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  1. Re:I still remember reading LOTR for the first tim on Tolkien Vs. The Critics In 1954 · · Score: 1

    However, the Tolkien desk calendar (which is based on all the tolkien books) is fantastic. If they repprint it for 2005, I would highly advise buying it.

  2. Re:Oh man! on Netscape 7.2 To Be Released August 3rd · · Score: 1

    When I am browsing websites or ordering online, yeah I probably will give the site a pass if it doesn't work in Moz. If I am trying to pay my bills online with my bank though... I will go ahead and fire up Netscape (and complain to the webmaster).

  3. Re:verification on How To Lose An Election · · Score: 1

    Bush lost the popular vote.

    It should have been if Miami couldn't get its act cleaned up to do a proper recount, then there should have been a new election held. Or discount all of Florida.

  4. Re:Oh man! on Netscape 7.2 To Be Released August 3rd · · Score: 1

    Occaisionally you will get that odd website that will not work with Moz because the admins code to only allow IE or Netscape.

    I imagine AOL wants to keep Netscape around for thier budget ISP.

  5. Re:Just in case on Tissot's MSN Direct SPOT Watch Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that it is because the name is French. The last letter in a French word is silent unless there is an accent on a vowel.

    Of course, one could just Anglisize the word and piss off the French. "Tiss-sot" :-P

  6. Re:-MSN +Bluetooth = my $ on Tissot's MSN Direct SPOT Watch Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Actually, engagement rings are an investment. But it is an investment into non monetary things.

  7. Re:My Doom? Oh My on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 1

    My east coast web proxy can do google searches fine. My west coast web proxy is giving error 27's.

  8. Re:Makes you think... on Real Networks Hacks iPod; .rm & Real Store for iPod · · Score: 1

    By itself, reverse engineering is not wrong. Two, how is a EULA even enforceable? Especially something that your read after the sale on a consumer electronics device.

  9. Re:It's not about the gig-o-space on How Does Gmail Stack Up In The Webmail World? · · Score: 1

    But you can apply multiple filters. Nesting is an orginizational hack. You end up nesting if you have several folders and don't want to get overloaded by having to many folders to scroll through.

    Being able to apply more than one label to your messages is great. For instance I can have "financial" for any emails related to my finances. I could also apply "MBNA" for anything related to my bank or "Sallie Mae" for my loans.

  10. Re:It's google.. on How Does Gmail Stack Up In The Webmail World? · · Score: 1

    I have a Hotmail account from before it was bought by MS. I have emails stored in it from before being taken over by MS.

    Do you really think Google is going to just cancel? It just barely possible that the beta accounts might go poof. If the public release rolls out, I expect it to last as long as Google does.

  11. Re:Sadly, the banks went over the hill. on History of the Automatic Teller · · Score: 1

    25km? That works out to about 15 miles. I drive that every day one way to work.

    I know the Dutch are supposed to be thrifty, and I am proud to have Dutch ancestry, but cripes, you are cheap.

  12. Re:A great, but ultimately dated, revolution on History of the Automatic Teller · · Score: 1

    Check cards that function like a credit card. They get the full backing of the Credit Card Authorization Company (Visa or MC).

  13. Re:Dumb shits, this is Lamarckianism not Darwinism on Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal · · Score: 1

    No, this is a possible trigger for the start of a cultural selction pressure, rather than an environmental selection pressure. If other monkeys were to start copying this behavior, or the flu kept reoccuring and significant number of monkeys survived, then monkeys that can better walk upright will have an advantage. This is just one possible means by which humans started walking upright.

    An environemtal pressure would be say running faster than your predators.

    A cultural pressure is prefering mates with bright plumage.

  14. Re:So Long Cell division, so long residential... on AT&T to Leave Residential Business · · Score: 1

    If there were other methods, then please list them. Bell was a complete monopoly, and you either did it thier way or the highway. And I mean that literally. You either used the Bell phone, or sent your messages via the postal system (or walked them yourself).

    Do you like having a cordless phone? Or perhaps you would rather go back to renting your single phone.

  15. Re:Look at the hardware they use to run it on Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released · · Score: 1

    But, most of us have much worse systems and would prefer to see what reasonable expectations we might have of our current hardware. I don't care what the possible FPS are, I want to knwo what a reasonable system does.

  16. Re:Maybe Doom3 is too *conservative* on hardware!? on Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released · · Score: 1

    CPU is a limiter on maximum possible frame rates. In general terms it means what the maximum one could achieve at 640x 480 presuming the Video card was able to handle it. Check many benchmarks and usually 640x480 will give the same results for multiple cards in a given config.

    The GPU will dictate the best possible FPS for a given resolution.

    Personally I would rather have seen benchmarks on wide range of CPUs so I would know what to expect from my Athlon XP2100+, and what video card to shoot for to upgrade from my old Radeon7500. If a Geforce4 or Radeon8500 is no better on my hardware than a Geforce FX or Radeon 9800, then I might as well save the cash and get the cheaper video card.

  17. Re:ATI on Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released · · Score: 1

    Which means in practice that a 400W+ is going to be needed by most people that bought $40 Power supplies.

  18. Re:I believe that GPL is pretty clear on this on Is Sveasoft Violating the GPL? · · Score: 1

    No, the subscription agreement would be nullifying Sveasoft's ability to redistribute. If the subscription agreement is seenas a ristriction by a court of law. Sveasoft is violating the spirit of the GPL. I find it questionable if they are violating the letter, but IANAL. But thier TOS and charging $49 for a CD-R seems to definately be pushing the limit on what the GPL allows.

    They can probably justify the $49 by some shady accounting. (Labor is a pretty flexible cost).

  19. Re:Window focus on Gnome 2.6 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    It is a window manager setting, and I suspect that he is using sawfish.

  20. Re:Great for Terrorists... on FAA Approves Sport Pilot License · · Score: 2, Informative

    Flying a 757 is easy. Take off is fairly easy. Landing is very hard. Or at least not crashing on landing. I have flown in the commercial airliner training sims. It doesn't take much to steer a jet.

  21. Re:"Not an ask slashdot"? on Which Digital Video Camera for Amateur Video? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Memory Stick is no more proprietary than SD or SmartMedia (and less so than XD).

    I think it was either Canon or JVC (maybe both) that had cameras with oneway firewire ports. You could stream video out fo the camera but not control the camera over firewire or upload video.

    All the recent (last couple of years) Sony cameras, have A/D converters. This is useful if you have some analog video that you want to convert to digital and don't want to have to invest in a TV capture card. Typically will give better quality as well.

    Also, make sure the camera has at least a 10x optical zoom. There are better ways to evaluate lens quality, but not easily from most marketing specs.

    I personally would advise the DCRHC1000. It is a quality low-end prosumer camcorder with a 3chip ccd. Because of the $1.7k price, it probably won't be in Best Buy, and it is hidden at Sonystyle, under the small business section. A friend has one though, and it is fantastic.

  22. Re:Michael smart? on Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? · · Score: 1

    Even with all that, /. still did better than the PC mags. I wonder if Newsforge would do any better?

  23. Re:Changed the view of the US? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    The flip side is that it costs $x to eat. It costs $y to pay for a domicile. It costs $z for clothing. There are bare minimum costs just to survive. It costs a bit more to actually live. Tax the lowest classes too much and you will eventually get public unrest, riots, and revolts.

  24. Re:Model for other OSS projects? on Mozilla Foundation Turns 1 · · Score: 1

    Try Abiword then.

  25. Re:Well... on Yahoo! Acquires Oddpost · · Score: 1

    It is in the works.