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  1. You're thinking MacOSX on Microsoft's Ancient History w/ Unix · · Score: 2

    It runs on the mach kernal, BSD & all that.

  2. F15 came out in reaction to the MiG-25 on US & Russia Show Off New Rocket Designs · · Score: 2

    You got things the wrong way arround.

    The MiG-29 is the Russian answer to the F18, while the Su-27 was their answer to the F15 & the Su-33 is the Russian answer to the F14.

    & the Su-32/Su-34 is the Russian answer to the F15D Strike Eagle.

    Its a generational thing, each side takes turns being on top

  3. But look how afraid the US is of war casualties on Soviet Moon Rocket · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Someone blows up a USMC base in Lebanon they run home with their tails between they're legs.

    Same again in Somalia.

    Look at the Kosovan campaign where servicemen weren't allowevdbelow 30000 feet & where the Apaches were barred from crossing the border because they were afraid of even risking casualties.

    Really the best thing that could happen to the US in Afghanistan is for the US to have lots of battle casualties & then stick it out to the end. That show 'em.

  4. That's how they test & develop them on Soviet Moon Rocket · · Score: 2

    It even goes back to the war when Russia would test prototype fighters in the field on the front.

  5. You're forget logic/IO chipset drivers on ATX PPC Motherboards from Eyetech · · Score: 2

    If no one makes MacOSX chipset drivers (you know like the VIA 4in1) for IBM's OpenPPC platform chipset or whatever chipset the boards use, you're going to have buggerall luck loading MacOSX.

    Especially when you take into account that Windows already has rudimentry VIA chipset drivers built in (the VIA 4in1s just add more functionality/compatibility/performance at the cost of occasionally fucking things up). Otherwise odds are Windows would not load fullstop.

    Look how after Intel bought into BeInc, BeInc refused to reverse engineer post beige G3 MacOS chipset drivers (using the escuse it was patented/copyrighted/whatever, but they could of just reversed engineered the Linux PPC chipset drivers that were post beige compatible) making new PPC hardware off limits

  6. cops 'n robbers stuff on Review: Showtime · · Score: 2

    Heat, Ronin, etc are not serious movies.

    Action movies are action movies, ie you arn't meant to take them seriously.

    If you were to take either of the above movies seriously you'd keep wondering why the automatic firearms don't run out of bullets after 3 seconds.

    600 rounds per minute = 100 rounds per 10 seconds = magazine load of bullets last 3 seconds on average automatic with 30 round mag.

    So people blasting away with automatic firearms for heaven knows how long = equals movie that aint serious.

  7. Open Office & K Office should then merge on KOffice Team: A Handful of Coders, a Lot of Code · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Problem solved

    Its easier to be a part of a duopoly than fight a monopoly.

  8. You're mixing up business names & product name on Questions over the Windows Trademark · · Score: 2

    There's quite a bit of differeance.

  9. The secret to installing filters on PC Fan of the Future? · · Score: 2

    As the filter restricts air-flow, its best to make filter quite a bit bigger than the fan.

    Say you have a 80mm intake at the front, mounted to the main metal chassis. Then cut a 80mmx160mm hole in front plastic bevel, then screw in 2 80mm fab guards into the bevel & mount air-con filter foan behind the guards (mind you if you are going to modify the bevel you may as well cut a hole in the front chassis for a 12v@7v 120mm fan, so you get good cfm & good quietness)

    If you have a blowhole on the side, say a 120mm fan blowhole, then you cut a 150mm hole in the side & mount a 160mm diametre 16mm or 35mm movie film tin behind the hole (the wider the better, given the clearance). The film tin should have a 150mm hole on the back & a 120mm hole on its lid. Screw the back against the inner side panel of the case, using the 4 or 2 screws that mount the 150mm fan guard you re going to have on the opening of the case. Attach a 120mm fan to the outside of the lid of the film tin, using a fan guard that's mounted in such a way (using washers or something) so its as far a from the fans intake as clearance allows. Cut a 150mm circle of air-con filter foam & stick it inside the film tin that's screwed to the side of the case - once you slide the film tin lid in place onto the film tin's back, the raised up 120mm fan guard on the fan's intake will push the filter up against the 150mm fan guard on the case's side panel, pushing it away from the fan with enough clearance so that air will be sucked throughout the breadth of the 150mm filtered hole before going through the fan. So really this is just a 150mm blowhole using a 120mm fan, where there's a movie film tin being used as a filter box, between the fan & the 'hole'.

    Of course you must have enough clearance before you can use this 'movie film tin filter box' idea.

  10. No harm in asking on Build Your Own Roller Coaster · · Score: 2

    Its always worth a try

  11. Its not stealing if generics arn't illegal on Patent Nonsense · · Score: 2

    In those countries

  12. The double barrel repeater's the go on Rubber Band Machine Gun · · Score: 2
  13. Newscorp's Australian, Rupert's now an American on Vivendi Universal vs. News Corporation · · Score: 2

    Newscorp's actually an Australian company & a relatively old one at that.

