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  1. Nokia is the real competition on Gobs Of Gaming Goodies · · Score: 0

    With their N-Gage, which will is a fully featured mobile phone in a similar form factor to the gameboy advance. You say that phone gaming eats it, but that's because ordinary phones are unsuitable for gaming. The N-Gage will be like a GBA with mobile gaming built in.

  2. They're migrating people to HP-UX on End In Sight For Alpha · · Score: 0

    Eventually Tru64 will be gone. At the moment they're taking the best bits from it and sticking them in HP-UX. Of course they need to keep Tru64 going for a few more years for legacy hardware, but only HP-UX and OpenVMS are ported/being ported to Itanium.

  3. Wow on Phoenix 0.3 Is Out · · Score: 0

    I loaded chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul in a mozilla tab, then loaded it again into the sub-browser, then again and again repeatedly. I bet this could go on forever!

  4. You're confusing W-CDMA with TDMA on CDMA, Cell Phone Standards And Who "Wins" · · Score: 0
    Europe's 3G standard is W-CDMA, not TDMA. Admittedly it's not proved too reliable so far, but most of the technical issues have now been resolved.

    My view is that most Europeans are going to be quite happy with 2.5G GPRS for a few years yet. When they need the extra bandwidth, there should be a working 3G network of some sort waiting for them.

    I don't get why the article tries to turn these technologies into a battleground - after all, European companies own much of the American infrastructure. If their European operations are failing, they'll lobby to be able to transfer technology from their American networks.

  5. Re:What's the big deal? on Lord of The Rings DVD, Now or Later? · · Score: 0

    That's why I casually dropped the subject of the LOTR DVD into a conversation with my wife recently... She might have thought it strange at the time, but I know she'll be buying the right version if she decides to "surprise" me!

  6. Re:What's the big deal? on Lord of The Rings DVD, Now or Later? · · Score: 0

    Here in the UK, they're all in Widescreen at our local Blockbuster, but then there are a lot more widescreen TVs here. I think that's due to most of the broadcast TV being in widescreen these days.

  7. Funny on Borland Releases Kylix 3.0 for Delphi and C++ · · Score: 0
    You make a case against the GPL. I like the fact that the GPL makes you free your application if you use someone else's GPL code. I think you'd be much happier with the BSD licence.

    As for this MS astroturfer bollocks, you might find out when you grow up that the world is not some big "Microsoft vs, You" contest. How my comments could be interpreted as you have interpreted them is beyond reason.

  8. Why should commercial developers get a free ride? on Borland Releases Kylix 3.0 for Delphi and C++ · · Score: 0
    If you're developing free software, you get it free under the GPL. If you're writing closed software, you pay a fee.

    How is this unfair? Is leeching a basic human right?

  9. Crop circles are big business on Disney Making Fake Crop Circles? · · Score: 0
    Not just for the "cerealogists" who investigate them,but for the farmers who charge people to otur the fields and take photographs.

    Crop circles keep getting bigger and better because there's competition these days. There are well-motivated students out there who are capable of designing and creating amazing things in fields of wheat.

  10. Re:Can buy one online on Mandrake Hits Wal-Mart(.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, you can, here.

  11. Speed of KDE vs. Gnome on A User's First Look at GNOME 2.0 · · Score: 0
    People talk about Gnome being faster or more responsive than KDE, but I've always found KDE to be significantly more responsive than Gnome on my home machine.

    My question is, what factors are causing the speed differences, and under what circumstances can KDE become noticeably faster than Gnome?

  12. Targetted at the third-world on Freecharge Windup Mobile Phone Power Source · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Remember that Freeplay came into being to market clockwork radios, primarily to third-world countries where power supplies were unpredictable or expensive.

    This is where the clockwork cell phone power supply comes into its own, providing communications in isolated areas where there might not be a power supply or a land line. Just so long as you're in range of a transmitter...

  13. Re:moving slowly...open the source!! on PalmOS 5 Turns Gold · · Score: 0
    That is only to recoup the costs of closed source development. Costs that would not exist were the source open.

    Don't you mean: Costs that would not exist if Palm Source the company did not exist? I have yet to see a company that can survive on no income for very long. Palm Source's revenue comes from licensing fees.

    Of course they could release the source and claim licensing fees from manufacturers that want to use it, which I think is the way forward. Much like Troll Tech and QT.

  14. But it's not a suspension bridge on Sicilian Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead · · Score: 0

    So, while a remarkable feat of engineering, it's not really comparable to this bridge.

  15. Re:America could have done the same... on Iceland to Voluntarily Go Oil Free in 30-40 Years · · Score: 0

    I'm seeing loads of obvious trolling automatically rated 2 these days, it's almost like the trolls have got organised or something.

  16. You're funny. on Iceland to Voluntarily Go Oil Free in 30-40 Years · · Score: 0
    Oil is being created faster than it's being used? That's what you imply by your statement: "Neither is the air supply on Earth infinite so if you are a true environmentalist, I guess you could stop breathing or at least, cut down on that activity."

    I'd love to hear your new theories on the formation of oil, you could lead a scientific revolution if they're true.

  17. Eugh on Sun Drops Sawfish for Metacity · · Score: 0

    I'm not swimming with nerds, you just want an excuse to see me in my speedos.

  18. Much like Slashdot then. (n/t) on Playstation 3 In the Works · · Score: 0

    I said there was no text here, move along now.

  19. Not all alternative medicine is a fraud on Book Review: Voodoo Science · · Score: 1, Informative

    After all, some mainstream medicines started out as "alternative."

  20. What's with Taco and Apple mice? on Linux *Won't* Fail on the Desktop? · · Score: 0

    I've lost track of the articles he's posted that end with "I wish Macs had more buttons on their mice..."

    This article isn't even remotely related to Macs!

  21. Re:I like it on A Timeline of the Future · · Score: 0

    It was based on an article I read ages ago in New Scientist. Basically time runs backwards within the time machine when it's running, so it's impossible to travel to before the machine was started up.

  22. Arg on A Timeline of the Future · · Score: 0

    But the only reason it's not going be created is because it is going to be created? Your conclusion sounds soothing, but I fear it's a big nasty paradox.

    Of course the truth is that once you create a time machine, you can only travel back to the point at which the time machine was created. The consequence is that we'll live in peaceful ignorance until someone finally invents one, than bam! All the discoveries ever made happen at once and the world goes truly mental.

  23. Vatican ruled out online confessions on A Timeline of the Future · · Score: 0

    As reported Here.

    But the fact that they had to explicitly rule it out is probably a sign that people wanted to set it up... I wouldn't be surprised if there are unofficial or non-catholic online confessionals in the near future.

  24. Try this on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 0
  25. And here's a fairly decent picture of her on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 0