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  1. Re:Depends if they are idiots or not on Apple Moves to All Dual-Processor Power Mac Lineup · · Score: 1

    I think that game support is a tossup. especially if you consider WineX. Of course I play mostly Enemy Territory, Urban Terror, or the Game Cube, so I may not be a good judge. I played Puzzle Pirates for a while too.

  2. Re:I wonder on Google vs. Yahoo: On a Collision Course · · Score: 1

    They actually need to improve their routing algorithems before they worry about expanding. I have used the google directions twice and both times had issues, though other services may be as bad for the same route I am 0 for 2 on google and 45 for 50 on other services.

  3. Re:I wonder on Google vs. Yahoo: On a Collision Course · · Score: 1

    Google maps was like no other map service I had used. It was definatly innovation over mapquest or yahoo! maps.

    It's funny because I was using WorldWind for my roadmaps because of the interface and then google maps comes days later and works the same with very beautifully drawn maps moving around and showing enough at a time to be usable.

  4. Re:640x480 gaming on AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Review · · Score: 1

    MB tests may be silly now, but the first few I personally saw showed 5-10 percent differences. This was in Legacy Free vs boards with ISA slots.

  5. Re:A constant battle on Major Blow to Opponents of Software Patents in EU · · Score: 1

    It should be Patants, and they should provide source code in the Patants and if you do the same thing differently it is fine.

    The problem with software patents is that they are overly vague and broad often time describing concepts that are old.

  6. Re:Take THAT, space science nay-sayers! on Glass In Spaaaaace · · Score: 1

    OK, I admit, the only ride I know uses it is the Disney Tower of Terror. And that is only anecdotaly.

  7. Re:heh on EFF: 48 Hours to Stop the Broadcast Flag · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wouldn't it be really great if compromises reached by representitives of different people could be undermined by the president. I was always hoping that the checks and balances could be removed from our system.

    As much as they are abused there is a reason many things can be put in a bill. It is so a consecion can be made to the other side and things can keep moving along.

  8. Re:Nice development on OpenUsability and KDE: Cooperating on KPDF · · Score: 1

    A case of what you are talking about to the extreme I will share as a cautionary tale to programmers.

    Quark Xpress has a problem where it gives errors to the efffect of "object not on clip board ..." and forces you to re-enter a value, if I would be alloud to finish changing value before it gave the error I could have a working box much more easy.

  9. Re:Take THAT, space science nay-sayers! on Glass In Spaaaaace · · Score: 1

    I believe many of these rides are accelerated down to help achieve free fall speeds. Mainly to counteract other sources of friction.

    The same goes for your hypothetical minute of "freefall", Without some downward force (or a vacume tube) there will be a need to force or pull down the object to keep it accelerating with gravety.

  10. Re:stop thinking logically on Open Sourcing Software in a Large Corporation? · · Score: 1

    Plus, any improvements that competitors make will likley not be distributed and released.

  11. Re:Oh, the Irony! on Spyware Floods in Through BitTorrent · · Score: 1, Informative

    reboot in safe mode with command prompt and delete the file.

    If you are uncomfortable with DOS then use WindowsKey+E to open an explorer window.

  12. Re:Internet changes things, right? on Google Scholar: Not Ready for Prime Time? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Peer Review

    The interent is great for sharing information, but someone needs to pay to have stuff reviewed, and that is why they still have an industry, it's not what they publish, it's what they don't. Even if they get rid of the printed matierial the same companies will be charging for the articles to pay for the review.

    Of course they publish fake articles too, so maybe the review isn't so important. Also the review may be volenteer in which case it is only bandwidth.

  13. Re:The Hypervisor will use 'em, I tell ya! on AMD Quad Cores, Oh My · · Score: 1

    An order of magnatude is a zero.

    As in you said 1000-1000000 less.

    I am not a grammer Nazi, but this is misleading and using strongly defined words (phrases).

  14. Re:This seems like a dumb move. on The Revolution Will Not Be HD · · Score: 1

    Isn't the rollout something like 5 years late?

    I hardly call that more aggressive.

  15. Re:No surprise on HHS Signs Major Linux Deal With Novell · · Score: 1

    Well I could say Beta, tape less then a movie, VHS tape a full movie.

    Microsoft, unified directory less then Fortune 500 company, Novell Unified Directory big enough.

    PS multiple masters are not unified.

    Later Beta tapes fixed this, but it was too late, the reputation was there. MS exists on closed "standards" and VHS thrived due to an open standard.

