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• At a bar recently, I ran into this really "attractive" guy who'd I'd met once before, and invited him to play pool with my friends, and have a drink. So I buy him a beer, and the first thing is he starts totally ordering me around as my pool partner, even though I'm very good at pool. Then he starts smack-talking my friend to me. Then, at the end of the game, he just wanders away, doesn't even thank us for the game, thank me for the beer, or say bye to us. Yeah, what an "attractive" guy... In reply to: "Social network nixes users who 'let themselves go'"

  January 4, 2010

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• I brought my RealD glasses to the theatre but they said they wouldn't work for the IMAX version; the ones we had to use were heavy and incredibly uncomfortable, especially for such a long movie. (Memo to studios: 3D movies CANNOT be more than 2h absolute tops -- it is too strain inducing.)
  
  I want it to become a public spec so I can buy my own that are comfortable.

  December 28, 2009

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• Oracle and Sun are AMERICAN companies! It is outrageous to me that the American government permits other governments to attempt to assert what American companies can and cannot do. It is bad enough that large corporation have to go begging to even one government for permission (permission!) to merge or takeover other companies, but it is beyond the pale that they have to get a unanimous consensus of many governments. In reply to: "Oracle pledges to play well with MySQL"

  December 14, 2009

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• It was a lame-ass idea all along. First, they touted it being x86 based, but that is totally irrelevant! Nobody programs in assembly anymore, so they have to provide a C-based software platform. Second, It was a solution with no problem -- dedicated graphics chips are better than the Larrabee approach, and until GPU computing becomes very prevalent and there is a "killer app" for it, then you need the primary market first, and only take the secondary market as gravy. In reply to: "Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled"

  December 4, 2009

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• Environmentalism is a religion every bit as much as Christianity or Islam. The fundamentalists of this sect already know "the truth" and simply fish around in every way they can to try to provide support, including hijacking science to give themselves the appearance of rational validity. But then look at how nuts like Creationists and Homeopaths also try to hijack legitimate-seeming science to support their nonsense.
  
  But never mind any of this... the one political-economic system that has finally enabled man to overcome the harsh vagaries of severe weather events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, etc. is Capitalism -- even if man is affecting the climate, it is small potatoes in light of the millennia of human misery, suffering, and death from pre-capitalist, pre-industrial lack of resilience to weather events. Turning the world into a neo-Marxist Environmentalist statist/collectivist authoritarian dystopia will not help. In reply to: "Science untarnished by 'Climategate,' U.N. says"

  November 27, 2009

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• Dude... your prose is so annoying that I'm not even going to bother reading your blog posts any more. It isn't funny, it is just annoying and heavy to slog through to try to figure out what you mean. In reply to: "Sarah Palin-signed Xbox on eBay for $1.1 million"

  November 6, 2009

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• Thin edge of a trial balloon (to mix metaphors.)
  
  Step 1. Establish precedent of forcing ISPs to block some isolated specific "bad" content.
  Step 2. Expand the measure to force blocking of a much broader list of "bad" (but still objectively bad.)
  Step 3. Add all manner of liberal nonsense, such as "hate speech" etc. -- all manners of legitimate speech -- watch Conservatives jump on the bandwagon when liberals let them ban all their favorite taboos as well. In reply to: "Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites"

  November 4, 2009

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• The rebates are nothing more than Intel selling to Dell at a lower price than invoiced. And if they had merely invoiced at that lower price, then Intel would have been charged with "predatory pricing" or "dumping" or similar measures.
  
  All these antitrust laws violate the rights of both sellers and buyers. It is time for the business community to start acting like human beings and stand up for their rights to produce and trade without interference. In reply to: "N.Y. lawsuit details Intel's 'largesse' toward Dell"

  November 4, 2009

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• I was going to upgrade my XP media pc to Win 7 64 Pro, but had the same problem as everyone else. I did manage to get the DVD burned per 3rd party instructions, but was also worried maybe the tool I'd been told to use was some hacker thing. Then, in the end, I said to hell with it -- all that nonsense was doubtless just the beginning.
  
  MS has become fat and lazy and immensely lame. Just think: Parallels offers a scheme to suck a physical XP install into one of their VMs, so why couldn't MS do the same and actually make that XP feature useful? My dream would have been to easily download an .iso (or at least a digital distro that didn't fail with errors), then have it suck my current physical XP into its XP VM and replace the physical with an outer Win 7 64 -- that would have been awesome! In reply to: "Students find problems with Windows 7 upgrade"

  October 26, 2009

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• Underwhelming. They are missing the boat on pricing on laptops -- now that MacBook legacy design is so mature and costs must be low, they should have lowered to $799. And no new quad core option in the MacBook Pros???
  
  Sad to say, but I won't be refreshing my 3+ year old MacBook with a new one -- they just haven't delivered a compelling new model. In reply to: "Apple redesigns iMac and 13-inch MacBook, revamps Mac Mini"

  October 20, 2009

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