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  1. Re:Why Bother? on Have You Seen This Segway? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was the creators who stole it.

    Seems they only made one, and couldn't figure it out again.

  2. Re:What it basically means! on Gentoo Games · · Score: 1

    True, but then every package assumes your system is setup right.

    Which *might* raise the level of user awareness to operate the system even more.

    Is there an alternative package for gentoo?

  3. Re:5600? on New Zaurus ROM (V. 3.10) Released · · Score: 1

    On this topic, how do you find the performance so far compared to the 5500?

    Are the new memory adjustments any hindrance with the large processor power increase?

    Have you tried real-time video feeds on both?

  4. Re:well on Is Data Mining for Product Pricing, Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Good job, you missed a few.

    What's the point of Anonymous Coward post ability?

  5. Re:Ah, just the comment I was looking for. on Is Data Mining for Product Pricing, Illegal? · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought of it as, a public publishing. That's how copyright law treats it anyway, esp in documentation of using the data.

    I mean, I suppose if you decided to republish it, you might need to state "some" documentation details. But look at reviewers online, they can even call the product bad and the price. How is it any different than reading a million reviews and using their data? That's the whole purpose.

  6. well on Is Data Mining for Product Pricing, Illegal? · · Score: 1

    The Albertson's I walked into today said No video taping or cameras on "premises" without prior permission.

    This is obviously their perogative.

    Similiarily, wouldn't it be up to the site in question to at least post up-front rules to the conduct on their site? Such 'adult-material' warnings seem a comparible attribute to a site.

    And in that case, would they be enforcable or even proveable?

  7. Well...really, does it matter? on Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office · · Score: 1

    This is obviously redundant, but I think it should be asked again.

    Does anyone really care what the patent office produces anymore? I don't know of any programmer that sits there checking patents instead of trying to improve code or create new variations of an idea, be it that they had it or saw it somewhere.

    Do these hardball schemes really effect anything outside of the war zone those companies already exist in? Don't tell me they don't already anticipate and expect these actions.

  8. perhaps, perhaps not on AMD: No Grease For You! · · Score: 1

    As noted in another comments, there are other "recommended" heat sinks.

    However, AMD may or may not be willing to judge all heatsinks and just wants to set a "base" standard in that heatsink. Yea, it isn't great, maybe not that expensive for them to sell with it, and they'll replace it if it DOES break with it, that they don't question.

    But, do you also expect them to review every heatsink and place it on a better/worse category than the one they use, and if they do, wouldn't you just demand that they use the best one for the same cost as the middle one they use now?

  9. Re:Not too bad price wise on Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod · · Score: 1

    Because, outwardly, they complain about how profits are hit and etc.

    Privately, they know how people really want it and what drives sells. If they think they'll actually get some sales and they "know" it's not going to be an exclusive ripping schme(ie, someone's not going to paid $10k for all the songs and send out hundreds of free cds)...they might just think about going for it.

    Under the table of course, if that's possible :)

  10. Re:Extreme programs on Innovation on the Edge? · · Score: 1

    Well, I agree of course.

    I'm just saying, that amongst knowledgeable developers and enthusiast, it's mainstream....I mean I don't use PGP, but I do a lot of other things. Normal users wouldn't understand a lot of "extreme" ideas that we might, so it's really up to use to use and try out new technology.

    So, I just meant mainstream developers/enthusiast.

    But, you might be right anyway, perhaps 90% of ./ users are just here because they want to be in on it but don't know what to do with it.

  11. interesting on Remote Direct Memory Access Over IP · · Score: 1

    I cannot wait to see some raw test numbers off of this on many different scenarios.

    The only thing with this is providing redundancy and backups....if there's any latency then, nothing gets done. How much overhead is really involved in checking the data, checking the connection, restarting/etc.

  12. Re:Extreme programs on Innovation on the Edge? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you meant popular programs. These are already mainstream, even if some are controversial.

  13. Re:mandatory gentoo user post... on Optimizing KDE 3.1.x · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it beats awaiting for anyone else to do it :)

    The problem is most people think there's going to be an option/etc they missed and didn't know about and will be running a flawed/broken system. Heck, I can barely get the guys at work to watch me patch a kernel for real-time linux or something, they want it all pre-packaged.

  14. very good systems on PC/104 Embedded Consortium Design Winners · · Score: 1

    These are very useful systems in confined space and need for solid-state development.

    Only problem I've ever had designing something with them, depending of course on the manufacturer who supplies stacks and hd/OS, accessing it from another system or adding external hardware to it. Very embedded. But that's the point :)

  15. this is great on Solid-State DV Camcorder · · Score: 1

    This is great industrial and government applications where there are requirements for withstsanding ... well a lot of rigorous tests.

    I know right now, it's a pain to have to get a solid-state disk of decent size for the main storage(meaning, not having to copy over just runtime libraries/apps every single time you build something) and NFS style loading isn't always possible.

    Ramdisks are the key right now for low-end systems...but if we could skip having a solid-state node and a regular single-board embedded computer having to talk to each other with extensive real-time/etc stuff, and just have an on-board solid-state camera system that's simple and cheap....this is great news. I hope a lot of other solutions take this route of solid design potential

  16. #1 on Starting a Home-Based Software Company? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't tell your clients you just learned how to do this on Slashdot forums.

  17. Re:Where's my 150-in-one? on Old-school Nerdy Comics · · Score: 1

    I had one too.

    I always rebuilt the radio. I thought it was great that I could rebuild it and the radio still worked! haha.

  18. Re:snprintf() on Win32 with MSVC6 on String Cleanup Results On OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Here is the free ANSI compliant borland compiler: http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20633, 00.html

    Also, this seems to be the reasoning for the odd va_arg macros and these functions defined in stdio.h

    Purpose:
    * This file defines the structures, values, macros, and functions
    * used by the level 2 I/O ("standard I/O") routines.
    * [ANSI/System V]

  19. hrm on Where Does Spam Come From? No, Really? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But what explains the amazing spectrum of sources?

    Even with a black-list implementation, spam has been through the roof lately, almost too much to keep up with submitting even.

  20. hrm good? on Half Life 2 To Appear At E3 · · Score: 1

    Hehe, this might be the only time a new version is a bad thing.

    Half-life one has been used so much, it's almost a cult....I hope there's easy porting and compatibility.

  21. Well on Conquest FS: "The Disk Is Dead" · · Score: 0

    That's nice, but it's not much for industrial grade when you need a solid state disk that can last in the field without having replaceable parts all the time that could go wrong.

  22. Hehe on Machine Learning and MP3s · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've done something like this on a network campus, wrote a shared file logger program people used to see what weird songs people liked to listen to.

    The funny part is ACTUALLY finding a pattern, and then confronting them with their bizarre tastes. Or, better yet, replace their favorite song with something just really random but leave the name same. Well, what else are you going to do?

  23. print definition on Online Newspapers Turning a Profit · · Score: 0

    I think, perhaps obviously, the term online and print will become synomymous. When an 'online' piece is just as accesssible in a mobile piece of equipment, and information/text is universally formattable on that device, then you'll easiliy move from large text being in digital print form the same as a simple, small online text article.

  24. Re:Goat Sex! on Interesting and Educational Web Pages for Children? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So did every site I hacked. It's a lovely calling card to leave.

  25. Re:So... on Duke Nukem 3D Source Released to GPL · · Score: 1

    corey
    (@)
    acz.org

    for me. Rusty has actually done another engine, would be interested to load everything into that engine, see if it looks any better, but I might not have time for it.