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  1. Re:O_o on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    One wasnt a proper Beatles Albumn if you want to hear the difference in the songs compare Revolver with say the white Album. They are both different sounding yet both are amazing albums.

  2. Re:Computers don't crash on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its a well know HCI concept that people learn by trail and error so its really a design flaw in the program if user error causes a crash

  3. Samsung on Are Printers What They Used To Be? · · Score: 1

    Samsung are doing a line of really cheap lasers I got mine for £99.99 with two free toner cartrages giving me 3000 sheet straight off. Since then Ive used it fairly consistantly to print off reports webpages articals etc it has let me down in fact I was impressed with the quality both in build and printing from such a cheap printer.

  4. Re:Buffy who? on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    The best SMG moment must be the lesbian kiss scene in Cruel Intentions. I kinda like her with dark hair as well.

  5. Re:Will There Be a EUian Counterpart? on Saving Digital History · · Score: 1

    No thanks I dont think the fall out would be too nice for the UK or teh US for that matter, plus its one thing to take on stone age powers but I thin the US might find taking on fellow Nuclear powers like France (or China for that matter) a trival occurance.

  6. Im sticking with 11b on WiFi Woes With .11g · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At least until all the standards are sorted out Im going to stick with 802.11b. I know its not exactly blasteringly fast, but manily I just like to surf on my laptop or pda its certainly faster than any internet connection I have access to.
    Added to the most of the sites (not websites real places!) have 11b wireless. Personally until 11g or some other backwards compatible solution proliferates I would rather be compatable than quick.

  7. Re:New Media Doesn't Last on Saving Digital History · · Score: 1

    Its so true take teh doomsday book as an example the origonal text survives (albiet in a dead language latin) where as the BBC project from the 1980s need to be resqueued only a two decades after it was compiled

  8. Re:Will There Be a EUian Counterpart? on Saving Digital History · · Score: 1

    I hope so, the world dosnt revolve around the United States you know. Oh its not EUian it would be an EU counter part.

  9. BT Already Put limits Ages ago on UK ISP Imposes Download Limits · · Score: 1

    Remember BT anytime used to have the advert use the internet anytime whenever you want, well now its bt anytime 150 hours per month.
    I hear tell limits for bt openworld adsl are in teh piple line too. :-(

  10. Re:ohhh maaaan on Xmingwin For Cross Generation Applications · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Im not sure I agree, wine/winex helps to windows apps in Linux and helps to give Linux a higher profile. I dont think its existance stops the adoption of or the production of apps for Linux.
    I would have thought the more choice and flexibility the better.

  11. Unix on IBM Calls Linux "Logical Successor" To AIX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Considering IBM were one of the companies who helped splinter Unix in the first place is it a good idea to pin the future of linux on them.
    Also dont they have a mjority stakholding in SuSE practically the only distrobution you cant download iso for?

  12. If only on Why Project Gutenberg Isn't There Yet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would make life some much easier if I could search an online library rather than searching the library index. Just think how much space we could save as well rather than shelves full of books that are basically dead weight 95% of the time.
    I think copyrights got to be the biggest hurdle, publishing houses arnt easily going to be perswaded to put oh say the next harry potter book online for free and risk losing millions

  13. Re:Generally, looks to be the right idea; watch ou on Virtual Volunteering · · Score: 1

    Not that I want to spoil a rather good argument but isnt the US the biggest polluter in the world consuming over a 1/4 of the worlds energy for only a small fraction of its population?
    Also didnt the rich US refuse to sign upto the Kyoto agreement?

  14. Re:One Word: Nanotechnology on Abrupt Climatic Change Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    Though we could change the gas mixture in the atmosphere other factors such as milankvich cycles have a much more profound effect on the climate.
    Also there are all sorts of feedback loops triggered in the event of climate change eg when it snows the fact that snow is more reflective means the suns rays are reflected and it gets colder still.
    Conversly if we heat up too much the seas evapourate releasing more greehouse gasses into the atmosphere making the planet hotter.

    My 2ps worth

  15. Re:Perhaps we have a bigger problem... on Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather · · Score: 1

    Yes but cars are on the ground and some pollutions is absorbed by foliage etc whereas aircraft emit is directly into the sky

  16. Re:*sighs deeply* Not true... on Another Reason to be Annoyed by Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I thought the idea was so you could see you keyring flash rather than have you phone ring at inapproipriate times.
    Its much easy and you look less stupid glancing at a tiny keyring than holding you mobile phone, although nowadays most phones have a vibrate functions which seem s to me to be the best solution.

  17. Re:As with most broadband modems... on Is Starband's Satellite Internet Service Palatable? · · Score: 1

    Chances are usb will work fine, I managed to get my Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem working with red hat 7.1 and Mandrake, its also pretty unlikely they will send you a usb2 modem as only the latest motherboards are equipped with it.
    I would spend some time researchin wether anybody else has got sat withing with linux though as most of these products are so tailiored to windows they dont work easily with anything else.

  18. Re:Programming a Dead End Job? on Is Programming a Dead End Job? · · Score: 1

    Well said. I agree with your comments

  19. Re:Try being 23 . . . on Is Programming a Dead End Job? · · Score: 1

    Where I used to work, MBA ,meant "Means Bug*ar All"

    All the ones I know are arrogant to the extreme - filled with their own self-importance

  20. Is Programming a Dead end job? on Is Programming a Dead End Job? · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. Until last week I was working as a freelance programmer for a large British utility. I had worked there for 4.5 years. My skills are C, C++, Pascal, OpenVMS, some Oracle and Tibco.

    The reason for my dismissal was "mismatch of skills". However the company was being taken over.

    I am now 53 years old. I have enjoyed programming since the 1970's, having worked on chip design software, printed circuit design and testing software as well as 3D modelling, artificial intelligence and telecoms.

    Between 1992 and 1995 I was out of work because of a serious illness (there was also a recession in the UK), but I managed to find work continuously since then until now. Hopefully the assignment I have just finished will not be my last. I still have plenty of intellectual ability in me as well as motivation to succeed.

  21. Re:No ideas of their own? on Stallman on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I think if you can prove you created somehting before it was pateneted you can overturn the patent.