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  1. Re:Hrrrmpph! on Opera Lays Down Acid2 Challenge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which begs the question "What is a standard?"

  2. Re:one step at a TIME! on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    That's why Unix didn't catch on until Windows developed the 3 button+ mouse. Unix tried to start off with a 3 button mouse and every one thought it was just to complicated.

  3. Re:Two button mice are so yesterday. on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    They could mount the ball in a way that makes it slightly resistant to rolling at an angle. so that casualy spinning of the wheel will go either left right or up down and you'd have to concentrate slightly to go at an angle. The angle would be great for thigns like Gimp/Photoshop when you wanted to scroll around on a zoomed in picture though.

  4. Re:This dpesn't seem likely on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    Which is why all laws should have a sunset clause. They should be able to pass them with a majority but then after an exponentially growing number of years it should go back up for revote of 2/3rds majority (it should be proven to be a good law by now) This way a law passed today would be re voted on 1 year from now, 2 years after than 4 years after than 8 after that etc... This would have the effect of getting rid of

    if the vote deadline isn't made than the law is repealed.

  5. Re:Parody! on Star Wars Revelations - May the Force Be With You! · · Score: 1

    That's bad news for nerds.

  6. Re:Kernel vs. Userland compatibility problems on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    I don't think I've seen any of those versions. Don't they use numbers???

  7. Re:Screenshots! on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    less make.out

    The more you code the less you make.out.

  8. Re:Let me guess... no budget. on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    It's not a free loan to me. When tax season comes around and I have to figure out where I'm going to get the money, try to file an extension pay late payment fees, etc...

    It is much cheaper just to keep the higher deductions.

  9. Re:This dpesn't seem likely on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    So who will create a tax program that will let me pay the correct amount? I don't want to pay more or less than I'm suppose to, I want to pay what I'm suppose to.

  10. Re:Future viability in question? on Gnome 2.10 Released · · Score: 1

    Reading the GP poast I was about to do the same thing. Then I glanced down and went, "Ohh, there it is right there."

  11. Re:Yes on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? · · Score: 2, Funny

    hmm, must resist urge....songs buy you for 5 cen....ahhhhhhhhhh

  12. Re:Awesome on Plextor PVRs Now Support Linux · · Score: 1

    That's great if you only have 2 or 4 channels, but I have over 400 TV stations that I want to record every one of them 24x7 in order to watch later.

  13. Re:Minimo on desktops? on MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile · · Score: 1

    Ipaqs do run X check out their project page Here. You can read why they use X from Jim Gettys. He has a very small less than 600k foot print X server that runs on the ipaq. a minimal full screen optimized window manager. And applications are just built for the screen size currently.

  14. Re:Enimies of Linux on "Enemies of Linux" Trying to Undermine OS? · · Score: 1

    Between 1992 and 1994.

    Just so you know in the future.

  15. Re:I am reminded of an old Norwegian quote: on Open Source Advocacy The Right Way · · Score: 1

    Coorection Penguins were found only in the southern hemisphere.

    Hell, I've seen penguins here in the desert of Arizona.

  16. Re:Miracles speak for themselves on Open Source Advocacy The Right Way · · Score: 1

    You may see the light of the miracle and its name is Linux.

  17. Re:Here's my take on it on Open Source Advocacy The Right Way · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Both bridges and airplanes are designed this way. You think that a bridge engineer knows how to build cable? machine bolts? mix pavement? While he may chances are he just knows the details of each of those items. size, strength, weight, etc. An air plane is the same thing. A designer doesn't know the details of how a tire is made. They probably don't even know the details of how the rim is made or bearings, or axle. They do know the stresses they can take and how to fit them together as an interface.

  18. Re:Here's my take on it on Open Source Advocacy The Right Way · · Score: 1

    In order to make programming easier. He addressed this in the point that programming time is finite where as cpu time is not. Although you may save 400 Development hours you can lose millions of hours of runtime productivity.

  19. Re:Censorship... on Vonage's CEO Says VoIP Blocking Is 'Censorship' · · Score: 1

    I think you ment only government censorship is forbiden by the 1st amendment.

  20. Re:67 hours no? on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight · · Score: 1

    Instead of having a safer flight plan that went like /\/\/\/\/\/\/\
    between the diffrent contents that he could safly land at he change the flight corse to
    ______________

    in order to have the shortest distance.

  21. Question... on Game Makers Could Be Liable For Violent Games · · Score: 1

    Because of playing them? or After playing them?

    There is a big diffrence. If playing a game somehow forces them to break a law then perhaps the game company should be held liable. (although I see no way that a video game could force someone to break a law)

    After playing the game or saying that they were influinced by the game, now come on don't be silly.

  22. Re:Interesting acronym on OGRE 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Wont work cause they couldn't make a gnome version of it. The names already taken.

  23. Re:One possible multi-threaded benefit on Intel's Dual-core strategy, 75% by end 2006 · · Score: 1

    Yea they need to take some ideas from http://maps.google.com load as needed. If they loaded it far enough out that you didn't have to worry about getting from one point to the next to fast as to be there before it loaded. I remember a 3d chat world called alpha world that would load as you go and that was 10 years ago. Why hasnt' this stuff improved sence?

  24. Re:Next up for the XBOX2 on Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood · · Score: 1

    ...or a linux distribution.

  25. Re:What about numbers? on Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% · · Score: 1

    It tells me it's time to upgrade the 486 linux boxes.