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  1. do golfers also need a life? on Doom 3 System Requirements Revealed · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no they need shooting, especially this one

  2. Matrox... on Doom 3 System Requirements Revealed · · Score: 1

    Use matrox at work, they don't make fast 3d chips anymore, but the picture quality and stability is great.
    You need good picture qaulity and stability to fend of all those law suits you'll be getting in a few years time.

  3. Fools, on How Would You Handle a $1,000,000 Coding Error? · · Score: 1

    If a fault was going to cost that much, surley they could have run the two systems side by side for a while.

  4. In Windows if I wanted to remove ..... on Software Usability As A Technical Problem · · Score: 1

    Ok , In Windows, if I want to add something to my startup sequence, all I have to do is add it to my aptly-named Startup folder, fine. But in windows If I wanted to remove something that kept starting up I have to'
    Start up regedit, search for hkey_local_machine\software\Microsoft\windows\Curr entVersion\run

    Which, since I'm used to having my hand held so much is quite a daunting task.

    Linux configuration UI's arn't so bad anymore, If you do a bit of digging you can easyly get a system with gui configuration on par with Windows.

    a href="http://www.webmin.com/"> webmin's good for most things.

  5. Cool on Software Usability As A Technical Problem · · Score: 1

    So I get to print something off of your pc, after my pc has spent a week searhing the internet.

    I've never had to type in the ip address of a printer under linux. (well not for a long time),maybe I've had to pick which driver to use, but then I have to pick which tyres to put on my car, and I suppose I had to pick which printer to buy, so it's not a huge problem.

  6. 'Ctrl-C to copy it' on Software Usability As A Technical Problem · · Score: 1

    Why, the Ctrl+C option was the worst (lets make windows users happy) feature they ever implemented.
    Ctrl+C is break, and it will make lots of you apps break (even under windows).

    Konwuror has got the worlds worst cut and past, can't handel HTML, images, anything except plain text and badly.

    If you wan't more granular clipboard funtionlaity, I'm writing a kio_slave for the clipboard at the moment, and it should be on kde-apps as soon as it's ready for wider testing and development.

  7. It's all a freaudian slip... on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1

    Jesus that 3 Laws crap is just someone pulling out a pocket mirror and having a wank, next they'll be sending me to church to worship 'God', where's the shrink around here....

    Humans want to be nice, and sometimes in being nice they actually cause harm, there are even some humans who are nasty(because they think there being nice to themselfs).

    Humans are the greatest thing in the world and greated by gods own hand. How can humans possibly great a machine that knows know evil and yet is intenegent and helpfull, if god couldn't manage it with us haumans.

    look at me I'm wonderfull, I'm the greatest most intelegent thing in the world

  8. Re:That makes sense to me. on Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? · · Score: 1

    Your reading too much into it.
    A greater % of Mac users are Professional when compaired to x86 PC users.

    The Mac croud are fairly selective and often use there Mac's for work perpouses. You would expect a os with a higher professional usage to have more professional users.

    The stange thing is that Macs are supposed to be 'simple' and yet the 'simple' people use PC's.

  9. Re:Always a good time to mention the EFF on RIAA Sends Letter to Senate Supporting INDUCE Act · · Score: 1

    What are you going on about,
    'Communism would work if only the right people implemented it', ANYTHING would work, if only the right people implemented it.

    I fail to see the point of your argument, and what does it have to do with the EFF and the 'left' wing Democrats.

  10. Re:'a grade A egotistical wanker' on Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes? · · Score: 1

    Well some times it's better to ignore people when you think there wrong, they'll forget that you were sooner or later and never say 'I told you so', they'll be waiting for it, so let them wait a little longer, it never hurts for people to know your right.

  11. Re:Always a good time to mention the EFF on RIAA Sends Letter to Senate Supporting INDUCE Act · · Score: 2, Interesting

    '...While admittedly left leaning, often takes positions which are contrary to the leading members of the Democratic Party'

    I'm sory, the 'democratic' party is about as left wing as the USSR was communist.

  12. In other news... on RIAA Sends Letter to Senate Supporting INDUCE Act · · Score: 1

    A recent poll shows that more people are having unconsenting sex because of p2p, and that there bastard offspring were aborted by murdering doctors.

    Mobile chem plants and Weapons of Mass destruction have been found in Iraq and destroyed to prevent the terrorists from using p2p networks to deploy them on school busses, full of pregnant p2p crack whore 12 year olds.

    The earth was created in seven days be an omnipotent being for us, the wonder humans to inhabit with all our glory, that is until Satan made the bad actors write p2p software.

    So, I urge you, don't let Satan take your soul, ban p2p now..

  13. 'a grade A egotistical wanker' on Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes? · · Score: 1

    I think if you want to get to the top it helps to be a stubborn arsehole who will never back down even when everyone is telling them that they are wrong, how else could you chalange the way the world works?

    Just look at the politicians, wankers, and if they weren't such wankers they wouldn't have enough faith in there convictions to make it there.

  14. While this is very difficult to do in C/C++.. on Biomorphic Software · · Score: 1

    Well it's not much more difficult than doing it in Java, or even bash (well unless you want to use things like class.GetMethods() etc...)

