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  1. Re:(I'm the author of the article) - Please read: on Thinking about Rails? Think Again · · Score: 1

    As an aside, Jeremy hasn't worked for CD Baby since February when he started working for 37signals.

  2. Re:Good first step... on IBM Grants Universal and Perpetual Access To IP · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'm sorry, but you're mistaken about how much revenue Redhat generates. The following quote is taken directly from the reported earnings from their most recent quarter:

    "Total revenue for the quarter was $118.9 million, an increase of 42% from the year ago quarter and 7% from the prior quarter. Subscription revenue was $103.0 million, up 44% year-over-year and 7% sequentially." Net income for the quarter was $16.2 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, compared with $13.8 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, in the year ago quarter. Non-GAAP adjusted net income for the quarter was $33.7 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, after adjusting for stock compensation and tax expense as detailed in the tables below. This compares to non-GAAP adjusted net income of $28.0 million, or $0.14 per diluted share, in the year ago period.
    (From: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/fi rstquarter.html)
  3. Re:Come to expect what? on Cox May replace its own DVRs with TiVos · · Score: 1

    The Cox DVR has two tuners and both are HD capable whereas the DirecTV HDTiVo has one SD and one HD. Until TiVo offers dual HD tuners, I'm not interested in switching, despite the fact that I would really like to have the networking features that TiVo offers.

  4. Re:Wow, this is incredible on Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    Sure, but it could also support real partitions instead of using a file-based virtual disk. Using the actual drive instead of the file-based virtual disk is far more performant.

    I agree with the previous poster, this looks like a slam dunk lead-in for the later Apple virtualization. Bring it on!

  5. Re:How about blaming Louisiana? on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between being in a coastal city and being below sea level.

  6. Re:Tiles... on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    I hope they bought the optional insurance...

  7. Re:Ok done. on Desktop Linux on x86 - Adapt or Die · · Score: 1

    You can routinely get a Dell 700m for under $1000, and it meets all of your requirements.

  8. Re:Chapter by chapter on Books in Beta Form · · Score: 1

    The other reason that it wouldn't work well is due to Dave Thomas's writing style. He's stated that he kind of bounces around from chapter to chapter writing whatever he is in the flow for at the time, so the chapters were not written serially.

  9. Re:Your hands are your career on Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. I've been using my Kinesis keyboards for about 6 years now and I absolutely love them. I was feeling wrist pain pretty much daily and after switching to the Kinesis I've been pain free. I liked the first one so much I bought a second so I would have to lug it back and forth to the office.

    If mine died I would order another immediately, though they're still holding up fine after all the (ab)use they've seen.

  10. Re:Check out Anthro. on Searching for Quailty A/V Carts? · · Score: 1

    ... oh, and it looks like the utility unit I mentioned above is on sale right now. You could buy the basic carts at this sale price and add to it to get to the configuration you need.

  11. Check out Anthro. on Searching for Quailty A/V Carts? · · Score: 2, Informative


    Anthro makes some excellent products that could probably be configured to meet your needs. I use an Anthro fit System Standard unit as my primary desk, and I absolutely love it. I think their utility cart would probably suit you well. They also do quantity discounts based on the dollar value of your order.

    Good luck.

  12. Re:I felt a disturbance in the force... on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 1

    Just don't ever expect to see a check from TigerDirect on any rebate purchases. They're notorious for not paying out rebates like they're supposed to -- I've experienced first hand.

  13. Re:Aah, if only on Microsoft Lifts Curtain on Indigo Software · · Score: 1

    Check again. There are SOAP implementations using other transports -- at the very least I've seen SOAP over JMS (Java Message Service).

    A quick Googling found this page that lists some other options:
    http://www.webreference.com/authoring/la nguages/xm l/webservices/chap3/3/

  14. Re:I agree with Kerry & Clinton? on Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How, exactly, is the parent Offtopic? For crying out loud, the story goes out of it's way to mention that Kerry and Clinton are behind the bill, speculating as to their motives doesn't seem Offtopic to me. If the post had been critical of President Bush, the parent would have been modded up as Insightful instead.

