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  1. Re:Not even October 22 yet... on Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    i have access to 2 msdnaa accounts
    http://msdn04.e-academy.com/elms/Storefront/Storefront.aspx?campus=ieee_cs_r9&np1=112

    http://msdn70.e-academy.com/elms/Storefront/Storefront.aspx?campus=santbabasing_cs&np1=112

    win 7 was available for a month on the 1st link, but was then withdrawn

    it never even appeared on the 2nd one

    and yes, i have tried logging in

    check this

    http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&p=22981341
    the 4th post on the page discusses why it was removed
    also try searching for
    windows 7 withdrawn from msdnaa
    in google...

    luckily i got it before it was removed

  2. Re:Not even October 22 yet... on Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    unfortunately it was on msdnaa for a month and was then withdrawm

  3. Re:Not even October 22 yet... on Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years · · Score: 1

    i dont know how, but the laptops given in my college came with windows 7 RTM installed by lenovo.
    they were given out in 2nd week of september

  4. Re:Title on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: 1

    any clue why windows has a similar problem?

    if there are a very large no. of small files on a flash drive, it does take a while to delete(2000+files 3 min)
    this is on a relatively slow pendrive, but still..

  5. Re:Title on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: 1

    But my favorite was how it handled text messages. Every now and then, she'd need to delete a bunch of them because it ran out of memory (a user should never have to worry about this, IMHO.) Deleting all of the messages took at least half an hour. No exaggeration. I've never seen anything that lame. It's like they were deleting the first, moving all the others down in memory, rewriting them to flash, then repeating.

    Even trying to turn the thing of was nearly impossible to figure out. To reboot, it was faster to just pop out battery.

    She returned one and got another, no better. She then got an iPhone and loves it.

    even my nokia 6600 has these 2 problems
    dont most of the phones take 15-20 mins to delete 800+ messages??
    though i never got a memory full error, the phone does slow down after 800+ messages so when i do sort through them and delete them, it takes abt 15 mins to do so.

  6. Re:The oil could seal the stench... on Universal "Death Stench" Repels Bugs of All Types · · Score: 1

    there are 12 year old girls on /.??

    which part is more surprising??

  7. valid for all drinks?? on Bar Uses Breathalyzer to Encourage Drinking · · Score: 1

    so i could just go there at opening, have a lot of cola's, etc and other non alcoholic stuff and then get the tab waived off as the BA level would be 0??

  8. Re:MAC WORLD story time again! on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1

    +5 funny
    +100 true

  9. Re:Latency on Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1? · · Score: 1

    actually, google would make a great government and in reality might just get big enough to start buying small countries at first and then slowly expand and become the world government

    just imagine, if i wanted to go from point A to B anywhere in the world, i could easily look it up on google as, google being the world government would have all the information necessary, and no passports/restrictions/different currency conversions,etc would be required

    even better, they might just be able to plan your life, just imagine that you want to spend X days in A y in B and z in C, google could automatically plan a trip, apply for your leave at office and the amount of money would be deducted from your bank account, all with just 1 click

  10. Re:I've got built-in phishing protection. on Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1? · · Score: 1

    I dont think that the iPhone is targeted to people who actually know how to protect themselves, many of them would be using blackberries/nokia E/WinMo series or other business focused handsets as their primary phone and the iPhone as a secondary media device.

    "Instead of putting all this effort into anti-phishing technology, we should make people less stupid."
    then only those who want a media player would want iPhones

    Note: all my comments are based on the original unjailbroken iPhone, have not encountered a newer version

  11. Re:"Committed Suicide?" on EMC Co-Founder Commits Suicide · · Score: 1

    but wouldnt this lead to the advent of recreational euthanasia

  12. 2 Questions on Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters? · · Score: 0, Troll

    1) what is Agile??

    2) Who is a Scrummaster??

    sounds like a player in a game like DoTA or WoW etc.

  13. Re:They are NOT Denying Global Warming on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 2, Funny

    which overwhelmingly indicates that climate change presents a threat to human health and welfare."

    make that

    which overwhelmingly indicates that climate change presents a threat to human wealth and warfare."

  14. Re:University Assignments. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    best solution take 1-2 readings VERY carefully and then use Excel goalseek to complete the rest have used C++ to solve many of my Maths P&C questions as well what would take me 10-15 mins atleast to solve and be done using a short 20-30 line prog in TC++(i think its even easier in python , dont know how 2 use it but)..

  15. Re:Study Assignment on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 2, Funny

    the opposite happened to me today, made a C++ program to demonstrate the use of classes and made full use of constructors, destructors,data hiding and DMA show it to the prof., he stares at it for 5 mins and then tells me to make everything in the class public and do the thing using arrays only....

  16. combine these with self evolving robots on High-Speed Robot Hand Shows Dexterity and Speed · · Score: 1

    anyone know what will happen if this technology is combined with http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/robots-evolve-to-exploit-inadvertent-cues and used for tasks such as food harvesting also, robo wars of the 2 technologies combined would be fun -- superfast and evolving bots...

  17. Re:Global climate change on Sunspots May Be Different During This Solar Minimum · · Score: 2

    global warming was done by us in order to survive the next ice age(there will be none as the extra greenhouse gases will trap more of the heat, so even what should be an ice age would be normal weather) infact thats why our fossil fuels are running out now, they were planned in such a way that the reserves would end at a time near the beggining of the ice age...

  18. Re:Obvious on Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Out of curiosity, which languages are these? I've been writing commercial software for 15 years. I try to learn a new language each year (ruby in 2006, php in 2008, python in 2009). But I currently have very little idea what "more safe" or "less safe" mean when describing a computer language. Any pointers?

    the safer languages have no pointers.....

  19. Re:What's a C student at Monroe College? on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 1

    2.2 on a 4 ,5 or 10 point scale??

  20. Re:Come an emergency... on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    imagine this situation:

    i have done a particular topic in high school, then in 1st year of college as well, now when it is being repeated in 2nd year, maybe i just want to sit at the back of class while passively listening to the lecture to know if there is something new and when the new part comes i can write it down/pay attention

    eg:-

    done OOPS and classes in 12th class
    now in 2nd year the same stuff is being done so you read a book, but as you are also passively listening, you notice that a particular topic in classes was not done earlier so you stop reading for a while and understand that , then go back to your book

  21. Re:Marketing 101 - spin paranoia on Up To 10% of CD-Rs Fail Within a Few Years · · Score: 1

    yeah, some of my 10 year old CD's were from no-name brands and after spending 3-4 years in a place with extreme weather( temp 40C to 10C, sometimes in the same day and 10-90%RH),the data layer from most of them started to peel off

    some other even older ones, again from this noname brand, stored very carefully in an airtight bag were perfect, they were taken out only once in 4 yrs so that i would make a new copy of them incase anything went bad with the old ones, nothing ever happened

    also, the ones that failed were burnt at 52x, but the ones that lasted were at 4x

  22. privacy nd data security?? on The Pirate Bay to Become a Distributed Storage Cloud? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    what happens if someone formats their pc nd the cloud data on it as well??

    also, it might be possible to access the data stored by the cloud on ur pc...

    couldnt this also be used as a botnet for DDos attacks if it is hacked??

  23. Re:Wait until health insurance companies hear this on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 1

    and life insurance companies would charge the active people more as they walk/cycle more and ate therefore at a higher risk of getting run over by a vehicle...

  24. Re:no need of restrictions then on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    the bosses would get personal laptops with IE8...

  25. Re:Still mandatory where I work on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    cant firefox be installed on a system with IE6 and IEtab used for the intranet apps, while firefox used for internet??