  15. Re:in the os world on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    "if you're so smart, you code it".

  16. in the os world on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    Hundreds or people tell him that he was wrong and post there suggestions

    I also talk to people and try things out with novices, far more so than I do in the 'commercial' world, after all if I'm develping an OS app I want develope an application for everyone and not just myself.

  17. Re:I wonder... on Gates Predicts DVD Obsolete In 10 Years · · Score: 1

    It's more a blue scream of death, as you accidentley break yet aother bit of you ikea crap.

    Looks like two people who got rich selling cheep crap that any-one who knows anything wouldn't have brought in the first place.

  18. Just buy a keyboard and mod (with pics) on Dongles to Fake Presence of a Keyboard? · · Score: 1


    Buy a couple of $5 keyboards, a really crap, silent one will probably be the best, no extra lights or anything like that.

    Take them apart (there one IC and some plastic crap inside, with horrible contacts and a circuit board)

    There's usually just flat strip with a few contact on one corner of the plastic crap that connect to the circuit board, you should be able to pull them apart.

    A page with some good pics

    Now you've got a smallish circuitboard, that you can probably tape up and house inside your pc.

  19. Don't be so sure on Fedora Core 3 Test 1 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    well. I'm running Gentoo, not Redhat.. but I have a hell of a lot of hot and beta packages witout any critical or even anoying problems..(Unless I try to view SVG's in konquror!)
    Linux on the desktop is a lot more stable thease days.

    I'm a little worries about GCC 2.4, Gentoo hasn't moved to it yet because it's buggy, even though it could make a lot of gentooers compile times much shorter. (new parse, Precompiled headers).

  20. Re:35% of Microsoft's enterprise customers are ... on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Well, you can make linux quite tight, but still have a lot of the benefits of a modern OS. I suppose Microsoft could ship windows without Media player, IE, .net ...... umm.....
    Linux 4 Microsoft should have accepted the original anti-trust offer.

  21. 35% of Microsoft's enterprise customers are .... on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 1

    so they don't like paying for stuff...
    maybe they should try.. umm.... umm..... a free alternative, that will probably run a lot of there windows 95 umm... I mean dos apps.

    I've been able to play more games using dosemu than using Windows, so I assume more dos application will run under dosemu than under Windows.
    Linux 1 Windows (home goal).

    If there still using Windows 95, I assume that there not running all the latest apps,in which case then chances are Linux does more than they could wish for, both on the desktop and as a server.
    Linux 2, Windows 0

    If there still using Windows 95 changes are they don't want to shell out $200 per windows, whatever crap they chuck in suit, seat, $100 for a bit on Linux tech support and a good choice of apps may suite them a hell of a lot better.

    Draw.. (It depends what package they go for as to the TCO.)

    Linux 2, Windows 0

    If there using old custom applications chances are they'll run fine under wine, possibly betther that they will run under windows XP or longhorn.
    Linux 1 Windows (home goal).

    It looks like Microsofts need for greed and glitter has caught them short with 35% of there customers, Linux could easly move in and give them a more viable upgrade path.

  22. Part 2... on StorageTek Blocks 3rd Party Maintenance with DMCA · · Score: 1

    replace trickery with security hole.

    I had a worm on my pc to day, damb it's trickery.

  23. Re:Yeah that is great. on Time to Try a Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    ... but enough people are.

    Not everybody's a mechanic or electricion, but you'd be expected to know how to top up you oil and change a plug. Some people even change there break pads and do the odd bit of wireing, often fixing bugs isn't much harder once you get over the fear factor. (writing a drivers a bit like making sure you have flowers in the garden all year round.)

  24. Re: I find myself thinking..... on Time to Try a Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Ok snoopy is a usb sniffer written by on of the quys who works on this adsl modem project(the same one I helped with). There fairly active, so that's a good place to get his attention if you have any problems.

    first take the back of the scanner (if it's not to hard), and have a look at the IC's (chips) on there, there may be some very standard ones which means some of the work has been done for you, search around to see if there any docs on them, or try the linux USB people.

    use snoopy, from windows, to sniff the traffic to and from the scanner. The driver may send up some microcode first to program the other chips on the scanner, this will be a fairly large chunk of randomish data, possibly followed by the scanner changing it's ID's.

    Then you'll need to know what commands say what to the scanner, perform an operation and then look in the snoopy logs to try and work out some of the basics.

    After you've got the basics down you'll need to start wrighting a linux driver, have a look at the drivers that come with the linux kernel, or sane, and try to find one that more-or-less does what you want.

    setup a sourceforge project, whic hmay generate some interest from other people, get in touch with the linux usb guys, they'll help you put the information you've learned from snoopy into the driver and start getting things working,

  25. Quanta on Time to Try a Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Well, it wasn't that good, but having found an extra 20gb on my hdd I decided to install it, and a hell of a lot of other apps, and all i can say is, it beats anything else I've tried for a while.

    full WYSIWYG, (view VPL, or VPL + Source)
    good dtd support, good css support, preview in xyz browser, xstl debugging ,spellchecking Version Control intergration, image maps etc.....