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  1. Re:circumventing the /. effect on Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug · · Score: 1

    Yes, but isn't it quicker for you, this way ?

  2. Re:estimation on Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug · · Score: 1

    With the latter figure but using the same reasoning, I get 125 days from now, which is the 10th of March, 2003.

  3. Re:estimation on Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug · · Score: 1

    Of course, Bugzilla.org was created on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 but I guess bugs were still filed before, no ?

  4. Re:circumventing the /. effect on Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug · · Score: 2

    Well, after reading your post, I just openened a new browser and got there from Google!... :)

  5. estimation on Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to the whois database :
    Record created on 24-Jan-1998.

    So, 1747 days have gone since this creation (I assume nobody could file bugs on mozilla.org before this date).

    We now have 178,325 bugs, so the average is 102 bugs per day.

    So, the next 21,675 bugs will be files in approximately 212 days, making the 200kth bug being filed around June 5th...

    Now of course, we could assume that as Mozilla becomes stabler and stabler, the filings should now slow down logarithmically, making the filing so late that we'll have have switched to Phoenix 4.0+gno/kMutt in the meantime...

    But why expecting a CD when we have apt-get ? ;-)

    How, yes : because it would not be the 1.0 version but rather a subsequent one.

  6. 20% only ? on Moving to Mac Made Easy · · Score: 1
    To be bought again :
    • Cubase VST or equivalent (Logic -> 999Euro)
    • XGFactory software interface (XGEdit -20Euros- or sounddiver -100Euros)
    • STAudio 24bit sound card + XLR stereo in port (no driver for mac => to be bought again) (1000Euros)
    • various soft (250Euros)

    I think it could double the price of a basic powerg4...
  7. Re:I won't move to Mac. Make Mac move to me on Moving to Mac Made Easy · · Score: 1
    Don't play semantics, please.
    My PC is de facto music instruments because it can :
    • a mastering/monitoring sound card
    • a expander sound card
    • a software sequencer
    • many software effects, instruments and external devices interfaces

    So, well, I guess it would not only be a significant financial problem to switch but also a very long time until I could get the same functionalities from another environment.

    Now, yes, I like it the way it work, caus' I stabilized it to the core, it's a tool, but a creative tool, thus an instrument.
  8. Re:I won't move to Mac. Make Mac move to me on Moving to Mac Made Easy · · Score: 1

    it'll be obselete within a year (oh, quit moaning: it's true!)
    Well, except if you actually use your config : I am a musician and I just can't even envision some switch from pc to mac : I'd have to buy cubase or to switch to the recently-acquired-by-Apple-Emagic Logic (Yes, I know, they'll give you the cubase2logic upgrade at a lower price but even...), I'd also need to put both of my soundcards and their corresponding drivers...
    In short, I'd actually have to spend more after acquiring the Mac itself in order to achieve the same level of functionality.
    Now, not even in my wildest dreams : my PC is my musical instruments and, as this, I should keep it for quite a long time.

  9. Re:availability ? on Forth Application Techniques · · Score: 2

    Thansk but I already have it.
    This is starting Forth I am interested in.

  10. Re:availability ? on Forth Application Techniques · · Score: 1

    Iam !

  11. availability ? on Forth Application Techniques · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just went through amazon.com web site and I regret that most (if not all) Forth books written by Leo Brodie are out of stock...
    I remember waiting until 4 months to get a copy of "thinking forth", by the way.

    Now, if you want to learn forth, there seem to be the gforth manual, at least...

  12. and also on Forth Application Techniques · · Score: 3, Informative
    Sun Microsystems, Federal Express, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory -- what do they have in common? All have used, or are currently using, the programming language Forth in critical subsystems of their products or processes."

    And also Adobe who really got inspired for this when designing the Postscript language too...

    Concerning Sun there have been at least 2 uses :
    1) for their boot manager
    2) for the Java Virtual Manager which is a stack language based-environment.
  13. Re:Finally! on Toyota to Move to All Hybrid Vehicles By 2012 · · Score: 1, Funny

    You want a car that is Fast and Furious, are you a Rice Boy? ;-)

  14. Re:Red Hat Competition on UnitedLinux Ready for Official Launch · · Score: 1

    Well, if SuSe definitely is a part of this, then why will they offer their own distro, otherwise ?

  15. easy one on UnitedLinux Ready for Official Launch · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, will next year be : United GNU/Linux Year ? :-)

  16. Re:...besides Office ? on SuSE Linux will run Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    What about GSMP ???

  17. ...besides Office ? on SuSE Linux will run Microsoft Office · · Score: 2

    This sure sounds interesting (despite my reluctancy towards SuSe stuff). Now the real good thing would be if I could use it for more :
    I am a Win/Cubase guy and I would like to know whether this API would allow me to use my souncards drivers, their own utilities, Cubase... etc.
    BTW, could I play DVDs using PowerDVD ?
    My realpoint is : how deep does it "simulates" windows ?

  18. Re:I Love It on Phoenix 0.4 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I RTFM, computing would not be that funny :)

  19. I Love It on Phoenix 0.4 Released · · Score: 5, Funny
    • 5 minutes ago : I find the announcement
    • 4 minutes ago: It is downloaded (no sensible /. effect)
    • 3 minutes ago: It is decompacted and 0.3 is overwritten
    • 2 minutes ago: It runs again with my numerous tabs reopened
    • 1 minute ago, got here and started this eumeration
    • now: well, let's click submit and hope people will understand this is not only easy and quick to use but also to acquire and install !
  20. Re:It's already been settled... on Superhero Smackdown · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, he just fainted an heart attack after announcing superman he was the first ever to beat him...
    Anyway, this is a great comic to own, afew other are >A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/ -/0871352974/qid=1035903797/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104- 1668997-4430322?v=glance">Daredevil - Born Again and 300.
    All by Miller, of course.

  21. Batman actually wins on Superhero Smackdown · · Score: 1

    Sooner or later, according to Frank Miller.

  22. Re:What's a yen worth? on Mice Designed by Famous Anime Artists · · Score: 1

    According to the UCC, it is worth 60$ : a bit pricey for a mouse.

  23. Hmmmm... on Dell To Enter PDA Market · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess they are trying to work around the poorer and poorer PC sales.
    Now, they'll have a hard-time against Sony, HP(aq), Palm and also Sharp whose Zaurus is really the kind of programmable gadget one may look for.

  24. I am a sysadmin on Suit Up Or Ship Out? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The first time they entered in my room to tell me about how to dress, I was crawling under my table, connecting cables together...

    They actually understood it would be quite uncomfortable to force me to wear a S&T in order to perform such a speleological work :)

  25. Re:how long.. on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit
    Hi, "I call mirko" :)

    there's no point in using the Zaurus' letter-recognizer, you just open it up and use the keyboard.
    OK, but what if you want to use 8-bit characters, like if you are français and need to enter details about Frédéric-Côme Lévêque, à Villers-lès-Nancy ?

    You are not honest when you compare this that way, the Z write recognition is far more intuitive for the newcomer which I was not but which other people I converted to the Z were and entering specific chars is just a pleasure...

    The keyboard is just a transitional facility.