  15. Re:political bias for a news anchor? on Daily Show Production Team Nets Creative Freedom · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder whether you think it is possible to report news critical of the democrats' policies without becoming "partisan." Or do you suppose that "the facts have an agenda"?

  16. Re:One Quote that Indicates that MS... on Microsoft's Martin Taylor Responds · · Score: 1

    "Average." You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  17. Re:About global warming on NASA Says 2005 Could Be Warmest Year Recorded · · Score: 1
    How much has the climate changed in the last 100 yeras, globally?
    • How many degrees? How does this compare to the immediately preceding 100 years?
    • Likewise, how much glacial melt has there been, comparatively?
    • Sea level rise?
    • Is there a direct proportional correlation between the CO2 content of the atmosphere and these factors?
    Keep in mind that we need global numbers for these, not a few hand-picked locations that illustrate a point. Climate is extremely geographically variable.

    The fact of the matter is, you don't have to be a "retard" to have questions about the validity of the global warming rhetoric that is continually bandied about. I don't discount that there are things that humans do to our environment that are bad, but I don't blindly buy into all of the rhetoric either. I want some real scientific proof, not just theories and extremism.
  18. Re:"What Is Message Queuing?" on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 1

    That's not necessarily true. In most message queuing systems, the sender in can determine whether the message has been delivered (retrieved by the client) or not. You can't do that with SMTP.

  19. Re:This is why some isp's.. on New Spam Zombies Use ISPs' Mailservers · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that a company with 13,000 remote offices could/should operate their own mailserver if they require the ability to send mass emails to all of them. I think that setting limits and implementing throttling is just about the only way to attack this problem. Providers need to remember that the customer is NOT always right.

  20. Re:I didn't read the article... on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    PostgreSQL has had an ODBC driver for quite some time. You could use that in conjunction with SQL Servers DTS tools to copy data from a SQL Server DB to Pg. There might be some pain involved, particular with indices and constraints, but it shouldn't be too awful.

  21. Re:Their called assets... on Wish Cancelled · · Score: 1

    The other reason that it's not feasible with Wish is that it relied heavily on licensed libraries/code from third-parties. Those companies certainly aren't going to want their code to be tossed into the wild, so it's not just code that's owned by Mutable Realms that's at issue. Just take a look at the list of Partners on their About page for an idea of how many other people's technology they were using.

  22. Re:Cheney has signed away those 433,000 options... on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1

    MOD. PARENT. UP.

  23. Re:Consequences? I'd say! on US Military Plans Space Combat · · Score: 1

    It's called PLANNING. The Pentagon plans for as many contingencies as they can come up with, no matter how far fetched or unlikely that they may be. It has nothing in particular to do with this administration, the military routinely generates these kinds of scenarios and corresponding plans.

    If you don't think other countries have similar contingency plans for all kinds of eventualities, you're deluded. There's nothing to see here.

  24. Re:nope... on No Half-Life 2 on Steam? · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Vivendi isn't concerned about losing one of if not THE biggest earners of their whole software line?"

    It's not like HL2 is the only iron that Vivendi has in the fire. Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft -- heck ALL the Blizzard games, the Empire Earth series, Tribes: Vengeance, and so on. There are literally dozens of titles, some of which have the potential to be bigger than HL. Sure, they don't want to lose the HL2 revenue, but it's hardly going to kill them if it happens.

    "I don't think I am wrong when I say Sierra exisits because of HL1."

    Sierra doesn't really exist anymore other than as a vague shadow of their former selves. Now they're simply a small vassal of Vivendi in the grand scheme of things. In fact, Vivendi closed down the former Sierra offices and killed Dynamix off a few months ago. All that's left of Sierra, really, is the name.

  25. Re:nope... on No Half-Life 2 on Steam? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lose a developer who has slipped numerous deadlines and is literally years behind schedule on the release of their one project? Somehow, I think Vivendi isn't terribly concerned.