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  1. Re:WTF on Canon Tries To Shut Down "Fake" Canon Blog · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because this is one of their flagship products and it has according to early reports performed a bit sub-par?
    Canon

  2. Are we talking about the same? on "Microsaccades" Help To Refresh Your Field of View · · Score: 1
    I noticed that rapid eye movement already years ago.

    Until now I couldn't quite explain it, say there was this tall blond passing by my eyes would continuesly wander.
    Was it some large brunette it wouldn't happen but once only, even though I've always liked dark haired women best.

    But this study finally explains it, the big broad doesn't get lost from vision as easily as the slim blonde!
    Thanks for nature!

  3. Re:Times have changed on Dutch City Fears Loss of Pornography Archive · · Score: 1

    Mr. Krikke, presently in charge of the town's archive, has an appropriate name.
    In Dutch a krik is a jack and krikke(n) is the verb...

  4. Re:Will it fly? Sure It Will on Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops · · Score: 1

    Weird, I have ext2ifs installed on several XP and Vista systems without any problem what so ever.

    Last year there were compatibility issues with Truecrypt that would result in a BSOD but the latest versions have fixed this, maybe that's what you suffered?

  5. Re:How fast do we need? on Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native · · Score: 1

    Works fine on a 2core 2.7 GHz, with 2GB.

  6. Re:Cool. on Microsoft To Open Retail Stores · · Score: 1

    I'm tired of getting my Windows OEM version. Now I know where I can buy the full retail version. It cost 285 euros (incl. 19% sales tax), compared to the 109 OEM price.

    And they'd probably only give a 35 euro return on the not wanted or needed OEM version...

    The Microsoft store, the place to see crooks at work.

  7. Re:Bad for Linux on Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops · · Score: 1
    Linux was put on this machine specifically because it is faster than a full blown Windows. You can say a lot about the technical skills of a PHB but he'll get the message when running it.

    Besides, it won't just magically appear on his desk, he asked for it.

  8. Re:Will it fly? Sure It Will on Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops · · Score: 1

    Mounting an ext2/3 partition from Windows is completely transparent and not any harder than a FAT or NTFS one.

  9. Re:Will it fly? on Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops · · Score: 2, Informative

    The ext2/3 driver(s) for Windows are R/W.

  10. Re:Where's NTFS ? on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1

    Since about two years I use it to copy 250Gb hard disks with mixed content and have not found issues.

  11. Re:Perhaps they should have on I'm a PC and I'm 4-1/2 · · Score: 1
    You're joking right?

    Last time (a few days ago) that I installed XP pro I had to find a USB floppy drive to make the SATA drivers available!

    With all the reboots the whole process takes around 3 hrs. for a bare assed OS against 20-30 minutes for a Kubuntu install that includes the productivity tools.

  12. Re:I always try to give him benefit of the doubt. on I'm a PC and I'm 4-1/2 · · Score: 1
    No they didn't get it sorted.
    When I connect my Canon it comes up in explorer as a camera, all I want is the mass storage device it really is.
    This camera mode has all kinds of limitations like that it'll only open the files (photo's) in this Microsoft viewer, not in the one I set as default (Irfanview).

    But then I don't do much with Windows and Kubuntu gives me the option to open either in the file manager or DigiKam.

  13. Re:OP is a condescending poopoohead, and it shows. on I'm a PC and I'm 4-1/2 · · Score: 1
    And she only got out because the R&D lab is shutting down.

    Even though she's intimate with what else was released she's now making her own money in Marketing.

  14. Re:The plot thickens on I'm a PC and I'm 4-1/2 · · Score: 1

    Which brings up the question if someone is already working on an Silverlight extension to the Flashblock plug in?

  15. Re:They aren't investors on Microsoft Accused of Squandering Billions On R&D · · Score: 1

    No, more like a political decision to integrate IE in the core.

  16. Re:More bloat... on Firefox 3.2 Plans Include Natural Language, Themes · · Score: 1

    Having had a look at the site mentioned in the bug I'd say the problem is a combination of bad web design and you having a bad taste (and connection :) ).

  17. Re:What's an 'application' to a user? on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 1
    Would be quite funny when they (MS) counts MS Office as a single app. but when the user decides to edit one document in OO and the other in Excel it's suddenly two...

    The European Commission will be happy to give some guidance.

  18. Re:Bank balance on Sacrificing Accuracy For Speed and Efficiency In Processors · · Score: 1

    not to an accountant is isn't.

    Hmm, here in The Netherlands the tax man rounds up/off the next full euro.

    Meaning it all depends on the standards you set.
    As long as it's proven the lack of absolute accuracy is within the accepted limits and neutral I see no problems.

  19. Re:Bank balance on Sacrificing Accuracy For Speed and Efficiency In Processors · · Score: 1
    Don't get upset about a cent.
    In NW Europe the cent has all but disappeared from the shops, for example in Finland they haven't even bothered to mint them when the euro came about and in The Netherlands shops routinely display a sticker stating they round up/off to the nearest 5 cents for cash transactions (cash is the exception anyway).
    Because these small differences work out to be neutral over several bills no-one is complaining but instead all are happy with the time saved at the check out.

    Now if some mathematician can make a water tight case the low-power process is going to be neutral over a larger number of transactions i don't see a problem, even in private finances with say a 5 nines accuracy.

  20. Linux is ready, KDE4.2 is not on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This is more or less what I'm since a few years experiencing when someone needs to use my computer, I just point out the usual applications and nearly always they will get their thing done without any further issues.

    Explaining tabs in the browser is harder, the vast majority will still shut down the browser instead of just the tab they were in.

    Although KDE4.2 is showing great promises it's all but ready for full roll out.
    But I sure like the way they are moving, it's nice to look at and the way they are splitting configurations like through widgets is in my view nice if only because it's optional.

    But even in this demo we can see one of the issues, while rolling through the windows you notice how a video window is momentarily loosing like what seems sinc.

    Now once it'll get snappy like KDE3.5 and robust as the OS underneath...

  21. Re:Why the hate? on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    but what the hell does Joe Sixpack or Grandma Sue know about computers? They'll get the "Home" version for their personal PCs, the "Light" for their netbooks, and the "Business" for their workstations and its almost the same thing.

    You clearly don't understand the OS market of MS, none of the people you think of decide for themselves what OS their next computer is going to run, it's already installed by the time they get it.
    Or in case of the Business it's up to IT.

  22. Re:Thai market for Windows 7 on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 1
    That's what Windows calls an 'Emerging Market', it has nothing to do with a developing economy, just with new chances to actually start making money on the distribution of the OS.

    Along that vein a market that's largely running Mac or Linux would for MS count as an Emerging Market.

  23. Re:I'm sure this is a money thing... on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 1
    It's just that the vast majority of computer users never get's the chance to select an OS, you must have heard all the stories of people that wanted their money back when installing Linux?

    The vast majority of licences sold by MS are OEM, it's the computer brand that decides what price point they want to sell their machine at.

  24. Re:Starter Edition on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 1
    Well Microsoft had to come up with a reason why they're only going to charge peanuts for such a licence!

    There's nothing technical about it.

  25. Re:Obviously.... on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Uh no, the difference is in the different Linux versions, all made by different groups of people.

    The 7 Windows versions are all from the same foundry and mold, depending on how much you are prepared to pay they just have different disabilities.