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  1. Invisible Hardware on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1

    By that I mean the machine will be so fast and powerful you will not know (or care) about the hardware that comprises it.

    Chipset? Who cares when the thing could fully model a tornado as a background task while doing the rendering for Finding Nemo in real time? Oh yeah... AND performing your daily tasks: playing your tunes, surfing whatever the net has become, and automatically updating its kernel (if a kernel still exists then).

    Software too - I run both XP and Linux, and if set up correctly it really is kind of transparent (Ok, so the Windows do look different, and drive volumes are labled differently).

    I expect that using a computer will become more cognitive: currently you have to think like the computer - the computer doesn't adapt to your thinking (regardless of what Apple says).

    One last thing: no more moving parts in the persistant storage, please.

  2. Re:To all you laughing at this, it happened to me on Identity Theft Countermeasures? · · Score: 1

    Great idea, unfortunately the burden of proof falls on the victim in cases of fraud.

  3. News flash: brainy geeks and jocks have BO! on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 2, Funny


    How long did it take them to figure this out?

  4. Re:This guy ruined it for the rest of them on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Microsoft wrote Blaster themselves, intentionally keeping in realtively innocent.

    Consipracy theory anyone?

  5. Re:Weird timing... on Identity Theft Countermeasures? · · Score: 1

    Take them to court, compare social security numbers, case dismissed.

  6. Re:My identity WAS stolen... on Identity Theft Countermeasures? · · Score: 1

    When you apply for a passport, don't you have to do it at a government office? Or a post office?

    I applied at the post office. My information never left the custody of the federal government.

    If this happenned to you why did the POLICE investigate? The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service should have notified - and they WOULD intestigate.

  7. Signatures on Identity Theft Countermeasures? · · Score: 1

    I have had checks clear that I have forgaotten to sign.

    To answer your question.... Yes, they had a completely BLANK sig line and cleared anyway.

    After that I did an experiement: instead of a sig, I drew a little picture on the sig line (smiley faces). Result? Check cleared.

    Makes you wonder why they even bother with the sig line any more.

  8. OK, Linux is not Unix... on Linux and the Unix Philosophy · · Score: 1

    ...but is Linus a eunuch?

    ??

  9. Re:"svchost.exe has generated errors..." on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 1

    Ok - I get it now.... sometimes it take me a while - much like Little Larry in The Big Lobowsky.

  10. Re:Affecting copy/paste? on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 1

    I had that - could not copy/paste short cuts to the desktop.

    Also, could not drag and drop (d/d uses the clipboard).

  11. Re:"svchost.exe has generated errors..." on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 1

    Not true - I get these errors (2000) and haven't applied the patch or tried to remove it yet.

  12. A few tips for tech support rep success on Consumer Reports Discovers Tech Support Sucks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) Before coming to work, make the idiotic assumption that only highly experienced power users will need help

    2) Make fun of the people who call with your coworkers - after all, it isn't that YOUR COMPANIES PRODUCT sucks... it must be that the people calling for help are stupid

    3) Laugh as you get the pink slip and someone in India takes your job

  13. Extroverts get all the chicks.... on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but the perverts have the most fun with them.

    Sorry introverts.

  14. Re:Plenty of US programming jobs... forever.... on The Career Programmer · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the commanding officer of the Iraqi Republican Guard Medina Division would agree with you.

    Probably not, since he is dead.

  15. Re:Plenty of US programming jobs... forever.... on The Career Programmer · · Score: 1

    Then I suggest taking a nap.

  16. Re:It worked for cable TV on Will Internet Users Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    Well, true - but my wallet only cares about one level of indirection.

  17. Re:It worked for cable TV on Will Internet Users Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    Who is complaining? I am just pointing out the obvious: that people will pay for content - even if that content is a commercial.

  18. Re:It worked for cable TV on Will Internet Users Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    This is true - I have a black and white in my basement that I plugged in one day and started watching.

    When I say plugged in - I mean into the power outlet. Nothing else. Not rabbit ears or foil.

    Beautiful (BW) picture... and I get exactly two stations. But hey, it IS free!

  19. Plenty of US programming jobs... forever.... on The Career Programmer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...if you have a security clearance.

    There is development going on here that will never EVER be shipped overseas.

  20. It worked for cable TV on Will Internet Users Pay for Content? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We USED to get all TV for free.

    THEN we paid for cable - but that was ok because we got out boobs, 4 letter words, and gore... commercial free.

    NOW we pay MORE for cable, get twice the commercials, and have to watch edited versions of many movies.

    Go figure.

    So to those who say we will never pay for content on the net... what are you watching tonight, and how much are you paying again?

  21. Re:IBM going to buy AMD? on AMD Buys Pre-VIA Cyrix Media-GX Division · · Score: 1

    Assmebly and test sites:

    San Jose, Costa Rica
    Shanghai, China
    Kulim, Malaysia
    Penang, Malaysia

    http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/manufacturin g/ manufacturing_at_a_glance.pdf

  22. Re:IBM going to buy AMD? on AMD Buys Pre-VIA Cyrix Media-GX Division · · Score: 1

    Intel FAB's

    Chandler, Arizona
    Santa Clara, CA
    Colorado Springs, CO
    Leixlip, Ireland
    Jersusalem, Israel
    Qiryat Gat, Israel
    Houston, Mass
    Hillsboro, Oregon

  23. Next time, refer to a legal dictionary... on Who Owns Source Code When a Company Folds? · · Score: 1

    ...not Websters.

  24. Just what I want.... on Part Two: Technical Self-Employment For All · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...an unemployed (God knows the real reason why), person off the street working on my network... while he is learning his job via OJT.

    Wonderful.

  25. Re:Dammit, why not port the Win32 API to Linux? on Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney · · Score: 1

    So it is!

    All this time I thought it was simply an emulator.