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  1. Re:HP stands behind their product on HP Recalls 135,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 3, Funny

    "HP fully stands behind the products it makes."

    Does HP make laptops? I was under the impression that their job was to send stickers to Taiwan.

  2. Re:Is it an accident.... on RSS Version 3 Specs Up for Review · · Score: 1

    The thing about RSS is, anyone can decide to make the next version. I doubt Dave had anything to do with this.

    Besides, RSS 3.0 is already taken:
    http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss30

    Robert Sayre

  3. Re:Google News - See all the Lemmings on Slashback: Cradle, Indiscriminancy, Multiplicity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are correct, but it's worse than that.

    Consider this:

    Often they cite bizarre news sources for stories way out of their specialty. Why else would we be seeing Al Jazeera as the top listing for a story on Kobe Bryant?

    Maybe the (possibly inadvertant) statement Google is making is that "Journalism" is such garbage that it doesn't matter.

  4. They use mod_gzip on Why You Should Use XHTML · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter.

  5. Re:Push, not pull! on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 1

    The basic problem with RSS is that it's a "pull" method

    That may be true, but the basic problem with Infoworld's server is that it returns 200 for every single fetch of a feed. Using conditional GETs and Cache-Control headers would be a big help for them.

    Robert Sayre

  6. Re:Needs vs. Profit on Future for Web Standards Pondered · · Score: 1


    Ian Hickson: About ten years from now, the de facto Web application standard will be Microsoft's Avalon and the .NET framework. (See Microsoft's position paper if you doubt that this is what Microsoft has planned for us.)

    *shivers

  7. BohemianBag.com Czech Plumber's Bag on What's in Your Gadget Bag, Cory? · · Score: 1

    Carry many tools while looking like a total tool as well!

  8. Re:You've been stung on Just What is a Custom Configured Server? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you can choose a pre-built item on the first page, add RAM to it, and then have a custom-built one. There is no message to alert you to the transition.

  9. Re:Cannonfodder on A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed. The contrasts the article draws are spurious as well. Indian with an engineering degree vs. self-taught VB programmer. I'm not saying that reflects the truth of the matter, but you'd think they could have found an anecdote about an American with an engineering degree being out of work.

  10. Re:Standards on Yahoo and Unilateral Anti-Spam Technology? · · Score: 1

    More precisely, Netscape was pushing JSSS (JavaScript Style Sheets). When Microsoft's CSS proposal won out, Netscape implemented it with JS. That's why JS and CSS (errors) are so tightly coupled in Netscape 4.

  11. Re:Call it a hunch... on 10 Ads The US Won't See · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure this ad ran in Artforum or something. I saw it back when it came out.

  12. Re:Moore's Conjencture would be fairly accurate.. on Intel To Produce 65-Nanometer Chips In 2005 · · Score: 1

    When used as a noun, a "postulate" is a synonym for "axiom."

  13. Re:Smart cards $50??? on Microsoft Security Whitepaper · · Score: 1

    Microsoft, however, may very well have used Windows for Smart Cards cards

    Ha! That's like saying they use SourceSafe for source control.

  14. Re:LOL, Struts is right on target. on Software Fashion · · Score: 1

    Remembering what the user last selected on a form takes a ton of horrible looking code if done with pure jsp or old school servlet/jsp model

    replaced with:

    1 form bean, 1 action, 1 jsp, 1 xml config file, 1 property file, possibly 1 xml validation file

    which must be beautiful!

  15. Re:Try better search terms maybe? on Digging Holes in Google · · Score: 1

    The article is even more moronic than that. It actually gives specific search terms and then complains when "flowers" doesn't return much of use. Let's use some "hyperlinks" (click on the underlined terms to be transported another web page) to annotate an excerpt of the article.

    Search for "flowers," and more than 90 percent of the top results are online florists. If you're doing research on tulips, or want to learn gardening tips, or basically want to know anything about flowers that doesn't involve purchasing them online, you have to wade through a sea of florists to find what you're looking for.

  16. Re:Open Letter to Inkjet Printer Manufacturers on North Carolina Fights Back Against Lexmark · · Score: 1

    When people figure this out, boy will Acme Ink Corp.. uh, I mean Hewlett Packard be in trouble.

  17. Re:What major changes? on Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else feel this article was more like a really long blog entry or something? One big vomit of poorly contrived opinions?

    "Explorer's code engine cannot be updated any more."

  18. Re:They pretend to pay us... on 12/7 and Overtime on a Salary? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, they usually just lay off the people who make the most money.

  19. Re:*nix on Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark · · Score: 1

    I meant that it strengthens Apple's case.

    I realize that it wasn't clear which party I meant by "their", but it is amusing that I got disagreeing replies for both possible interpretations.

  20. *nix on Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the use of "*nix" should pretty much prove their point.

  21. Re:Security? on Intel Whitepaper On UPnP · · Score: 1

    haha yeah, right. you're making an arbitrary distinction.

    do you have your browser pop up a dialog box every time it accepts a cookie?

  22. Re:Am I missing something? on JBoss Group Developers Walk Out · · Score: 1

    I dunno, did she give notice?

  23. Re:web apps just aren't there yet on Elegant PHP Architectures? · · Score: 1

    Control Flow in Apache Cocoon is one approach can really speed up development and reduce boilerplate code.

  24. Re:And for those of us who despise VS.NET... on San Mehat On Web Services & .Net · · Score: 1

    On the Mac, I've had pretty good luck generating Objective-C stubs from Apache Axis WSDL files with /Developer/Tools/WSMakeStubs.

  25. Re:After effects on Friday Apple Quickies · · Score: 1

    Shake on the other hand is not unsimilar to AE, but the price tag on it ($5,000) just prices it out of the competition.

    Only if you're a hobbyist. The difference in price is insignificant for a business if the product is better.