    Mind you Murdoch got US citizenship to buy Fox

  14. Why the Yanks really dropped the bomb on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Arround August '95, the British Home Office & Foreign office, released many 1000s' of documents (classified under the official secrets act),pertaining to the war, as their 50 year status had expired - There maybe many other secrets about the war, we have yet to find out about, as apparently there are many other documents that were classified for 100 years.

    What happened was that when the Germans invaded Poland, the Russians moved in & took the Eastern half - Mad Adulf & Uncle Joe had got Ribbentrop & Molotov to work this senario out, when they were together signing their little non-agression pact, earlier on. After the invasion the Poles formed a 'Goverment in Exile' in France, which later moved to the UK. The Western allies recognised them as the official Polish goverment. Meanwhile the Russians had made their own Polish Communist cronies form their own Polish Goverment in Eastern Poland, which they had intergrated into USSR as another Soviet Republic (well what was left of Eastern Poland after they gave a bit to the Belarus SSR, & another bit to the Ukrainian SSR). Well after Operation Barbarossa (the German invasion of Russia), these Polish communists were forced to run back to Uncle Joe in Moscow, & form their own Polish 'Goverment in Exile' in Russia proper. So now we had 2 Polish Goverments in exile.

    Well any way, during their many pow-wows together, FDR, Winnie & Uncle Joe finally agreed that the post war Polish Goverment should include representitives from both Polish pretenders, in London & Lublin. By arround the Summer of '44 Hitler's panzers were in full retreat & there were already Soviet T34s' rolling into the suburbs of Warsaw, across the Vistula from Warsaw proper. The Russian radio stations were beaming across the frontier telling the Poles to revolt, to speed up their liberation from the Nasis'. The Polish exiles in London saw their chance & ordered the Home Army in Poland to revolt against the German occupiers. A funny thing then happen, the Red Army all of a sudden ground to a halt at the Vistula, thereby giving the Germans a free hand to crush the Warsaw Uprising. Once the Uprising was over the Russian T34 tanks then moved forward again & 'liberated' Warsaw. Stalin then 'forgot' about his agreament, & had his Lublin exiles form a goverment on their own. When some of the London exiles flew over to join them, having no Home Army to protect them, they promptly dissappeared. Winnie & FDR (& later Truman) were enraged.

    Meanwhile in the Pacific, things weren't going well for the Japanese, & by the early Summer of '45 & the German defeat, they knew there time was up. So the Imperial Goverment started to send out surrender feelers to the allies, via the Russian & Swiss Embassies (Russian did not enter the war with Japan till August) - this was 3 months before Hiroshima. They included only one condition amongst their surrender terms - that they be aloud to keep their Emporer. These were rejected, even though (as the secret war ministry documents show) the US had already decided that the Japanese could keep their Emporer after the war; as it would then be less likely for a communist Goverment to form there. Seeing as Stalin had agreed years earlier, that he would enter the war against Japan, 3 months after Germany surrended, you can see why Truman & Churchill were so concern. Especially when you considered what happened with Poland.

    Well any way beacause of what Stalin did to Poland, Churchill & Truman decided to show that they had 'Mojo' to equal Stalins red Army 'Mojo' (you got to remember that the Western Armies were nothing compared to the Red Army then - to every German Soldier fighting the Western allies, there were another 10 fighting on the Eastern front - there was no way even D-Day would have been successful if the Russians werent tying down so many German men. Plus the allies had nothing to compare with the 1000s' of Russian T34, KV & JS tanks, other than almost obsolete Shermans, & much smaller numbers too.). So Churchill obliterated Dresden with his 'Mojo' - RAF's Bomber Command, & Truman was advised by Stimson or paterson (I forget which) to reject Japans surrender feelers, so he could demenstrate his 'Mojo', through nuking Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

    The War Ministry papers also show that the nukes, were not even the main reason for their unconditional surrender to the US, but just a face saving way out, as the Russians had by now entered the war against Japan & Marshal Zukhov's Red armies had just Blitzkreiged the whole of Manchuria & Korea, & also crossed over & taken Sakhalin & the Kuril Islands, so were now within sight of Japan itself. After taking 2 million Japanese prisoners, including over 150 generals & 'liberating' more land from Japanese occupation than the Americans, Australians & British had in the previous 4 years of war. There was one thing the Japanese top brass feared more than unconditional surrender to the Americans, & that was an invasion by the Red Army.

    Another swaying facter in the droping of the bomb was that it cost 2 billion to develop, & Truman was worried what the publics reaction would be if the secret of the bomb (& its cost) ever came out, without him actually using it. Afterall news of the Baatam death march, etc, had just filtered through to the American public in the preceeding months.

