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  1. if only on MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update · · Score: 1

    iso and/or w3c could actually DEMAND full operation of the ecma standard in applications, and hand down some sort of ecma certification

    im sick of these companies arbitrary implementations!!

    its time for interoperability and compatibility

    the amount of time and money spent by developers/designers to handle these different browser implementations is ludicrous

    these standards organizations should start doing their job and start making sure companies are implementing these specs properly

    its this sort of stuff that has sabotaged vrml and others in the past.

    by allowing anyone to interpret and implement their own interpretted version we, as developers of web applications, get left with the clean up

    its time for these companies to start being more exact

    and for the standards organizations to start making sure their standards are being implemented correctly

  2. yet.... on Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal · · Score: 1

    yet somehow bush's wasnt :|

  3. Re:This won't work. on EA Calls for Open Platform/Single Console for Games · · Score: 1

    your word? is nothin but negative and dismissing. my research? well before you infer i have done none, maybe you should do your own and ask if i have or not.

    ive used quite a few good linux and windows based live cd's
    the topic isnt new, as much as you want to nay say it, the possibility is there.

    all work in various forms, yes some have had problems, but so have most o/s's so that is a pretty dubious argument.

    fact is a game isnt going to need all the over head a full o/s would
    one could chop out a lot of cruft and specialize the games os to run full out for gaming, not to mention reduce the memory footprint

    the developing company would have complete control over the games os ...this is a big advantage over having to integrate with an os you dont have control over.

  4. easy solution: live cds on EA Calls for Open Platform/Single Console for Games · · Score: 1

    just make a dvd/cd that can be used in any compute//console

    have it cache data files to a harddrive if possible

    done!

  5. if i recall correctly on In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism · · Score: 1

    genesis p orridge was kicked out of england for possessing books on witchcraft over 5 years ago

    the uk has some very silly laws on possession of information

  6. key fact missing on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    mozilla has eudora as well

    i suspect this is having an unspoken impact on things in the mozilla camp

  7. Re:prod the UN on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 1

    ood thing you said that before i wasted time posting all those facts he triple checks then

  8. Re:prod the UN on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 1

    go read some chomsky
    he has spoken endlessly on this

  9. Re:Pressure the UN? on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 0, Troll

    maybe its because the USA uses them like some sort of yes man

    for instance:
    telling them some place has wmd's

    so then the un inspectors and un forces go in and RECON for america and allied forces

    as soon as they find out the place is completely lacking in any sort of defense they invade

    textbook american terror

  10. Re:prod the UN on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 1, Insightful

    thanks for the correction, memory is shot on 1980 united stated terror based activities in central america

    all hail ollie north

  11. Re:prod the UN on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 1

    genocide in any form is wrong, but thanks for inferring my motives

    what im complaining about is two fold

    first that going to the UN for anything seems laughable

    and secondly
    everyone gets up in arms against any atrocity committed by someone other than the us, but if the Us does something , NO ONE clammers to the UN to stop it.

  12. Re:prod the UN on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 0, Troll

    yes and the US is just as bad, state sponsored terrorism, hiring soldiers of fortuen to do thier own dirty work

    sponsoring terror and carrying on terrorist acts all over the world

    they slaughter millions of innocent peoples and its ok , one can only guess where the bodies are buried

    welcome to the new world order

  13. prod the UN on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 2, Informative

    the UN needs to step up or pull the plug

    sure we all want the Burmese leaders to be accountable, we want everyone to be accountable, unless it US

    like when nicaragua brought charges against the us to the UN security comission

    and SOMEHOW the US was able to veto their own charges

    the UN is nothing but a bandaid, that keeps falling off

  14. the saddest part... on Another Man Dies After Marathon Gaming Session · · Score: 1

    after he left we couldnt fill the group...aiiii yahhh

  15. a unified distribution base on How Would You Refocus Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    i think the linux software base was a good start, but there is too much fragmentation between distributions

    it would be nice if there was less diversity at the core, that way something that runs on ubuntu would be able to be run on suse or slackware

    every distribution is trying to specialize, and thats a good thing, but when there is too much it fragments the communities efforts at large

  16. Re:touch screens...complex buttons on Steve Jobs Hates Buttons · · Score: 1

    long before computers....a button was traditionally a fastener, with its counter part the button hole

    if a button was inset, it would cease to be a button?
    OR
    if a touch screen is raised slightly {protrudes} it becomes a button?

    as you say ..
    a button is an input mechanism, so is a touch screen

    both are operated by pressure and tell the device the user has selected something

    semantics

  17. touch screens...complex buttons on Steve Jobs Hates Buttons · · Score: 2, Insightful



    a touch screen is just a very complex button

    so jobs is doing away wiht buttons by making them more complex?

  18. quake in the smithsonian on Gaming's 10 Biggest Scandals · · Score: 2, Funny

    that it isnt in there is a scandal

  19. it would have been way better on Blade Runner at 25, Why the F/X Still Matter · · Score: 0

    it would have been way better if they would have stuck more to the book

    the idea he was cheating on his wife with a replicant made the story a tad more intersting

    esp when she throws his goat off the top of the building and then his wife find s out

    that said the effects do stand up

    i heard philip k dick patterned his city off of vancouver,

    the dark depressing rains of the north west really set the tone well

  20. internet on a cell phone? on The Perfect Phone Storm? · · Score: 1

    how interesting

    wow im so excited, its like im living in the future or something :|

    how is this a big selling point?
    ive been doing this since the the turn of the century

  21. rock and the pop narcotic on Even Century Old Records Had Restrictive Licensing · · Score: 1

    is a book , a very good book

    it touches on a lot of tyhis..

    namely how rock was trying to move away from the 'tin pan alley'

    order it read it

  22. iphone vs neo1973 on No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps · · Score: 1

    here is a good comparision chart between the two
    http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/iPhone

    as i understand the next version of the neo will have wifi

    at least they are discussing chipset option on their dev site

    um.. really i want a handheld i can ssh into servers with

    i think the neo is going to be that device, but i will wiat for the next gen one with wifi support

  23. Re:next thing you know.... on Blogger Removed From NCAA Game for Blogging · · Score: 1

    true, im more talking about a lost op to make more revenue

    it all how you look at a situation

    they could have handled it better

  24. next thing you know.... on Blogger Removed From NCAA Game for Blogging · · Score: 1

    EULA 's at sporting events, music concerts and even your state fair!

    seriously.. if he or anyone else wanted to keep live bloggin, and risk their journalistic cred, how hard would it be to get people to sms/mms/phone in updates of the game?

    these enterprises have top rethink how they make revenue in this new age....

    the only reason this journalist was caught is because it became a big thing &trade.

    and so the powers that be get upitty about lost revenue and arrest him...loosing even more revenue! :|

    surely they can see if they supported live bloggin it could be a win - win for both parties

    they should have made a revenue sharing deal, not get him arrested

    times are changin , one must navigate, not resist

  25. Re:Wow. 100 years and they finally caught up with. on MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb · · Score: 1

    how true, its no wonder GE bought all his ideas and buried them

    if only bucky fuller and n tesla could have worked on the world electircal grid together