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  1. Re:Waitaminnit on Dell's Marketshare Decline Due to Intel? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are missing the point.

    "The likely reason for slowed growth is that PCs are lasting longer.".

    This is valid point but it affects overall PC market not only one brand. The article states following:

    .... growing more slowly than the overall PC market...

  2. Re:Perhaps page numbers... on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 1

    This might be a dumb question but....

    Do you really need to use word processor when writing books? I mean you are producing content and probably do not care about layout at this point. When you have finished writing you can run it through ispell and correct spelling mistakes. This way spelling mistakes and other unimportant things do not get in a way of your creativity....

  3. Re:maybe... on Halloween Solar Storm Nearing Heliopause · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering a bit about how venus lost its water. If i remember correctly venus gravity field is comparable to earths but yet venus also lost its water due to lack of magnetic field. So what is protecting earth from loosing its water during shifting of poles?

  4. Re:Changing Service, moving etc. on Are PDAs Simply Finished? · · Score: 2, Informative

    > Most phones are locked to one service provider

    This seems to vary from country to country. Anyway all phones can be unlocked pretty easily at your local phone dealer. Some can even be unlocked with the help of the codes that can be downloaded from the Internet.


    > So you may have to transfer your data to a new phone, and that is not a simple process.

    There are software packages that will allow you to do complete backup (settings/messages/phone book) of your phone. Offcourse your phone needs to be able to communicate with your computer in some way (bluetooth/ir/cable).

  5. Re:Latin Serbian!?!?! on KDE 3.2.1 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nah you are the one that is wrong :)

    It is latin serbian. Once long time ago (before 1991) there was a language called Serbo-Croatian. It was one of three official languages (beside slovenian and macedonian) in Yugoslavia. When Yugoslavia vanished in 1991 so did the serbo-croatian. In Croatian it is croatian, in Serbia it is serbian, in Bosnia it is bosnian. It could be argued that all these languages are still one same language but as people prefer to have "seperate" languages they should be allowed to do so. Differences are not that great but generally differences are following: prefered way of writing:

    Bosnia: latin
    Croatia: latin
    Serbia: cyrillic

    (note that you can write serbian in latin if you want and croatian and bosnian in cyrillic if you want)


    amount of foreign words (notably of turkish origin) in serbia and bosnia are much greater than in croatia. thus neighbour would be spellt as.
    Bosnia:komsija
    Croatia: susjed
    Serbia: komsija

    susjed is proper word of south slavic origin. (note that there are people in serbia that say susjed, but majority use komsija. and vice versa for croatia)


    other big difference is that people in croatia and bosnia use so called "ijekavski" dialect while people in serbia use "ekavski" dialect. Difference is that some 1000-2000 words in serbia are spellt and pronounced with only e while in croatia and bosnia they are spellt with ije. Kinda like color and colour in american and brittish english. Example:

    English: flower | milk
    Bosnia: cvijet | mlijeko
    Croatia: cvijet | mlijeko
    Serbia: cvet | mleko
    (note there is even third dialect that is spoken in some part of croatia which is called "ikavski". where cvijet would be pronounced and spellt as "cvit" and milk as "mliko")


    Third difference is heavy use of h in bosnia.

    English: rotten | coffe
    Bosnian: truhlo | kahva
    Croatian: trulo | kava
    Serbian: trulo | kafa



    There are other small differences but they are too small to be mentioned here. Thus it should be called latin Serbian, if you use all words and spellings that people in serbia usually use but spell it with latin.....

  6. question on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    I'm probably missing something but there is one thing i dont understand. you say "When scientists look at the way that galaxies move through space, they see that many of them move a great deal faster (about a factor of 10) than theory predicts. Assuming that current theory is correct, the most likely explanation of these observations is that there is a great deal more matter in the universe than we can currently detect."

    shouldn't more matter imply greater gravity which would slow movement?

  7. Re:From a moroccan who has resided 4 years in Spai on Spain, Morocco To Build Undersea Rail Tunnels · · Score: 1

    so spain wont return ceuta and melilla to morocco because its "full of spanish culture" but spain wants gib. back from england...

    talk about double standards...

  8. Re:Stupid Quote on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 1

    if they expanded their oil infrastructure they would be pumping even more oil that would lead to even lower prices....

  9. Re:Mail.app spam improvements? How about real fixe on Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Leaked · · Score: 1

    will qt under osX give you "normal" osX look or will apps look like they look under kde?

  10. Re:european IM situation on AOL Bridges AIM and ICQ · · Score: 1

    i never ever met someone in europe using aim. i would say that 85-90% of ppl use icq and rest uses msn.

    here in sweden its virtually 98%-99% using icq. i think its going to be impossible for msn to get any marketshare because if you are using official msn client you cant reach any icq users and thus you dont have any use of your instant messaging....

