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• It's a good idea, but I wouldn't buy it from Microsoft
  From Microsoft I've seen nothing but crappy products, poor service, and a penchant for treating customers like garbage. Plus the fact that this will be another proprietary system intended to lock you into using Windows. No thank you.

  March 20, 2007

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• What would really be awesome...
  If Google were to stop indexing MySpace. I hate getting search results from this festering junk pile.

  March 20, 2007

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• Use your common sense
  "Sure - like millions of square miles of new and now-defrosted arable land up north..."
  
  Is this land arable? If you've been up North, you would question this. And how long is the growing season? Will this land really replace our existing prime farm land?
  
  "places like the Sahara Desert being replaced by jungle and farmland"
  
  That's not what is being predicted by current climate change models.
  
  "Fact is, any [i]honest[/i] scientist avoids speaking with certainties"
  
  Have you read the report? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change isn't speaking in certainties. It's speaking in probabilities.

  March 20, 2007

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• I agree with you except for...
  Acrobat and Flash.
  
  Acrobat is already obsolete with HTML 4.0. Can't imagine why we need a proprietary portable document format when we have HTML.
  
  And Flash is also an anachronism. There's no reason why it couldn't be replaced with Java authoring software, eliminating the need for a proprietary plug-in.

  March 19, 2007

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• That's right, stick your head in the sand.
  The fact of the matter is that humans have overpopulated the earth. Even a small climatic change can have devastating effects on the agriculture we all need in order to survive. Imagine if a severe drought struck the prime agriculture land in America's heartland, Europe, and Asia. Would the world end? No. Would billions of people die? Probably.

  March 19, 2007

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• We need another proprietary deployment technology...
  like we need a hole in the head. Can't we focus on improving Java and AJAX? Adobe is going to have a long road ahead to get people to install the runtime. And this is going to create a whole new set of security problems. In reply to: "Test flight for Adobe's Apollo"

  March 19, 2007

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• This story really highlights a failure on the part of Microsoft
  The only reason that web-based conferencing sites are popular is that NetMeeting isn't secure enough to meet the requirements of most corporate IT departments. What a waste to pay for a service like this when Windows already has a perfectly good tool built in.

  March 19, 2007

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• Yep, it's going to be a big scramble
  for the DBMS vendors to re-optimize for the new benchmark. I guess it's an improvement; personally I think it's a joke for an RDBMS benchmark to use simple queries and limited numbers of joins.

  March 19, 2007

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• That's not the only 'fraud' these sites promote...
  Are you also guilty of fraud if you:
  
  - claim to be 120 lbs when in fact you're 170?
  - claim to be 25 when you're 40?
  - claim to make $250K when you make $40K?
  - use someone else's picture in your profile?
  
  The FBI should start seriously investigating these profiles.

  March 19, 2007

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• Hey, I was unintentially boycotting them anyway
  I have better things to do with my time. Like watching grass grow or arguing with street people.

  March 19, 2007

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