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  1. Re:Cool on Gentoo for Mac OS X Released · · Score: 1

    Hi Junis !
    Long time no see :)

  2. Re:Exciting.. on New MusE Release, A Step Toward The Linux Studio · · Score: 1

    Yep, this is why I sold the sw1000xg and bought a 01x which IS mLan compliant, thus open.
    Now, Linux apps still lack DAW support amongst other things, if music apps are coded by hobbyists, I doubt they can be at once coders and musicians and you surely need both to code a hich-speced app.

  3. Re:Exciting.. on New MusE Release, A Step Toward The Linux Studio · · Score: 1
    I switched to Mac because the following award-winning cards were NEVER recognized under Linux (I highly doubt they will, BTW).



    Of course, it's nice for the /. crowd that there now is a sequencer that looks like Cubase VST before Y2K (this is not intended to be a flamebait, it's just a personal constatation) but I do not think there will be a product as well done as Logic Pro or at least as Reason before they once again elevate the standard.
  4. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    I can understand the distinction, but I do NOT agree with it, ok ?

  5. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you allow countries that are human rights abusers to have the appearance of legitimacy, you give their actions that appearance.
    Actually, the US are under Human Rights Watch focus for Guantanamo's excess, but we sent people play tennis in Los Angeles, though, does this make us corroborate Iraq's invasion ?
    No : it's a game, a proof we support the people under the Power.

    He could have declared his support of that government's actions. That was not forbidden to him. It was only playing in a sanctioned tournament, where he would be representing the US, that was off-limits. Appearance is key here, as he would not actually represent the US's official stance, but would have that appearance to the rest of the world.
    Fisher is a Chess player, not a diplomat. Fox and CNN legitimated that WMD joke, why would they leigitimate Fisher's delirium ?

    No, respect your 1st amendment and let him bark, it's not as dangerous as intelligency evasion or terrorism conceiling.

  6. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    Not a troll, I just want to highlight the fact that it's stupid to block-out a country even from competitions :
    In Ancient Greece, games were the only way country would suspend their fighting...
    I guess such a view now looks obsolete.
    BTW, my father was a former Tito convict, a journalist who was sentenced for writing poetry. I do not like their former gobernadores but I thinkg if they want to play, they should be allowed to.

  7. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds a drunkard to me, I don't applaud but I don't hate him, simply because I do not care.
    The fact is that is being jailed because he fucking attended a chess match in a country when his country law forbid it...
    So, it was forbidden to have an innocent play somewhere...
    I guess he's as extreme as that law sounds like the system he grew in was.

  8. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, he's nuts, but did he kill anybody, how does this make him more dangerous than, say, some starving homeless guy with a knife ?
    And his views on history are his, which mean I do not give a fuck about conspiracy theorists as well as their opponents...
    Glorify him for what he is : a chess genius and do not publish things about what you think he doesn't do well enough.

  9. Re:.a. on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1
    From WordiQ
    Dumping in terms of anti-competitive behaviour has 2 definitions:

    Classically, dumping is a subset of what is known as predatory pricing. Dumping in this sense is the act of selling a product at a loss now in order to drive competitors out of business, with the goal of raising prices when they do in order to recoup the investment. It is illegal in the same way that many other anticompetitive behaviours are. However, in practice, it is enforced far less than other antitrust actions.

    In international trade law however, dumping is defined as simply the act of one country selling a product in another country below the cost of what it takes the makers of that product in that country to make the product.

    People inside a domestic industry who feel they are the victims of this second type of dumping intentionally try to blur the definition between the two kinds of dumping, in order to give the impression that the foreign country is doing something that would be illegal domestically. This is an attempt by them to justify protectionist measures like tariffs.


    I was not mentioning international trade explicitely, so, because you can open a dictionary in order to extract the other half of a definition doesn't make you bettter than me.

    Par ailleurs, "matey", je n'ai aucun problème de français, si ça peut te rassurer.
  10. Re:.a. on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1

    In France, what we calll "dumping" is "vente à perte", so this does not mean the same as in English but validates my point.

  11. Re:Sad but (maybe) true on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1

    How do I twist the facts ?
    I was discussing XBox and evilness with the grandparent.

