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  1. Wont be included in MYSQL... on Google Releases MySQL Enhancements · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MySQL is dual licensed so if they add this code they can't sell their product under another license..

  2. Re:Plants on other planets on When the Earth Was Purple · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that the only thing to look for is patterns which we don't believe could occur in nature
    Like life?
  3. Green is the new Purple on When the Earth Was Purple · · Score: 4, Funny

    Green is the new purple, completly off topic but a scary resemblance.

  4. Re:Flickr? on Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    What is this some kind of old geezer reunion.

  5. Re:Benevolent Dictators Helpful on Fragmentation in Linux Documentation? · · Score: 1

    Trivial... Reading the permission table in drupal is a job for ten legal experts. Drupal gives admins the possibility to give permission, but it usually just hinder creativity, and in the end it gets you no where.

  6. Re:epaper on Finding a Display You Can Read in the Sun? · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to use a mobilephone outside? Trust Motorola to come up with useless concepts, I don't see SonyEricsson or Nokia doing stuff like outdoor phones.. Phew!

  7. XXX and american thing on ICANN Wants Immunity · · Score: 1

    I've never seen XXX anywhere eles than in the US. Now I'm not much of a porn buyer, but for me XXX means alcohol as much as it means porn.

  8. Re:It's not just the installation on Drive-By Internet In Hard-To-Reach Places · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comunity launched satellite.. ;-) Every one helps in throwing it up to orbit..

  9. Re:The last mile on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    Yes you have almost no suburban sprawl in Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

  10. Great editor but the C parser sucks on TextMate · · Score: 1

    I love textmate it's alot better than emacs UI wise, but the C parser really suck. It can't parse this:

    int main(int argc,
    char *argv[])
    {}


    the main function will not be found.

  11. Re:This whole article is an embarrassment to Slash on AppleTV Hits the Streets · · Score: 1

    H.264 is sweet, it's alot better than divs/xvid. I really hope people will start encode pirated shows more frequently.

  12. Re:Business advice on Strange Bedfellows Fight Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    Part of the issue is that farming is generally a very chemical rich bussiness, that means more corn fields give more pesticide in your drinking water.

  13. Re:Travel as light as you possibly can on Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? · · Score: 1

    I took my Palm and a fullsize keyboard add on when I was traveling in South America. And that worked out pretty fine.. But even that was abit to big, to carry around all the time. In the end the recharger was stolen, so I ended up carying around a dead brick for 4 months.

  14. I pay on Unlimited Wireless Plans Coming · · Score: 1

    25/month for 3.6Mbits unlimited plan, wireless all over Stockholm. At the moment there's no problem with it at all. Though I wish I could configure it to automatically switch over to my WLAN when I'm at home, now I just continue to surf on the 3G network..

  15. Re:How much data could you store.. on Data Storing Bacteria Could Last Millennia · · Score: 1
    Searched abit and found these.
  16. How much data could you store.. on Data Storing Bacteria Could Last Millennia · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well I guess you need alot of error checking and all that, and lets simplfiy it by saying that all of those 100b can be used to store data. That would mean about 7 Terbytes of data stored in 2^40 (10^24) bacteria, if you put these bacterias in a long single line you will get something that's 11 kilometers long.

    Bacteria diameter: 0.1 micrometer
    Sequence ID (SID): 40 bits
    Databits (D): 60 bits
    Maxstorage: 2^SID*D about 7680 Gigabytes

    this is not even pseudoscience.. ;-)

  17. Re:Play HD Content on Xbox Hypervisor Security Protection Hacked · · Score: 1

    Well XBMC is more polished that's why it's nicer to use. I have almost no problem with mythTV but the XBMC is limited in what it can do which means it must have been easier to get the right user experience.

  18. Re:Backwards. on One Desktop per Child - miniPCs for Schools? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And that's exactly what the article does, it says the children need away to search data in the class rooms, they only need firefox for this. So, Lets build a cheap wifi computer that they can easily use in classrooms, and that are mobile enough that you don't need 30 computers per classroom.

  19. Re:I don't get it. on 1 Million OLPCs Already On Order · · Score: 1

    Think if all the Nigerian children had access to internet, perhaps then we would be oversaturated with 419 scams, and people would get some commonsense.

    (I actually do hope they will take advantage of people in the rich world. Sadly I'm guessing almost all of these children are to decent for that)

  20. Re:Why NOT sell them commercially? on 1 Million OLPCs Already On Order · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OLPC has stated that it doesn't want to get into the commercial distribution game, it's a tricky thing sales and distribution is a big cost for most companies.. You know, they just want to order them from a generic plant in Taiwan/China and then dump them in a container with a big fat "Lybia" sticker on the side. This is very different from the business of delivering and marketing a PC for the masses like DELL does.

    When you order from Dell take a look at what they charge for shipping, I was going to pay 150euros for shipping a 200 euro computer.. that's alot...

  21. They will Jump out from the urlbar on 1 Million OLPCs Already On Order · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Umm but what about from child predators??
    There will be sickos trying to establish contact with kids over there.


    I wonder how many child predators can hide in a hidden URL bar?
  22. Re:Baldur's Gate and NWN on Why Computer RPGs Waste Your Time · · Score: 1

    Extra extra read all about it The Noob explains, RPGs are meaningess

  23. He spent virtually all waking hours playing CS on Germany Wants EU to Ban Violent Games · · Score: 1

    You know perhaps the issue is about a young man playing to much computer games (I'm guessing 8 hours to 14 hours a day)... I played alot of Quake ten years ago, and got very good at it, well you have to get good if you play 8 hours a day for a couple of months. But you can't play that much without getting into somek ind of trouble, e.g. not doing everything you should in school, moving around less.

    There are several reactions you can have when you discover that you are playing to much, either you stop, or you play more and more. The "I will shoot down all my classmates" reaction, is pretty long down that list, though.

  24. Cost per Page on Vending Machine For Books Coming Next Year · · Score: 1

    What I never get about these prin on demand things is how can they get the cost per page down. E.g. Laser printers may have a cost per page at about 0.05 cents, that would mean $27 for one 550 page book, that excludes the hardcover. Even if this thing 50% cheaper it's still very expensive..

    But... When I was viisting South America there were lots of copy shops that printed A4 on both sides for 0.10 bolivianos * 275 page = $3.3, that's almost cheap enough. But these photocopiers were analog monster tuned and pruned, made from easily maintained parts with cheap ink.

  25. Re:Looking for a cheaper commercial version on Brain Wave Videogame Championship · · Score: 1

    When this game was developed, must have been in 1999 or something, at Interactive institute I think they paid around $2000 or $4000 for the EEG sensors. I remember thinking well that's bargain when they mention the price. The most expensive thing at the time was to build the machinery to movea physicall ball back and forward on a table, I think they used a Metallic ball and a magnet. The current version with LEDs is alot better.. ;-)

    So you shouldn't have to pay more than $1000 for an EEG now days.