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Re:Peer-to-Peer, personal web platform: Tonido on Sunday March 29, 2009 @02:55PM (#537641)
You mention a business strategy, so presumably you intend Tonido to be a business. How do you plan to make money?
Re:Researchers say mankind is to blame for The Little Ice Age, too on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @05:33PM (#415984)
The claim that "mankind" was responsible for the Little Age ignores the fact that one particular man, George Bush, was responsible. Now you know.
Re:The nicest math book I own on Monday December 22, 2008 @06:49PM (#407025)
Another beautiful math book is Visual Complex Analysis, http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complex-Analysis-Tristan-Needha... Too many modern math texts are utterly alegebraic. VCA embraces geometry to great effect.
Re:Why can't we divide by zero? on Sunday September 28, 2008 @08:30PM (#317947)
Suppose 5/0 = infinity. What does it buy you?

At the very least, one would expect that 5/0 = infinity implies that 5 = 0 * infinity, but that is not the case. And if you insist that it is, does 4/0 = infinity then imply that 4 = 0 * infinity, and hence 4 = 5?

Re:Study: The Pill Causes Women to Like Different Men on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @09:31PM (#275710)
Beer causes me to like different women.

Who actually owns your DVD player?

Posted by eipiman on Monday July 21, 2008 @12:18PM
from the self-post dept.

A few days ago I became extremely annoyed while starting up the Shrek II DVD for my daughter, who is autistic and cannot operate the DVD player by herself. Some genius had decided that the owner of that particular DVD has no right to skip the previews.At first I was mad at the makers of the DVD itself. Not only must I endure the usual and pointless anti-piracy threats, but now I can't even...

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