tossaway1

0.016%, not 1.6%

> The backwards-compatibility is probably an institutional thing.

And the apparent routing of all bug reports and feature requests to /dev/null -- er, the recycling bin -- certainly seems to be an institutional thing. I have no doubt that thousands of their paying customers have complained about this to Microsoft over the years and it had to have been ridiculously simple to address.

Unemployment numbers in the US don't include students.

> The first is an actual prize for scientist works

This article is about the Nobel prize for literature.

Did you forget in the past 7 hours that already posted this to this thread...?

The article addresses this:

Of course, if you don’t have a DVD burner (remember, this was a while back — these days you’d use a USB drive), you’d have to get one from a friend who has one, a licensed refurbisher, or your manufacturer (for instance, Dell or Lenovo) for a fee.

What makes you say it's weird and different? Match.com lets you filter by ethnicity and faith...

Well, if it's being marketed to an English speaking audience, they will need to consider whether the name has negative connotations regardless of where it originated.

American companies have to be sensitive to this when expanding into new markets too.

> Couldn't they obtain a 7khz tone by mixing any two tones seperated by 7khz and applying a low-pass filter?

I don't understand this comment. Are you implying that a low-pass filter would shift the frequencies of part of the signal rather than (mostly) filtering some of the frequencies away...?

> Toys 'r' us is amazing for kids - but go back as an adult.

It kind of sounds like you're agreeing with the GP. Kids love mountains of cheap plastic crap so for them it can be exciting even if parents detest it...

Ambulances do a lot more than transport patients. It's already the case that you can usually get someone to the hospital faster than waiting for an ambulance. Typically if you're using an ambulance you're going to need someone to provide medical assistance on location and/or help load you onto a stretcher.

>I have consistently done better retail interesting on individual stock than my IRA well ever do

Your comment doesn't make sense to me. Don't IRAs allow for investing in individual stocks...?

> If natural light matters, shift society to do everything earlier!

Shift society so we can have the shortest shadows closer to noon than 1? No thanks. Depending on where you're located in your time zone, DST might actually put the shortest shadows closer to noon anyways.

I think opensourcenews was just pointing out that "is" (in the article title) is more absolutist than "can be".