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  1. Re:is there a pocketPC emulator? on PalmOS Emulation On PocketPC · · Score: 1

    There is no need to 'emulate' WinCE, you just have to provide HAL/drivers for your hardware and recompile it. Of course, if you are doing this for some new CPU, no commercial applications will run on your platform, but it will be a real WinCE, not an emulation of any kind.

  2. We are very closed to this. on A Genome Mark-up Language · · Score: 2
    We are really close to being able to modify human genome.

    From CNN: Genetically modified monkey - named ANDi carries in him an extra bit of DNA from a jellyfish. ANDi is the first primate to be similarly modified.

    See CNN story for full details.

  3. Just a b*(%sh$t on Alaska To Siberia... By Rail? · · Score: 1

    Where did they get this b*(%sh$t?
    No Russian newspaper has anything about this project. It's just a nonsense, and /. should not post this crap.

  4. Mentoring and teaching are different areas on Grade School And High School, School Free · · Score: 1
    It is a good idea to provide distance education for people who understant what they want to learn, and have stimulus for this.

    Online education in beginner's schools is stupid idea, school boys and girls need more mentoring than just feeding with knowledge.

    By the way, Physicon has a good distance learning system, take a look.

  5. Re:and .NET on Linux 2.4 Wins 4th Place ... in Vaporware · · Score: 1

    Do you understand that VS is not just a C++ compiler, it has a lot of libraries (STL, ATL, MFC) that are updated, that may not be fully compatible [and should not in some cases - for example STL went long way from ARM to current standard].
    So 90% ratio for beta is more than good.

  6. This is typical on Humorously Bad Web Hosting Policies · · Score: 1

    This is a typical licence agreement. Similar terms can be found for example in Oracle (and MS) SQL licence - you are forbidden to post any benchmarks or comparisons or product reviews without approval from appropriate company.

  7. Re:been there, done that on Inferno Plugin for IE - An OS In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    Does not work neither in IE nor in Mozilla 0.6.

  8. Re:XML for system and config files on What Does The Future Hold For Linux? · · Score: 1
    XML is text, but it is not meant to be read - it is text for automatic tools, not for people. It makes sense to convert configs to XML, but after this change, it would be unpractical to edit XML-configs manually. They will be too big, and most benefits of XML (schema validation for example) would be lost.

    This change will not result in having one set of tools too - each config should be edited with its own specialized tool (but there will be single config parser).

    I think configs will finally be converted to XML, but you will have to edit them with special tools after that, not by hand.

  9. I hate these request like "why XXX from MS sucks" on When Is Exchange Inappropriate For The Enterprise? · · Score: 1
    >Can you help me come up with
    >opinions/facts/experiences why exchange sucks

    Recently we all saw as Carnivor creators wanted a "rubber stamp" telling us that it is "good". Do you like it?

    Now you asks for "rubber stamp" on report that "Exchange sucks". I hate this.

    Exchange is not a solution for everybody, and may be it is not for you, but it does not sucks. It works for many organizations, and it is not management nightmare.

  10. "Math" argument mentioned is stupid on Statistics, Elections, Frustration · · Score: 1
    Consider the following simple problem:

    Clause: Some country has the following indirect N-level election system:
    Population P is divided into groups (counties) of size K, where K^N=P (this gives K^(N-1) groups).
    Each group selects one 2-nd level electors (this gives K^(N-1) 2-nd level electors).
    2-nd level electors are divided into groups of K and select K^(N-2) 3-rd level electors, and so on.
    N-level electors select president. (N=1 is direct elections, N=2 - similar to US system, N=3 - another level of indirection).

    Problem: Current president wants to be elected, but is supported only by his army (1% population). He can "inject" army into any county any way he wants.
    How may levels (N) are required for president to get elected?

    Answer: 7
    If you believe that indirect voting can be fair, you are stupid.

  11. Re:Just why does this matter on An Interesting Boot Log On Alpha · · Score: 1

    Agree,
    everybody bragging about his 31-way multiprocessor SMP machine is just so stupid, that can't understant that 8 4-processor machines were (1) much cheaper, (2) much faster (due to faster memory connects that avoid SMP-bottleneck).
    Advice them to read classic book "In search for clusters" by Gregory F. Pfister.

  12. *** Better solution *** on Package Shipping From USA To Russia? · · Score: 2
    I don't know, why you failed with DHL, both DHL and FedEx ship anything without a problem.

    Anyway, I would not declare high value, because your friend will have to pay customs based on your declared value (may be this is the reason it failed with UPS) - this will make upgrade too costly for him.

    But even better solution would be to send your friend money with Western Union, and he can buy upgrade himself - computer hardware is cheaper in Russia (except notebooks, maybe).