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  1. Re:Wiping Microsoft wipes the extension on MS Issued a Fix For Its Unwanted FireFox Extension · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Somehow I don't believe that you're a longtime MS app developer and this was enough to move you to Linux.

  2. Who bicapitalizes Firefox? on MS Issued a Fix For Its Unwanted FireFox Extension · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seriously? And why?

  3. Re:Works for posting to Slashdot :) on Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know, there are these things called "bookmarks". It's a lot smarter to use those instead of keeping open more tabs than you can use at once. You can even bookmark a group of tabs!

  4. Re:Wha...? on Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds · · Score: 1

    Seems to me your dummy code could just respond to anything from OSX with "success", if all that OSX wants is some kind of response and not something particular.

  5. Re:Not quite on Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also the famous Norden Bombsight, the most accurate in the world at the time, was an analog computer.

  6. Re:Books on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Also some of the ISOs from here: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

    There's a fair bit of duplication between the ISO images, so maybe you could extract the individual book HTML directories and dump them right onto the USB stick.

  7. Re:It's still experimental on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1

    +1 for properly spelling "sneak peek".

  8. Re:Nice to have a Sec of Energy actually Read the on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I think it has something to do with our work schedules and how comparatively little time we get off. Most mechanics shops are open from about 8am to about 5pm local, which is also when a large number of us are working ourselves. We Americans are lucky to get two weeks' vacation per year, and a lot of places don't let you have that much.

    That accounts for bad timing on the engine, at least (and other ailments requiring a mechanic to fix), but not for the tires.

  9. Re:Nice to have a Sec of Energy actually Read the on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Also I think I would have been suspicious of the science of this if the Bush Admin had come up with it, considering how shamelessly they manipulated science to match political ideology.

    I did find myself agreeing with them on things perhaps four times that I can remember, so they weren't 100% nitwits, just approaching it.

  10. Re:isn't it time for on SATA 3.0 Release Paves the Way To 6Gb/sec Devices · · Score: 1

    The problem with the parallel approach is the difficulty in ensuring parallel signals get to their destinations at the same time.

    Maybe in the future we'll figure out how to take today's high signaling rates and parallelize them, but the engineering choices made right now are for good reasons.

  11. Re:Nice to have a Sec of Energy actually Read the on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    How much water they use if you're in an arid area, and as the other poster noted idiots tend to place taller species of tree near power lines.

    I like trees too, but they're not suitable everywhere.

  12. Re:Nice to have a Sec of Energy actually Read the on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm socially liberal and despise the GOP, and my response to Bush proposing something like this would have been pure dumbfounded shock.

    You just didn't get good sensical ideas like this out of his administration.

  13. Re:White asphalt? on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Also, prescription sunglasses for those of us with off-spec eyes.

  14. Re:Page 1: Find the programming language in Window on Epic's Sweeney On the PC Shareware Revolution · · Score: 1

    Windows /does/ have a built-in programming language. It's based on Visual Basic and the file extension is .vbs. I think at one time (and it may still) it supported Jscript, which was Microsoft's version of Javascript.

  15. Re:shareware on Epic's Sweeney On the PC Shareware Revolution · · Score: 1

    Yeah. In '93 my computer had 4 megabytes of RAM in a single 72-pin SIMM. To upgrade to 8MB with another such SIMM would have cost $200, and I think that price was pretty steady until about '95.

    Switching in a DX2-50 Overdrive CPU upgrade was IIRC about $150 to $180, and upgrading to a 420MB (from 106MB with Stacker 4) hard drive was about $200 or maybe more -- at that time the most expensive hard drives available were 2GB and they went for almost $2000.

  16. Re:Epic Rocks on Epic's Sweeney On the PC Shareware Revolution · · Score: 1

    Hayes-compatible modem init command to make it dial faster, wasn't it? I usually set mine to 50, though.

  17. Re:I'm a bit skeptical... on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    Would diesel-like glow plugs fix the low-temperature vaporization problem?

  18. Re:What does this have to do with the Clinton Admi on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've noticed a lot more conservative-leaning folks (and moderators) coming out of the woodwork in the last couple months.

    I suspect it's not that people here have partisan motives so much as it's "cool" to be against whomever is in power. I kind of remember the Old Days of Slashdot in the last Clinton years being this way too.

  19. What does this have to do with the Clinton Admin? on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 5, Informative

    Besides having data from back in that time frame. It's interesting that the summary doesn't point out that it was lost in the latter part of the Bush administration, and the story mentions the timeframe without being as balatant about who was in power.

    I sense partisanship.

  20. Re:Well played, Mr. President on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    I can get about 50 MPG with my '05 Civic Hybrid, but that's because my commute is mainly on a 55 MPH highway and I've learned to drive more efficiently.

  21. Re:Collusion on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, I've seen some commercial diesel trucks send out truly stupendous amounts of thick black smoke. So thick the military could use it for a screen.

  22. Re:Driving Blind on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sure that will work really well with a far larger population and less land to work with. Do you think before you touch your keyboard?

  23. Re:Driving Blind on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Also, screw those brown people who live near the equator and the Pacific islands.

  24. Re:yes we had backups on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's a really bad analogy.

    You must be new here.

  25. Re:There's a special place in hell... on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 1

    Granted, but suppose fire had taken out these two servers of theirs. Without offsite backups, the result would be the same.