to apply my changes when I select it. Very disappointing.

Comment Falls way short of the Tron standard IMHO (Score 1) 429

Ok, I'm way late to the party here, but feel the need to share. I am one of those who saw the original in theaters and loved it, and have watched it several times through the years. I went to see Legacy and pretty muchly hated it. Yes, it had awesome special effects (for the most part), and was a sleek-looking movie. Setting the effects and eye-candy aside, there are several weaknesses that undermine its relationship to the first movie. Tron had a unique plot, Legacy has a Matrix-meets-Lawnmower Man plot. Tron had (mostly) likable good guys, I had to work at liking everybody except Alan. Quorra was nice to look at, but didn't really add anything at all. Tron had some great bad guys - you just love to hate Sark and the MCP. While the concept of Clu being a bad guy is great, the execution sucked due to the limited emotional range of Jeff Bridge's artificial face. And you never get to see Tron's face at all. Even Darth Vader has a facelike mask. Legacy is a dark, joyless movie, with some attempts at sly humor; whereas Tron had a great sense of honest humor (remember Bit?). Tron had a some great spiritual undertones, with the good guys being persecuted for believing in their Users/Creators (even tho the bad guys knew they existed too), and a Christlike sacrifice by Flynn. Legacy has more of a Zen thing going on, the yin-yang being Clu and The Dude. There is so much more - blood in the computer world, the annoyingness of Zuse, etc. etc. etc., but I think you get how disappointed I am with Legacy compared to Tron. My $.02.

Comment Here's how it works (Score 2, Insightful) 285

The customer hammers on the IT department to cut costs, so the IT dept. consolidates their servers, ostensibly to reduce support overhead. However, some opportunity costs of consolidation (more security & controls requirements, lengthy endorsement/approval process, etc.) make it an onerous process to put servers into the datacenter, so then local "server rooms" start springing up again, especially for testing & development. Plus there are some things (security video, etc.) that you need to have local to each site, so total consolidation is a worthless cause IMHO.

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