  11. Re:Well... on CDMA vs. GSM in Post-war Iraq · · Score: 1

    you are wrong, GSM is not french standard, its joint european standard. After first generation of mobile systems where basicaly every european country had its own system, europeans realized that they needed mobile system that will work over borders so in 1982 the Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs (CEPT) formed a study group called the Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM) to study and develop a pan-European public land mobile system. usually when it comes to posts/telecoms french language is used (it doesnt mean that its french system) also sony-ericsson only manufactures terminals (cell phones) they dont manufacture stations, its ericsson that manufactures these.

  12. Re:What About Amazon? on An IMDb for Books · · Score: 0, Redundant

    actually amazon owns imdb.com ...... if you click on buy this film you are going to be forwarded to amazon.com ......

  13. Re:But... on The t68i Replacement is Here · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well just buy any java enabled phone out on market and download irc client.... it might be wise to buy java phone with gprs as without gprs your phone bill will probably ruin you.....

  14. Re:Wow. on New Ultra-Mobile Smartphone Neonode N1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    forgot to mention that orange in uk & denmark and probably more countries where they exist have cell released under their name which is if i remember correctly manufactured by spv. it runs mobile phone version of microsoft pocket pc. during some tests in one newspapper it froze.... offcourse this is probably going to happen even in more advanced phones by ericsson, nokia and other big phone manufacturers as (usually)

    more advanced phone == more software == more bugs

  15. Re:Wow. on New Ultra-Mobile Smartphone Neonode N1 · · Score: 2

    it was sendo, they claimed that microsoft didn't want to open enough their code nor did they provide good enough support. they are going to be using symbian now like most of the other mobile phone manufacturers (ericsson, nokia, siemens.....)

  16. SMS over GPRS on Taxing Text Messages? · · Score: 2

    well price of sms is probably going to drop down soon. now that mms is introduced in most countries (at least here in europe) its going to bring down the price of sms. also most new telephones support something called "sms over gprs" where you basicaly send your sms over gprs network. as gprs is very cheap here it would bring down price of single sms by more than 75%.

    today standard sms price in sweden: 1,50 skr (around 0.15$)
    if sent over gprs network: 0,20 skr (0.02 $)

    main problem here is that none of current operators here support that function (i dont blame them, it costs them something like 0,01 skr to send sms and they take 1,50skr for each sms)....

  17. Re:In the US you are taxed for phone text messages on Taxing Text Messages? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    there is never guarentee of delivery.... thats how sms works...

    here in sweden they did some kind of tests where they sent out something like 10 000 sms messages from different places with each of 3 operators that have gsm networks here. the worst operator (comviq) delivered something like 98% of all sms while the other 2 (telia & vodafone) delived almost 100% of all sms messages.
    most sms messages where delivered in something like 15seconds but sometimes it could take up to 2-3 minutes.

  18. Re:Give me speed first! on Opera, Microsoft, and the Mobile Browser Market · · Score: 2

    well here in sweden its not that expensive, i use gprs sometimes to get mail and i'm paying something like 0.01$ / kb. i usually get headers and then if i want to read mail i get rest of the mail.

    friend of mine used gprs when he was in tunisia and he was paying something like 1$ / kb. so price of gprs varies greatly depending in which country you are....

  19. Re:Can't test a nuke in space on Stopping Killer Asteroids · · Score: 3, Insightful

    main problem with sending nuclear waste and nukes with rockets up to space is that rockets may explode on their way up and then half of the globe would be contaminated.

    thats the real reason that we are still storing our nuclear waste on earth when it would be much better to launch it into the orbit. its same thing with weapons. think about the rage among other countries it would provoke if usa sent nukes/waste into the orbit and rocket exploded on its way up and contaminated most of the earth surface...

  20. Re:Just what we need on Incredible Images of the Sun · · Score: 2

    i hope this is a joke heh. how can you travel to sun "at night"? night exists because of earth rotation. when you are traveling to sun its "day" all the time..... then sun is gas giant there is no surface, density increases all the time but there is no surface as on earth....

  21. Re:good place to start on Folding@Home Reports Success · · Score: 2

    heh, if you cared to go to that page that i sent link to you would see that ud project is listed :)

  22. good place to start on Folding@Home Reports Success · · Score: 3, Informative

    if you are intressted in distributed computing, good page to start with is http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/. there is info on every existing distributed computing project (both upcomming and existing), lots of articles on distributed computing and even links to books on distributed computing.

  23. Re:thanks on Symbian Signs on Samsung · · Score: 1

    i have 2 samsung cells and i am quite happy with them but there is one thing that sucks - battery time. my ericsson cell have 11 days of standby time, samsung gives me only 3 days :(

  24. Re:5th Series ! Memory Error on Enterprise Season Premiere Tonight · · Score: 1

    Sometimes after TAS, they decided (roddenbery i think) that TAS shouldnt be made part of star trek universe, dont remember exactly why but it was inconsistent in some way with TOS/TNG

  25. Re:PS/2? on Carmack Expounds on Doom III · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    i heard that it will be available for ps2 but gfx wont be as good as on pc/xbox because ps2 isnt powerful enough