  12. .a. on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1

    A company has costs and revenues, if they obtain these revenues by selling their products for less than it costed them, then they are dumping.

    Yes, I am complaining about this and thus I do not buy gaming consoles nor printers.

    I advice people who want a printer to check the difference between the price of a cartridge and the price of the original bundle, this is scary.
    Some magazines I read even suggest the buyers should change printer every time a cartridge is finished.

    And nope, arguing over the cost of Free Software is bullshit because RedHat didn't produce it themselves, they just compiled it and then sell their subscriptions so, unless they are voluntarily making less than what they offer cost them, they are not dumping.

    Now, if Sony doesn't sue Microsoft, then they either want to hide something similar or are just being plenty idiotic.

  13. Re:Sad but (maybe) true on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1, Troll

    -1 Godwin
    BTW, deliberately losing money on a product to make its price more appealing and to gain marketshare is an anticompetitive practice called dumping, and it appears to be punished by law in democratic countries.

  14. "there is just no substitute for a media that cost on Gates Predicts DVD Obsolete In 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes there is : no media but raw storage available via hi-speed wireless connections.

  15. Thoughts... on Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm · · Score: 2, Interesting
    1. If he gets kidnapped, I guess I know what will be sent as a proof of his detention... I just hope he didn't have it implanted in his writing (and pizza^Wtortilla-eating) arm.
    2. Is this the same chip that the Okinawese scholards are supposed to get ?
  16. Google on Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Instant-On TV & DVR · · Score: 1

    This search leads to many domain names, the ones belonging to Toshiba do not even lead to websites giving more info on this product.

  17. Re:Wow! on Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Instant-On TV & DVR · · Score: 1

    Well, you'll at least need a tuner...

  18. "15" near-TV quality screen" on Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Instant-On TV & DVR · · Score: 2, Interesting

    near-TV...
    Is this HDTV, or older PAL/SECAM or NTSC quality ?

  19. Re:At what point... on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's an MSIE5/6 which also support shell: URLs :)

  20. Re:Paranoia mode on Is Dell Just Testing the Market? · · Score: 1

    Please, make that the end of your conspiracy theory !
    Read the other posts and you'll see that this is in no way related to Dell : Questar ius just buying Optiplex from Dell and installing Linux on these, but Dell doesn't especially endorse this.

  21. Did they need such answer ? on Mozilla Developers Respond to Malware · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why do they justify themselves why they just brought an excellent fix within a tiny lapse of time ?

  22. Re:Ninnle Linux... then back on topic. on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    runs all your favourite RISC OS apps
    Thanks for reminding me of the Betamax of Desktop OS'es :'(

    One day, Bill Gates went to Herman Hauser, head of Acorn, in order to convert him to MSDOS.
    Hauser answered :
    "-Thanks Bill, but we really cannot make that step backwards."

    The BBC (RiscPC's ancestors) indeed had network (Econet which spawned ATM), mouse, color and sound while MSDOS almost had directories...

    In 1994, my RiscPC had antialiasing, full-screen video and was able to execute Windows on a 486SXL second processor...

    So, Microsoft is about to be used by 1/7 of the planet, I guess it's more because they know how to influence people who can take such decisions for their fellows.

  23. Re:Where did the name come from? on The History Of Pentium · · Score: 1

    They wanted to copyright it because other cpu manufacturers were beginning to name their chips after x86 numbers.
    There has been some patenting issue to, but I just cannot remember whether it came before or after NexGen released their copro-less chip.

  24. Re:Where did the name come from? on The History Of Pentium · · Score: 4, Informative

    IIRC, another opponent(was it NexGEN ?) had issued a blah-586.
    That's why they changed its name from i586 to that less numeral one.

  25. Re:Does it mention... on The History Of Pentium · · Score: 1

    I just did :)
    I stopped when it reached the P6...
    I guess this history was mostly an ad for Intel...

    BTW there were loads of other funny bugs such as, in the P2 something like : "if the temperature is around 32 (oC) and the proc is executing inst. lambda then it'd crash...

    I understand the reason they have begun to switch to other sub-architectures.