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  1. Re:yes! on Microsoft Plans Hypervisor for Longhorn · · Score: 1

    Yes, but will it allow me to reticulate splines or initialize emotion variables?

  2. Re:Dvorak on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 0

    Not really, because it's that time *somewhere* in the world.

  3. Re:Insightful research! on Software Piracy Will Get Worse · · Score: 1

    How is it bullshit?

    There are plenty of charitable organizations that are fiscally mismanaged by inept or dishonest administrators. The organizations were founded for good reasons, and may do a lot to help people, but if you look at the books of many organizations, less than 20% of donations on average go to actually achieving their goals.

  4. Re:Insightful research! on Software Piracy Will Get Worse · · Score: 1

    Reread his comment.

    He's not bashing the volunteers, but rather the organization they're volunteering for.

  5. Re:Fools, small chidren, and ships named Enterpris on Enterprise Finale Airing Tonight · · Score: 1

    38 of D works best for me.

  6. Re:Regarding Lightsabers on The Feasibility of Star Wars Tech · · Score: 1

    ridiculous "mitochondria" nonsense

    Yes, because the parts of cells that produce energy is in no way proved by biology...

    or did you mean "midichlorian"?

  7. Re:What? Cell phones? on Wireless Everything at Dartmouth · · Score: 1

    Which are commonly abbreviated "WAP", at least where I come from.

  8. Re:Not exactly on Getting Started with VoIP Devices · · Score: 1

    Every single VOIP provider I know gives you one of those, Vonage included. Plug it into your LAN, plug your phone into it, follow activation instructions and *poof* -- voip.

  9. Re:Extra fee's on Getting Started with VoIP Devices · · Score: 2, Informative

    For Skype->Skype communication, yes. Calling regular telephone lines range from 2c-15c/minute.

  10. Re:I'd jump to VoIP in a second on Getting Started with VoIP Devices · · Score: 1

    er, I thought the telco had to let you move your phone number to a new carrier? Bellsouth will do it, I know for a fact. it requires some paperwork, but it can be done iirc.

  11. Re:Extra fee's on Getting Started with VoIP Devices · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you never heard of Skype? It's exactly what you describe.

    However, the vast majority of people are still attached to the old telephone, myself included. I can't see using a PC with a headset or a microphone as a normal communications tool.

  12. Re:The biggest downside to Firefox on Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated? · · Score: 1

    And it hasn't changed since the release of 1.0, to my knowledge.

    However, extension writers who set the max version to say, 1.01 or 1.02 or 1.03 or whatever are shooting themselves in the foot.

    And setting extensions.disabledObsolete in about:config to "false" does the same thing...

    Firefox requires work, unlike it's competitor. This is a Good Thing, because a browser that does things for you is a browser waiting to be hijacked.

  13. Re:The biggest downside to Firefox on Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Plugins/Extensions/Themes are third party software, and Mozilla cannot be responsible for their code/stability.

    And if you'd even bothered to do a little checking, you would know you can always open the install.rdf file in notepad/texturizer and change the "MaxVersion" to 1.0+ and it will work.

  14. Re:wireless power? on Apple Releasing Home Media Center: iHome · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure there is...the same time of power connector used by the Mac Mini (that thin vertical connector on the left)

    However, I was mightily disappointed to see "digiatl out"

  15. Re:Just on time on New Photoshop Details Leaked · · Score: 4, Informative

    Go to your Acrobat\Reader folder and take everything from the "plug_ins" folder and move it into "Optional" except the following: Search.api, Search5.api, IA32.api, EWH32.api, EScript.api. Printing and search will still work, and it will load 75% faster. This is on Reader 6.0

  16. Re:Defrag first, man. on Comprehensive Guide to the Windows Paging File · · Score: 4, Funny

    Access to her box is on a per-request basis, most likely.

  17. Re:Automatic Cup Holder on IE Developer Responds to Mozilla Accusations · · Score: 1

    Blame that on embed tags, not the OS.

  18. Re:I don't have a yahoo account... on Yahoo Ups Mail to Match Google's Gig · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Reading" isn't exactly correct, "scanning for keywords" is more like it. I imagine it's very similar to grepping for a list of keywords in your mbox file.

    If you don't trust anyone to not read your email, run your own mail server.

  19. Re:already do this on Ultaportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Easy enough to configure yourself, at least for anti-spyware apps. For virus scanning, I tend to use housecall.trendmicro.com

  20. Re:Bookmarks on Ultaportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere · · Score: 1

    because it hasn't been updated in some time, and rarely, if ever, works with FF 1.0, at least in my experience. It has no support for passive ftp transfer, so unless you have a reliable webdav server, you're SOL.

  21. Re:Sweet! on Build Your Own Cell tower · · Score: 1

    I'm relatively sure such an agreement wouldn't hold up in court, but I could be incorrect.

  22. Re:Sweet! on Build Your Own Cell tower · · Score: 1

    I get all that with my cell phone, because I have E911 service, and my local pizza delivery place doesn't go by the address they pull from the whitepages when they bring up my phone number. They always ask what address I want the pizza delivered to.

    I'd still rather have Comcast for internet access than have anything to do with the phone lines, however.

  23. Re:Sweet! on Build Your Own Cell tower · · Score: 1

    Local telcos were, iirc, shoehorned into allowing other providers access to their network to provide local phone service and xDSL. It's been about five years since I've worked in the industry, so I could be wrong.

  24. Re:Sweet! on Build Your Own Cell tower · · Score: 1

    With Speakeasy, you don't need the landline for DSL anymore.

  25. Re:Corporate Legal System on Retrial Slated for Microsoft v. Eolas · · Score: 1

    Too bad Eolas is the company suing Microsoft, and not vice versa.