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  1. weird building angles! on Using Google Earth to Find Ancient Cities · · Score: 1

    ok.. there is something weird about those satellite images, and I don't understand why. Some building s you see the North and East sides of the building, some you see the North and West sides. Then some you see the south side of the building, yet (according to the maps view) these walls are parallel to each other.

    I considered the possibility of two photos but I see no splice and the shadows are the same. I doubt there is anything wrong with the images, there just isn't something clicking on my brain...

  2. Re:In a perfect world on Gates Expresses Surprise Over IE8 Secrecy · · Score: 1

    I think you miss the point of the parable, and that is: the community is one window poorer. In terms of the web dev. community, it is X hours poorer because it spends time doing work around.

  3. Re:What?!? on What's Really Broken with Windows Update - Trust · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am an insensitive clod you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:What?!? on What's Really Broken with Windows Update - Trust · · Score: 1

    You can have the same functionality as winscp with konqueror or krusader in combination with fish:// or scp://. You can also use different protocols such as webdav:// or ftp:// to manage remote files.

    you can do more than just browse them like a file browser as well, KDE can also save to those different protocols, assuming they have write support.just yesterday I needed up upload an email attachment to a website, all I did was put the save location as ftp://path/to/save/ and it saved it there. can't get much easier than that. The whole KDE IO slaves are just so easy to use a caveman could do it!
  5. Re:Not a Gentoo user on Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux · · Score: 1

    Yeah eclipse is a pig on my laptop as well (Debian). I don't know how Ubuntu handles it, but Debian installs a version of eclipse compiled with GCJ by default. Seems backwards, but that version actually seems to run slower than the one that runs on top of the Sun Java VM. I switched to the vm package and it seems better. looks like the default for ubuntu is the same.

    http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/devel/eclipse
    but a solution(?) here:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378&hi ghlight=eclipse+gcj

    Thanks for the tip off about the GCJ version, I had no idea! Then again I was too lazy to look into it! (Which is part of the reason I switch to Ubuntu, cause I'm lazy)
  6. Re:Not a Gentoo user on Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux · · Score: 1

    For big packages like OpenOffice or Mozilla -- that's why the devs gave us the pre-compiled bins. We're not all crazy, you know. :)

    That's funny. Another guy said that Openoffice is where he notices the biggest difference :) I think the OP was referring to the installation time, and not performance. Mozilla was 1.5 hours and OO was >3 hours on my system at home. I just recently switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu, and there was one application in particular that I've noticed a huge speed decrease, and that's eclipse. On Gentoo in ran like melted butter, on Ubuntu it seams to regularly freeze and skip and hop and jump :) I haven't used it that much so so I figure there may be some caching issues or what not going on behind the scene. Which may be occurring from using the same home directory contents from my previous gentoo install.
  7. Re:ATI Linux on Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    900FPS? That sounds pretty low, perhaps the 3d acceleration is not working. Just because DRI is enabled doesn't mean the 3d drivers are working. with an nvidia 6600 GT I get more than 3000 fps (I don't remember the exact number, but it's very high) ~900FPS is what I'd get with out the 2d nvidia drivers(aka nv).

  8. Re:but can Zune become the new iPod? No. on iPod Owners Not As Loyal To Brand As Mac Owners · · Score: 1
    Yes, I would agree with you, my media player sells extra AC adapters in case you loose one, like I did. But why would MS say:

    quote: Zune AC Apadter
    Whether you're at home, at work, or away with friends, you can use the Zune AC Adapter to charge your Zune without hooking it up to a computer. With the AC Adapter, your Zune will be 90% charged after only two hours, and fully charged in about three hours.
    That makes me think that out of the box you can only charge with through the computer. Although the Zune specs say charging is 3 hours 90% @2 hours, so that would imply it includes the AC adapter, but the AC adapter implies you need to connect it to the computer to charge, arrrgg soo confusing!