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  1. Re:I for one welcome... on How the Lisa Changed Everything · · Score: 0, Troll

    It throws in added implication that they are homosexual.

  2. Re:not really on How the Lisa Changed Everything · · Score: 1

    The drives were where you had to sink major money. Don't remember exact numbers but throwing in 2 360k drives or a hard disk, that would seriously push the price.

  3. Re:I for one welcome... on How the Lisa Changed Everything · · Score: 0

    And the Xerox Alto came out in 1973 with a GUI, object oriented OS, etc. This story is just an Apple fanboi jerkfest. The Lisa wasn't innovative.

  4. Re:You got to wonder on How the Lisa Changed Everything · · Score: 1

    It's wasn't all that much more, an IBM PC was $3000, and with a couple upgrades could easily be $10,000, the same as the Lisa.

  5. Re:Is there a problem here? (no, not really) on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 1

    Even with some of the cheaper computers out today, I doubt many would consider them consumable (yet).

    I've been deliberately vague in my earlier message, I work for a company that prints product labels. The maze of laws that regulate the labelling of products in the US (and many other places) is crazy. There are more exceptions than rules, as you found out. :)

  6. Re:Is there a problem here? (no, not really) on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 1

    I don't know what "labelling laws" you are referring to.

    I better return all the 2 inch PVC drain pipe in my house. No part of it measures 2 inches!

  7. Re:Yup, got one here on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A good OS would cache the pages the app was in on disk after the first load anyway. So there's not a huge speed benefit over a real OS.

  8. Re:ideas on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's a terrible idea. Most mac users I've met don't even know how to exit an application. They say they are having some weird problem so I ask them if they have tried restarting the application. They say they have, I come over and exit it and restart it, and everything works.

    So basically most of the mac users just reboot every day because "it starts running slow", because they never exit anything.

    Easy to use my ass. More like "confusing as hell".

  9. Re:I'm all for it. on The Argument for Crackable Media · · Score: 1

    Are you just making this up as you go along?

    Why would it matter if you put it on a different format?

  10. Re:What Centrino laptops come with Antenna Jack? on Portable Wi-Fi Antenna for Centrino Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Antennas work both ways. Gain is gain.

  11. Re:Consider on An IT Infrastructure for Automotive Manufacturing? · · Score: 1

    Java is no more cross platform than any interpreted language (PHP/Perl/Python come to mind).

    And if you get into a tight spot performance wise (you probably won't), many of those languages have accelerators for CPU heavy stuff.

    Then you won't be locked into a one-vendor solution like you would be with Java. Yes, I'm aware of gcj stuff, but that's not a serious option right now.

  12. Re:StarOffice is allowed to use Microsoft's Patent on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, MS has never sued anyone over a software patent.

    Yes, they could pull a Darl if they started really losing money/market share, but that doesn't seem to be happening right now.

  13. Re:Centralization on Common Malware Enumeration Initiative · · Score: 1

    Well at least one person got it.

  14. Re:Default Permit on Common Malware Enumeration Initiative · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You've taken a good concept and turned it on its ear.

    Default Deny is good. Centralized lists of "good" software is bad. Think about it for a second and you'll realize why.

  15. Re:Actually it's Stallman's baby on Linus's Baby Comes of Age · · Score: 1

    There are two kinds of people in this world, the ones that know BSD died 10 years ago, and the people that still use BSD for whatever reason.

  16. Re:Shifting Power: HP & Dell vs. Microsoft on Dell Offering "Open" PC · · Score: 1

    It does suggest that at first glance, but that's what MS wants you to think. In reality it's the same old shit still going on.

  17. Re:uhhh.. on Making Your PC Dust Free? · · Score: 1

    Yep.

    Lots of companies out there don't have proper server rooms. It's funny when these silicon valley types get a dose of how the other half lives. :)

  18. Re:Actually it's Stallman's baby on Linus's Baby Comes of Age · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sure, Linux would be nowhere without Gnu, but Gnu would be nowhere without Linux. Can't we just call it a happy symbiosis instead of trying to say it's one or the other's baby?

  19. Re:Easy! on Making Your PC Dust Free? · · Score: 1

    I agree there. For some reason the server room at work is pretty dust free. It's surprising since we have a drop ceiling which is bad for causing dust usually.

    It's probably the dedicated A/C unit pulling most of the dust out of the air.

  20. Re:Easy! on Making Your PC Dust Free? · · Score: 1

    A good job until they clog. Then your computer will overheat.

    Seems to me that cleaning the filters every couple months and cleaning the computer itself every couple months is about the same thing.

    And without filters it take a whole lot more dust to cause overheating problems.

  21. Re:Secure operating systems... on Red Hat Seeks to Deliver Most Secure Linux · · Score: 1

    You can afford a $300-$1000 computer but you can't afford 4 CD-Rs at 10 cents each?

  22. Re:100 KHz? on NASA Admin Says Shuttle and ISS are Mistakes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's all tradeoffs. Linear supplies are also much lighter, at that frequency you can make the transformers very small. Filtering is easier because the ripple is high frequency.

    The tradeoff is that the transmission lines become more difficult. At 60hz you can run the power on nearly any old wire and it'll be fine. At 100khz the skin effect is stronger so fat wires to carry lots of amps don't work. You need special litz wires that have individually insulated strands.

    Interference isn't much of an issue, at 100khz the wavelength is 9,835 feet long. You won't get anything even near 1/4 wavelength long that could radiate a significant amount of power. For the same reason transmission line impedance isn't much of a thing to worry about.

  23. Re:How is this different..? on China Sets New Rules On Internet News · · Score: 1

    The majority of people do support medical MJ. In the places where it hasn't passed, there was a supporting majority, then the federal Drug Czar's office came in with a media blitz to spread FUD and the approving percentage dropped.

    There's currently a suit against the Drug Czar's office for spending federal money trying to affect the outcome of the polls without disclosing it under the campaign finance reform laws.

    As you said the feds are stepping on the states, but they are doing it in more ways than just enforcement, they are also producing propaganda to brainwash the populace.

  24. Re:External Power Supply Macho on Thirty Four PSUs Tested - Is Biggest Best? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like it boils down to the classic "clustering vs big iron" argument. Just apply both sides and we are finished. :)

  25. Re:Truepower on Thirty Four PSUs Tested - Is Biggest Best? · · Score: 1

    You might want to test the outlet with another tester. If the ground were proper that voltage should have been bled off even if the PS were faulty.