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  1. Re:FOSS on Talking with Timothy Miller · · Score: 1

    You think the nVidia drivers are shoddy... Just be thankful you haven't got to use ATI drivers.

  2. Re:Local Conditions on Linux, Inc. · · Score: 1

    Just past La La Land I think.

  3. Re:And for those of us non-Christians....? on Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be Ewe-eeeee?

  4. Re:XSL is not XSL-FO on Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL · · Score: 1

    fun? fun? ...What kind of sicko are you?

  5. Of course the authors say use CSS on Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL · · Score: 1

    Håkon Wium Lie - one of the authors of the CSS Rocks article, is also was co-creator of CSS - or at least he co-wrote the CSS specifications that are available at W3C.

    Not to say that's bad, I've got his CSS book (The one with Bert Bos) and it really is a good book - and accurate, since the authors of the book are the authors of the specification.

  6. Re:How Stupid? on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Except of course that this is a story about a company artificially introducing price differentials between americans / europeans. Therefore even if it does become "less costly" it might not result in cheaper prices for foreigners, but (temporarily) increased profits for the manufacturer. Until all the foriegners stop buying of course.

  7. NTSC and PAL on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    My video quite happily plays NTSC or PAL tapes on my PAL TV. When you put an NTSC tape in the OSD shows "NTSC" for a few seconds. And it's not illegal :-)

  8. Re:Possible GPL violation? on Ars Technica Reviews AmigaOS 4.0 · · Score: 1

    You can't really say that an operating system is a derivative work of a driver for a wireless PCI card.

    Assuming that the driver for OS4 is in a self-contained piece of code then all they would need to do is release the code for the driver that they ported. Not for the OS that uses the driver.

    So I don't think it's a GPL violation.

  9. But get the quotes in the right place on A Scanner Darkly Sneak-Peek · · Score: 1

    It's 'A Scanner Darkly', not a 'Scanner Darkly'.

  10. Re:There is NO new land to be claimed on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 1

    Um no, if you re-read the article it says the issue is where Greenlands continental socket ends, particularly if it is attached to the Lomonosov ridge.

    It will attach, if it does, underwater. The highest part of the Lomonosov ridge is still 1000m under the surface of the ocean. Perhaps that's where the confusion has occured.

    As I said before, there is NO new land to be claimed. All the land, even if it is under the ice, has already been claimed.

  11. There is NO new land to be claimed on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 1

    All land that is up there has already been claimed. The polar ice cap is over an OCEAN. What they are arguing over is rights to the sea, not land.

  12. Re:I'm safe! on Local Root Exploit in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 · · Score: 1

    Well he may have tried it once, but I'm running it an a while true loop in bash on Gentoo 2.6.9 and I've got to 500 so far without a succesful exploit.

  13. Re:I'm safe! on Local Root Exploit in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 · · Score: 1

    It compiled first time on mine. I'm running it in a while true loop in bash at the moment, and it's not managed to succeed yet (>300 attempts so far)

  14. Re:Is it just me... on Bhopal Disaster Revisited [updated] · · Score: 1

    Umm the numbers aren't even remotely the same. 3000 in 9/11, 15,000 and still counting in Bhopal. A death is a death. There were more in Bhopal, why isn't America doing something about the perpetrators?

  15. crazy ass sensors? on Smarter Phones Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I don't want a mobile phone sensor anywher near my ass!

  16. Re:SLI confuses me. on Dual Video Cards Return · · Score: 1

    Scan Line Interleave works the way you describe, by interleaving the scan lines. This is the way the Voodoo 2 did it.

    Scalable Link Interface, on the other hand, gives the top half of the image to be rendered by one card, and the bottom half to the other half.

    Each card shares the ulimate framebuffer (to place the results into), and each card has a complete copy of the texture / model so that it can perform the rendering.

    Splitting the work according to the 3D model would be a complete nightmare to write drivers for, because of the variety of the 3D models involved. Much simpler to just split it later in the 3D pipeline when it gets rendered into the 2D framebuffer.

  17. Re:Maybe, depending on how you define kill on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 1

    Of course if Sun do it the right way as you've explained, there's nothing to stop the best bits of Solaris being subsumed into Linux. ... and so Solaris will essentially disolve into Linux, and the end product will be Open Linux with the best bits of Solaris preserved. Does that constitute killing Solaris? I wouldn't say so. If you mean Sun stop being the prime mover, maybe, but the effort put into Solaris will survive.

  18. The web-browser is the real secret on Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System? · · Score: 1

    The web-browser is the real secret -- porting applications to Linux/Unix still locks you into a platform... and why would you do that?

    Have you actually tried using a web application? Give me a traditional application any day.

  19. Re:Poppycock on Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    McHenry does not know for certain that incorrect information is being spread by wikipedia.

    I'm sorry, say that again? McHenry does know for certain that incorrect information is being spread by wikipedia. He read it in the Hamilton article. It's incorrect information, and it's being spread.

  20. Re:Can't do that in the EU on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: 1

    It can't me made an *official* condition of employment.

  21. Yes they can on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: 1

    Your employer simply has to make opting out of the European Working Time Directive a part of the conditions of employment. Mine has, it's quite common practice.

  22. Re:Here, I'll explain on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Being Scottish the distinction is always significant...

  23. Re:Here, I'll explain on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Well British, but I'll let you off

  24. Re:Technicality Smechnic..thingy on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 1

    What? You mean Space 1999 was lying to me?

  25. expandable on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 1

    I'll be your friend if we agree that you are that 20% of the crew that are expandable

    That'll be the crew on the McDonalds rations.