    War is war, & the reality is there's no rules in war but the rules of the victors. Afterall Dresden, Hiroshima & Nagasaki was just as bad as any of the 'war crimes' of the Nasis or the Nips - mind you, revenge is sweet.

    Thats why I dont beleive Japan should have to pay compensation for war crimes (such as what the British veterans & the Korean woman want), otherwise the US should have to pay compensation for the nukes, & the Brits for Dresden etc. Also it was up to the goverments of the day to set reparation claims when Japans signed formal peace traeties with the 48 allied nations in '52. In other words the Korean Women & the British veterans etc should really be now sueing their own goverments now & not Japan, as those govts signed over those rights in 52.

    BTW, this is not revisionist history as I'm not trying to put todays slant on past events, using modern attitudes. As I said before this all came out when the British war ministry released many documents that were classified under the 50 year rule.

  15. Politics that's all on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 2

    If the allies weren't so hell bent on unconditional surrender (for political reasons) its pretty well considered by many experts the the Japanese would have met surrender terms not long after Saipam.

    Actually the Japs knew they were beat by Midway, but even then the Japs were still hoping for surrender terms that recognised their conquests in China. Japan Actually had no intention of ever invading Australia, India or the US - they went to war hoping they could quickly force the allies to accept their terms for peace - recognise the Japanese conquests in China & accept Japanese puppet regimes in the Philipines, Indochina, Malaya & the East Indies. By Midway they had given up on the allies accepting terms on the puppet states & just wanted the China conquests recognised, which was still quite rightly unacceptable to the allies. By Saipan their hoped for terms were that the allies would refrain from using the term 'unconditional surrender' (the Japanese obsession with 'face' is obvious here), that their monarchy was untouchable & that they were willing to negotiate in regards to Japanese rule in Manchuria & Korea. By the fall of Germany the Japanese only had one condition left - the monarchy must remain.

    The Japs knew they well 'n truelly beat by Saipan (just read any of the Japanese War ministry papers that were released about 5 years ago), gez by then their war production wasn't even replacing loses by 15% or something, let alone matching war loses, or matching the allies. Even the Aussies alone were almost matching the Japanese in war production (exluding capital ships 'n subs) by then. The Japanese only kept fighting because unconditional surrender was unacceptable (actually unconditional surrender's quite rare in war) as they saw it as a risk to their monarchy.

    This shows the allies were putting politics before ending the war quickly.

    So if they weren't worried about what the voters thought they could have had the Japanese meeting surrender terms not long after Saipan.

    Actually the whole 'unconditional surrender' thing started as a policy of faith by Roosevelt & Churchill to Stalin. It became policy in regards to the Nazi regime as an attempt to relieve Stalin's concern/worries/paranoia about the West unilaterally negotiating terms with Hitler. The unconditional surrender policy was only extended to include the Japanese to satisfy American voters, who would otherwise ask 'why are the Germans expected to surrender unconditionally & not the Japs when it was the Japs that attacked us'.

  16. stop sulking on Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown · · Score: 2

    who cares?

    If Gnucleus wanted credit they should have used the BSD license

  17. grow up on Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    & stop spitting the dummy

    You are going on about this as if it effects your survival or something.

    Stop being silly & move on

  18. no requirement in the GPL on Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown · · Score: 2

    Only that they provide source which they do.
    Why are you so fustered about all this, as if it means anything?

    Ig Gnucleus wanted credit they should have used the old BSD license or created their own opensource license.

  19. no credit clause in the GPL on Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown · · Score: 2

    You're referring to the BSD license.

  20. That's opensource in a nutshell on Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown · · Score: 2

    I'd say less than 1% of people who use opensource code add to it.

  21. WTO process is too slow on Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown · · Score: 2

    to keep up.

    Besides as far as the WTO is concerned, member countries are only required to have civil legislation concerning copyright infringements, not criminal legislation, just like patent law.

    This means (AFA the WTO is concerned) govts don't have to do anything but not get in the way if a copyright holder decides to sue a copyright infringer, by which time they have moved on.

  22. Re:kegs of beer on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 2

    Parties by English rock stars in the 70's

  23. kegs of beer on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 4, Funny

    & dwarfs walking arround with bowls of cocaine balanced on their heads

    Ywh I know its been done before.

  24. Yep openFT/giFT EXEs, MSIs, PKGs & RPMs are ne on Morpheus DOS'd and Moving to Gnutella · · Score: 1

    Otherwise you'll never have more than 65 people using it.

    (now I got the title right)

  25. Yep openFT,giFT EXEs, MSIs, PKGs & RPMs are ne on Morpheus DOS'd and Moving to Gnutella · · Score: 1

    Otherwise you'll never have more than 65 people using it.