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  1. Re:Obligatory Dilbert / Take down notice on Gartner Touts Web 2.0, Scoffs At Web 3.0 · · Score: 1

    I was going to post the dialog, but then I realized that /. might get a Dilbert Take Down Notice. Of course we could always say that the notice is for Web 1 & 2, and /. is now in Web 3.

  2. Obligatory Dilbert on Gartner Touts Web 2.0, Scoffs At Web 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Dilbert will have to change his "Anti-Meeting Spell." (See dilbert.com or the Sunday paper a couple of weeks ago)

  3. Good on Vivendi Calls iTunes Contract Terms "Indecent" · · Score: 1

    I enjoy seeing these big corporations and trade groups fighting against each other. Only billions of dollars will change the current system. It is too entrenched.

  4. Leaks void my warranty on Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks · · Score: 1

    Any type of liquid damage voids my service contract.

  5. His next DVD on Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics · · Score: 2, Funny

    How to sue 10000 anonymous critics from Slashdot.

  6. They've been doing it to me for years on Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop · · Score: 1

    Now where did I put my bottle of Haldol?

  7. Whatever you are going to do Linux, on The Linux Identity Crisis · · Score: 1

    Just do it! Don't talk about it for 10 years.

  8. Wow, I'm a trusted tester? on New Version of Gmail Being Tested · · Score: 1

    What did I ever do to deserve that. I know- it was downloading all that pr0n off of USENET in 1995. Personally I don't like the new interface.
    I just checked and evidently I'm no longer trusted. Thank God. Who knows what vulnerabilities might be lurking in that new version.

  9. I was surprised when I found out on The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms · · Score: 1

    that the Method of Moments was being applied to economic data. I always thought it was an EM simulation tool, but the theory is generally applicable.

  10. Re:didn't someone ... on The Journey of Radios From Hardware to Software · · Score: 1

    You still need a duplexer (I don't know if CDMA2000 uses SAW based ones), LNA, some sort of gain. ADC's don't work with microvolt signals I don't believe. Otherwise they would have to have incredible noise figures. Something ahead of them has to establish the NF and provide gain.

  11. Re:didn't someone ... on The Journey of Radios From Hardware to Software · · Score: 1

    High band CDMA is 1930 to 1990Mhz. So in your already complex DC chip you are going to put an ADC running at a multiple of 60Mhz? In your dreams. The technologies required are different for high speed logic and low noise figure microwave. SiGe comes close.

    In real direct conversion handsets there still is a synthesizer, there still is filtering to meet Adjacent Channel Power (ACP) requirements and strong signals out of band as these radios are full duplex. So you really haven't gained much vs. the traditional heterodyne receiver. SAW filters are pennies in volume.

  12. Re:didn't someone ... on The Journey of Radios From Hardware to Software · · Score: 1

    If what you say is true, then how do you channelize your wide band receiver?

    Somewhere there has to be an analog filter that is one channel wide. Cellular handsets, whether GSM or CDMA use SAW filters for that job and synthesizers to mix the desired signal down to the SAW filter freq.

  13. Most of those phones on Crazy Stevie's iPhone Prices are Insaaane! · · Score: 1

    are being bought in China for eventual use on the Moon.

  14. "One small step for man, on Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon? · · Score: 1

    one giant leap for cheaply built products with the sticker saying "Made in Moon"

  15. Linux Penetration, hmm on Linux To Be Installed In Every Russian School · · Score: 1

    Would have to be one of those USB sticks. Can't imagine a CD fitting anywhere.
    Triple penetration would be Vista, Linux, BSD.

  16. Re:I'm a Vista Power User on Microsoft to Allow PC Makers to Downgrade to XP · · Score: 1

    I know. I've had Power Toys in the past. Unfortunately, they come and go off of the MS website. Like the program that rearranged your drivers for faster boot times, I forget its name. It came and promptly vanished. The new console window is supposed to have a lot of new features. I know I can easily right click and paste into it. Maybe I need one of those $50 books. The problem is that I've gone to the MS site and there just isn't a lot of docs on this OS. Perhaps there is a lot we are missing.

    My only irritation so far is getting screwed on Ultimate Extras. If you want extras download Server Tools. Its free- for now.

  17. I'm a Vista Power User on Microsoft to Allow PC Makers to Downgrade to XP · · Score: 1, Interesting

    OOh, I figured out how to burn bootable dvd and cd iso's without any 3rd party programs.

    Seriously, I just consider it another incremental upgrade. I haven't touched B itlocker and the "Ultimate" apps are vaporware. Its not such a bad OS. Bill Gates scared away all the corporate customers with the "Wow factor" crap. He should have just concentrated on useful new features like the ability to get a commmand window at any folder. IIS people might have some interest in things like that.

    And I have not had any problems running Office 2003 and other MS apps that don't require drivers. In fact today, I just got service pack 3 for Office 2003.

  18. Well we know what ./ ers will be reading: on U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read · · Score: 1

    "Female IIS edition of Playboy"

  19. Questions on OpenGL Programming Guide 6th Ed. · · Score: 1

    In any Linux or BSD system there is GL this, GL that. Yet the package that installs this seems to be called Mesa. Mesa I guess is still in development. Some OS versions fail to install the /usr/X11R6/include/GL Motif widget headers. I always have to go in and manually move them from the build directory to their useful location. Otherwise I have programs that won't compile.

  20. Re:Why do we need another tracker? on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, people keep MS on their computers "just in case". Eventually it will get booted. Remember, these are criminals, not Linux geeks!!

  21. Why do we need another tracker? on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    When we have Microsoft Vista tracking our every move on the computer, installing unwanted software, etc.

  22. too much TV on Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru · · Score: 4, Funny

    now that Britney has made her way on TV in S. America, there have been waves of vomiting and sickness.

  23. How about on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a name redesign.

  24. I'm dumping my SCO stock for Uranium on SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Just as long as "Uranium" isn't copyrighted.

  25. Re:more important things on Debating the Linux Process Scheduler · · Score: 1

    Yes, I understand that people have different interests. Actually I should have been more specific. My frustration comes out as I don't understand why all these distros expect you to go in and hack the system just to get wpa-supplicant working.
    Maybe it would take a kernel guy 5 min to write the code?