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  1. Re:Apple should support this. on Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No? · · Score: 1

    because, it has the potential to kill off the Mac-specific software market, and if that's gone, what's the point in buying a Mac?

  2. Re:Apple should support this. on Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was thinking the same thing, but something else also occurred to me. I can see the companies who currently publish games for the Mac saying, "Hell, since the Mac can run Windows now too, why bother with a Mac version at all?"

  3. Yahoo Dashboard? on Yahoo Launches Dashboard · · Score: 1

    I can see a letter from Apple arriving at Yahoo HQ soon.

  4. Next in the queue on Amazon Gets Patent on Consumer Reviews · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot patents the blog.

  5. Re:Great! on MySQL 5 Production in November · · Score: 4, Informative

    A trigger is something that is invoked on the database server when a predefined even occurs. For instance, an update to table 1 in database A could make the database server update table 2 in database B automatically.

    A view is a way of making a pseudo-table. You can create something that looks like a single table, but can contain columns from multiple tables. If you have table 1 with columns A, B, C, D and table 2 with columns E, F, G, H , you can create a view 3 with columns A, C, F, H.

    A stored procedure is something that is precompiled and put on the database server that performs a number of actions when called by a client. It can replace a complex series of SQL statements, say, in such a way that performance is much improved over having separate statements that would need to make multiple calls to the server.

  6. Re:Firefox Bypasses It on Credit Card Required To View 'M' Rated Information · · Score: 3, Informative

    really? I just went to http://www.activision.com/en_US/game_list/game_lis t.jsp and right-clicked on the Quake 4 link, and it bypassed the credit card thing. Firefox 1.0.7.

  7. Re:Incomplete on Real-time Spam Map · · Score: 1
    If one guy sends a Viagra email, that isn't spam for us. If he sends 1000, it's spam. It's not about the subject, it's the volume

    You're not just classifying spam "differently than most", you're classifying it incorrectly.

    What makes something spam is its being unsolicited, not the subject or the volume.
  8. Next up from the FCC on FCC Wants to Track Wireless · · Score: 4, Insightful

    mandatory ankle bracelets they can use to track you all the time.

  9. Re:Apple Office on Alternatives To Office For Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, AppleWorks doesn't come with every copy of OS X. It comes pre-installed on the "consumer" Macs (iBook, iMac, eMac), but not generally on the PowerBooks and PowerMacs.

  10. NeoOffice/J on Alternatives To Office For Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have NeoOffice/J installed on my PowerBook, and it works pretty well. It's a bit slow, but definitely functional, and it has loaded every Office document I have asked it to.

  11. Re:The Return of BeOS? on IBM Open Source Firmware Download for PowerPC · · Score: 1

    BeOS? There hasn't been a PowerPC version of BeOS in at least 4 years. You'll have about as much luck resurrecting OS/2 for the PowerPC.

  12. Re:Cheap shot? No, criminal offence... on Dvorak on the LinuxWorld Fracas · · Score: 1

    Dvorak? Journalist? You must be joking.

  13. And for her next trick on Mac OS X Panther On A 25MHz Centris 650 · · Score: 1

    she will boot it on a TRS-80!

  14. Re:Mac OS? on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mac OS X is NOT based on Debian, or any other flavor of Linux. It is based on BSD, a flavor of Unix.

  15. Re:Orcinus on Your Favorite Political Weblogs? · · Score: 1

    Also, I like Reason's Hit and Run, even though I don't always agree with the guy who does it:

    http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/

  16. Orcinus on Your Favorite Political Weblogs? · · Score: 1
  17. Loss of Privacy? on TransGaming Tagging Downloads to Combat Piracy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Is this tiny loss of personal privacy worth the increase in TransGaming's security?


    If you don't download it, you don't have any "loss" of privacy.

    People throw around the idea of the loss of privacy as though they are being compelled to download whatever it is.
  18. Re:And They Are Us on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1

    The way I look at it, if they didnt support terrorist or Saddam (taking innocent lives and depriving basic human rights), they would not be in this situation. They made their bed, they now have to sleep in it.


    Yes, indeed, the government never makes mistakes. Everyone arrested or detained is obviously guilty; after all, they don't arrest innocent people.

  19. I read on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1

    Fortean Times, Private Eye, Macworld, Blender and Revolver.

    I used to read Counterpunch, but got tired of Cockburn.

  20. Another band to... on Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts · · Score: 1

    I was going to say 'boycott', but it appears to already be too late for that.

  21. "privacy policies" on Northwest Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think one potentially good thing this ruling does point out is just how much of a joke the so-called "privacy policy" of any given company really is.

  22. Re:Solution? on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 1
    Honestly? If you are spending 20 hours rewriting that report, going through every sentence with a fine-tooth comb, and are able to construct a logically equivalent but actually distinct report... then you HAVE learned the material, probably better than most of the people who wrote the same report. (There might be a slight quibble with you not knowing your way around a lab, but you know that too!)

    If you're going to go to all that effort, how does that save you any time over writing an original essay yourself?
  23. Ugh on Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D · · Score: 1

    Looking at the screenshots, that just looks like something that would get in the way more than anything else.

  24. Re:Windows Critical Vulnerabilities on Microsoft Announces Three More Critical Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    By time they finish perfecting XP

    Some of the vulnerabilities are present in Windows NT 4.0, which has been out for almost 10 years, so I doubt they'll ever get close to "perfecting" XP.

  25. Why is there no one meeting this demand? on Obtaining Legal MP3s Outside of the U.S.? · · Score: 1

    Because the record companies don't want it.