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  1. Re:DirectPC the same basic service. Big deal. on Satellite-Delivered Broadband Gets Louder · · Score: 1

    Do these things really use Geosyn satellites? I could have swore they used some sort of LEO system, which would make your latentcy somewhat better. Then again, I may be confusing this with one of the Iridium competitors MS had invested some money with.

  2. Re:In Tomarrow's News on More DeCSS Time-Warner Hypocrisy · · Score: 1

    Such as?

  3. Re:Well, It's probably fair on Coding Classes & Required Development Environments? · · Score: 1

    I know of no commercial developers who use IDE's to develop on.

    John Carmack does all his development with Visual Studio, ever heard of him?

  4. Re:Why schools pick an environment on Coding Classes & Required Development Environments? · · Score: 1

    the moral of the story is, yes there are valid reasons for a class to require a consistent work environment. This is a prime example

    Sounds like the moral of your story is not to late until the last minute to do your final.

  5. Re:In Tomarrow's News on More DeCSS Time-Warner Hypocrisy · · Score: 2

    Microsoft doesn't own any part of GE (who owns NBC). MS and NBC have a joint venture called MSNBC, but that is not the same thing as MS having ownership in NBC.

  6. Re:This "immature" stigma pisses me off on Google, History, Profitability · · Score: 1

    To Corporate America: Stop trying to squeeze the techno-culture into your stiff, boring, and decaying business model. We're free/Free because we want to be. If everyone had the same mindset and started giving things away, we wouldn't need so much money in the first place

    I just talked to Corporate America, and they said they would think about it.

  7. Re:Google the Revenue on Google, History, Profitability · · Score: 2

    Oh, so they are now making money from presenting other people's copyrighted materials? Nice...

  8. Re:Lame on Visibility Of The ISS Grows · · Score: 1

    Actually, the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light years away. Just being annoyingly pedantic...

    Actually, the sun is both a star and quite a bit closer than Proxima Centauri...... just to be pedantic.

  9. Re:ALRIGHT! More games to buy on Next Generation Nintendo Revealed · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are right games should be cheap, women should be better looking, and there should be free pony rides for the kids.

  10. Re:Huh? on Visual Map of Unix history · · Score: 1

    VMS has nothing to do with Mach either.

  11. Jargon File Update.... on Slashback: Suffrage, Product, Broadcasting · · Score: 1

    Wow! One whole entry! How does ESR find the time to do this and, well, whatever the hell else he does?

  12. Re:This looks like a job for the US Navy SEALS.... on Kursk Destroyed By Cavitation Missles? · · Score: 2

    Project Jennifer raised a sub from miles down back in the early 70s...

    Project Jennifer attempted to raise a sub back in the early 70s, and ended up basically turning the sub into a large pile of very small pieces of rusted metal.

    A good book that mentions this is Blind Man's Bluff : The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. Pretty good page turner.

  13. Open Fortran compiler, huh? on Sybase to Open Souce Watcom C/C++ & Fortran Compiler · · Score: 3

    I hope we see lots of great new additions to Fortran as a result of this :)

  14. I'll tell you why... on Default Behavior: Piranha vs. Microsoft SQL Server · · Score: 2

    So why haven't you read about it?

    How about because most pieces of software for the past 30 years have shipped with default passwords?

  15. Something I don't understand... on DOOM Port for Digita OS Digital Cameras · · Score: 2

    I read the site, and they mention several times that ROMs are required to run the emulator... but surely this doesn't apply to Doom. So, my question is, does anyone know did they guy convert Doom to run natively on the cameras processor or is there some sort of thunking layer that coverts x86 opcodes to whatever processor is in one of those cameras?

  16. Re:Global Warming Agenda on Water On The North Pole · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's just an incredible coincidence that a phenomenon last known to happen more than 50 million years ago happens again just now. It has nothing to do with:

    Choose 1:

    The invention of Television
    Low Unemployment
    The release of Diablo 2

    Nothing to see here.

    Someone ought to take a class in logic.

  17. Re:Global Warming Agenda on Water On The North Pole · · Score: 2

    There is NO EVIDENCE that ANY humans have ever seen the arctic ocean turn to liquid.

    Wow, and human observation includes about, what, 100 years versus the lifetime of the Earth? Yeah, I'd say that's plenty of time to start jumping to conclusions.

    Never mind that things like volcanic eruptions contribute more to this so called "global warming" than anything people do.

  18. Re:Montereywas the AIX port to IA64 on IBM Kills project Monterey · · Score: 2

    This is doubly a good thing for Linux.

    A) Its one less competitor, and it looks like IBM will be pushing Linux (and AIX) instead.

    B) Depending on how the implemetations of Trillian and the Linux on 64 bit AMD go, you may be able to very easily run code on either version of Linux, whereas Monterey would lock you into using Intel hardware.

  19. Re:Go ZDNet marketing team! on IBM Kills project Monterey · · Score: 1

    First ZDNet has their writers make up FUD (that guy whatever his name was writing about Bugtraq's vulnerabilities counts for Linux and NT) to get impressions.

    That was ABCNews.com, but thanks for playing.

  20. All star wars rumors are always true.. on Star Wars Episode 2 Title Leaked · · Score: 2

    I mean, that why

    1) I loved Revenge of the Jedi
    2) Kenneth Branagh was great as Obi Wan in the last movie
    3) It was great to see Harrison Ford playing Han Solo's father in the last movie
    4) Charleton Heston's cameo was fun too

  21. Re:You Will on Ask The DeCSS Legal Team · · Score: 2

    No I wont.

    If I don't like the license, I don't buy the product.

    As it stands, the MPAA's position doesn't bother me... so I will continue to buy DVDs.

  22. Re:Real Impartial on DVD/DeCSS: MPAA Wins In New York · · Score: 2

    . It is also interesting to say that the current framework is one that protects and harbors a monopoly.

    Why is that interesting? Copyright is pretty much by definition a monopoly. A legally granted monopoly, but a monopoly nonethless.

  23. Re:Golly! on ICANN Elections · · Score: 2

    Well, he wasn't evil, but John Postal did a pretty good job when he was essentially the non elected overlord, performing essentially the same functions as ICANN.

  24. Re:Well Said on Slashback: Decisions, Recognizance, Canadianisms · · Score: 1

    VOTE NADER...heh...he's totally anti-mpaa and anti-riaa

    Yes! Please vote for Nader...

    ...its as good as two votes for Bush!

  25. [OT] Re:Canadians on Slashback: Decisions, Recognizance, Canadianisms · · Score: 1

    Alcohol has a flavour, and contrary to popular belief, the purpose of drinking should not always be to get pissed.

    Well, actually, pure alcohol is pretty much tasteless...