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  1. Re:POSIX?? on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, WinNT was supposed to be this big UNIX killer, and so MS kind of implied that existing UNIX apps could be ported easily...

  2. POSIX?? on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 1
    POSIX is a source level standard, it is not suppose dto allow for binary compatibility between implementations on even the same architecture....

    NT has claimed to have POSIX compatibility since 3.1 , but this (if ever) applied only to source code compiled on a Windows compiler....

  3. Re:Explain on NetBSD Imports XFree86 4.4.0 · · Score: 1

    Stallman's desire is not incorporated in the GPL, nuff said. It is simply his very strong opinion.

  4. Re:Dead money on Changing Jobs for Job Satisfaction? · · Score: 1
    It /ALL/ depends on circumstances. I know some very succesful people who are serious sharemarket investors and many of them rent, on the basis that they don't understand the housing market, so why risk their capital there?

    Bullshit, If I buy a house, it is *not* an investment, it's only a expense for a good I'll be using. Acording to your logic, I should be paying someone to have my milk kept cold because I don't understand much about fridge technology and markets.... You don't have to become a landlord from just buying up your own house....

    The idea that a house is an investment is a selling point used by the same banks you talk about. It's just a plain expense that draws monay from you.

  5. Re:no, that's not it either... on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1
    When the SCO body's has no pulse, videotape the dismemberment and ship the body parts to be incinerated. If you have the money, ship the ashes into space; barring that, place them in a lead-lined container and drop them in the deep Pacific.

    ..and then then giant worms come to haunt you....

  6. Re:Doubtfull on Space Elevators Going Up · · Score: 1

    Mmmm nah, George W's term will have ended by then...

  7. Re:Prior Art on Perens on Patents · · Score: 1
    (and I work for one; our annual revenue is about $165 Billion)

    Boy, you're wealthy...!

    DISCLAIMER: I'm supposed to be working for Cisco, so this is no attack, just the sad reality.

  8. Re:Pay foreigners US minumum wage! on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1
    Only it's not. I work for a huge networking company I won't name (only not directly). I make 800 USD a month. An apartment's rent in Mexico city is about 500-700 USD.

    It is not true, it is not at all proportional to the costs in any country. Also, you have to take into consideration that there's almost in all cases a middle man, an outsourcing company, that has to take its share after costs of operation are taken.

    You go from: main company paying employees to: main company saves money outsourcer takes its huge share operating costs, voIP etc.

    What's left for the employees????

  9. Interesting facts. on The Matrix: Resolutions · · Score: 2, Interesting
    In the train station, the letters on the wall read "MOBIL AVE", which, changing the order or the letters, read "LIMBO AVE" which is whre neo is, in Limbo.

    When the trainman jumps across the train lines, check the destination on the train, it reads "LOOP". The lines on the train station are looped, and Neo returns to the same place after trying to get out.

    Just my 2 cents.

  10. Re:Huh? on New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You don't see Fords engineers going "but building a car is really complex, cut us some slack."

    And Ford cars are crap, you see?

  11. Of course on Bamboo Bike A Reality · · Score: 1

    This won't be as environmentally friendly if you use your panda fur gear while riding it. You know, that would look great.

  12. Re:haha on Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    HAHAHAHA I make 9600 USD a year, I live in Mexico City, where nothing's cheap.....don't make me laugh.

  13. Of course! on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    They'll be making our flying cars!

  14. Re:And The Interesting Part? on USL vs BSDI Documents · · Score: 1

    Specially once their most profitable product (Caldera Linux) is dead.

  15. What a shame... on Microsoft Pulls Plug for Support on NT4 · · Score: 1
    After 7 years, it's kind of sad to see NT4 go.

    Oh, really?

  16. Re:BitTorrent on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released · · Score: 1

    Cxu vi vere parolas Esperanton? Ne sxajnas....

    Sed...bona sxerco!

    Amike,

    Mi

  17. Bluetooth... on 802.11g... It's Official · · Score: 0, Redundant
    as well as another standard (802.15.3) for shorter-range, very-low-power operation

    Is it just me, or this sounds like a Bluetooth killer?

  18. I HAVE THE CODE on Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code? · · Score: 0

    int var1=1; /*This is an integral variable, initializaed to 1*/
    int var2=2; /*This is an integral variable, initializaed to 2*/ ...
    int var80=80; /*This is an integral variable, initializaed to 80*/

    That's it, 80 lines of code.

  19. This is BSD vs AT&T all over again on Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AT&T/SCO - You stole our code
    BSD/Linus - Yes, but guess what? you have a load of mine too

    AT&T/SCO - mmm, ok, let's settle.

  20. Re:PNGs on What Is The Future of PNG? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tell them to open it in MSN Explorer =)

  21. Re:SCO's Biggest Tantrum Yet on SCO To Show Copied Code · · Score: 1

    I believe IBM would rather 1) buy SCO (not so likely given their previous behavior) 2) court-delay the issue until they can bring all the functionalyty of AIX into Linux and then ditch AIX.

  22. My own experience on For Microsoft, Market Dominance Isn't Enough · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Well, it seems to be working. i worked hard here in Mexico for a company that I will not disclose. They were to offer a set-top box to an ISP, using the Geode procesor. They wanted the box with linux and they were actively encouraged by the ISP to do so.

    After a while, we discovered that we were only being used as a tool of negotiation to get lower prices for WinCE licensing... it seems that using Linux as a disuasve weapon was effective. It seemed that they would do anything not to lose to Linux

  23. Re:DVD on Preserving VHS Recordings For Another 20 Years? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you have an alternative? I really don't know about any others, and they're the easiest to find in my area.

  24. Re:Everything a music service should be ? on iTunes Music Store sells 275,000 Tracks in 18 Hours · · Score: 1
    redbook (audio CDs) are also closed format and requires licencing (Though i dont know about the costs for that one)

    The patent Philips held for the CD has expired, now you only need licensing for the CD Digital Audio log. And even that has not proven to be very effective...with bad copy-protected so-called CDs hitting the shelves with the logo on them...

  25. Re:why not just buy a thin client? on A Truly Silent Desktop PC · · Score: 1

    I has some help as it has resizing and motion compensation circuitry. I've been using EPIAS for a comercial projectt playing DivX 1024 kbps Mp3 192kbs 640*480 resized dynamically to 1024*768. Works great...mplayer