  16. Re:Best idea ever on Some Revolution Downloads Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    Is there any emulator that doesn't support savestates?

    Midway arcade collections, Atari 25th Aniversery, Sega Classics, and any other commercial emulator I ever used did not allow state saves.

  17. Re:Chillax? on w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word · · Score: 1

    Never heard it, but sounds like chill and relax too me.

    I did not RTFA so if it is defined mod me down.

  18. Re:Why not Linux? on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 1

    If I need to add more RAM is that just working ?

    P.S. I did add the RAM, and then it worked, after buying RAM, and opening up the case and adding it.

  19. Re:Legislated to Oblivion on Using Wikis to Catch Outdated and Bad Laws? · · Score: 1

    Why does the constitution only apply to citizens though (on the holding)?

    it is the Bill of Rights, and everyone should have them, they are rights and not privledges of US citizens.

  20. Re:Why not Linux? on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 1

    My power book runs crazy slow with OSX and it's not too old.

    On a far lower spec Compaq laptop Linux runs far better (albiet with a GUI that could justifyably be called hard to use). Maybe our idea of "Just Working" is different, but opening an email app and a web-browser should not cause massive slow down, and I would say any machine that runs OSX with only 128MB of ram is a far cry from just working. I deffinatly spend more time waiting for swap then I spent entering in a few wizards during a Linux install (even thought they were scary text based diolog boxes).

  21. Re:Doesn't work on GeForce MX440 on Review - Lego Star Wars · · Score: 1

    I'm not the kind of guy who can open up computers and fiddle with the insides, so I can't do anything about it.

    If you can do Legos you can fiddle with the insides of a computer. The computer is actually easier, everything only goes in it's propper place (excluding mouse and keyboards) so as long as you don't force it, and it fits, you are going to have it working.

    Also, if you have the up-to-date driver for your MX440 you probably don't need a driver if you buy an Nvidia card, making the card easier to install then a printer.

    The bigger concern would be if a computer came with such an outdated card a year ago, it is likly on board and non-upgradable (card is about equivelent to a card from early '02 (Geforce 2 TI 500)). This is about equivelent to a P4 2.0GHz except an updated graphis card is far more important for games.

    All this does not excuse the programers from doing whatever they did to make the game not run on an alder card, since all they are doing is moving plastic cubes with low texture (speculation). Especially for a family/gateway game since non-gamers were getting those cards in their new computers for a very long time.

  22. Re:Perific Dual Mouse on Top Mice Compared · · Score: 2, Funny


    3. Search for something which you would look at regardless how difficult it is to use the mouse (no suggestions, its up to you)
    4. Keep going for about three hours


    Ouch!

  23. Re:Pencil/Paper on A Cheap and Portable Word Processor? · · Score: 1

    That's why I want SimPuter.

    It looks to be all about orgonizing scribbles, not text.

    I emailed them about buying one (on their buy page) and never got a resonse, despite saying it was for everybody in the world and not just Indians in the who is it for page.

    You would think they would be looking for Amercican suckers since they arn't selling them in India apperently.

  24. Re:Good. Encryption is a tool too on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1

    So who is the co-conspiritor?

    Are you implying the programmers are a party to this crime? If this is the attitude of people who frequent /. the suprise is the judge was so lenient.

    I don't know how I feel about this, encryption is not a crime, but if there is a warrent for your computer not supplying the keys to examine its contents could be viewed as obsctruction of justice. I understand the desire to have things kept private, but the courts can do that if the evidence is irrelivent. This seems to me like Morgan-Stanley getting slammed for deleting their emails, only this guy is worse, because he can give people access to show his innocence (assuming he is since he wasn't proven guilty).

    I think certainly that someoen has a bunch of stuff they refuse to let you see after handing it over it is relevent. It would likewise be relevent if he had an uncrackable safe the propper size to hold a body and was on trial for murder, but neither is a case for conspiracy (unless safe makers are to be co-conspierators too).

  25. Re:Yard Sales.. on eBay sellers Told to Include GST · · Score: 1

    Two very good points.

    Stupid suburban me didn't even think about farmland (that could be worth WAY more then that even if it is close to a developement (my neighborhood was built in the 60's after being a farm and an acre is worth a lot more the $3k).

    I personally would not juggle the houses and just be thankful that I own two and get to make money as I sell one of them (even if the government that put me through school and built the highway that I commute on gets a piece of the action (I try not to dwell on how they fuck me)). I only mentioned it because I knew someone who did move back into a rental property on paper in order to sell it.