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  1. Re:Changed the view of the US? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    Einstien and Oppenhiemer designed bombs to drop on Japan. Are they really any different?

  2. Re:Step toward the future? on AOL-Yahoo-MSN Messaging Unified... in the Workplace Only · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the problem with that is that you would have to have it connect with the server quite frequently (say 1/second at least).
    Many places get upset with > 1/10 minutes..

  3. Re:Bunching bookmarks together on Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Firefox already does this... You have to have all the bookmarks in one folder.. but the feature is there...

  4. Re:idea on Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but most of the time that line would be drawn right at the very top of the screen.. Since the very bottom of the screen, should now be at the very top....

  5. Re:2 Metres on Build Your Own Bluetooth Hearing Aid · · Score: 1

    Doens't matter what magic wireless technique he is using... 2 meters is still an incredibly long distance to have a phone from your ear. Unless you are say, in your car, or at your home...

    The best bet, would be to strap it to your ankle. Assuming the phone doesn't get smashed too quickly,, It should cut down on nearly all of the interference...

  6. Re:Second step? on iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser · · Score: 1

    Disable the plug and play for the devices you aren't using. (Its pretty simple actually. there is a text file that links the IDs to the actualy text name windows shows, as well as the driver. Google should tell you what one, since I forget..) And of course, disable the user from installing random drivers for their device.

  7. Re:From the Fascist Department on iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser · · Score: 1

    Well, simply either disable them completely(in software, not by some silly policy), or just disallow students to run arbritary programs(again in software).

  8. An idea... on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    Here's something to do for those who live close to best buy (or other similar stores). Every week, when they send out their ads, they always have some free crap listed (after rebate, of course). Go in and buy as much of that as possible (or anything else you might want that you think has a negative margin on it). Repeat for a while and see if they get annoyed...

  9. Re:1TB a month?!? on Bulk Data Storage For The Common Man? · · Score: 1

    Though any organization that can afford a fMRI unit, has quite a different definition of cheap them most people/companies.

  10. Re:Who Needs Numbers. on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 1



    Reminds me of the versioning system a friend of mine was using for a while.
    new, newer, newest,newerest,newerestest, .. and so on. He finnally got smart and scrapped that after a while.

  11. Re:Apple Lossless on Are iTMS's 128kbps Songs Worth Collecting? · · Score: 1
    He has no understanding of the expensive nightmare that housing and providing CD-sized tracks over the Internet presents. [...] He doesn't seem to realize that offered lossless compression would need to be more expensive.

    What nightmare? It's not like storing 40 megabyte or so files is really that hard. Even if you have a lot of tracks. You only need to store ONE copy (well, redundency non-with standing). It's not like something you are trying to store and ship (with todays gas prices) hundreds of thousands of REAL physical CDs to thousands of stores around the world!
  12. Re:Well.. on A Video Projector That Fits In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    *obligitory joke*

    "You'll shoot your eye out!"

  13. Re:Another space station dying of neglect? on ISS Gyro Fixed Via Spacewalk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And yet at the same time, the military is responsible for even more those same things. Yet, should we go around starting wars just to get more cool toys?

  14. Re:BeOS had that in 1999 on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 1

    Plus, when/if the programmer finnally adds some documentation under help.. the behavior of the menu doesn't need to change.

  15. Re:CERT? What the heck is CERT? on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 1

    You go here often? Why may I ask?

  16. Re:But... on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be

    "Slashcode spits out malformed HTML that sometimes deosn't render properly with Gecko."

  17. Re:Spatial browsing can be good if... on Why Users Blame Spatial Nautilus · · Score: 1
    His other answer is to cause the parent window to automatically close by either double-clicking the middle button to open something, or using shift + double-click. This puts extra burden on the user; automatically closing the parent should be the default, and if you want to keep it, you should have to double middle-click.


    Even better would be to allow both of those options. Allow the user to select either spatial or single window by default, and then a modifier key to use the opposite method for a single operation. That way, people can navigate in the method that is easiest for them.
  18. Re:Huh? on Why Users Blame Spatial Nautilus · · Score: 1

    Windows allows this (well, in a new window, not tabs) by simply holding ctrl when opening a file. (Actually it will also do the opposite when you are browing in the spatial mode.) I personally find this to be a good union of the two modes, allowing me to look at my files in the way that is the most appropaite for the situation.

  19. Re:This shouldn't come as a surprise.... on China Developing own Standards · · Score: 1
    Communism is about nothing more than increasing the wealth of dictators.
    A very similar thing could be said about capitalism.
  20. Re:Nice Rack! on How Many Google Machines, Really? · · Score: 1
    From the summary:
    88 dual-CPU machines

    Your point?
  21. Re:Put your computer(s) in the closet on A Silent PC Solution? · · Score: 1

    This what you need?
    Some have small fans on their PSUs, which may go against what we are trying to accomplish, but i've seen some with external brick PSUs that are fanless.

    Though if you wanted to save on cableing you might want to get one that has USB2.0 so you can hook you keyboard/mouse to the same cable. (many of the cases support both)

  22. Re:Here come the jokes... on PHP and SQL Security · · Score: 1
    4. Register Globals will be on.


    And they claim they are trying to promote increased PHP security?
  23. Re:Not a good effort. on Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests · · Score: 1

    Except the fact that public libraries tend to have movies as well.

  24. Re:full C compatability? on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 1
    But garbage collection can happen at any time, and cause a pause at any point in my program -- even when I'm needing to re-fill under-run buffers or read volatile memory or make time-critical choices.
    You do realize that you have this issue with any modern OS? A malloc() can take tens of thousands of clock-cycles if it decides to mmap() to get more backing memory, and the kernel decides to block the app.
    Yes, But the difference in that case is that malloc happens at a known point. You can intentionally place such actions in non-time critical sections of your program. The problem the OP was refering to is that with garbage collection, the garbage collection could occur during a time-cirtical section. Something which you as a programmer could avoid otherwise.
  25. Re:He's safe on AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny · · Score: 1

    Well, possibly, because there was no mention of a lawsuit by MasterCard. Just a plain C&D letter from the lawyers. (Possibly becuase they know they don't have a leg to stand on)