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  1. Re:Oh please on CDN Optimizing HTML On the Fly · · Score: 1

    In theory, Google's copy of jQuery is great for sharing the cache. In practice, I've found that if it isn't cached, Google's copy of jQuery causes a shocking amount of latency, often taking well over 500ms to begin downloading.

  2. Re:ATG Dynamo on Oracle Shells Out $1B To Buy ATG · · Score: 1

    Best Buy, Office Max, and Target are some of their larger customers that come to mind

  3. Re:major suck on Second Prototype of the $200 Open Source Tablet · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you need x86 for flash, why does the Nokia n810(TI OMAP 2420, an ARM11 SoC) have support for flash?

  4. Re:Another reason not to get one. on 10 Reasons To Buy a DSLR · · Score: 1

    Don't say The Gimp -- it can't edit RAW images.

    This is not strictly true, there are a few plugins available for RAW image support.

    UFRaw
    There is also a basic plugin available from the author of dcraw.

  5. Re:Real info from a pilot on Huge Parachute Saves Crashing Planes · · Score: 1

    The landing gear on the Cirrus is actually part of the system, it is designed to provide some cushion to the impact and then collapse.

    I know that at least one of the aircraft was returned to service after the chute had been deployed.

  6. Re:Photoshop on Professional Photographers Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    I've never used photoshop so I can't comment on it's features. That being said, GIMP is good enough for what I do. The GIMP will continue to be popular as long as Photoshop remains excessively expensive. Even if Photoshop were released as Open Source, GIMP would be around for quite some time thanks to the community that has grown up around it.

  7. Re:Hindenburg had survivors on Combined Gasoline/Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens · · Score: 1

    Most crashes involving heavier-than-air aircraft kill everyone aboard.

    Actually if you look at the accident reports most crashes of heaver-than-air aircraft kill none onboard

  8. Re:Interesting math... on Microsoft Outsourcing High-Level Work · · Score: 1

    Note that it says the vendors are providing engineers at $18 an hour, not that they are paying the engineers $18/hr. Here in the US, a software engineer may only make $30-$40 an hour, but the contractor is probably charging the customer upwards of $1000/hr for that engineer's time.

  9. Re:Digital Cams ? on GIF Support Returns to GD · · Score: 1

    I'll bite. GIF only supports 256 colors, which makes it useless for digital cameras. The only reason JPG is used as the standard compressed format is file size. No matter how high the quality is set, jpeg is still a lossy format and as such will product smaller files than a lossless format such as PNG.

  10. Re:There is of course the giant Russian water bomb on Using a 747 to Fight Wildfires · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I couldn't agree with you more, however, the US seems to suffer from a major case of Not Invented Here Syndrome. At one point in time, the Alaskan legislature appropriated funds to purchase two Canadair fire bombers, and the state's top fire fighting official wouldn't let the purchase go through, claiming they would do no good in Alaska. Some progress is being made, Hawkins and Powers, one of the major contractors is in negotiations to buy several of the Russian Be-200's. The problem is, the US Forest Service has stated they won't contract Be-200's because they don't have a US Type Certificate. Oh, BTW, I'm from Minnesota, one of the two states that has realized the value of a purpose-built fire bomber(North Carolina being the other has a single Canadair CL-215), we have 2 Canadair CL-215's protecting our property and forests.

  11. Re:Where do you place the priority? on Ask About Running Windows Software in Linux · · Score: 1

    None. After all Wine Is Not an Emulator, it is an alternate implementation of the Windows API that happens to also come with a loader to execute Windows binaries

  12. Re:Dorn? Is that you? on Navy Jet eBayed - Some Assembly Required? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I doubt it. He sold the T-33 to buy the F-86, and later Sold to F-86 to Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman. Last I knew Mr. Dorn was flying a North American T-39 Sabreliner

  13. Re:Assembly AND Military Experience Required on Navy Jet eBayed - Some Assembly Required? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Typically such an aircraft would be registered Experimental/Exhibition and the allowed uses are for exhibition(airshows) and proficiency flights. Any flight not for an airshow is considered a proficiency flight.

  14. Canon F-700 on Seeking a Simple Programmer's Calculator? · · Score: 1

    You might still be able to find a Canon F-700. It's not solar powered, but it has the features you are looking for, and it's quite small.

  15. Re:Apple (OT) on Xiph.org Releases Free Fixed-Point Vorbis Decoder · · Score: 1

    Seagate in Roseville, MN is located on Disc Drive.

  16. IPR Imparing License on Microsoft Tech Specs Prohibit GPL Implementations · · Score: 1

    According to M$ an IPR Imparing License is any license which requires in any instance that other software distributed with software subject to such license (a) be disclosed and distributed in source code form; (b) be licensed for purposes of making derivative works; or (c) be redistributable at no charge.

    Acording to their own definition even the GPL is NOT an IPR Imparing License. Section 2 of the GPL says: In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.

    Neither the GPL or any other OSS license places such restrictions on redistribution to fall under M$'s definition of an IPR Imparing License

  17. my guess on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1

    I think Mir will splash at 2001-03-25 15:42:00

  18. xlink85 on TI Graphlink Linux Software? · · Score: 1

    Xlink85 can be used with limited success with a TI-86. It shouldn't be too hard to write a package for the 86, the Graphlink uses the standard serial interface, and the data format needed is well documented. I started a project for the TI-86, but had to put it aside due to lack of time.

  19. Slow Poll on Load Test the New Slashdot Setup · · Score: 1

    The new system seems quite fast so far, except for one thing, the poll. For some reason the poll on the new setup is extremely slow.

    -Dan

  20. Whoops! on Mac and Linux Sharing Serial Ports? · · Score: 1

    Sorry about that, I missed the part about the serial ports.

  21. IP Masquerading on Mac and Linux Sharing Serial Ports? · · Score: 1

    I would think that you should just be able to set a Linux box that supports IP Masquerading as the Mac's gateway in the TCP/IP Control Panel. I'm just making a guess here, thought, because I don't have any Macs.

    -Dan

  22. The Sci-Fi perspective on Ask Slashdot: Storage Capacity of the Human Brain? · · Score: 1

    In "3001: The Final Odyssey", ACC states that the entire memories of the average man can be stored in about 10^15 bytes, or about 909.5 terabytes. Though, in the afterword, it states that Dr. Chris Winter belives the number to be 10^13 bytes, or about 9.1 terabytes.

  23. MP3 is here to stay on "MP3 death watch" article on CNN.com · · Score: 1

    The media is getting pretty redicules, the mp3 format is going to be around for quite some time, judging by the popularity it has gained. Sure it has some problems, like copyrights, but it's the format of choice for many users.

  24. Good for Linux on UDI spec 0.90 available for review · · Score: 1

    I think this may be good for Linux, with UDI support, we'll probably get more vendors willing to supply drivers for Linux.

  25. GPL on Mike Loukides on Java's Community License · · Score: 1

    I always kinda liked the GPL, but I'm just a hoybyist, not a professional.