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  1. Re:A bit false... on Preview of New MSN Hotmail · · Score: 1
    Safari already had an XmlHttpRequest object when GMail launched.


    So did Gecko. That guy's point doesn't really hold water.
  2. Re:Where's the FM tuner??? on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 5, Informative
    with most of the "good stuff" from NPR being available as podcasts

    Are you crazy? NPR has given up almost none of its best shows to podcasting. This American Life, Car Talk, What Do You Know?, Morning/Weekend Edition, All Things Considered, and pretty much any other of their big shows aren't podcast. There's actually very few good NPR shows available through podcasting.
  3. *Ahem* on Judge Approves Settlement in iPod Suit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why the judge was wearing an iPod suit is yet to be determined.

  4. Re:Never write off Microsoft... on Gates on Google · · Score: 0

    Exactly.

  5. Re:Never write off Microsoft... on Gates on Google · · Score: 5, Informative
    [T]he reason why MSIE destroyed Netscape's dominance wasn't its superiority, it was because MSIE was just there, an easy mouse click away on every new Windows 95 PC, whereas Navigator wasn't, and needed to be installed from scratch.
    Not really. The fact that IE was right on the desktop was certainly part of its success, but IE 5 was substantially better than Netscape 4. Believe me, I was a stalwart Netscape user until a coworker showed me how much faster IE was rendering pages. Netscape then threw out their codebase to build Gecko and couldn't get anything decent out the door for way too long. They also lost jwz along the way, which I'm sure didn't help matters.
  6. Re:Formally informal on Naturally Occurring Standards · · Score: 2, Informative

    Animated gif? Flash, maybe?

    SVG might be your best bet, though.

  7. Re:No Worries on CSU Chico Identities Compromised · · Score: 1

    Guess again.

    It's a Sun Java System Web Server.

  8. Re:Get the name right on Nanoscale Switches in Memory · · Score: 1

    I got the rest of your references except for the Scientologists. What's that about?

  9. Re:Please, kill the author... thank you. on Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? · · Score: 1

    Everybody with half a brain already knows that vi is better.

    While everyone with more than half of a brain knows that emacs is much better.

  10. Re:Goodbye Perl? on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1

    My main point was that no one is forcing you to upgrade to PHP 5. PHP 4 is still supported, and I'm willing to bet, will be for quite a while.

    And if you're talking about the register_globals change from PHP 4.2, well, you're better off with register_globals being off by default. I would like to know what the differences that broke your production websites.

  11. Re:Goodbye Perl? on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1

    First of all, PHP 5 has decent backwards compatibilty so your PHP 4 code will probably just work under PHP 5. But mostly, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO REWRITE YOUR CODE JUST BECAUSE THERE IS A NEW VERSION OF PHP? You do realize that Zend won't send officers to your house to remove your PHP 4 binaries and source, right? (They'll only take your PHP/FI binaries and that's for your own good.)

  12. Re:I'll go ahead and say it...Sandman? on NYT Magazine: Are Comics The New Mainstream Novels? · · Score: 1

    I'm a huge Sandman fan too, but you're right, Neil Gaiman doesn't really need the publicity. If you're looking for some really great indie work, check out:

    Exit 13

    There's a lot of different stuff in there, my favorite is the illustrated story by Nijo Philip "Terror of the Monkeyman".

  13. Re:You're a friggin idiot. on Send A Message To An LED Sign · · Score: 1

    I think it was actually 2400.

  14. Re:Anti-Nuke on Original Godzilla In U.S. Theaters · · Score: 1

    Dude, it's going to take me forever to say "irisheyesmaize", so I'm not worried.

  15. Re:Grr to Whoring? Grr to You on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    They're bullcrap "management" books, not books about the nuts and bolts of programming.

    No, they're not.

  16. Re:high key ads on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And in doing so you discourage businesses who place targeted, low-key text ads.

  17. Re:Supporting other formats. on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 1

    What are you using?

  18. Re:The Elegant Universe on The Fabric of the Cosmos · · Score: 1

    The documentary had horrible coverage of string theory. It basically just made the claim that the universe was made up of little hoop-like strings that wiggled. Then showed pictures of said wiggling strings. It didn't talk about what phenomena were explained more fully by this theory. There was so little science in it; it made all of the ideas presented seem ridiculous.

  19. Re:Direct link on Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla · · Score: 1

    I can't find any next or previous link tags on any page of a google search. Are you referring to Google's Keyboard Navigation? Because that's totally different.

  20. Re:RSS Readers on RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bloglines is worth using just because your subscriptions are automatically synchronized across all your computers (since it's web-based). It has all the features that the good win32 applications have, but through an actually well thought-out frames interface. It also is nicer bandwidth-wise on the sites who are publishing.

    Not an employee, just a satisified convert from Sharpreader.

  21. Re:Programmers == Carpenters?? on 235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015 · · Score: 1

    Right on.

  22. Re:Very Interesting??? on Google Rebuffs Microsoft Takeover Bid · · Score: 1

    Search for Microsoft .net on Google and you get all of the right results. Of course the search term ".net" will fail because there are a lot of things before Microsoft that called themselves .net. For example, the TLD.

  23. Re:iPod with Mac and Windows on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I did a little research and this is the case; the main difference is the filesystem. However, several users said that they were able to format the iPod as FAT32 and still have it recognized on the Mac. Which seems possible, there's no legitimate reason why OS X shouldn't be able to mount a FAT32 drive, right? I lack an iPod to test this, though.

  24. iPod with Mac and Windows on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    Can you now use the *same* iPod on both OS X and Windows? Before this didn't work, supposedly due to the MusicMatch software.

  25. Re:Of course you were criticised! on Mplayer Revisited · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And I think that the MPlayer core team acknowledge that but when you for time number 796 get an email reading 'I problem compiling, Please help!!! Is it bug?' with no log or dump... well the coding gets sour. So I can understand that criticism is difficult to take.

    Don't read those messages. Procmail them to /dev/null/. But don't write pissy documentation. That's just childish.