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  1. Re:The fact that it is so difficult to administer. on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 1

    But you'll never forget that command, will you?

  2. Re:Torvalds is a Composer on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 1
    It's not even that close.

    MINIX==Micro Kernel
    Linux==Macro Kernel

  3. Re:House rules? on D&D Is 30 · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, you can take Weapon Finesse and use your DEX bonus in melee.

  4. Re:The flagship... on D&D Is 30 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ever popular caltrop +1.

  5. Re:Or you could quit your whining and get on with on Train Your Own Replacement · · Score: 1

    What next job? I'm still looking for the first one.

  6. Re:How immutable are these plans? on Big Science has a Twenty-Year Plan · · Score: 1

    OK, what an absoultely horrible movie!

  7. Re:The only one that matters on Linux File System Shootout · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you read carefully, you'll notice that the name of the filesystem is SMB. Samba is software that interfaces with the SMB filesystem. Of course, SMB isn't really a filesystem either. When you want to share something you don't have to create and format a partition as SMB.

  8. Re:This goes back to the early days of Apple on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but his bid was $25,000. You'd think he could help his parents a little more than that.

  9. Re:Not primitive on Failure Is Always an Option · · Score: 0

    Sure, all you have to do is deploy an aircraft carrier into the middle of the ocean, scoop the two or three people out of the water, and then bring them back to land. That's much better than actually being able to direct the craft as it lands.

  10. Re:NASA's Vietnam (From today's Wall Street Journa on Failure Is Always an Option · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And how long will it be before "Eat at Joe's" is painted on the Moon?

  11. Re:Jeopardy style!! on Failure Is Always an Option · · Score: 0

    They can continue to fight against the memory of Microsoft.

  12. Re:OT: WHAT A GREAT STORY on Learning to Say No in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    OK, can't let this one go... This kind of situation is a perfect example of a non-frivolous lawsuit. It's not like he spilled coffee on his lap. His employer screwed him out of money that he was owed. If you want an employee to work more than what he signed up for, then you've got to pay him for that time.

  13. Re:Oldies checklist on Masters of Doom · · Score: 1

    Ah Hercules, we had a little program for our XT called simcga. You'd run it, and the whole screen went black, but when you loaded a program that used CGA graphics it would run in shades of amber. Now *those* were the days.

  14. Re:The bigger surprise on Motherboard Audio Comes Of Age · · Score: 1
    RealPlayer used to work, but now it just plays static. I have no idea why RealPlayer does thin, it just does.

    It's because RealPlayer has never played anything but static. Any other sounds you heard before were simply malfunctions.

  15. Re:"C/C++ is no longer a viable development langua on Open Source Project Management Lessons · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting just one thing, he lumps Java with C/C++

  16. Re:"C/C++ is no longer a viable development langua on Open Source Project Management Lessons · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I don't think that's what he meant by a "standard library".

    Actually, he mentions the STL by name.

  17. Re:The era of good keyboards ended. on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1

    They make 'em. Can't remember where I saw it, but I did.

  18. Re:QWERTY -Slow typists down? Wrong. on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Why use Windows? Because everyone else does.

  19. Re:Bad layout on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Oh my dear God!
    How can you stand it?

  20. Re:No basis in fact, 100% fiction on "Time-Traveler" Busted For Insider Trading · · Score: 1

    He doesn't know how to use the seashells. :-D

  21. Re:If CorpGovMedia controls it, it will be expensi on Sandia Labs Takes First Steps Toward Fusion · · Score: 1
    Or are you proposing that some CorpGovMedia with guns is going to stop anyone else from building their own reactor.

    Yeah, maybe you've heard of licensing? You don't think the gov is going to allow just anyone to own a reactor?

  22. Re:No license == no copying on Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not true, it is perfectly legal to make back-up copies so that you don't damage the original media.

  23. Re:Duh. on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 1

    It's not just that Microsoft has a monopoly, it's that they were convicted of illegaly using their monopoly status.

  24. Re:Duh. on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 1
    This ruling and the subsequent settlement constrain what Microsoft can do in relation to the "desktop PC operating systems" market. MS can do whatever it likes with any of it products which are not "desktop PC operating systems", except leverage its monopoly in the "desktop PC operating systems" market to in any way give those other products an advantage over competitors.

    Isn't that what they're doing?

  25. Re:Cost over Students? on A College Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1
    That is why Microsoft is flat broke, and soon to go out of business.

    Change is slow, you can't expect a company that has been dominating an industry for 20 years to go broke over night.