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  1. Re:Of course we will... on No More OpenMoko Phone · · Score: 1

    who will, developers tend to scratch their itches, if they don't have the phone, and my guess is very few do, how can they develop for it.

  2. Re:Of course we will... on No More OpenMoko Phone · · Score: 1

    whats the battery life on an iphone though?
    according to Google somewhere between 12 and 36 hours (apple ofc claim 300?), so id guess that smart phones have a limited battery life anyway.

  3. Re:Detection via delta? on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    You can't fallthrough if there is a HDD with no OS is installed, the default setting allows you to install an OS on 1st run, which is normally what you need to do! Later you should change that setting when you no longer need to install the OS.

  4. Re:Um on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    problem: some users are idiots
    solution: treat all users like idiots

    I know its not the msway but a would regkey you could manually set have been that hard?

  5. Re:ubuntu 9.04 beta and fedora 11 beta compared... on First Look At Fedora 11 Beta Release · · Score: 1

    nice benchmarks, but as a desktop user what are the pros/cons of each?

  6. Re:realtime kernel by default on First Look At Fedora 11 Beta Release · · Score: 1

    realtime or optional realtime (desktop)?

  7. Re:Causality on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    It's an interpretation that is being taken seriously by many physicists

    That's nice, but neither it, the Copenhagen interpretation or any other interpretation is actual physics. But just because a possible philosophy can be used to account for the paradoxes doesn't actually make it possible.

  8. Re:Causality on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Please define reality.
    You seam to imply that there is some all powerful ticking clock that decides what time it really is who is dead and where the bullet is.

  9. Re:VLC is OK. on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 1

    But the best thing about mplayer, is that there are many GUIs for it. I use kmplayer as its pretty minimal but saves me from the CLI, but smplayer is fairly good too and im sure there are plenty more.

  10. Re:Causality on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    I think you need an understanding of special relativity to appreciate how wrong you are. Basically anything that travels faster than light can then fire a beam of light back to were it started, so it is instantaneously sending a message back to itself. If you sat on a beam of light coming from the sun to earth, it would not take 7 minutes to complete the journey but 0 seconds, that is why traveling at the speed of light is considered infinitely fast, so anything faster than this would also be infinitely fast.

  11. Re:Causality on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Also, about the standard model, it only works within the limits of general relativity. There is no room for quantum mechanics there or for superstrings.

    The standard model, is a quantum model and only works within the limits of special relativity.

  12. Re:We already have faster-than-light communication on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    but neither person can alter the probability distribution, you can only measure it.
    when i see
    110111010001000100000
    i know that you have
    001000101110111011111
    but that doesn't help me comunicate with you in anyway, switching axis and what you collapse makes the situation more complex, but there is still no way to write a message, just for both of us to read the same random message (that's why this is useful for cryptography).

  13. Re:Causality on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Entropy is statistical, you can't use it to outlaw stuff, because when it can't be applied to individual photons.

    IANAP

  14. Re:IBM SUN? on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    IBM could unfuckup the software stratergy that sun are using, make the software popular then use that to their advantage when selling solutions.

  15. Re:Nice with the gun control on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    3 non-armed burglaries in 6 weeks.
    0 armed robberies in over a year.

    gun control does work!

  16. Re:Ah, Little Britain... on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i think you mean league of gentlemen

  17. Re:sweet on Diagnose Conficker With Web-Based Eye Chart · · Score: 4, Funny

    i panicked for a sec, im on linux but thanks to virgin media the bottom two images didn't load. thankfully the chart said: any other combo = shite internet!

  18. Re:Nonsense on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    What seams stupid is that he just doesn't get how distros work, if upstream haven't released anything shinny for end users, ubuntu can't really pull them out of the air without causing a lot of trouble.

    given that he said

    Ubuntu has, above all, always been a 100-percent 'end-user' distro, which arguably makes it unique in the world of Linux.

    I think hes either trolling or just pretending to know more than he does (which pisses people off).

  19. Re:Hit the nail on the head on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    Exactly my experience as well; whenever I go to a forum about something I admittedly know fuck all

    good start, if you pretend to know a lot, or because you know how to do something in windows it SHOULD be the same, will get nowhere.

    to present my list of chores for the regulars I get that same poor attitude.

    It depends how you came across, if it was "please can somebody help me do..." then you were just unlucky (see below), but if it was more like "how the hell do i do these..., i know how do to them on windows, linux is retarded" then few people will bother with you.

    It also varies by who you end up speaking to *A LOT*. Ive asked the same question in #debian on freenode & #debian on debian.org
    freenode: your using your own kernel its your problem, forget about the initramfs
    debian: have a look at man mkinitramfs
    from the debian.org answer it took me 5 minutes to solve my problem, id spent 1hr+ waiting for a reasonable reply on freenode.

  20. Re:Critics on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    If you are critical of Linux, and have no real clue what your on about. - your berated or ignored.

    If you are critical of Linux, and have a clue. - You start a flamewar (during which your berated), but if one of the big guns joins your side, your idea/code will eventually make it up to the relevant project in some form.

  21. Re:Marked but they haven't arrested the guy? on Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release · · Score: 1

    It is forensically marked, but when they looked for the key it was aXXo repeated over and over.

  22. Re:I missed it? on Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd take my chances at not being the on in 60k they choose to sue.
    Seeders: 22425
    Leechers:36869
    total: 59294

    Infact that's a snapshot so you're probably closer to 1 in a million chance of getting sued, IF they choose to sue any of the seeders not just the leak!

  23. Re:I suppose if all you do is change lost passwds. on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 1

    doesn't solve which problem?
    you can if you wish install the app, just google won't help you break your TOS, sounds fair

  24. Re:just move out of Ireland? on Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize, given the American support for the bunch of terrorists i genuinely had no trouble believing that McDonalds would pay protection money to the IRA. However you are correct it was all an unsubstantiated rumor, thx for correcting me on this one.

  25. Re:Yeah, April Fools... on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    not funny, its true they really do it lets them spam you with ads