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  1. Re:Business men on Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is more like a bank robber that once he have all the money he need he open its night club and live from his hard earned money and never rob again. Shady business is shady business, successful and converted to a legitimate business or not sucessful.

  2. Re:Excellent example of why MS hates GPL. on MS Pulls Windows 7 Tool After GPL Violation Claim · · Score: 1

    Because object code contain a lot of debugging informations and the functions names in clear if not stripped (and it is rarely done). If an object code contain lot of function names equal to a well know library, then there is a very good probability that it use the library.

  3. Re:Going to be obsolete anyway on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 1

    Actually, they do. Not by making them more skinnier (where we see all the bones) but by making them thinner, more elongated. The Dove ad is very good at demonstrating that. If not exagerated it is the kind of manipulation currently done by Ad company (see Dove evolution)

  4. Re:doesnt matter to me on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    Or write like Leonardo Da Vinci from RTL in cursive

  5. Re:What I want on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    In TC, empty sectors are encrypted too and by that fact undistinguisable from a sector used by the potential hidden partition.

  6. Re:GTC are cheaper on EVE Online's Fight Against Currency Farmers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like Australia ?

  7. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Point A being in from of my door
    Point B being in from of the destinations door

    Trains doesn't make it. The best proposal is Taxis, but it is costly and need a certain time from when you call them to when they are at your disposal in front of your door.

  8. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, this kind of things is my wet dream. No more grandpa stuck in the middle of the motorway at half the speed limit and no more speed jerk running over your bumper because you drive to slow for them but already 5-10km/h over the speed limit... For me a car is a tool to move from point A to point B. If i don't have to bother about the others cars because the car do it for me, I will have time to read/play/work during to commute.

  9. Re:The same F500 and military that use Windows? on iPhone 3Gs Encryption Cracked In Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    Pffff nitpicking ;-)

  10. Re:IE doesn't support font-face on Typography On the Web Gets Different · · Score: 1

    You must say them that the site will look good in IE and look marvelous in Firefox because Firefox support more of the latests web standards.

  11. Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. on What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From time to time i load up Dune II to play it once again. And it has never spoiled my memories of it being a great game.

  12. Re:Syncmaster on Small, High-Resolution LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    I have bought for 2700 euro the 20" SyncMaster 204B who is 1600x1200. But i can't find it anymore or one similar :-( Now they are all with less pixel density or with a price tag over the top :-(

  13. Re:I'm sorry but... on Incandescent Bulbs Return To the Cutting Edge · · Score: 4, Informative

    hum, hum...

    Incandescent: 2.0-2.2% efficiency
    Halogen: 2.4-2.9% efficiency
    Compact fluorescent: 8â"11% efficiency

    We are far from your 5% and 75% efficiency...But your point is valid but not so staggering...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy#Examples_2

  14. Re:But it never works the other direction on Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU · · Score: 1

    Read carefully your licence. You will se the the US version is mean to be used in the US... By the licence you can't buy the US version and use it in Europe. Technically, you can do it, but if the BSA go through your house it is the same has having a pirated version.

  15. Re:iPhone apps on UK Gang Caught After $750K Online Music Fraud Scam · · Score: 1

    And if the App is any kind of good, they can make more money than they laund :-)

  16. Re:does an iphone.... on Does the Wii Provide A "Watered-Down" Game Experience? · · Score: 1

    Actually yes. On the computation plan and the electricity bill too :-)

  17. Re:Python is just a fad. on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    Pascal is well used in the industry. C is the worst language (ever) for programming thing other than low level routines, unfortunately it has a very big list of very useful library making it appealing.

    Python will be 'perhaps' fad into oblivion, but for a teaching language is not bad as it is a jack of some trades but unfortunately master of none as you can do structured programming, object oriented programming and a little bit of functional programming with it. I like it for the cleanness of it's language and use it more and more at home.

    But for teaching, and i will be killed here for syaing that here, I like Visual Basic because in one well defined environment you have the code editor, the user interface editor and the debugger. And when debugging you can change your code without restarting your program making an error less costly in time and frustration for the new programmer.

  18. Re:Damn... on Security Flaw Hits VAserv; Head of LxLabs Found Hanged · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's like putting your mission critical servers in a garden shed with holes in the roof.

    What??? It's not a cheap way to get my server water cooled???

    Could this explain my high hardware failure?

  19. Re:Unethical, but not illegal on Investing In Lawsuits Beats the Street · · Score: 1

    In a technical document, however, you want to get the result that the manufacturer intended, so you don't try to find loopholes in the technical document.

    Except if you are Microsoft who said that the last version of Excel support the ODF specifications. Yes they support it on the letter, but not the intent of the specification. ie: The specification doesn't define the namespace for storing the formulas, and they used another one than the one used by everyone else.

  20. Re:Linux? on Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard · · Score: 1

    Linux, yes, there is a problem because Firefox run on windows too. Firefox, the tag is correct, because only Firefox support these part of HTML5 for now.

  21. Re:Doesn't make a difference. on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I beg to differ with your numbers:

    Numbers of page view per platform on the last 12 month of a little european website:

                              Page Views
    Platform                      Sum    %
    (blank)               231,944,487   14
    AIX                        63,675    0
    AmigaOS                     1,399    0
    BeOS                        1,145    0
    CP/M                       26,258    0
    DOS                        28,158    0
    Dreamcast                     319    0
    HP-UX                       1,405    0
    IRIX                        2,535    0
    Linux                  10,782,630    1
    Macintosh              22,543,401    1
    NetBSD                      1,930    0
    OS/2                        6,449    0
    OSF1                        1,000    0
    OpenVMS                       383    0
    SCO_SV                         38    0
    Slurp                  61,242,836    4
    Solaris                 7,625,811    0
    SunOS                     197,176    0
    Unix (unknown)             67,609    0
    WebTV                       2,111    0
    Windows                12,050,352    1
    Windows 16-bit             11,607    0
    Windows 2000          132,118,040    8
    Windows 32-bit          6,226,532    0
    Windows 95                723,941    0
    Windows 98             32,166,513    2
    Windows CE                107,696    0
    Windows NT              5,474,837    0
    Windows Sever 2003     19,986,701    1
    Windows Vista          30,442,927    2
    Windows XP          1,012,030,914   62
    unknown                39,486,905    2
    TOTAL               1,625,367,720  100

  22. Re:I'm a guy on Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" · · Score: 1

    In my old times, sneakernet was with hundreds of 1.44MB floppies. Now, it is by swapping 500GB usb drives. The latency is low (3h for the 200km I must travel), but the bandwidth is enormous ! But all in all I don't copy much more than in my old times. The number of tracs/images/videos/games has not evolved much, just their sizes (300KB .mod/.mid files to 30MB .flac files, 1.4-12MB games to 4-8GB games...)

  23. Re:WTF on Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe · · Score: 1

    Or Bob buy Jane, produce his new chip for 6 and sell them for 20 making a better profit. But it s not better for the public.

  24. Re:WTF on Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, this is called "Dumping" and it is illegal in the states too.

  25. Re:Is there any point? on Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe · · Score: 1

    But when you are in a quasi monopole / monopole they is not anymore any optimal price, but just the maximum price the consumer could bare.