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  1. Many of your questions were covered on Battlestar Galactica Available for Download · · Score: 1

    in the 2003 miniseries (now available on DVD). Did you see that? It covers the blonde-in-head thing, for example.

    Also, they obviously waited the full 33 minutes hoping that each time, no Cylons would arrive and it would be unnecessary to FTL jump again.

  2. Your point on the eMate is valid, given on The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware · · Score: 1

    it's attempt at the laptop-style format. As such, I think it tended to hide the features of the Newton OS.

    I doubt, however, that your watch can surf the web, telnet to a server, read a newsgroup, attach to an external keyboard, control entertainment devices via infrared, take notes in class, record & play sounds & lectures, send faxes, compose and receive email, do drawings, or have a built-in assistant (IMHO the coolest feature that really highlighted the Newt's capabilities).

  3. I think the whole point is on The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware · · Score: 5, Interesting

    that you'll hopefully eventually be able to run the (brilliant) Newton OS on more modern & portable hardware.

    Also, if your entire exposure to the Newton OS was on a 1.0 device, IMHO, you've missed out on what the real draw is vis-a-vis the capabilities of the later MessagePads & eMate.

  4. In the email trail... on Sal Wise, Philly eBay Scammer Strikes Back! · · Score: 2, Informative

    The "real" Sal goes on to explain towards the end that Justin will know he's the "real" one because he'll send all his emails in italics.

  5. I would agree that it could be worded better, but on WiFi Woes With .11g · · Score: 0

    all that quote/footnote is really saying is that if one uses an 802.11b card with the APE, then the APE will communicate with it using 802.11b.

    I know you don't know me from Adam, and I would not feel comfortable revealing on /. how it is that I know this. But, trust that the only difference between running a 'pure' .11g network and a mixed .11g/.11b network is the use of RTS/CTS packets. .11g clients will get a 54Mbps connection and .11b clients will get a 11Mbps connection.

  6. Make no mistake: This has nothing to do w/802.11g on WiFi Woes With .11g · · Score: 1, Informative

    being ratified or anything like that. Regardless of the fact that 802.11g is in Final Draft status and will likely have very few, if any, changes... the issue is entirely whether or not 802.11b vendors completely implemented the 802.11b standard.

    802.11b / 802.11g compatibility relies on implementation of RTS/CTS in the respective stacks. Many 802.11b vendors failed to implement this (for whatever reason).

    Further, the idea that 802.11g access points revert to 802.11b when as little as one 802.11b client is present is a myth! What happens is that when an 802.11g access point is run in compatibility mode, it is forced to use RTS/CTS. The data rate is not slowed down. Rather, it experiences slightly greater overhead as RTS/CTS packets must be used.

    Let us take the time to stop all this FUD now and educate ourselves.

  7. How well would BeOS run on one on Low-end Laptops? · · Score: 0

    of these lower-end laptops? That could be cool.

  8. Now, there's a on Why So Many Mac Fanatics? · · Score: 0

    supported statement!

  9. The difference being that on Apple PDA? · · Score: 0

    NewtonScript was interpreted. Even the HWR routines were.

    The Compaq runs compiled programs.

  10. Anybody else walking around in circles saying, on Apple PDA? · · Score: 0

    "Oh My God."?

  11. Not Cocoa on MS Office for OSX? Why not for Unix as Well? · · Score: 0

    The point here is that Office v. X is not written in Cocoa (the evolution of NeXT), it is written in Carbon (the reduced set of APIs that grew from the Mac OS Toolkit)

    Therefore, any port of Office to any *nix would not have a head start in the form of BSD compatibility.

  12. Oops. Meant xlr8yourmac.com on X-Rays Of A TiBook's Interior · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And it's the desktop to my TiBook.

  13. This was already my desktop picture on X-Rays Of A TiBook's Interior · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Found it on resexcellence on Friday.

  14. Why on Earth wasn't in named on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    Star Wars: Episode II: The Clone Wars ??!

  15. PowerBook G4 (Titanium) 500MHz, 512MB, 48GB HD, on Which Laptop To Buy? · · Score: 1

    Airport, DVD